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@nytimes: 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.

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@Reuters: 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

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@Reuters: Communications devices used by Hezbollah detonate across Lebanon, security source, witnesses say

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@Reuters: 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

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@nytimes: In @nytopinion “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.”

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What We Know About the Deadly Pager Explosions in Lebanon

The seemingly coordinated blasts targeting Hezbollah members stoked fears of a broadening conflict.
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US Says Zelensky’s Victory Plan ‘Can Work’ – Newsweek

US Says Zelensky’s Victory Plan ‘Can Work’  Newsweek
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@Reuters: Blinken warns against further Middle East escalation after Lebanon blasts reut.rs/4d6ShbT

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@Reuters: 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 reut.rs/4e43hIo

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@Reuters: 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% reut.rs/3zrHwDl