The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday but noted that inflation is nearing its 2 percent target rate after years of remaining undesirably low. The Fed ended its latest policy meeting by leaving its key short-term rate ...
Read More »Judge: No video cameras in courtroom for Greitens’ trial
Video cameras will not be allowed in the courtroom when Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens goes to trial later this month, a judge ruled Thursday. St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison turned down a request from a lawyer working on behalf ...
Read More »Gun reform hard sell in rural Kentucky after school shooting
Jeff Dysinger’s daughter survived two bullets from a classmate at her Benton, Kentucky high school this year, however, he hasn’t joined in the national outcry regarding guns that escalated after 17 people died in a Florida school shooting three weeks ...
Read More »US productivity grows at tepid 0.7 percent rate in Q1
U.S. productivity grew at an annual rate of 0.7 percent in the first three months of this year, a weak reading although a slight improvement from the previous quarter. The first quarter increase followed an even weaker 0.3 percent gain ...
Read More »Can Trump be forced to testify? Legal precedents suggest yes
Can a president be forced to testify? While the Supreme Court has never definitively ruled on the subject, the answer appears to be yes. The question was tested during the Watergate scandal in 1974, when justices held unanimously that a ...
Read More »Financial forms show Greitens’ travel paid by donors
Documents show a company owned by one of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ biggest financial backers spent nearly $60,000 last year on the governor’s travel. The governor also owns a company called J&J Escape LLC, according to financial disclosure forms filed ...
Read More »Report: Ex-Greitens aide describes being duped into fall guy
A former campaign aide to Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens testified that he was duped into taking the fall when the governor’s campaign was trying to explain how it had gotten a list of top donors to a veterans’ charity that ...
Read More »Survey: US businesses added 204,000 jobs in April
American businesses added 204,000 new workers last month, another sign of strength in the U.S. labor market and economy. Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday that hiring was strong across numerous industries, led by professional and business services, health and education ...
Read More »Is Trump right about judges’ leanings? Maybe, review shows
President Donald Trump has called courts unfair and political and repeatedly assailed the 9th Circuit, the U.S. court system’s westernmost division, where some of his key immigration policies have stalled. Other observers describe America’s judges as conservative or liberal, implying ...
Read More »Annual Supreme Court guessing game: Will Kennedy stay or go?
Justice Anthony Kennedy has his law clerks lined up for next year. He plans to teach in Salzburg, Austria, in July, as he has done almost every summer for more than two decades. In short, there are no outward signs ...
Read More »$50,000 payment adds intrigue in Greitens’ legal case
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ attorneys have suggested a “political operative” was behind the release to the media of a recorded conversation between a woman and her then-husband in which she graphically describes her affair with the future governor. Now the ...
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