• Fed’s Waller: More cuts likely though timing depends on inflation progress
    By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Inflation should continue falling in 2025 and allow the U.S. Federal Reserve to further reduce interest rates, though at an uncertain pace, Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said on Wednesday. Waller said that while it was true inflation “appears to have stalled” above the Fed’s 2% target in the […]
  • ByteDance’s Lemon8 gains traction amid TikTok ban threat as creators push the app
    Hearing a lot about Lemon8 lately? You’re not the only one. Amid a looming U.S. ban on TikTok, content creators have been pushing the platform’s sister app. Lemon8 resembles an amalgamation of the types of short-form videos found on TikTok and the picture-perfect aesthetic of Instagram and Pinterest. Like its popular relation, Lemon8 is owned […]
  • Lawsuit alleges racial and gender discrimination led to an Air Force contractor’s death
    NEW YORK (AP) — On the night Stephanie Cosme died, her sister and brother said they received a curt explanation from a U.S. Air Force official who met them at the hospital: The civilian contractor was failing to follow protocol when she was hit by an aircraft’s rotating propeller and killed. The family would wait […]
  • Trump mulls national economic emergency declaration to allow for new tariff program, CNN reports
    (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is considering declaring a national economic emergency to provide legal justification for a series of universal tariffs on allies and adversaries, CNN reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The move will allow Trump to build a new tariff program by using the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, […]
  • Top cases now before the US Supreme Court
    (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court’s current term includes cases involving TikTok, guns, gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, online pornography, religious rights, Planned Parenthood funding, job discrimination, federal regulatory powers on nuclear waste storage and vape products, voting rights and more. Here is a look at some of the cases before the justices. U.S. TIKTOK […]