by Isabel Soisson | Sep 19, 2024 | NATIONAL ECONOMY
The announcement from the Federal Reserve will lower mortgage rates and encourage more building of apartments, which could lower rental costs. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced that it was slashing its key interest rate by half a percentage point, a move...
by Isabel Soisson | Sep 17, 2024 | NATIONAL POLITICS
Harris has vowed to provide significant federal funding to support rural communities across the United States, expand small business financing for entrepreneurs in rural America, and invest in rural technical and higher education programs. With the presidential...
by The 19th | Sep 17, 2024 | NATIONAL POLITICS
by Nadra Nittle Originally published by The 19th Your trusted source for contextualizing race and Election 2024 news. Sign up for our daily newsletter. Call it a mother’s intuition. After former President Donald Trump repeated a vicious smear about Haitians in...
by Associated Press | Sep 17, 2024 | NATIONAL POLITICS
Across the country, local election directors are beefing up their security in advance of Election Day on Nov. 5 to keep their workers and polling places safe while also ensuring that ballots and voting procedures won’t be tampered with. The election director in...
by Isabel Soisson | Sep 16, 2024 | RIGHTWING EXTREMISM
Donald Trump and JD Vance have both spread lies that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating pets, leading to bomb and death threats in the town, classes being canceled, and even the Ku Klux Klan attempting to recruit. On Sunday, Vance admitted he spread the...