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Most participants pointed to risks of lowering interest rates too quickly, according to documents

A trial in Texas this week is set to determine whether high school administrators can continue punishing a Black teenager for refusing to cut his hair

The ruling by the all-Republican Alabama Supreme Court prompted a wave of concern about the future of IVF treatments in the state and the potential consequences of extreme anti-abortion laws in Republican-controlled states

In recent years Oklahoma’s Republican-led Legislature has passed several new laws targeting transgender and nonbinary people

Criticism over the lack of evidence directly related to the president has grown even among those in the Republican Party who have thrown cold water on allegations that Biden was directly involved in his family members’ business

President Joe Biden announced that his administration is automatically canceling federal student loans for nearly 153,000 borrowers. The first round of forgiveness will clear $1.2 billion in loans

The bill is part of a wave of legislation in Republican states that seek to regulate which bathrooms transgender people use, which school sports teams they can play on, and to prohibit gender-affirming medical care, particularly for minors

Hostile activity in cyberspace — from spying to the planting of malware to infect and disrupt a country’s infrastructure — has become a hallmark of modern geopolitical rivalry

The radical approach has been described as a failure as deaths by overdose have increased. However, some think the law was not implemented properly

The new charges come after two juveniles were detained last week on gun-related and resisting arrest charges. Authorities said more charges are possible

The new round of funding will help pay for projects nationwide, bringing the total awarded to states for water infrastructure improvements to $22 billion

The organization that manages this critical artery of global trade estimates losses of over $700 million this year. The chronic drought caused by El Niño has limited the number of ships that can transit each day

La Inmaculada — a criminal group that has been operating for more than a decade — has unleashed an unprecedented wave of violence in the city of Tuluá, which reached its peak over the past week. Hundreds of police officers and soldiers have been deployed to the municipality

‘I refuse to quit,’ Haley told a small collection of supporters gathered in South Carolina in a speech outlining her rationale for staying in. ‘On Sunday, I’ll still be running for president. I’m not going anywhere’, she said

The decision was issued in a pair of wrongful death cases brought by couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in an accident at a fertility clinic

Crimes against candidates and political officials mark the start of the country’s presidential campaign

Priced at $399, the ‘Never Surrender’ sneaker — a limited edition of 1,000 pairs of shoes that form part of the ‘Trump Sneakers’ brand — sold out just one day after going on presale

The editor of the quarterly political journal ‘American Affairs,’ who emerged during Trumpism’s first act and quickly turned his back on it, sees the current US election as framed by a historical turning point, but doesn’t think either candidate or party is proving to be up for the occasion

Haley is using the closing days of the South Carolina GOP primary matchup with Donald Trump to hone her argument that she is the lone remaining candidate who can unite Americans

Forecasters warned Monday of possible flooding, hail, strong winds and even brief tornadoes as the system moves south over the next few days

These are some of the lessons that can be learned from three countries with experience of a dollar-based economy if Argentina, Latin America’s third-largest economy, chooses to adopt the currency as legal tender

EL PAÍS entered the Mariscal Zavala military prison where the journalist has been jailed for the last 18 months. The international community hopes he will be released under the Bernardo Arévalo administration, but he remains calm: ‘I’m ready to spend three months or 100 years here’

Food scraps and other organic materials like yard waste emit methane, a gas more potent and damaging in the short-term than carbon emissions

Scott, a Trump rival in the 2024 race who dropped out and later endorsed the former president, declined to say in two Sunday news show interviews whether he would have acted differently as vice president

The Munich Security Conference has shone a spotlight on the international community’s failure to act as the suffering of Gaza civilians worsens

The nation will once again commemorate the first U.S. president on Monday, 292 years after he was born