Robert F. Kennedy Jr (Photo: Shutterstock) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that if Donald Trump wins the election in November, he may get to choose the heads of several big federal health agencies. These could include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of…
US President Joe Biden looks on before speaking ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, September 12, 2024. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images A federal judge has extended a temporary restraining order against the Biden administration’s latest student loan forgiveness…
Chu Kai-pong is the first person to be convicted under Article 23, the China-ruled city’s tough new national security law. A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to 14 months in jail for wearing a T-shirt and a mask with protest slogans deemed “seditious”, the first person to be convicted under the city’s tough new…
For Rhode Island, the advent of a rate cut comes at a time when the unemployment rate has gone up while the labor market is seeing fewer jobs available for workers. Meanwhile, the housing market has registered record prices for homes amid elevated mortgage rates and limited supply of homes in the market. Get Rhode…
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here. The Fed went for it. The first cut to the benchmark fed funds rate in four years was a big one of 50 basis points. Market pricing had moved in the last few days to imply that there was a slightly better…
In that order, Stitt states “the widespread use of cell phones and increased use of social media in schools seems to be linked to the evolving mental health crisis afflicting our young people.” The goal is to inspire districts to implement phone-free classroom policies and foster conversations about negative consequences associated with cell phone use…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following the September meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee at the William McChesney Martin Jr. Federal Reserve Board Building on September 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images News | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our…
Over the past two days, the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah has been targeted with an attack as sophisticated and audacious as it is brutal, with the devices in their own pockets turned into deadly weapons. On Tuesday, hundreds of pagers distributed by Hezbollah to its members and associates in Lebanon and Syria exploded, killing at…
It’s 1 a.m. and Thomas Wu is riding his bike on the empty streets of Shanghai. The 43-year-old insurance executive has had another meltdown. Wu’s pay has been slashed by 20% in a nationwide push to lower salaries at state-owned finance companies. He frets about layoffs and wonders how he’ll find 600,000 yuan ($84,500) to…
BEIJING — China on Wednesday announced sanctions on American companies selling arms to the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory and threatens to annex by force. Chinese state media made the announcement, citing the Foreign Ministry, but gave no details on the companies involved. Taiwan is awaiting deliveries of F-16…