By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday pushed back against reports the central bank was spending money excessively on renovations, saying that the almost 90-year-old headquarters “was not really safe,” while acknowledging cost overruns. “The media reports … are misleading and inaccurate in many, many respects,” Powell said…
ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that the country’s Founding Fathers declared that “all men are created equal.” But it doesn’t mention that the founders enshrined slavery into the U.S. Constitution and declared enslaved persons as three-fifths of a person for the purpose…
For Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, opportunity didn’t come without a struggle. “To anyone who believes that opportunity ought not come with headwinds, I don’t know where you live, but it ain’t reality,” the 59-year-old mused to a crowd on a recent afternoon overlooking the U.S. Capitol. Raised by a single mother in North…