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The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday, setting up another potential clash between Chairman Jerome H. Powell and President Trump, who is pushing for a rate cut. The central bank’s open market committee voted 9-1 to keep the benchmark interest rate in the range of 2.25% to 2.5%, where it’s been since an increase in December. St. … Continued

Charitable giving by individual Americans in 2018 suffered its biggest drop since the Great Recession of 2008-09, in part because of Republican-backed changes in tax policy, according to the latest comprehensive report on Americans’ giving pattern. The Giving USA report said individual giving fell by 1.1%, from $295 billion in 2017 to $292 billion last … Continued

A conservative nonprofit has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Hillary Clinton campaign of violating election laws when it paid British citizen Christopher Steele to gather Kremlin-provided political dirt on candidate Donald Trump. Though not stated outright, the lawsuit argues that Democrats violated an admonition issued last week by Federal Election Commission Chairman Ellen L. Weintraub. She decreed that political … Continued

Tired of waiting for the federal government to fix the border, Sheriff Mark Dannels decided to take matters into his own hands. A personal run-in with a Mexican cartel only cemented his motivation to rid his county of cross-border crime. . . . The major new effort started in January 2017 and the formula Dannels … Continued

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The Obama-era intelligence community relied on three redacted reports marked as drafts from the private firm CrowdStrike to reach its conclusion that Russian agents hacked the servers of the Democratic National Committee, according to a U.S. government filing. The U.S. government further admitted that it does not possess the un-redacted CrowdStrike reports about what allegedly … Continued

In this case, two farms sued the Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) over a rule that allows union representatives, notably the United Farm Workers (UFW), to trespass on private property to solicit new membership. In one instance, UFW workers snuck onto a worksite at 5 a.m. and distracted workers with bullhorns as a way to intimidate them…. … Continued

A Satanic Temple member who won the right to open a regional Alaska government meeting declared “Hail Satan” during her first invocation, prompting about a dozen officials and attendees to walk out. Tuesday’s invocation that started the meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough also spurred a protest outside the southern Alaska borough’s administration building that … Continued

Spending time on the internet is reducing our ability to focus on one task at a time – and it means we no longer store facts in our brains. Our lives have been forever changed by gaining access to infinite amounts of information at the touch of a button, but the way our head works … Continued

According the Washington Examiner, the Trump administration has required all U.S. embassies abroad to request special permission to fly a rainbow flag during June, which is LGBTQ Pride Month. Pray about The Sexual Identity Crisis in America The U.S. embassies in Israel, Germany, Brazil and Latvia have requested permission to fly the pride flag on … Continued