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Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, wants to keep the central bank's policy options open as officials stare down another economic shock that threatens to stoke inflation and crimp growth.
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Policymakers vote unanimously to hold rates at 3.75% after the Iran war prompts a reversal in the debate over borrowing costs.
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Attacks on oil and natural gas facilities this week could make it much harder for Persian Gulf countries to rebuild and restart production when the war eventually end.
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The request, which the White House has not submitted to Congress, is already encountering some resistance.
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In a major escalation in the war in the Middle East, Israel has bombed Iran's South Pars gas field, the largest known natural gas reserve in the world, leading Iran to attack energy sites across the Gulf. Iranian American professor of international affairs Vali Nasr says that Iran is prepared for a much longer war than the U.S. and Israel anticipated. "The longer this war goes on, the more Iran is building leverage, and the more the strategic calculations of Israel and the United States appear to be falling short," he says. Iran "thinks the longer that the war goes on, the less Israel and the United States will be able to defend against Iranian missiles, because they're going to run out of interceptors."
In the latest sign the war on Iran could be just beginning, Reuters is reporting President Trump is considering deploying thousands of more U.S. troops to the Middle East. The Pentagon has also asked for $200 billion from Congress.
The Iranian president has proposed terms for the end of the war including reparations and guarantees against future war. Nasr suggests that the Iranians are "confident" that some of their terms may be met. "President Trump may have to accept the fact that he has started a war that is not going to give him what he expected, and he has to settle for an exit in order to be able to go back to the agenda that it had before."
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A warrantless wiretapping law known as Section 702 is set to expire on April 20 unless Congress votes to extend it. Past cycles have been rocky.
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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee walked out of a closed-door briefing on the Epstein files with Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy, Todd Blanche, less than an hour after it began Wednesday, after Bondi repeatedly declined to say whether she would comply with a subpoena requiring her to appear for a sworn deposition on April 14. Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna, who attended the briefing, said Bondi will have to answer "why there are still 3 million documents being hidden" and "why there was a cover-up of those files that implicated Donald Trump."
Khanna also comments on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, noting that Trump's military actions are "a total betrayal of his promise that he was going to focus on American needs."
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The nominee for homeland security secretary suggested that he had observed war firsthand but declined to provide details, which he said were "classified."
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For the second time since the war began, Senate Democrats tried and failed to win passage of a resolution that would have halted the offensive until President Trump went to Congress for approval.
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President Trump's Homeland Security nominee, Senator Markwayne Mullin, Republican of Oklahoma, struck a softer tone at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, reflecting the administration's efforts to project a more moderate tone toward immigration enforcement.
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The senator sounded a warmer and fuzzier tone at his D.H.S. confirmation hearing than President Trump often has, the latest sign that the administration wants to project a more moderated approach.
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A day of strikes on energy facilities and testimony in Washington to members of Congress.
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A top national security official resigned from the Trump administration Tuesday in response to the war on Iran. "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby," Joe Kent, who served as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, wrote in his resignation letter.
We speak with Josh Paul, a former State Department official who resigned in 2023 to protest the Biden administration's Gaza policy. He says Kent is at least the 16th U.S. official in the last few years to resign over policy related to Israel, spanning both the Biden and Trump administrations.
"We know that there is a very visible, very vocal debate happening in the Democratic Party on that topic. It's clear that there is also a very vocal debate happening within the right wing of American politics," says Paul.
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Tulsi Gabbard faced bipartisan scrutiny over the administration's justifications for the Iran war.
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The Trump administration is escalating threats against news organizations, with President Trump suggesting outlets should face "treason" charges for disseminating false information. Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, has also threatened to revoke broadcasters' licenses over their coverage of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. This all comes as allies of President Trump consolidate their control over several major media outlets. Paramount Skydance, led by Trump ally David Ellison, is poised to acquire Warner Bros., which includes CNN.
"They want these companies to be afraid," says Craig Aaron, CEO of Free Press and Free Press Action. "As we've seen, whether it's lawyers, universities, media companies, when the bullying works, you just get more and more bullying."
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In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the Ukrainian president says Putin wants a "long war" between the US and Iran.
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Starmer says Russia cannot benefit from the conflict in the Middle East, as he meets the Ukrainian leader in No 10.
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A president who calls journalists the "enemy of the people" has accused news organizations of undermining a military effort that many Americans oppose.
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