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Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions

By BERNARD CONDON
Apr 26, 2024 9:35 am - NEW YORK — Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable. Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors who have collectively made tens...
Trump's lawyers seek to discredit testimony of prosecution's lead witness in hush money trial

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Apr 26, 2024 9:16 am - NEW YORK — Donald Trump's defense team attacked the credibility Friday of the prosecution's first witness in his hush money case, seeking to discredit testimony detailing...
Fed’s preferred inflation gauge shows price pressures stayed elevated last month

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Apr 26, 2024 8:00 am - WASHINGTON — A measure of inflation closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained uncomfortably high in March, likely reinforcing the Fed's reluctance to cut interest r...
Takeaways from the Supreme Court argument on Trump’s criminal immunity

Perry Stein, Devlin Barrett, Spencer S. Hsu, Rachel Weiner
Apr 25, 2024 1:11 pm - The Supreme Court spent hours Thursday morning debating former President Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution for allegedly conspiring to undo the results of...
Supreme Court seems skeptical of Trump’s claim of absolute immunity but decision’s timing is unclear

By MARK SHERMAN
Apr 25, 2024 12:18 pm - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday appeared likely to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from prosecution over election interferenc...
Tough new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shutdown

By MATTHEW DALY
Apr 25, 2024 9:45 am - WASHINGTON — Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shutdown under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. New ...
U.S. economy grew at 1.6% annual rate in first quarter 2024, a sharp slowdown

Abha Bhattarai
Apr 25, 2024 7:57 am - U.S. economic growth slowed in the first three months of the year, with gross domestic product growing at an annualized rate of 1.6%, as consumers began gradually pulling...
Some campuses call in police to break up pro-Palestinian demonstrations, while others wait it out

By JIM VERTUNO, ACACIA CORONADO and NICK PERRY
Apr 25, 2024 7:53 am - AUSTIN, Texas — Some U.S. universities called in police to break up demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war, resulting in ugly scuffles and dozens of arrests, while o...
Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established

By ABBY SEWELL
Apr 25, 2024 7:10 am - ISTANBUL — A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that i...
Here’s who was charged in the Arizona 2020 election interference case

Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Amy Gardner, Holly Bailey, The Washington Post
Apr 25, 2024 7:07 am - PHOENIX — Eighteen of former President Donald Trump’s associates and allies have been indicted in Arizona for their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential elec...

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