After their meeting Wednesday, Fed officials held interest rates steady in a range of 4.25% to 4.5%. In December, officials had penciled in two quarter-point cuts for 2025. Also read: Powell takes ...

Despite record-breaking temperatures, devastating wildfires, and rising seas, climate change remains a low priority for American voters.

Echoes from Ann Telnaes walking away from The Washington Post continue to resonate. While Ann is the starting point the discussion has evolved into a broader discussion about editorial cartoons and ...

In the Jan. 11 Lewiston Tribune, there was a political cartoon showing a mother and son discussing the flags being at half-staff. The mother said it was for a great man who used to be president; the ...

President Joseph Boakai’s second State of the Nation Address (SONA) has drawn sharp criticism from opposition political parties and former supporters, despite his efforts to highlight achievements ...

Inflation was a driving force behind Donald Trump’s election, but he’s put the issue on the back burner during his first week ...

It was a revolution of peanut butter sandwiches. Hundreds of thousands of American women — mostly suburban, middle-class ...

If Trump was unsparing in his description of the status quo, though, he was soaring in his promises of “a thrilling new era ...

The Federal Reserve's premature victory lap over inflation reveals a worrisome misunderstanding of the predicament we still find ourselves in. Unprecedented government spending and debt, combined with ...

Nassau County Republicans are taking it on the chin politically in the proposed settlement of two cases claiming the GOP redistricting of the county legislature was illegally discriminatory. And ...

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