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The S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted record closing highs for a third straight day on Wednesday after inflation data came in softer than expected but the indexes ended off the day's highs as the Federal Reserve projected only one interest rate cut this year. The Fed's March projections included three quarter-percentage-point reductions. The U.S. central bank, in a statement at the end of its June 11-12 meeting, also said it left its policy rate unchanged, as expected. Stocks were choppy...

In the battle of man vs. machine, man is rapidly catching up in the car-jammed streets at the heart of New York City. As state and local officials are battling over a ditched plan to unclog Manhattan’s sclerotic arteries, the average travel speed in Midtown fell to 4.5 miles an hour in May, the lowest ever recorded for the month, said Sam Schwartz, a former New York City Department of Transportation official who has tracked traffic trends in the metropolis since the 1970s. It was the fifth...

Longtime Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell says he'll be in attendance on Thursday as Senate Republicans meet in the nation's capital with former President Donald Trump. It will be the first time Trump and McConnell will see each other in person in nearly four years. Trump, the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee, is holding behind closed doors meetings Thursday morning with House Republicans and Thursday afternoon with Senate Republicans. And McConnell told reporters on Wednesday...

Three senior groups backed President Biden’s reelection bid Wednesday based on his pledge to protect Social Security, but so far he has only offered vague promises to protect the program as insolvency looms. The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, which bucked its 38-year tradition of avoiding endorsements to back Mr. Biden in 2020, has done so again this election. Social Security Works PAC and the bipartisan National United Committee to Protect Pensions also said...