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Speaking before the Senate Banking Committee, Powell warned the central bank may have to raise interest rates even more, sending stock markets sharply lower.
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This week the Vermont Senate rejected Governor Phil Scott’s appointment of Zoie Saunders to serve as the state’s Education Secretary. Most of the governor’s weekly briefing today focused on the implications of that debate.
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Saratoga Springs’ June Belmont Stakes weekend will kick off with a free concert.
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A center devoted to financial literacy and helping locals and students at American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts is getting $1 million in federal funding.
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Meteorologist Garett Argianas delivers the evening weather forecast for Wednesday, May 1, 2024.
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As allegations of sexual abuse continue to emerge from a private all-girls school in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, former students and staff members are speaking out about an unsafe campus environment where relationships between teachers and children were well-known and unchallenged.
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A new 2024 election poll from NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist shows fundamental divides over concerns for America's future and what to teach the next generation.
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Nickelodeon's megahit show SpongeBob SquarePants made its TV debut on May 1, 1999. Fans of the cartoon span generations and the animated series has become a multibillion-dollar franchise.
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New York police arrested pro-Palestinian demonstrators on two campuses Tuesday night, as officers cleared out a Columbia University building occupied by protesters.
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A leading figure in his generation of postmodern American writers, Auster wrote more than 20 novels, including City of Glass, Sunset Park, 4 3 2 1 and The Brooklyn Follies.
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The National Trust's annual list includes Eatonville, the all-Black Florida town memorialized by Zora Neale Hurston, Alaska's Sitka Tlingit Clan houses, and the home of country singer Cindy Walker.
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A federal court has blocked Louisiana's new congressional map in a case that could determine the balance of power in the next Congress and set up another Supreme Court test of the Voting Rights Act.
“The Met Opera” returns this season with wide-ranging performances that bring joy to the ears. From Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” to Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” the secured season will surely keep you entertained. Airing on Saturdays at 1 p.m. through June 8, 2024.
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