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Tight job market has friend in the Fed The Federal Reserve is standing pat on interest rates for now, with the timing of a cut uncertain. Still, the backdrop remains supportive for the U.S. job market and the rank and file. 05/2/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Stocks surge as Fed Chair Jerome Powell signals further rate hikes ‘unlikely’ Traders have sharply downgraded their expectations since 2024 began, when they had expected up to six rate cuts. 05/1/2024 - 1:31 pm | View Link
Fed Chair Jerome Powell Projects Optimism, But Inflation Data Are in the Driver’s Seat Some analysts warn of limits as to how long the central bank can keep interest rate increases off the table. 05/1/2024 - 1:09 pm | View Link
Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She’ll Force Vote to Oust Johnson On this date in 1992, as riots raged in Los Angeles, Rodney King made his famous plea for calm, asking, "Can we all get along?" We still await an affirmative answer to that question, but here’s what ... 05/1/2024 - 12:08 pm | View Link
On January 6, Gabriel Garcia—a first-generation Cuban American and former member of the Proud Boys—live-streamed his attempt to breach the Capitol. “How does it feel being a traitor to the country?” he screamed at police officers as he entered the building. Once inside the Rotunda, Garcia yelled “Nancy, come out and play!” as insurrections searched for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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The fossil fuel industry spent decades sowing doubt about the dangers of burning oil and gas, experts and Democratic lawmakers testified on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
The Senate budget committee held a hearing to review a report published on Tuesday with the House oversight and accountability committee that they said demonstrates the sector’s shift from explicit climate denial to a more sophisticated strategy of “deception, disinformation and doublespeak.”
“Big oil had to evolve from denial to duplicity,” said Sheldon Whitehouse, the Rhode Island Democrat, who chairs the Senate committee.
The revelations, based on hundreds of newly subpoenaed documents, illustrate how oil companies worked to greenwash their image while fighting climate policy behind the scenes.
“It’s time to ask the people who caused that problem, who lied about that situation, to pick up the bill,” said Sen.
“A key political operative on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign was charged with assault after allegedly choking and punching a woman in New York early Saturday morning,” Mediaite reports.
“Trent Pool, who serves as a paid consultant on the long-shot independent campaign and has been leading the effort to get Kennedy on the ballot in all 50 states, was charged with assault and criminal obstruction of breathing.”