Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said recent consumer-price data showing inflation easing was “promising,” though inflation is still higher than policymakers’ 2% goal. “It’s at least promising that this week we got inflation numbers that show inflation is coming down at a pretty rapid clip,” Goolsbee said Friday in an interview with … Read more
CNN — This is it. The media defamation trial of the century is on the precipice of kicking off in Wilmington, Delaware, in just days. Jury selection in Dominion Voting Systems’ monster $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit took place all of Thursday, with 300 potential jurors being summoned to court. Good progress was made and the … Read more
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Oct. 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Masks or no masks? Social distancing or not? New research suggests that the media Americans consume matters when these decisions are made. The study found that folks drawn to conservative-leaning TV news were much less likely to follow COVID … Read more
WASHINGTON: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows revealed that President Donald Trump‘s condition on Friday was far worse than officials had made public, saying doctors recommended the president go to the hospital after seeing he had a fever and his blood oxygen level dropped rapidly. Meadows made the comments in an interview with Fox … Read more
Washington: President Donald Trump said he might rescind his tentative blessing for a deal between Oracle Corp and ByteDance to create a new US-based TikTok service, casting doubt on the agreement as Chinese state media signalled reluctance in Beijing. Speaking in an interview on Fox News on Monday, Trump said he wouldn’t approve the deal … Read more
By Peter Baker WASHINGTON: After a summer when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets protesting racial injustice against Black Americans, President Donald Trump has made it clear over the last few days that, in his view, the country’s real race problem is bias against white Americans. Just days after returning from Kenosha, … Read more
WASHINGTON: China under President Xi Jinping has become more aggressive and bullish, former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Tuesday, asserting that such a behavior is unlikely to last long. Indian-American Haley, in an interview to Fox News, said the Chinese were quiet and strategic during her tenure at the UN. … Read more