Britain’s central bank reduced interest rates to 3.75 percent, a move that was welcomed by the government, which has been looking to lower the high cost of living.The Bank of England in central London. The central bank has lowered interest rates six times in the past year and a half.
Plus, don’t blame the dogs in strollers.In an 18-minute address, President Trump said the economy was booming, despite the public’s consistent concerns about prices.
In an 18-minute address, President Trump said the economy was booming despite the public’s consistent concerns about prices. Here are six takeaways from the speech.President Trump in an address from the White House on Wednesday argued that U.S. economy under his leadership is in better shape than ma
The president cited misleading statistics to insist, wrongly, that prices were coming down.President Trump used a prime-time address to praise what he cast as the economic gains under his administration.
President Trump promised active duty troops a $1,776 check from revenue raised by tariffs, without acknowledging that the Supreme Court is weighing the legality of the powers used to impose the levies.U.S. service members at Fort Bragg, N.C., in June.
The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency.
Neighbors said a pall had fallen over the wealthy Los Angeles area where Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found stabbed to death.Holiday decorations and no trespassing signs on a gate outside the Reiners’ home on Tuesday.
Nick Reiner, charged with murdering his parents, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner, spent much of his life battling drug addiction, an affliction that millions of Americans face.Pattie Vargas’s daughter and son both struggled with addiction. “As a parent, I would have cut off both my arms to save my kid
Trump Media & Technology Group, the social media and crypto company part owned by President Trump, said it would help develop a “utility-scale fusion power plant.”Trump Media & Technology Group is the parent company of Truth Social, a social media platform that has struggled to gain widespread tract
The appointment of Bishop Ronald A. Hicks is expected to bring a markedly different leadership style to New York’s archdiocese.
Dmitri N. Kozak had worked with President Vladimir V. Putin for three decades before quitting in September. His associates described his break with the Russian leader.Dmitri N. Kozak, then a deputy prime minister of Russia, in 2019. Early in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he was a rare voice of disse
The continent’s leaders are discussing a contentious deal to back Ukraine and its war effort. The final decision will signal the extent of Europe’s ability to face down Moscow.Ukrainian soldiers during a live-fire training exercise at a military training ground in the Dnipro region in December.
Mr. Musk has ambitions to remake education, but his latest effort to open an elementary school in Texas appears to have faltered.
The legislation, which would make thousands more permits available, is part of a package of City Council bills aimed at helping the city’s vendors get on the right side of the law.Food carts and other street vendors are a ubiquitous sight in New York City, but an arcane permitting process means many
The proposed Department of Community Safety would send mental health teams to respond to 911 calls, rather than the police, according to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plans.The proposed Department of Public Safety would take over certain 911 calls from police officers that dealt with mental health is
Despite sky-high inflation, water and energy cuts and prospects for a deal with the U. S. dimming, President Masoud Pezeshkian has apparently thrown up his hands.President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran attending a protest in Tehran in June after the U.S. attacks on nuclear sites in Iran.
President Trump said the United States wanted to reclaim expropriated oil assets, setting off a nationalist reaction in a country where the resource holds a mythical status.Derricks in the Maracaibo oil fields of Venezuela in the early 20th century. American oil companies invested millions of dollar
We look at what President Trump is trying to achieve in Venezuela.In Venezuela, in 2021.
The attack on Wednesday brings the total number killed to at least 99 since the Trump administration began bombing boats suspected of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.U.S. attacks on boats off South America have drawn the ire of legal experts and many members of Congress, wh
The Pentagon has released plenty of video clips that show American missiles blowing boats suspected of carrying drugs out of the water. But the “double tap” strike on Sept. 2 is being kept under wraps.Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth briefed senators on Tuesday.
The rise in judicial threats is being fueled by the political rhetoric of the Trump administration, a judge argues.
Jimmy Kimmel called the president’s last-minute speech “a surprise prime-time episode of ‘The Worst Wing’ tonight on every channel.”
Officials said that they were working with physical evidence, including DNA, and that they were seeking a second man who appeared to have crossed paths with the possible suspect.A memorial on the Brown University campus in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday.
The Silicon Valley college town has changed drastically as Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and other tech founders have scooped up multiple properties.
