Saturday’s disaster was concentrated in a sloped, narrow alley in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood, a popular nightlife district, with witnesses and survivors recalling a “hell-like” chaos.
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Key issue as Fed meets this week: When to slow rate hikes?
Fed officials have stressed that they need to raise rates significantly to tame inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households.
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Biden paints oil firms as war profiteers, talks windfall tax
High prices at the pump have exacerbated inflation and have taken a toll on Biden and Democrats’ standing among voters.
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$1 billion Powerball jackpot up for grabs Monday night
It’s the fifth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
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Musk considers charging users for Twitter verification, fires entire board
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said he and his Kingdom Holding Company rolled over a combined $1.89 billion in existing Twitter shares, making them the company’s largest shareholder after billionaire Elon Musk.
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Republican candidates seize on voter hesitancy to attack EVs as costly to U.S.
More than two-thirds of Americans say they are unlikely to purchase an electric vehicle in the next three years, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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Biden administration relaxes rules for student debt forgiveness
The new policy clarifies that the Education Department can review claims from individual borrowers or it can grant forgiveness to huge swaths of students from the same college.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to keep tax returns from House committee
Lower courts ruled that the committee has broad authority to obtain tax returns and rejected Trump’s claims that it was overstepping.
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Man charged in attempt to kidnap Nancy Pelosi planned to break her knees, police say
The man is charged with 2 federal counts after breaking into the House speaker’s home and attacking her husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer.
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Supreme Court justices raise doubts on race-conscious college admissions
The court is weighing challenges to admissions programs at the University of North Carolina and Harvard that use race among many factors in seeking a diverse student body.