Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – With a weary expression, Saja arranges her few belongings inside the tent her fiance, Mohammed, has prepared for their wedding in just a few days. There are two thin mattresses instead of a proper bed, a small cooking corner fashioned from wood and tarpaulin, and a makeshift bathroom that Mohammed…
Three Federal Reserve officials who wanted the central bank to signal more directly this week that interest rates may eventually need to rise cited concerns about resurgent inflation stemming from the war in Iran in defending their decision to dissent against Wednesday’s policy announcement. On Friday, the policymakers who contributed to the Fed’s most divisive…
The federal government has not reported any complete data on nationwide enrollment since that grace period ended. In a normal year, the next such report would be published in July. But reports from states that run their own marketplaces are already showing larger declines. Even among those states, the impact of the lost funding has…
Consumers who have been waiting for borrowing costs to drop will have to keep waiting: With inflation elevated, the Federal Reserve is expected to keep interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, a stance it has held since December. “The Fed is in wait-and-see mode, and that likely means no immediate rate cuts,” said Matt Schulz, chief…
From a distance, across the opalescent waters of the Venetian lagoon, the cluster of low red-brick buildings looks like a factory or a boatyard. It’s only when you get closer and see the huge silver space rocket, the fluorescent pink tree and the neon sign that reads “PATRIARCHY = CO2” that you realize this island…
