Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell isn’t budging — not as President Donald Trump ramps up pressure, not as the calls to cut interest rates grow louder, and not as the standoff between the two stretches into yet another high-stakes moment for the U.S. economy. Trump has spent months trying to force Powell’s hand, publicly hammering…
(Photo: Getty Images/U.S. Mint) The decision to place the current president on a U.S. coin ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary goes against norms intended to promote democratic values. A Trump-appointed panel has approved a new commemorative gold coin that will display an image of President Donald Trump, marking a departure from a years-long tradition…
President Donald Trump has spent the past several weeks trying to project control — framing his approach to the widening conflict in Iran as measured, strategic and firmly in his hands, even as the situation threatens to spiral far beyond Washington’s grip. He has cast himself as the dealmaker in the middle of overlapping crises,…
Actors Megan Good and Jonathan Majors are floating on cloud nine after celebrating their first anniversary, and they gave fans a treat with a post on Instagram. The 44-year-old “Harlem” star and 36-year-old “Magazine Dreams” actor wed in a small ceremony in Los Angeles after becoming engaged in Paris, France, in December 2024. Meagan Good’s…
Source: Elijah Nouvelage / Getty Black women continue to pay the cost of Republican extremism and obsession with denying bodily autonomy, nearly seven years after the passage of Georgia’s extreme abortion ban. Beneath the sensationalized headlines about Alexia Moore, a south Georgia veteran accused of having an “illegal abortion,” lies a stark reality for Black…
Atlanta police say they’re looking for a man who walked up to a Chick-fil-A drive-thru window, threatened the restaurant’s employees for some food, then made off with $200 from the cash register. The robbery happened just before 10 p.m. on March 17 at the Chick-fil-A on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, just east of Joseph…
-Pop group BTS sparked controversy with a promo video showing them on what looked like Howard University’s campus, (Photos: Getty Images) A BTS promo video sparked backlash, and revealed a forgotten piece of Black history tied to Howard University. Popular K-Pop band BTS released their comeback album “Arirang” today. However, in the days leading up…
This undated file photo provided by Taylor family attorney Sam Aguiar shows Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky. (Courtesy of Taylor Family attorney Sam Aguiar via AP, File) Lawyers for the DOJ Civil Rights Division asked a federal judge to drop the cases against ex-cops Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany with prejudice, meaning they could not…
Source: alexsl / Getty Besides being anti-immigrant, anti-diversity and inherently anti-science, the Trump administration has shown time and time again that it is anti-education — because a populace that learns things leaves fewer of the “poorly educated” voter who President Donald Trump said he loves so much. So, the federal government is still in its…
A West Virginia family says they’ve suffered racism for years in their community, but it all came to a head when a school staff member started sending heinous, threatening messages about them, prompting them to move out of the state entirely. The Pendleton County School District fired a part-time employee who served as a volunteer…
