President Trump surprised purveyors of speculation over the weekend by selecting a White House budget office associate to be the permanent director of the ever-controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Kathy Kraninger, a former Senate appropriations staffer with a homeland security specialty, “will bring a fresh perspective and much-needed management experience to the [consumer bureau], which has been plagued by excessive spending, dysfunctional operations, and politicized agenda...
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President Obama took several sharp swipes at Donald J. Trump on Sunday during a commencement address that could be the beginning of a forceful effort to help elect a Democratic successor as president....
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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Friday an interest rate hike is "probably" appropriate in the coming months if economic data improve.
"It's appropriate, and I've said this in the past, I think for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time and probably in the coming months, such a move would be appropriate," she said in response to a question at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study....
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Heavy fighting involving tanks and helicopters raged in South Sudan on Monday between troops loyal to the president and those backing the vice president, risking a return to civil war and further instability in a volatile and poor region of Africa.Heavy fighting in South Sudan risks return to civil war...
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A Montana man was sentenced Thursday for conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Michael W. Cotter, District of Montana.
This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the U.S. Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI)....
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CINCINNATI — They stormed the stage together wearing similarly colored clothes — hues that almost perfectly matched the bold blue of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign logo. With a “Stronger Together” sign hanging in the background and a Katy Perry pop song blaring from the speakers, they cheered each other on like old pals, cracking jokes about Donald J. Trump and pointing with enthusiasm at a young supporter who waved a placard that read “Girl Power.”...
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