Trump Treasury pick reveals whether Fed Chair Powell will finish term President-elect Trump's pick for Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has said Chair Jerome Powell will be allowed to finish his term. 12/11/2024 - 5:43 am | View Link
Bessent: Powell can serve out remainder of term as Fed chair Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department, said Tuesday that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell can serve out the remainder of his term leading the central ... 12/11/2024 - 2:38 am | View Link
Trump Tells NBC He Has No Plan to Remove Powell as Fed Chair President-elect Donald Trump said he has no plans to replace Fed Chair Jerome Powell once he returns to the White House, saying “I don’t see it.” ... 12/8/2024 - 1:34 am | View Link
Job growth bounced back in November In the six months through November, employers have added a solid 143,000 jobs a month, on average. Unemployment is up from levels seen a year earlier but remains historically low, hovering within a ... 12/6/2024 - 5:24 am | View Link
Fed Chair Powell Acknowledges Inflation Is a ‘Little Higher’ Than Expected Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, said it was too early for the central bank to start reacting to the tariffs that President-elect Trump had been promising. 12/4/2024 - 7:46 am | View Link
Are 52 gas stations enough for Lakewood’s 156,000 residents?
It’s a question that leaders in Colorado’s fifth-largest city are seriously asking, with the City Council teeing up a proposed ordinance that would severely restrict how many new gas stations could prime their pumps in this western suburb. It’s heading for a final vote early next year.
The measure would also throttle the number of new car washes, which a city memo cites for excessive water use and pollution.
The proposal passed on an initial vote Dec.
The future of one of the hotel shelters that form the backbone of Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s All In Mile High homelessness initiative is at risk on Monday as city officials pivot to win approval for a lease extension.
City Council members will consider a shorter-term lease extension than originally proposed for the former Comfort Inn property at 4685 Quebec St.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY) faced backlash from Laura Loomer, an insider close to President-elect Donald Trump, after he endorsed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.
During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Arthel Neville noted that Comer was a "member of the AOC fan club."
"What leadership qualities would make Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an effective oversight ranking member?" Neville asked.
"So the Democrats have nowhere to go but up," Comer argued.
Two weeks after the election, I met Dianela Rosario in Huntington Park, California—an almost entirely Latino city that swung hard to the right this year. A 51-year-old Dominican American shopkeeper, Rosario told me that before this year she had never voted for a Republican presidential candidate. But, in 2024, inflation and the prices of groceries were front of mind.
Amid the frenzied coverage of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson‘s assassination and the public’s troubling reaction to it were references to various polls, including one conducted in 2016 by the Kaiser Family Foundation, whose results suggested that Americans were content with their private health plans.
Similar stats had crept into the debate over Medicare for All—a proposed national health insurance program to cover all Americans, and with which private insurers would have to compete.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the FBI issued a report last week that detailed at least 26 FBI Confidential Human Sources (CHSs) were in D. C. on January 6, 2021.