After four straight three-quarter-point interest rate hikes, the Federal Reserve is set to announce a smaller half-point increase in its key rate Wednesday, a first step toward dialing back its efforts to combat inflation. At the same time, the Fed is expected to signal that it plans more hikes next year than it had previously forecast to try to conquer the worst inflation bout in four decades.
A man accused of one of the deadliest terror attacks against Americans is in a U.S. jail.
China has moved in on the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia.
The hunt is on for the suspect who shot up two energy substations in Moore County, NC last Saturday. Charges could range from conspiracy to possibly murder after one person died in a house with no power.
A handful of centenarian survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor are expected to gather at the scene in Hawaii to commemorate those who perished 81 years ago in the Japanese bombing. That’s fewer than in recent years, when a dozen or more came from across the country to pay their respects at the annual remembrance ceremony.
An investigation for who's behind a critical infrastructure attack in North Carolina has yet to find a suspect.
This month, the Biden administration will lose its authority to expel migrants under a pandemic-era restriction known as Title 42. The news comes amid another massive spike at the border and a surprising deployment to the southern border.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit unanimously upheld a class-wide injunction Wednesday protecting the rights of more than 10,000 U.S. Air Force personnel. They were being threatened with discipline or discharge because they refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine due to their religious convictions.
The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in battle recently, the group’s spokesman said in an audio recording released Wednesday. He gave no further details.
Most of the fentanyl coming into the U.S. is no longer being sent through the mail from China. Instead, China is shipping it to Mexico, where it's manufactured in labs and smuggled over the border, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).