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Month: April 2024

Polish and Lithuanian leaders oversee military drills along their shared border

By MINDAUGAS KULBIS and LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press DIRMISKES, Lithuania (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda says “a potential aggressor must see our readiness” as he and his Lithuanian counterpart monitored a joint military drill along their shared border. Duda and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda met on the last day of the week-long Brave Griffin

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Fed’s preferred inflation gauge shows price pressures stayed elevated last month

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of inflation closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained uncomfortably high in March, likely reinforcing the Fed’s reluctance to cut interest rates anytime soon and underscoring a burden for President Joe Biden’s re-election bid. Friday’s report from the government showed that prices rose 0.3%

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Opinion: What I learned watching suspended Columbia students share a meal with my community

Opinion by Serene Jones (CNN) — Last Thursday, I listened in horror as sirens blared outside my office window at Union Theological Seminary. Hundreds of officers from the New York City Police Department flooded onto the campus of our neighbor, Columbia University, to forcibly remove more than 100 peaceful  student protestors from an encampment. Students were gathered there calling for action in

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