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Bernanke began two days of testimony Tuesday on the health聽of the U.S.聽economy as questions persist about future involvement of the Federal Reserve聽and the fear of inflation during the biggest recession since the Great Depression.
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LOS ANGELES AP 鈥?A windstorm that fanned brushfires, toppled trees and left thousands of Californians without power focused its remaining energy Wednesday on the southern end of the state, where forecasters warned of the additional threat of heavy rain and flash flooding.Strong winds that began Tuesday night reached 50 mph in many areas. Hurricane-force gusts of around 85 mph hit a mountain area in San Diego County and came with about a half-inch of rain in some locations.The winds were tapering off by sunset in many areas although high-wind warnings remained in place until 10 p.m. in San Bernardino and Riverside counties and inland areas of Orange County.In addition, a low-pressure system moving across northern Baja California was expected to draw subtropical moisture into the region d
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?She already broken barriers, and now Kamala Harris could shatter several more after President Joe Biden abruptly ended his reelection bid and endorsed her.Biden announced Sunday that he was stepping aside after a di
stanley cup sastrous debate performance catalyzed fears that the 81-year-old was too frail for a second term.Harris is the first woman, Black person and person of South Asian descent to se
stanley cup rve as vice president. If she becomes the Democratic nominee and defeats Republican candidate Donald Trump in November, she would be the first woman to serve as president.Biden said Sunday that choosing Harris as his running mate was the best decision I ;ve made and endorsed her as his successor. Democrats 鈥?its time to come together and beat Trump, he wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Lets do this. Harris described Biden decision to step aside as a selfless and patriotic act, saying he was putting the American people and our country above everything else. I am honored to have the Pr
stanley cup esidents endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination, Harris said. Over the past year, I have traveled across the country, talking with Americans about the clear choice in this momentous election. Prominent Democrats followed Biden lead by swiftly coalescing around Harris on Sunday. However, her nomination is not a foregone conclusion, and there have been suggestions that the party should hold a Yaxn $1 Billion a Year in Military Aid to Egypt for 40 Years: Just Keep Giving
One day after the Obama administration released its $3.8 trillion budget plan, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the president budget director, Peter Orszag, are set to explain it Tuesday before congressional committees.Also on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen are to discuss lifting the
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stanley cup tting the projected deficit, nearly $1.6 trillion. The president budget would impose nearly $1 trillion in higher taxes on the wealthy by not renewing tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush. The proposal would extend Bush-era tax cuts for families and individuals making less.One of the president initiatives, a proposed $5,000-per-job tax credit for companies that hire more workers, could come up for a vote in the Senate as early as the end of the week if senators can work out the details, reports the Associated Press.Politico breaks down the winners and losers under President Obama budget plan, saying
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Weeks after the failure of two banks,聽President Joe Biden聽called Thursday for independent regulatory agencies to impose tighter rules on the financial system, telling them that they can act under current law without additional steps taken by Congress.The recommended changes outlined by the White House try to put a clear blame on the Trump administration for weakening supervision of regional banks, issuing a fact sheet that said Bidens predecessor weakened many important common-sense requirements and supervision. The president is urging the banking regulators to consider reforms that will reduce the risk of future banking crises, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.Rattling the financial markets and U.S. voters alike, the California-based Silicon Valley Ba
stanley cup nk and New York-based Signature Bank failed over the course of a weekend and required government intervention. Then another financial institution, First Republic Bank, received an emergency $30 billion infusion of funds from 11 large
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Energy Transfer Partners, the Texas-based pipeline operator that owns the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, is coming under renewed scrutiny for two spills that released more than 2 million gallons of drilling fluid into Ohio wetlands earlier this month. A violation notice made public this week indicates about 50,000 gallons of drilling fluid a thick gel-like
stanley cup substance used to cut through rock during pipeline construction was released near Richland County, Ohio. The spill was discovered April 14, according to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. An estimated 2 million gallons spilled in another incident discovered April 13 near the Tuscarawas River south of Navarre. Both spills were connected to the companys construction of the Rover Pipeline, a $4.2 billion dollar project that will route through Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Michigan and Ontario, Canada. Energy Transfer Partners
af1 said the Richland County leak has been completely cleaned up. We are currently working to complete the cleanup at the other site in Stark County and anticipate returning to construction shortly, Alexis Daniel, a spokesperson for Energy Transfer Partners, told NewsHour.Daniel said the leak
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Photo by Jim McGuire via Getty Images.The hits just keep on coming. The Internet hits for Larry Kotlikoff and his Social Security Secrets, that is. We ;re s
stanley cup till getting tens of thousands a day and wave after wave of inquiries for Larry, some of which he been gracious enough to answer here on Making Sen$e. Friday is our third installment of Ask Larry, and appreciative as I am, I want to take issue with his next-to-last answer to Humanistic about the system reason for being. Eve
stanley cup n though Larry joking, it ridiculous and even dangerous to suggest that Social Security was designed to drive us mad. You might check out the question and Larry answer before continuing to read this introduction. Like every other piece of complex policy in a complex, highly politicized economy, Social Security has evolved in ways that are often confusing bedeviling, even. Like the tax code. Like the criminal justice code. Like Dodd-Frank. Ever look at a compliance guide for the Americans with Disabilities Act To put it plainly, we ;re a nation of laws and rights. They ;re constantly changing with changing times, changing mores, changing technology. In the process, they become more fine-tuned, more complica
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ANKARA, Turkey AP 鈥?The president of Turkey on Friday formally converted Istanbul sixth-century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, hours after a high court annulled a 1934 decision that had made the religious landmark a museum.The decision sparked deep dismay among Orthodox Christians. Originally a cathedral, Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque after Istanbul conquest by the Ottoman Empire but had been a museum for the last 86 years, drawing millions of tourists annually.There was jubilation outside the terracotta-hued structure with its cascading domes and four minarets. Dozens of people awaiting the court ruling chanted Allah is great! when the news broke. A large crowd later prayed outside it.In the capital of Ankara, legislators stood and applauded as the decision was read in Parliament.Turkey high administrative court threw its weight behind a petition brought by a religious group and annulled the 1934 Cabinet decision that turned the site into a museum. Within hours, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a decree ha
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MOSCOW AP 鈥?Ordinary Russians faced the prospect of higher prices and crimped foreign travel as Western sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine sent the ruble plummeting, leading uneasy depositors to line up at banks and ATMs on Monday in a country that has seen more than one currency disaster in the post-Soviet era.The Russian currency plunged about 30 percent against the U.S. dollar after Western nations announced unprecedented moves to block some Russian banks from the SWIFT international payment system and to restrict Russia use of its massive foreign currency reserves. The exchange rate later recovered ground aft
stanley cup er swift action by Russia central bank.But the economic squeeze got tighter when the U.S. fleshed out the sanctions to immobilize any assets of the Russian central bank in the United States or held by Americans. The Biden administration estimated that the move could impact hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian funding.U.S. officials said Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, European Union and others will join in targeting the Russian central bank.We are in uncharted territory of throwing all these nuclear options of sanctions at Russia at the same time over the weekend,
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands AP 鈥?The United States said Wednesday the United Nations ; top court s
stanley cup hould not issue an advisory opinion that says Israel should immediately and unconditionally withdraw from territories sought for a Palestinian state.Acting State Department legal adviser Richard Visek said the 15-judge panel at the International Court of Justice should not seek to resolve the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict through an advisory opinion addressed to questions focusing on the acts of only one party. WATCH: After rejecting Arab proposal, U.S. circulates rival UN resolution for temporary Gaza cease-fireVisek spoke on the third day of hearings at the court into a request by the General Assembly for a non-binding advisory opinion on the legality of Israels policies in the occupied territories.He said the court can address the q
yeezy uestions before it within the established framework based on the land for peace principle and within the parameters of established principles of occupation law. Visek added that the court opinion will have consequences for the parties to the conflict and for th
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