By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) -Alberto Musalem, an economist and former New York Federal Reserve staffer, has been tapped to become the new president of the St. Louis Fed, the regional bank said on Thursday. Musalem, 55, succeeds James Bullard, who led the St. Louis Fed from 2008 until his unexpected resignation last…
Noelia Sanchez was born in the rolling farmlands of southwest Missouri, where her Mexican parents worked as seasonal farmworkers in the 1950s.When she was 1, Noelia and her mother, Aurora, who had no work documents, were rounded up with dozens of other immigrants in a Texas town near the border. The U.S.-born child and her…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Holiday shoppers pack the seasonal Bryant Park Winter Village beneath a large Christmas tree in midtown Manhattan, in New York City, U.S., December 15, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo By Andrea Shalal (Reuters) – Higher consumer spending over the holiday season, real wage gains over the last nine months and a jump…
By Andrew GoudswardWASHINGTON (Reuters) -Maine on Thursday disqualified Donald Trump from the state ballot in next year’s U.S. presidential primary election, becoming the second state to bar the former president for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, concluded that Trump, the front-runner…
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Democratic secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide whether Trump remains eligible to return to the White House.The…
DENVER (AP) — Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert announced Wednesday she is switching congressional districts, avoiding a likely rematch against a Democrat who has far outraised her and following an embarrassing moment of groping and vaping that shook even loyal supporters.In a Facebook video Wednesday evening, Boebert announced she would enter the crowded Republican primary in…
© Reuters. Pedestrians walk along the East Front of the U.S. Capitol Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 4, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – There was plenty of sound and fury this year in the U.S. Congress, but scant legislating amid Republican infighting in the House of Representatives,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military to carry out retaliatory airstrikes against Iranian-backed militia groups after three U.S. servicemembers were injured in a drone attack in northern Iraq.National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said one of the U.S. troops suffered critical injuries in the attack that occurred earlier Monday. The Iranian-backed…
NEW YORK (AP) — Criminal prosecutors may soon get to see over 900 documents pertaining to the alleged theft of a diary belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter after a judge rejected the conservative group Project Veritas’ First Amendment claim.Attorney Jeffrey Lichtman said on behalf of the nonprofit Monday that attorneys are considering appealing last…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Argentina’s President Javier Milei looks on as he attends a Hanukkah celebration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 12, 2023. REUTERS/Tomas Cuesta/File Photo BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine President Javier Milei has issued a decree calling for extraordinary sessions to speed up reforms, reinstate the tax on salaries abolished by the previous…
Bitcoin 
Ethereum 
XRP 
Tether 
BNB 
Solana 
USDC 
Lido Staked Ether 
Dogecoin 
TRON