With borrowing rates high and inflation still relatively elevated, consumers are expected to spend more cautiously.
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Biden administration waives 26 federal laws to allow border wall construction in South Texas
During the Trump administration, about 450 miles of barriers were built along the southwest border between 2017 and January 2021.
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Jon Fosse, Norwegian master of spare Nordic writing, wins Nobel Prize in literature
Fosse has written some 40 plays as well as novels, short stories, children’s books, poetry and essays.
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Tearful mourners line up at San Francisco City Hall to thank, pay last respects to Dianne Feinstein
A memorial service for the late U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is scheduled Thursday outside San Francisco City Hall.
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150 dolphins dead in Amazon; scientists blame 102-degree water
The mass die-off of the endangered pink dolphins in Brazil’s Lake Tefé could be linked to climate change and the El Niño phenomenon, they said.
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Voter rolls become new battleground over secure elections as amateur sleuths hunt fraud
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says her office wants to make sure that no voters are harassed or threatened because of their decision to register and cast a ballot.
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Fatal crash led Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife to seek car at issue in bribery charges
Authorities concluded that Nadine Arslanian, who would soon marry the senator from New Jersey, was ‘not at fault’ for striking and killing a pedestrian in 2018.
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Actress Julia Ormond sues Harvey Weinstein for battery
Julia Ormond is suing disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein for sexual assault and battery.
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Supporters of U.S. aid to Ukraine are watching the House turmoil with growing alarm
Leaders dropped $6 billion in Ukraine aid from the temporary funding measure passed Saturday as they focused on passing it quickly, just hours before the government would have shut down.
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Climate destruction fuels growing sector of the U.S. economy
The overall price tag of global warming has long been the subject of debate. New data from Bloomberg Intelligence has put a number on the cost of burning fossil fuels.