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The White House slams the rating agency’s decision By Emel Akan The United States has taken a major hit as Fitch Ratings has lowered its Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating…
By Naveen Athrappully The Department of Education has started the process of enrolling student loan borrowers into its Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, just weeks after the U.S.…
By Petr Svab Updated: August 2, 2023 Former President Donald Trump is running for the White House while facing three indictments and one more criminal investigation. Never before has a…
By Savannah Hulsey Pointer Updated: August 1, 2023 Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) has asked the Federal Trade Commission to explain what it is doing to prevent adolescent TikTok users from…
Jack Phillips The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says cases of the infectious disease of leprosy have become more common in Florida in recent years, and some…
His speech ‘postponed’ by the IMF, John Clauser speaks out By Nathan Worcester Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Clauser is not afraid to go against the flow. In a July 26…
By Zachary Stieber The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tracking toward recommending that Americans get an annual COVID-19 vaccine, the agency’s new director says. Dr. Mandy…
By Jack Phillips Some energy industry groups are expressing concern that the White House will declare a COVID-19-like emergency—but for the climate instead. “They’re leaning to that direction,” U.S. Oil…
By Tom Ozimek Updated: July 27, 2023 Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, pleaded not guilty on July 26 to federal tax and gun charges after the presiding…
‘I don’t know exactly why they did it. But we’ve looked at everything within our records. There’s nothing that we did.’ By Zachary Stieber JPMorgan Chase is shutting down accounts…