Powell says Fed is ‘not far’ from the point of cutting interest rates

Powell says Fed is ‘not far’ from the point of cutting interest rates

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,” in Dirksen Building on Thursday, March 7, 2024. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday indicated that interest rate cuts may … Read more

Kari Lake woos D.C. lobbyists as Arizona Senate race heats up

Kari Lake woos D.C. lobbyists as Arizona Senate race heats up

Former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake announces her bid for the seat of U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) at JetSet Magazine on October 10, 2023 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Rebecca Noble | Getty Images News | Getty Images Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake has been quietly meeting with lobbyists and raising money in Washington … Read more

Calls for change and justice after Aboriginal man dies due to misdiagnosis

Calls for change and justice after Aboriginal man dies due to misdiagnosis

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains images of people who have died. The case of Ricky Hampson Jr, who died soon after he was discharged from a NSW regional hospital, is a tragic example of why Aboriginal people are scared of the health system, an inquest has been told. … Read more

Strikes at East Coast, Gulf ports are rising as a supply chain risk

Strikes at East Coast, Gulf ports are rising as a supply chain risk

The potential for a strike by the largest union of maritime workers in North America, the International Longshoremen’s Association, is beginning to rise on the list of concerns among logistics decision-makers and advisors in a year already fraught with a multitude of trade uncertainties. Red Sea diversions and Panama Canal drought restrictions are already influencing … Read more

Navy demoted Ronny Jackson after damning report on White House conduct

Navy demoted Ronny Jackson after damning report on White House conduct

Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), a former White House physician, retired as a Navy rear admiral in 2019 but was demoted less than two years later, The Washington Post reported.   Following a damning March 2021 Defense Department Inspector General’s (DODIG) report, in which allegations of Jackson’s inappropriate behavior while at the White House were substantiated, the Navy chose … Read more

Ocean temperatures hit record high in February, data shows – National

Ocean temperatures hit record high in February, data shows – National

Ocean temperatures hit a record high in February, with the average global sea surface temperature at 21.06 degrees Celsius (69.91 degrees Fahrenheit), the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. February’s average sea surface temperature surpassed the previous record of 20.98 C (69.77 F) set in August 2023, in a dataset that goes … Read more

Amid War, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky To Meet Recep Tayyip Erdogan In Turkey Today

Amid War, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky To Meet Recep Tayyip Erdogan In Turkey Today

Volodymyr Zelensky last visited Turkey in July 2023 when he held lengthy talks with Erdogan. Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Istanbul on Friday for talks with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the war against Russia and Black Sea navigation, the Turkish presidency said. “The situation between Ukraine and Russia and the latest … Read more