Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said Friday he expects to see interest rates lower this year if the economic data continues to move in the same direction. In a CNBC interview, the central bank official expressed confidence that inflation will continue to drift down to the Fed’s 2% target, while Friday’s nonfarm payrolls report showed the...
A group of men arrested after a December break-in at Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow’s home took a selfie with the stolen items, according to an FBI agent overseeing the case. The three men, all from Chile, are accused of breaking into the rear entrance of the Hamilton County home while Burrow’s security team was...
Vice President JD Vance said Friday that he would support the rehiring of a DOGE staff member who resigned after it was found that he had previously made racist remarks online. The staff member, 25-year-old Marko Elez, resigned from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Thursday after The Wall Street Journal reported that he had...
Vice President JD Vance’s White House portfolio is coming into sharper focus. President Donald Trump has tapped Vance, along with National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, to oversee a deal to sell and save TikTok, the Chinese social media company facing a ban in the U.S., two people familiar with the arrangement told NBC News. The assignment,...
It took more than eight years for former Clinton administration adviser Elaine Kamarck to cut approximately 426,000 jobs, 16,000 pages and $136 billion — in 1990s dollars — from the federal government. So Kamarck, who ran the first phase of President Bill Clinton’s Reforming Government (“REGO”) effort, understands the impulse to scrutinize the extent of Washington’s...
A weekend winter storm will bring biting temperatures and dump several inches of snow on areas from the Midwest to Northeast. Forty-two million people are under winter alerts ahead of the storm that will move from west to east, with snow totals accumulating from Minneapolis to Massachusetts. The storm, forecast to be colder and create...
A North Carolina judge ruled Friday that a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias during jury selection, potentially opening the door to death row inmates throughout the state getting resentenced. The decision follows a landmark hearing last year brought by Hasson Bacote, a Black man who was sentenced to death...
A Louisiana woman, with a history of “drugging men” and stealing their credit cards, was arrested following the death of a TV reporter who was in town for the Super Bowl, police said Friday. Hotel security footage showed Danette Colbert, who lives in nearby Slidell, with Kansas City Telemundo’s Adan Manzano on Wednesday morning and...
A network of Black educators, experts and content creators have worked together to form HillmanTok University, where people can find expertise on more than 400 subjects.
Nitrous oxide sold in colorful tanks with candy-like flavors that consumers are inhaling to get high must be removed from shelves because it is creating a “veritable national health crisis,” a new lawsuit alleges. Filed Thursday in state court in Orange County, Florida, by the family of a woman who died after what relatives said...