State of the Union: The Iran War continues to drive higher energy prices and broader inflation. The post ECB Holds Rates Steady appeared first on The American Conservative .
The European Central Bank (ECB) left interest rates unchanged at its meeting Thursday, citing the effects of the Iran War on energy markets. The bank kept its benchmark deposit rate at 2.25 percent, with its main refinancing and marginal lending rates remaining at 2.40 percent and 2.65 percent, respectively. The ECB assessed that energy prices remain volatile and consistently elevated when compared to pre-war conditions, noting in a statement that “uncertainty remains high and the full inflationary impact of the energy shock has yet to play out.” The bank also said it was “closely monitoring the intensity and duration of the shock, as well as its indirect and second-round effects.” Inflation in the Eurozone dipped slightly in…Open
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An FDA advisory panel, more than a third of whose members have financial ties to the peptide industry, opened a two-day review of seven injectable substances that lack meaningful human safety data, a process one FDA-law attorney says will likely end the way Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants. The Food and Drug Administration […] The post FDA panel stacked with peptide industry insiders reviews unproven injections backed by RFK Jr. appeared first on American Almanac .
An FDA advisory panel, more than a third of whose members have financial ties to the peptide industry, opened a two-day review of seven injectable substances that lack meaningful human safety data, a process one FDA-law attorney says will likely end the way Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants. The Food and Drug Administration convened twenty outside advisers in Washington this week to vote on whether seven peptides should be added to a federal list that would let compounding pharmacies legally mix and sell them by prescription. Kennedy has described himself as a "big fan" of the substances and has vowed to roll back restrictions imposed during the Biden administration. His fingerprints are on the proceeding: at least seven of the…Open
U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz confronted Rep. Mark Pocan after the Wisconsin Democrat argued that Secretary of State Marco Rubio's views on Cuba should carry less weight because Rubio has never set foot on the island. The exchange erupted Wednesday during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, where Waltz was testifying on Cuba policy. Pocan, who […] The post Waltz fires back after Democrat dismisses Rubio's Cuba credentials at heated hearing appeared first on American Almanac .
U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz confronted Rep. Mark Pocan after the Wisconsin Democrat argued that Secretary of State Marco Rubio's views on Cuba should carry less weight because Rubio has never set foot on the island. The exchange erupted Wednesday during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, where Waltz was testifying on Cuba policy. Pocan, who visited Cuba earlier in July, pressed the case that the United States should ease its decades-long pressure campaign against Havana, and took a direct shot at Rubio's standing to shape that policy. "Marco Rubio has never been to Cuba, so many others who have strong opinions," Pocan said, adding that the secretary's family "left before the revolution" and that it happened "decades ago." Waltz…Open
A 23-year-old Honduran man screaming "Allahu Akbar" threw a backpack on the ground at Barcelona's main airport, sending travelers fleeing before security tackled him and bomb experts cleared the bag. The incident unfolded around 7:30 p.m. inside Terminal T2 at El Prat airport, Barcelona's international hub and one of Europe's busiest summer travel gateways. Private […] The post Honduran man screaming jihadist slogans arrested at Barcelona airport after throwing backpack, sparking mass panic appeared first on American Almanac .
A 23-year-old Honduran man screaming "Allahu Akbar" threw a backpack on the ground at Barcelona's main airport, sending travelers fleeing before security tackled him and bomb experts cleared the bag. The incident unfolded around 7:30 p.m. inside Terminal T2 at El Prat airport, Barcelona's international hub and one of Europe's busiest summer travel gateways. Private airport security staff wrestled the man to the ground before police even reached the scene. Spain's Civil Guard arrived shortly after, arrested the suspect, and called in TEDAX, the Guard's elite bomb disposal unit, to examine the abandoned backpack. The bag contained no explosives. At least two bystanders were treated for panic attacks. One other person was allegedly…Open
