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Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell holds a news conference following a policy meeting on June 18 in Washington

The White House just took its most aggressive stance yet against Jerome Powell

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By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s intensifying campaign against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hit a boiling point Thursday. Just two weeks after President Donald Trump sent a handwritten letter to Powell demanding lower interest rates, Russell Vought, Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), accused Powell of breaking

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A Harvard University gate opens May 24 to campus in Cambridge

Websites serving Harvard undergrad women, minority and LGBTQ students taken down, Crimson reports

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By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Websites for Harvard College centers serving minority and LGBTQ students and women vanished Wednesday, The Harvard Crimson reported, marking the continued unraveling of diversity initiatives at the nation’s most prestigious university as it faces fresh pressure from the Trump administration. Websites for the Harvard College Women’s Center, the Office

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Emil Bove during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington

Documents back up DOJ whistleblower’s claim that top official intended to ignore court orders, top Judiciary Democrat says

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By Katelyn Polantz and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has obtained documentation backing up a former federal prosecutor’s claim that Emil Bove – a top Justice Department official – crudely told others in the department to ignore court orders before a controversial immigration enforcement situation in March.

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A protestor lights an aerosol can during a protest against gentrification in Mexico City

Critics slam Mexico’s gentrification protests as xenophobic. Activists say they’re fighting for their human rights

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By Michael Rios and Rocio Muñoz-Ledo, CNN (CNN) — The words “Get out of Mexico” are still visible on one shop window as protestors violently kicked in the glass pane. In another clip, “Kill a gringo” is spray-painted on a wall in Mexico City as demonstrators carried placards demanding western foreigners “stop stealing our home.”

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Nathan Fillion playing the Green Lantern Guy Gardner

‘Superman’ star Nathan Fillion staunchly defends his character’s extreme hairstyle: ‘I was team bowl cut the whole way’

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By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Chances are you’ve seen the promos for the new “Superman” movie and wondered, “What the heck is going on with Nathan Fillion’s hair?!” The “Rookie” actor is featured in the new DC Studios extravaganza as Guy Gardner, one of the comic book characters who is elected to a position

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Dozens of workers were rescued uninjured from a tunnel collapse Wednesday night in Los Angeles.

A partial tunnel collapse in Los Angeles left dozens of workers trapped about 400 feet below ground. They all survived

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By Kathleen Magramo, Alaa Elassar, Stephanie Elam, Norma Galeana, CNN (CNN) — Thirty-one men working on a tunnel about 400 feet beneath the ground in Los Angeles were operating a machine to carve through the earth. Without warning, a portion of the tunnel collapsed around them Wednesday night. Trapped five miles from the tunnel’s only

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Some goods prices have been marching higher in recent weeks. Economists expect that to broaden and worsen.

Prices are now starting to rise because of tariffs. Economists say this is just the beginning

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By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Economists, researchers and analysts have warned that President Donald Trump’s sweeping trade policy of tacking steep tariffs on most goods that come into America will deliver a taxing blow to consumers via higher prices. However, recent months’ economic data has shown that overall inflation has remained fairly tame. Trump

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