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Two men who had been held on Rikers Island died in the past week, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani he would “pursue every avenue” to shut the troubled facility as soon as possible.
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The federal government can once again make building wealth for young families a core mission.
ABC News' Danny New reports on Chesney the kangaroo's leap out of a petting zoo, where he scaled an eight foot fence after two hunting dogs entered the property.
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The hourslong waits at airports appear to be easing after the president signed an order to pay Transportation Security Administration officers.
The Supreme Court declined to review the murder-for-hire conviction of Joseph Maldonado-Passage, the “Tiger King,” who gained notoriety from a 2020 documentary.
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From Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s food pyramid to online influencers, beef has become more than just a source of protein.
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Worlds marks the last competition of the 2025-2026 season. Skaters have some time to go on tour, rest up and learn new routines before the next season starts in July.
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Travelers have faced hours-long security lines and missed flights as a partial government shutdown has continued for weeks.
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said the Fed is not yet at the moment when it needs to decide whether to "look through" the Iran war energy shock. What they're saying: "It's something we will eventually, maybe, face the question of what to do here. We're not really facing it yet because we don't know what the economic effects will be," Powell told introductory economics students at Harvard University on Monday morning. - "We feel like our policy is in a good place for us to wait and see how that turns out." Powell said that the Fed has to consider the economic backdrop against which the shock is occurring. "The broader context is ... we've been coming down close to 2% [inflation], post-pandemic, but we've never actually gotten and…
Data: Axios analysis of Energy Information Administration and Bureau of Labor Statistics data; Note: March 2026 measure assumes most recent weekly gasoline price reading ($3.96) and average hourly earnings rising per recent trend ($37.44).; Chart: Neil Irwin/Axios The U.S. has a key advantage in weathering the Iran war-triggered energy shock that was missing in previous episodes of overseas tumult: an economy that has become substantially less energy-intensive. Why it matters: Higher prices at the gasoline pump, for jet fuel and for diesel will no doubt hurt. But in relative terms, both the average household and the economy as a whole have more capacity to weather the hit than in the past. The big picture: Over recent decades, the share…