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WASHINGTON — For a second straight time, the Federal Reserve is set to cut interest rates this week to try to protect the economy from the consequences of a global slowdown and President Trump’s trade war with China. After that, no one — not even the Fed itself — seems sure what it will do.

NEW YORK — State prosecutors in Manhattan have subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s accounting firm to demand eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns, according to several people with knowledge of the matter. The subpoena opens a new front in a wide-ranging effort to obtain copies of the president’s tax returns, which Trump initially said he would make public during the 2016 campaign but has since refused to disclose. The subpoena was issued by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office late last month, soon after it opened a criminal investigation in

Call it the “Metal” of Freedom. Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees was the latest athlete to be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Trump on Monday — and his ceremony kicked off in a fairly unforgettable fashion. At first, a trumpet played as an announcer introduced the pair to the White House’s East Room: “Ladies and gentlemen, the 45th president of the United States, accompanied by No.

Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts plans Tuesday to introduce a resolution calling for an impeachment inquiry of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. She is potentially kicking off a constitutional process that closely mirrors the process for removing the president from office.

MORE on Sunday announced he had authorized the use of the U.S.'s emergency oil reserve in response to a series of drone attacks in Saudi Arabia that have disrupted the Gulf country's crude output. "Based on the attack on Saudi Arabia, which may have an impact on oil prices, I have authorized the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, if needed, in a to-be-determined amount sufficient to keep the markets well-supplied," Trump said in a series of tweets.

Democrats competing for the chance to challenge MORE in 2020 are trying to thread the needle when it comes to discussing the U.S.

Democratic presidential candidates on Sunday called for the impeachment or investigation of Supreme Court Justice newly reported allegations of sexual misconduct against him in The New York Times. The outlet reported late Saturday night that a male former classmate claims to have witnessed Kavanaugh expose himself at a party, where friends pushed his genitals against a woman without her consent. Sens.

Blackburn, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Tech Task Force, said in the op-ed that the Senate needs to hold big tech accountable through her Browser Act. The Tennessee Republican introduced the Browser Act in April, which would require Internet service providers (ISPs) such as Comcast and Verizon, as well as content providers such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter, to obtain users’ consent before collecting and selling their information for marketing.