Dow ends worst week since 2008 as Fed suggests possible interest rate cuts
As stocks nose-dived this week, calls have grown from prominent investors for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, a move that usually calms markets.
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South Carolina Democratic Primary
Voters in South Carolina will go to the polls on Saturday. Fifty-four delegates are up for grabs.
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Nina Turner and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at a rally in Winston-Salem, N.C. (Salwan Georges/The Post)
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Ratcliffe (R-Tex.) was put up for the same job last summer but withdrew amid questions about his qualifications and whether he had padded his résumé.
The ruling, if it stands, means the president’s former lawyer cannot be forced to appear on Capitol Hill. The White House had claimed top advisers such as McGahn are “absolutely immune from compelled congressional testimony.”
The agreement would let the United States keep a foothold in Afghanistan depending on the conditions on the ground, and carry out strikes against the Islamic State, which is also fighting the Taliban.
The company cut a key test short and used faulty software, setbacks that led to a flawed mission.
The entertainment giant has lived a charmed life for the past 10 years. But trouble could land in the form of coronavirus, accelerated cord-cutting, customer churn and rising costs of content, among other things.
In many Olympic sports, only the best of the best reach this stage. But the marathon trials allow top amateurs, including working parents and dedicated recreational runners, to run alongside the country’s fastest long-distance runners.
Freeman Dyson
1923–2020 Dyson helped crack the secrets of the subatomic world, tried to build a spaceship that could carry humans across the solar system and wrote elegantly about science and human destiny.
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