Federal Reserve Chair Powell hints at a pause in rate hikes when central bank meets next month
Chair Jerome Powell indicated that the Federal Reserve will likely forgo an increase in its benchmark interest rate when it meets in June for the first time since it began raising its key rate 14 months ago to fight high inflation
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Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan refuses home search by police, sets his own terms
By Mubasher Bukhari and Asif Shahzad LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) -Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday refused police permission
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Jordan Neely, NYC subway rider choked to death, is mourned at Manhattan church
Jordan Neely's chokehold death on the New York City subway set off a debate about vigilantism, homelessness and public safety
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Europe wants to ban Russian diamond imports. Will it hurt?
The European Union is poised to impose a ban on imports of Russia's diamonds — cutting off the world's biggest diamond producer from one of its key markets.
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Photo agency says it has rejected Harry and Meghan's request to turn over car chase images
A US photo agency says it has refused to hand over pictures and video of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex taken in New York on Tuesday night during what the royal couple called a "near catastrophic" car chase by "a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi."
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Inflation fight risks central banks' credibility and autonomy, BIS warns
By Marc Jones LONDON The credibility and independence of central banks around the world is at risk if
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ECB must continue inflation fight 'with determination', Schnabel says
LONDON The European Central Bank must continue its fight to tame inflation "with determination" because wages are rising,
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Warzone 2 Ranked Bans Cluster Mines and Bomb Drones
In response to player feedback, Treyarch Studios has banned Cluster Mines and Bomb Drones in Warzone 2 Ranked Play to make the mode more competitive.
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Republican Senator Tim Scott launches 2024 presidential bid
Senator Tim Scott, the only Black Republican member of the upper chamber, has officially declared himself a candidate for president in next year’s Republican primary election. According to a statement of candidacy filed on Friday with the Federal Election Commission, Mr Scott has designated his official campaign committee as “Tim Scott for America”, with a campaign address in the Palmetto State’s capital, Charleston. Mr Scott, who has served as South Carolina’s junior senator since 2013, was first appointed to his Senate seat by one of his presidential primary opponents, then-South Carolina governor Nikki Haley. He filled a vacancy left by the resignation of Jim DeMint, who left the Senate to lead the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. At the time of his appointment, Mr Scott was the first Black senator to represent a state that had been part of the Confederacy during the American Civil War and the first Black Republican since Massachusetts senator Edward Brooke left the body in 1979. The then-freshman GOP senator retained the seat he’d been appointed to in a 2014 special election and was reelected easily in 2016 and 2022 with at least 60 per cent of the vote in both elections. He has long been considered a rising star in the Republican Party, and was given the honour of delivering the party’s response to president Joe Biden’s inaugural address to Congress in 2021. Mr Scott, whose campaign website has teased a “special announcement” on 22 May, joins a GOP primary field that includes Ms Haley, former president Donald Trump, ex-Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy. Florida governor Ron DeSantis and ex-New Jersey governor Chris Christie are also expected to officially enter the GOP presidential field in the coming days. Mr Trump, who has retained his preeminent position in the GOP despite being impeached twice by the House of Representatives, losing the 2020 election, inciting a deadly attack on the US Capitol in an effort to remain in power, facing criminal charges in his former home state of New York and his status as a potential defendant in at least two more criminal probes, currently holds a commanding advantage in most polls. Read More Parents of transgender kids seek to block DeSantis ban on gender-affirming care for minors How one North Carolina lawmaker's defection from the Democratic Party upended abortion protections Missouri governor to announce his pick as new St. Louis prosecutor after Kim Gardner resignation
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Don’t Give Up Inflation Fight, BIS’s Carsten Tells Central Banks
Global central banks can’t afford to flinch in what may be a prolonged struggle to fully tame consumer
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HPE and Tokyo Tech Collaborate to Build the Next Generation TSUBAME4.0 Supercomputer for Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Research, and Innovation
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2023--
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Ukraine's Kalinina dedicates win to homeland after beating a Russian to reach Rome final
Ukraine’s Anhelina Kalinina has beaten Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 at the Italian Open to reach the biggest final of her career
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