The Federal Reserve is expected to announce it will leave rates unchanged at the end of its two-day meeting this week‚ after recent reports showed the economy grew at a much more rapid pace than expected and inflation eased. “In many ways‚ we already have a soft landing‚” said Columbia Business School economics professor Brett House. “The Fed has threaded the needle of the economy very artfully with a kind of ’Goldilocks’ scenario.” Gross...

Warnings from the White House — and the United Nations' top court — appear to have done little to stop some of Israel's right-wing ministers from touting a vision that the country's own prime minister has dismissed: rebuilding Israeli settlements in Gaza after the war. Several ministers within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government were among thousands of people who flocked to a conference in Jerusalem on Sunday night calling for Israelis' "...

In a bold move championing individual privacy‚ Amazon Ring has announced a significant policy shift. Starting February 2024‚ Ring will no longer facilitate police requests for home security footage through its Neighbors app. This decision marks a pivotal change in the balance between security and privacy. Ring‚ a household name in home security‚ has faced criticism for its past practices of sharing security videos with police without user consent. The company's latest software update‚...

The U.S. failed to stop a deadly attack on an American military outpost in Jordan because the enemy drone approached its target at the same time a U.S. drone was also returning to base‚ U.S. officials said Monday. 

In the wake of the 2020 election‚ the president of the far-right network One America News sent a potentially explosive email to former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell‚ with a spreadsheet claiming to contain passwords of employees from the voting technology company Smartmatic‚ according to court filings. The existence of the spreadsheet was recently disclosed by Smartmatic‚ which is suing OAN for defamation. CNN pieced together who was involved in the email exchanges by...

X has blocked searches for Taylor Swift in reaction to a recent trend of graphic AI fakes of the world-famous recording artist being posted to the site. Right now‚ if you search “Taylor Swift” or “Taylor Swift AI” on X‚ formerly Twitter‚ you may see a “Something went wrong” message. X head of business Joe Benarroch acknowledged the “temporary” measure‚ meant to “prioritize safety‚” according to The Wall Street Journal. But it’s very easy to get around‚ as we found out when...

The social media platform X has blocked users from searching for Taylor Swift after fake sexually explicit images of the pop singer proliferated on social media this week‚ an executive said on Sunday. Searches for Swift's name on Sunday afternoon on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter yielded the error message‚ "Something went wrong. Try reloading." "This is a temporary action and done with an abundance of caution as we prioritize safety on this issue‚" Joe Benarroch‚ head...

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