Stocks tumbled after Jerome Powell’s remarks, and bond yields rose, a sign that investors foresee more large interest rate hikes ahead.
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FBI: Trump mixed top secret documents with magazines, other items
A just-released 32-page affidavit, even in its redacted form, underscores the volume of sensitive government documents located at Mar-a-Lago and reveals FBI concerns that the records were being retained illegally.
Biden rallies for Democrats, slams ‘semi-fascism’ in GOP
President Joe Biden is calling on Democrats “to vote to literally save democracy once again” in the midterm elections.
Woman sues Vermont over residency requirement for assisted suicide
Vermont’s law allowing some terminally ill patients to end their own lives shouldn’t apply only to residents, says a Connecticut woman with cancer.
Rapid rainfall floods buildings, highways in Deep South
Officers carried toddlers out of a flooded day care center in Florence, Mississippi.
Ukrainian nuclear plant temporarily cut off from power grid
The complex, Europe’s largest nuclear plant, has been occupied by Russian forces and run by Ukrainian workers since the early days of the 6-month-old war.
California looks to phase out gas-fueled vehicles by 2035
Approval of the groundbreaking policy is expected and will trigger a ripple effect throughout the auto industry and across the country.
Nebraska school officials close newspaper after students publish LGBTQ articles
An email from a school employee cancelling the student paper’s printing services said it was “because the school board and superintendent are unhappy with the last issue’s editorial content.”
Two plead guilty in scheme to sell Biden’s daughter’s diary
Prosecutors say two people from Florida have pleaded guilty in a scheme to peddle a diary and other items belonging to the president’s daughter to the conservative group Project Veritas for $40,000.
School shooter fixated on guns, dreamed of killing, therapists’ letter says
Four years before Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people at a Florida high school, therapists at another school wrote a letter to his psychiatrist saying he was fixated on guns and dreamed of killing others and being covered in blood.