A 2024 study considers the U.S. Federal Reserve more independent than Bank of England, but less so compared with European Central Bank. The data is from the central bank independence index that measures six dimensions, including independence by CB governors.

The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he will take steps to ban large institutional investors from owning single-family homes to address affordability. However, data show that as of the second quarter of 2025, 87% of investor-held single-family homes were owned by small investors with 1-5 properties.

Premium tax credit under the Affordable Care Act, used to offset some healthcare costs, is set to expire by Jan. 1, 2026 without a potential extension or replacement. The expiration, in turn, would push up healthcare premiums for Americans.

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New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he wants undocumented immigrants to push back against improper law enforcement, urging residents to refuse entry, remain silent and legally record agents during an encounter.

“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

US President Donald Trump has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, adding to his growing list of pardons on just the first year of his second term. Data show Trump has pardoned 70 people as of Dec. 1, more than his recent predecessors on the same period of their term.

Private insurance won't cover houses in areas increasingly prone to natural disasters like wildfires or hurricanes, so they're covered under insurance plans of last resort, known as FAIR plans. Read how the insurance fix is becoming a problem ➡️ reut.rs/44ldWvs

US states have set up insurers of last resort in disaster-prone areas which private insurance has avoided. Amid more frequent disasters, these insurers are experiencing record signups. The financial burden is becoming a problem. Visual explainer with Soumya Karwa. www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

Canada lost the elimination status of measles in the country after cases soared to their highest since 1991 this year, government data show. Before this, measles has been declared eliminated in the country since 1998, which meant that there was no continuous transmission of the disease.

Come Nov. 1, over 40 million Americans will lose food aid benefits called SNAP due to lapse of government funding and the ongoing shutdown. In fiscal year 2024, over one in five people living in Washington, D.C. and New Mexico received SNAP benefits, the highest across states.

"The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized 'on paper' gains."

Hear me out though: they're not really "debates." I also think it's interesting that the story didn't touch on something I think makes this show format effective: it's not just the conflict, but also the "underdog effect" on one person going up against a mass. Makes you root for that one person.

The current U.S. federal government shutdown is now the second longest in history with no end in sight as Senate Republicans and Democrats remain in a standoff over healthcare.

"A recently updated Fed staff model...found that overall financial conditions are boosting - not restraining - economic growth by about a percentage point a year, with the Fed's policy rate contributing slightly to the lift." Chart for this story by Howard Schneider. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Throwback to 2020 in the Philippines where allies of then president Rodrigo Duterte at House of Representatives denied the country's largest broadcaster, ABS-CBN, a franchise, triggering a broadcast shutdown. Prior to that, Duterte had criticized ABS's reporting of him. www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/m...

This is the first time we estimate he has a negative approval rating among Texas voters: www.economist.com/interactive/...

Big downward revisions in previous months' records, too.

Reuters is tracking how global companies are responding to the threat posed by US President Donald Trump's tariffs.

Only about one in four Americans say Israeli military actions in Gaza are fully justified, poll says.

The U.S. Senate has approved President Donald Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion in previously appropriated funds to programs such as aid and support to public broadcasting. The bill goes back to the House of Representatives after the Senate chose to save about $400M in HIV/AIDS relief.

Nvidia, the most valuable public company in the world, is inching closer to $4 trillion market capitalization. It's now bigger than the entire UK economy.

Mamdani gains on Cuomo with just two weeks until the New York City mayoral Dem primaries.

Jan 6 police heroes argue Trump and his top aides are peddling in “hypocrisy” by decrying “Insurrection” in Los Angeles

The U.S. State Department directed all U.S. missions abroad and consular sections to resume processing Harvard University student and exchange visitor visas after a federal judge in Boston last week temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's ban on foreign students at the Ivy-League institution.

Global investor pushback against long-term government debt is turning what normally would be a routine US bond auction into one of the most anticipated events on Wall Street this week.

US facilitated the return of a Guatemalan it deported. In another case, the US Supreme Court in April ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US from El Salvador. Garcia is still in El Salvador.

Spain betting big on immigrants.

US economy shrinks.

Judge blocks Trump administration from revoking Harvard enrollment of foreign students reut.rs/4dzoOJF

The private plane that the U.S. government used to deport eight migrants to Djibouti/South Sudan (unclear what the final destination is) was previously used in the Brittney Griner/Viktor Bout prisoner swap. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

BREAKING: 50 of the 240 Venezuelan men that President Trump deported to the CECOT megaprison have been identified as legal residents.

The U.S. just lost its last top notch credit rating from a major debt watcher after Moody's downgraded the country by a notch. Moody's was the last major credit rater to grade the U.S. triple-A before the downgrade. The U.S. is now rated Aa1.

Tesla car sales have plummeted in the first quarter in some major economies as a booming electric vehicle (EV) sector and protests to Elon Musk hit the company.

JUST IN: Federal judge orders the “immediate” release of Tufts University student, Rumeysa Ozturk, from detention. “The main evidence against her appears to be an essay critical of Israel that she helped to write in a Tufts student newspaper last year.” An essay. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

NEW: Beyond the numbers, U.S. President Donald Trump's executive orders have departed from long-standing precedents in terms of scale and scope, a Reuters analysis found.

The US just reported that its economy shrank in the first quarter on the day Trump marked his 100th day back at the Oval Office.

Another pretty big move down in Trump's net approval today. He hits a new low (again) of -6.7 after pulling in net negative numbers from even his most friendly pollsters. Disapprove: 51.6% Approve: 44.9% www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

NEW: An Associated Press reporter was allowed into a White House event today for the first time since the Trump administration banned the outlet www.axios.com/2025/04/15/a...

China retaliated against the US's tariffs anew, raising its own duties on all imported goods from the US to 125%. The U.S. tariff rate currently stands at 145%. It marked the latest escalation on the two world superpowers' trade war since US President Donald Trump slapped Beijing with tariffs.

EU could tax Big Tech if Trump trade talks fail, says von der Leyen https://www.ft.com/content/fba18bd9-46f9-4736-89f3-976afe3abf7a

The races in the first and sixth congressional districts were largely expected to favor the Republicans and increase their slim majority at the Lower House. However, the narrow victories also signaled Democrats gaining ground in districts won by Donald Trump in 2024.

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As President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union, his approval ratings are starting to suffer, while his favorite indicator-- the stock market-- has plummeted in the face of his tariffs and trade war. Is his honeymoon over?

On his first month back at the White House, US President Donald Trump has signed the most number of executive orders than any president since at least 1945.

NEW: $88 billion/year could erase ALL medical debt for 40 million Americans. Instead, Trump wants to spend it on his nightmarish, family-splitting mass deportation plans. IPS scholar Alliyah Lusuegro of @nationalpriorities.bsky.social:

I'm not sure why this wasn't clear to them on the first ruling.