Fed’s Lockhart: Don’t count on quick ‘return to normal’
VICTOR, Idaho (Reuters) – Dennis Lockhart became president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in early 2007, with the economy still enjoying the steady growth and low unemployment of the “great moderation” and the U.S. central bank confident it cou…
Former Fox News commentator sentenced to prison for faking CIA ties
WASHINGTON – A man who has appeared on Fox News as a guest “terrorism analyst” was sentenced to 33 months in prison on Friday on charges that he fraudulently claimed to have been a CIA agent for decades, U.S. prosecutors said.
U.S. Q3 GDP seen growing at 2.6 percent: N.Y. Fed
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Federal Reserve said on Friday it upgraded its view on U.S. economic growth in the third quarter to 2.61 percent from the 2.31 percent it calculated a week ago due to stronger-than-expected data on factory output in Ju…
Nurse in U.S. protest photo says she felt she had to face police
(Reuters) – The black woman photographed in a sleeveless summer dress standing firmly before police in riot gear said she felt compelled to confront the officers during a protest last weekend in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
‘Black Lives Matter’: a movement that defies definition
(This July 11 story corrects spelling of name Punch in penultimate and last paragraph)
Baltimore officers exchange gunfire with armed man, kill him: police
(Reuters) – Baltimore police officers fatally shot a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle who exchanged fire with them on Thursday on the city’s West Side, a police spokesman said.
Cleveland activists wary of city plans to process thousands of arrests
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Police in Cleveland say they aim to avoid mass arrests at the protests planned for next week’s Republican National Convention, but preparations by the city’s courts to process up to 1,000 people a day have some civil rights activi…
U.S. regulators pave way for speedy next-generation 5G networks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators on Thursday paved the way for a lightning-fast next generation of wireless services in a move that made the United States the first country to set aside an ample amount of airwaves for so-called 5G wireless applic…
U.S. prosecutors launch review of failed FedEx drug case
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice has begun a rare internal examination of what went wrong in the prosecution of a controversial drug conspiracy case against delivery service Federal Express , the department’s top pros…
Obama responds to critics in conversation on race and police
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday responded to critics who charged he has not done enough to show support for law enforcement officers after two years of protests against incidents of violence by police against the black co…
