Mourners gathered in Lebanon for the funeral of the youngest confirmed victim of Tuesday’s pager attack: 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had picked up a beeping pager to bring it to her father and was holding it when it exploded. https://t.co/WiA5hfU5q2
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 18, 2024
Day: September 18, 2024
The Federal Reserve is set to cut US short-term borrowing costs, a watershed moment that should ease some of the financial pressures everyday consumers have felt over the two and a half years that the central bank has battled with high inflation https://t.co/so11quG065
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 18, 2024
Communications devices used by Hezbollah detonate across Lebanon, security source, witnesses say https://t.co/9sLXnLqtwH pic.twitter.com/zUr1GuWjOz
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 18, 2024
As the US Federal Reserve begins its much-anticipated rate-easing cycle, interest rate cuts in the months ahead may be shallower than the market expects amid ongoing economic strength, some analysts and investors say https://t.co/DAinr4Net2
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 18, 2024
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“It’s becoming nearly impossible for working-class people to buy and keep a roof over their heads,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Tina Smith write in a guest essay. “Congress must respond with a plan that matches the scale of this crisis.” https://t.co/FTQFkft0GH
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 18, 2024
Blinken warns against further Middle East escalation after Lebanon blasts https://t.co/JP1ju2hwd0 pic.twitter.com/JCWq2IAmGO
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 18, 2024
North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward its east coast, South Korea and Japan said, days after Pyongyang unveiled a uranium enrichment facility and vowed to beef up its nuclear arsenal https://t.co/rxrec9fRlk
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 18, 2024
Boeing and its largest union will resume contract talks with federal mediators present. The union has been pushing for a 40% raise over four years in its first full contract negotiations in 16 years, well above the planemaker’s offer of 25% https://t.co/BEDV3kix7u pic.twitter.com/xSgGSUN8GZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 18, 2024
