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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said Thursday that an inflation report next week will largely determine whether he supports an interest rate hike later this month or not. The government will release August inflation figures Sept. 11, and if that report shows inflation continues to cool, then Waller said he would be willing to keep the Fed’s benchmark interest rate unchanged. “But if inflation comes in hot, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Beginning on Day One, House Democrats plan to “hold the crooks accountable.” That’s the promise House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has made, previewing an ambitious agenda with oversight of President Donald Trump’s administration and legislation to address the high costs of living, if Democrats seize majority control from Republicans in the midterm elections. But first, the Democratic leaders have to ensure they can keep their own politically […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but layoffs are still rare and jobless claims remain at historically low levels. The Labor Department reported Thursday filings for benefits ticked up to 206,000 last week from a revised 204,000 the week before. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out week-to-week volatility, rose modestly to 207,250 last week. Claims for jobless benefits are a proxy for layoffs, […]

(SRN NEWS)-Democrat Josh Shapiro has proposed changes to the state health code that all but erases women.  The Daily Wire reports that the governor wants to replace the word “woman” with “individual” in the code and refer to new mothers as “postpartum individuals.”  Randall Wenger of the Independence Law Center tells the Dailly Wire that Shapiro’s proposed language changes “represent the triumph of ideology over biology.” Brought to you by […]

(SRNN NEWS)-Pastor Justin Lester of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Vallejo, California has produced an AI version of himself that can minister to members of his congregation 24 hours a day, when he is not available.  Lester tells Bay Area ABC-7 TV ““I connected on YouTube, TikTok, my Instagram and everything I’ve ever written, so all the way back to every sermon I’ve ever preached. Books, all of that are […]

(SRN NEWS)- The Center Square Voters Voice poll reveals that 56% of the general public believes that hatred of Jews is increasing in the U.S.  Six percent say it’s going down and 23% think it’s about the same as it always has been.  Eric Fingerhut who heads the Jewish Federations of North America says he’s not surprised by the poll numbers, adding that they are “consistent with what we are seeing and hearing […]

BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese man who had been held prisoner in Israel was released Thursday, the first such handover since the outbreak of the latest Israel-Hezbollah war six months ago, the International Committee of the Red Cross and two Lebanese security officials said. The man, identified as Malek Ghazi, was handed over to the Lebanese army via the ICRC, one of the Lebanese security officials said. The other official […]

LONDON (AP) — The Sultan of Oman will visit Britain for a three-day state visit next month as the Arab nation that controls the southern shore of the Strait of Hormuz comes under pressure from both the U.S. and Iran. King Charles III and Queen Camilla will host Sultan Haitham bin Tarik at Windsor Castle from Oct. 20 to Oct. 22, Buckingham Palace said in a statement Thursday. Details of […]

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering and developing conductive polymers, has died. He was 90. The discovery by Shirakawa and two fellow American scientists, Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid, demonstrated that plastic could conduct electricity like metal and be used in applications such as electronics. Shirakawa died on Aug. 24, according to the University of Tsukuba, where he taught […]