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WASHINGTON  AP  鈥?U.S. consumer price increases eased slightly from January to February but still pointed to an elevated inflation rate that is posing a challenge for the Federal Reserve at a delicate moment for the financial system.The government said Tuesday that prices increased 0.4 percent last month, just below Januarys 0.5 percent rise. Yet excluding volatile food and energy costs, so-called core prices rose 0.5 percent in Fe stanley cup bruary, slightly above January   0.4 percent gain. The Fed pays particular attention to the core measure as a gauge of underlying inflation pressures.Even though prices are rising much faster than the Fed wants, some economists expect the central bank to suspend its year-long streak of interest rate hi stanley cup kes when it meets next week. With the collapse of two large banks since Friday fueling anxiety about other regional banks, the Fed, for now, may focus more on boosting confidence in the financial system than on its long-term drive to tame inflation.That is a sharp shift from just a week ago, wh stanley cup en Chair Jerome Powell聽suggested to a Senate committee聽that if inflation didnt cool, the Fed could raise its benchmark interest rate by a substantial half-point at its meeting March 21-22. When the Fed raises its key rate, it typically leads to higher rates on mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and many business loans.When measured against prices a year ago, inflation has been easing for eight months. In February, consumer prices climbed 6 percent from 12  Mxnv The legend of the    War of the Worlds
The United States and Iran remain in a stalemate over how to restart negotiations to manage the regime   nuclear program, but Iranian officials are waiting for the U.S. to make the first move, says Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Irans atomic energy organization. The U.S. must come to the negotiating table before Iran will agree to discuss returning to the confines of the deal negotiated by the Obama administration in 2015, asics  Salehi said.聽聽 Why do we want to complicate the issue   Salehi asked the NewsHours Reza Sayah during an interview in Tehran.  The one who has left the JCPOA has to come back first,  he added, referring to the deals name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.聽President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the deal in 2018, reimposing sanctions that were lifted as part of the agreement. The four other permanent members of the UN Security Council 鈥?China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom 鈥?plus Germany remain signed to the original agreement.聽After the U.S withdrawal, Iran began a series of actions in violation of the agreement, including, in January, enriching uranium to 20 percent purity, which would put Iran much closer to being able to build a nuclear weapon. The JCPOA prohibited Iran from adidas campus  enriching uranium past 3.67 percent for fifteen years.Iran threatened adidas og  to restrict the access of nuclear inspectors to key production facilities unless the United States removed sanctions by Feb. 23. When that deadline wasnt met, Iran then reached a last-m

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MILWAUKEE 鈥?You wont need to make advance reservations to visit the zoo starting Thursday.The Milwaukee County Zoo is in Phase 2 of its reopening, with outdoor habitats open and some buildings, concessions, and merchandise outlets open with 50-percent capacity for visitors and Zoo Pass holders, according to a press release from the Zoo. Physical distancing and face masks will be required.Events such as Family Free Days will still require reservations, so the zoo can adhere to limited daily attendance capa stanley cupe city.City of Milwaukee announces additional $15 million in fu stanley drinking cup nding for rent assistanceBuildings open to 50-percent capacity include the Apes of Africa, Aquatic  Reptile Center, Herb  Nada Mahler Family Aviary, Dairy Barn in the Northwestern Mutual Family Farm, and the Elephant Care Center-Conservation Outpost.There is one-way visitor traffic and entrance and exit doors are specifically designated. There will be staff on hand to monitor the number of visitors in the buildings at any one time and to ensure physical distancing can be followed.To keep visitors safe, the stanley quencher  Zoo has designated a single point of entry, placed hand sanitizer stations throughout the Zoo, and enhancing the already-stringent cleaning practices. Because the Zoo is opened limited hours, this allows for extensive commercial-grade pressure washers to clean larger surface areas with a disinfectant additive.Report a typo or error // Submit a news tip Exwv Behind-the-scenes: Opening Miller Park  s retractable roof
Forecasters and hurricane watchers have been eyeing the Atlantic very closely this week.That s because a disturbance has been looking ideal for tropical storm development.The National Hurricane Center says it has seen better organization and a more defined circulation within the low pressure system. And on top of that, it s slowly moving into environmental conditions more pr stanley cup one to hurricane development.RELATED: Storm Shield app provides life-saving weather alertsRELATED: Track hurricanes in the Atlantic with RadarCastThe NHC i stanley becher s also pretty confident it will be naming this storm before the end of the holiday weekend. Its currently giving it a 90 percent chance of being named a tropical or subtropical storm in the next 48 hours.Once formed, the storm system is expected to continue moving northwest to the United States  southwest coast.That likely means a breezy, wet weekend for southeast Georgia as well as North and South Carolina.The hurricane season officially  stanley cup nz begins June 1, but an extremely rare January hurricane and now a potentially not as rare late May storm would mean two named storms before the season even begins.Follow Storm Shield Meteorologist Jason Meyersvia the Storm Shield appon Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Download the Storm Shield Weather Radio App for your iPhone or Android device and get severe weather alerts wherever you are. Named by Time one of the best weather apps for your iPhone.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.  AP  鈥?A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts, preventing the state from becoming the first  stanley cup to impose such a restriction.U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks granted a preliminary injunction that聽NetChoice聽鈥?a tec stanley cup h industry trade group whose members include TikTok, Facebook parent Meta, and X, formerly known as Twitter 鈥?had requested against the law. The measure, which Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law in April, was set to take effect Friday.Arkansas law is similar to a first-in-the-nation restriction聽signed into law聽earlier this year in Utah. That law is not set to stanley cup  take effect until March 2024. NetChoice last year filed a lawsuit challenging a California law requiring tech companies to put kids safety first by barring them from profiling children or using personal information in ways that could harm children physically or mentally.In a 50-page ruling, Brooks said NetChoice was likely to succeed in its challenge to the Arkansas laws constitutionality and questioned the effectiveness of the restrictions.READ MORE: From data privacy to AI, here are new rules Congress is considering for tech companies Age-gating social media platforms for adults and minors does not appear to be an effective approach when, in reality, it is the content on particular platforms that is driving the states true concerns,  wrote Br Dbdv Trump says he hopes U.S. virus toll will be below 100,000
WASHINGTON 鈥?The Justice Department on Monday charged Credit Suisse AG with helping wealthy Americans avoid paying taxes through offshore accounts, and a person familiar with the matter said the European bank has agreed to pay about $2. adidas campus 6 billion in penalties.The charge was filed in a criminal information, which is a charging document that can only be filed with a defendant   consent and which typically signals a guilty plea.The penalties will be paid to the Justice Department and to regulators, according to a person spoke on condition of anonymity because the guilty plea had not yet been announced.A Justice Department news conference was scheduled for later Monday.The penalty resolves a yearslong criminal investigation into allegations that the bank, Switzerland   second-largest, recruited U.S. clients to open Swiss accounts, helped them conceal the accounts from the Internal Revenue Service and enabled misconduct by bank employees. The ca adidas samba se is part of an Obama administration crackdown on foreign banks believed to be helping U.S. taxpayers hide assets.Attorney General Eric Holder, criticized last year after telling Congress that large banks had become hard to prosecute, appeared to foreshadow the guilty plea in a video message earlier this month in which he said no financial institution was too big to jail.The criminal case follows a Senate subcommittee investigation that found the bank provided accounts in Switzerland for more than 22,000 U.S. clie stanley cup n

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WASHINGTON stanley cup  鈥?President Donald Trump on Sunday criticized London   mayor after he sought to reassure residents about a stepped-up police presence on city streets following the third deadly attack there in the past three months, arguing on Twitter for leaders to  8220 top being politically correct and focus on  8220 ecurity for our people.The mayor   spokesman said he was too busy to respond to Trump   ill-informed 8 stanley cup 221; tweet.In a series of tweets late Saturday and early Sunday responding to the attack, Trump also pushed his stalled travel ban, took on gun control supporters and pledged that the United States will be there to help London and the United Kingdom.The vehicle and knife attack killed seven people in a busy section of London late Saturday and wounded about 50 people.Trump challenged London Mayor Sadiq Khan for saying there was no reason to be alarmed. Khan spoke those words in a television interview Sunday in the context of reassuring Londoners about an increased police presence they mig stanley cup ht see.No reason to be alarmed, Khan said, describing a more visible presence as one of things the police and all of us need to do to make sure we are as safe as we possibly can be.Trump wasn ;t satisfied and responded Sunday with a trio of tweets:We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. If we don ;t get smart it will only get w Slmg Excerpt: Obama on Public Option Compromises
A BBC reporter traveling in the convoy of 8 or 10 cars said it came under air attack as it approached an area that was recently captured from Iraqi forces.I ;ve counted 10 or 12 bodies around us, so there are Americans dead. It was an American plane, dropped the bomb right beside us, I saw it land about 10 to 12 feet away, he told the BBC moments after the blast.Hoshiar Zebari, a senior member of the governing Kurdistan Democratic Party, said that the attack killed at least 18 Kurdish fighters and injured another 45.As U.S. Central Command   investigation continued, it issued an initial report Sunday stating that one civilian may have been killed along with one U.S. and one Kurdish soldier.Coalition aircraft were conducting close air support missions at the time, and were in coordination with ground forces. The circumstances contributing to the inciden adidas campus t are under investigation, the st adidas campus atement from U.S. war headquarters said.The incident took place about 30 miles southeast of the northern ci air max 1 ty of Mosul. American warplanes have been pounding Iraqi positions in that region ahead of the advance on the key northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk. Reuters correspondents in the area said there was a heavy bombardment of the road from Kalak to Mosul on Sunday morning.Hoshiar Zebari said Wajy Barzani, the younger brother of Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Massoud Barzani, was in intensive care but he gave no details of his injuries. He spoke at hosp

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WASHINGTON, D.C. 鈥?The $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package is giving help to small businesses to keep their workers on the job. Starting Friday, businesses can apply to the $349 billion                             Paycheck Protection Program,                         but now is the time to prepare. Small businesses with 500 or fewer employees can apply. Nonprofits and veterans organizations are also eligible. Independent contractors and people who are self-employed can apply starting April 10.Loans can be up to two and a half times your average monthly payroll costs, but no more than $10 million.These loans will be forgiven if businesses use the money a certain way. What the banks are going t stanley cup o start lending on Friday, there is a calculation towards payroll and some expenses that after June 30, you get a portion of that loan back,  said Tom Sullivan, VP for Small Busine stanley tumblers ss Policy at the U.S. Chamber  stanley cup of Commerce.Besides payroll, most mortgage interest, rent and utility costs over the loan s eight-week period can lead to it being forgiven. Employee and compensation levels have to be maintained.Sullivan says U.S. Chamber of Commerce believes these new loans will keep small businesses going. On the one hand, we ve seen communities come together to support small business,  said Sullivan.  On the other hand, we heard horrible stories about businesses that have been in the family for generations having to close. You can find the Paycheck Protection Program application              Ncys Mequon mom has close call with car thieves
Vice President Mike Pe stanley mug nce s chief lawyer and domestic policy director are leaving his office at the beginning of the new year, according to four sources familiar with the staff turnover.The moves come amid high tensions and staff turnover in the Trump administration stanley cup  thanks to the ongoing Russia probe and a new tell-all book about West Wing happenings. These moves have been in the works for weeks,  the vice president s communications director confirmed to CNN.CNN has learned that longtime senior staffers Mark Paoletta and Daris Meeks are leaving Pence s office. The announcement was made by chief of staff Nick Ayers in a staff meeting at the beginning of the week.Pao stanley thermobecher letta and Meeks  departures follow two other top Pence aides who have left the Office of the Vice President: chief of staff Josh Pitcock and press secretary Marc Lotter. The vice president s staff is considerably smaller than the West Wing, making the departures a more notable shift at the beginning of the new year.Paoletta serves as Pence s chief counsel, the top lawyer in his office. In his role, he advised on all legal matters. Paoletta was  very involved  in helping with the Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination, according to one source familiar with his position.Not only did Paoletta work on the Trump transition, but he also served as an outside counsel for Pence when he was a congressman. Paoletta is a high-profile lawyer in Washington who has served inside the government and a partner at the law firm DLA Pipe

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AIG Chairman and CEO Edward M. Liddy, who took over AIG last fall, says the payment of millions in bonuses was necessary to keep employees from fleeing its troubled financial products division bonus payments. Liddy himself is not getting a bonus.Liddy told lawmakers he   heard the rage over the bonuses and has called on employees to voluntarily return at least half of the money. This morning, I have asked the employees of AIG financial products to step up and do the right thing, Liddy said. Specifically, I ;ve as stanley cup ked those who received retention payments in excess of $100,000 or more to return at least half of those payments. Some have already stepped up and agreed to return 100 percent of those payments. Listen to Liddy   opening statement to the House Finance Committee : AIG is under scrutiny for mo stanley cup re than $200 million in retentio stanley cup n bonuses paid to employees in its troubled financial products division. The most recent payments of $165 million began to be paid last Friday and have raised furor among lawmakers.These retention payments, which range from $1,000 to nearly $6.5 million, were not his idea. The deals were cut early last year, long before then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson asked Liddy to take over the company, reported the Associated Press.I do not like these arrangements and find it distasteful and difficult to recommend to you that we must proceed with them, Liddy wrote to the current treasury secretary,  Ysng Egypt   s Foreign Minister Tells U.S. Not to Impose Its Will
SEOUL, South Korea  AP  鈥?South Koreas liberal opposition parties were expe adidas samba cted to win a landslide victory in Wednesdays聽parliamentary election, exit polls and ongoing vote counts suggested, a result that if confirmed would make conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol a lame duck for his remaining three years in office.The joint exit polls by South Koreas three major TV stations -鈥?KBS, MBC and SBS 鈥? showed the main opposition Democ stanley cup ratic Party and its satellite party were forecast to win a combined 178 to 197 seats in the 300-member National Assembly. They expected another new liberal opposition party to win 12 to 14 seats.The polls suggested the ruling People Power Party and its satellite party were projected to win 85 to 105 seats.Wednesdays election was widely seen as a mid-term confidence vote on President Yoon, a former top prosecutor who took office in 2022 for a single five-year term.He has pushed hard to boost cooperation with the U.S. and Japan as a way to address a mix of tough security and economic challenges. But Yoon has been grappling with low approval ratings at home and a liberal opposition-controlled parliament that has limit af1 ed his major policy platforms.READ MORE: South Korean doctors hold mass protest against governments medical school admissions planRegardless of the results, Yoon will stay in power and his major foreign policies will likely be unchanged. But the ruling partys big election defeat could set back Yoons domestic agenda and leave him facing an i

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EL PAS stanley cup O, Texas  AP  鈥?The mayor of a Texas border city declared a state of emergency Saturday over concerns about the community   ability to handle an anticipated influx of migrants across the Southern border.READ MORE: Border patrol agents sending migrants to false city addresses, sowing confusionEl Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser issued the state of emergency declaration to allow the city on the U.S. border with Mexico to tap into additional resources that are expected to become necessary after Title 42 expulsions end on Dec. 21, the El Paso Times reported.Leeser had previously resisted issuing an emergency declaration, but said he was moved to action by the sight of people on downtown streets with temperatures dipping below freezing, the Times reported.That   not the way we want to treat people, Leeser said during a news conference Saturday evening.READ MORE: House Republican leader McCarthy threatens to impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas over borderA ruling Friday by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals means restrictions that have stanley cup  prevented hundreds of thousands of migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S stanley cup . in recent years are still set to be lifted Wednesday unless further appeals are filed.Leeser added that the increase would be incredible after Wednesday when daily apprehensions and street releases could reach up to 6,000 per day, the Times reported.El Paso Deputy City Manager Mario D ;Agostino said the state emergency of declaration would  Qbhc Synagogue   s   8220;Shutdown Central  8221; offers ping pong in place of paycheck
NEW ORLEANS 鈥?Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling in deeper and deeper waters, where payoffs can be huge but risks are greater than ever.Industry leaders and government officials say theyre determined to prevent a repeat of BPs Deepwater Horizon disaster, which spilled 134 million gallons  stanley cup of oil that fouled beaches from Louisiana to Florida, killed hundreds of thousands of marine animals, and devastated the tourist adidas samba og  economy.Yet聽safety rules adopted in the spills aftermath have been eased聽as part of President Donald Trumps drive to boost U.S. oil production. And government data reviewed by the Associated Press shows the number of safety inspection visits has declined in recent years, although officials say checks of electronic records, safety systems and individual oil rig components have increased.Today, companies are increasingly聽reliant on production from deeper and inherently more dangerous oi airmax l reserves, where drill crews can grapple with ultra-high pressures and oil temperatures that can top 350 degrees  177 degrees Celsius .Despite almost $2 billion spent by the industry on equipment to respond to an oil well blowout like BPs, some scientists, former government officials and environmentalists say safety practices appear to be eroding. Im concerned that in the industry the lessons arent fully learned 鈥?that were tending to backslide,  said Donald Boesch, a University o

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A 74-year-old man has been charged with murder in this week s ambush of law enforcement officers in Florence, South Carolina, officials said Friday.Frederick Hopkins also faces six counts of attempted murder in the shooting, said Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott, whose office is conducting the investigation.Three Florence County sheriff s deputies went to Hopkins  house Wednesday to interview his adopted son, 28-year-old Seth Hopkins, as part of an investigation into criminal sexual assault, Lott said. The deputies also had a search warrant. They got out of their car,  Lott said,  and they were shot without warning. stanley cup  Sgt. Terrence Carraway, a 30-year veteran of the Florence Police Department, was among those responding to the scene to provide backup. He was killed, and six other law enforcement officials were injured during the two-hour standoff.Frederick Hopkins, who was formally charged at noon Friday, is in custody at a medical facility, Lott said. Officials anticipate he ll be released later Friday and transferred to the Alvin S. Glenn Detention center in Richland County. stanley cup Seth Hopkins has also been arrested and charged with criminal sexual conduct in the second degree, Lott said. He did not elaborate on that charge. Seth Hopkins will also be transferred to the Richland County facility.Lott earlier had said Seth Hopkins was 27, but his office later corrected the age in a statement. This a very large, complex puzzle that we re filling the pieces in, piece by piec stanley thermos e -- what, w Ffks Man who wore costume with toy gun speaks out on controversy
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Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga. stanley cup , and Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., check out a printed version of the Affordable Care Act at a May press conference on Capitol Hill. Photo By Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call.More than three years since President Barack Obama signed the health care bill into law, and a year removed from the Supreme Court   decision to uphold the policy overhaul, the fight over the Affordable Care Act rages on.A day after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to delay Obamacare   individual and employer mandates, the 38th and 39th time the chamber has voted to repeal or modify the law, Mr. Obama will use a White House appearance Thursday to tout the benefits of his signature domestic achievement. The president is expected to highlight a provision that requires insurance companies to spend 80 percent of premium dollars on medical care or improvements to health care delivery, or issue refunds to their customers.Updated 12 p.m. ET  Watch President Obama   statement about healthcare: And minutes after the president began speaking, John Boehner held a dueling press event:   White House Press Secretary Jay Carney gave a preview of the president   remarks on Wedn stanley cup esday, noting that 8.5 million families had received rebates, with an average payment of nearly $100. This is just one of the many ways the Affordable Care Act is giving consumers a better value for thei stanley cup r health care dollar and making our health care system stronger, 82 Rbcs Trump sues New York attorney general in an effort to end civil probe
SINGAPORE 鈥?The eyes of the world upon them, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un headed on Monday into their historic summit balancing the elusive promise of peace against the specter of a growing nuclear threat. Yet even before they met, Trump announced plans to leave early, raising questions about whether his aspirations for an ambitious outcome had been scaled back.The first-ever meeting between a U.S. president and a North Korean leader was to kick off at 9 a.m. Tuesday local time, 9 p.m. ET Monday in the U.S., with a handshake, an image sure to be devoured from Washington to Pyongyang and beyond. Trump and Kim planned to meet one-on-one for most of an hour 鈥?joined only by translators. Then aides to each were to come in for more discussions and a working lunch.President Donald Trump is s stanley cup cheduled to speak at 4 a.m. ET Tuesday, following his summit with North Korean leader air max  Kim Jong Un. Watc nike dunk h live in the player above.In the run-up to the talks in Singapore, Trump had optimistically predicted the two men could strike a nuclear deal or forge a formal end to the Korean War in the course of a single meeting or over several days. But on the eve of the summit, the White House unexpectedly announced Trump would depart Singapore by Tuesday evening, meaning his time with Kim would be fairly brief. And Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sought to keep expectations for the summit in check.We are hopeful this summit will have set the conditions for future succ