Nation and World
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Federal Reserve is likely to slow its rate cuts with inflation pressures still elevated
Dec 16, 2024 1:56 pm - Americans hoping for lower borrowing costs for homes, credit cards and cars may be disappointed after this week's Federal Reserve meeting. The Fed's policymakers are likely to signal fewer interest rate cuts next year than were previously expected.
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3 dead, others injured in a shooting at a private Christian school in Wisconsin
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Drone sightings lead to airspace shutdown at Ohio military base, arrests near Boston airport
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Germany’s Scholz loses confidence vote, setting up an election in February
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France rushes aid to Mayotte, with hundreds feared dead and hunger rising after Cyclone Chido
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Zakir Hussain, one of India’s most accomplished classical musicians, dies at 73
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Mystery drone sightings keep happening in New Jersey. Here’s what we know, and don’t know
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US officials have been in direct contact with the Syrian rebel group that ousted Assad, Blinken says
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Storms encase Iowa and eastern Nebraska in ice and generate rare tornado warning in San Francisco
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Assad lived in quiet luxury while Syrians went hungry
Dec 14, 2024 12:45 am - Bashar al-Assad, for all his autocratic power, cultivated a relatively modest public image. He flaunted nothing like the mega-yachts and network of marble baroque and roc...