Having all but tamed inflation, the Federal Reserve is poised to do something Wednesday it hasn’t done in more than four years: Cut its benchmark interest rate, a step that should lead to lower borrowing costs for consumers and businesses just weeks before the presidential election. And yet an unusual air of uncertainty overhangs this…
Heavy flooding caused by torrential downpour pounded Central Europe over the weekend, affecting thousands in communities in Poland, Austria, Romania, and the Czech Republic. The floods have claimed six lives in Romania, five lives in Poland, two in Austria and in the Czech Republic, four people who were swept away by waters were missing, police…
St. Thomas Undergraduate Student Government listed the dates for 2024 general council voting on TommieLink, those being 8 a.m. on September 24 to 8 p.m. on September 25. There are 13 positions open on the general council this semester. The Justice Department is preparing undisclosed criminal charges in connection with an Iranian hack that targeted…
The redesigned University of St. Thomas mascot Tommie debuted at the first football game of the fall 2024 season on Aug. 29. Differing from the old tomcat, which had been the face of the university for 22 years, this cat’s look was complete with bigger cartoon-like eyes, a wider mouth and purple stripes on the…
Kamala Harris pressed a forceful case against Donald Trump on Tuesday in their first and perhaps only debate before the presidential election. A flash flood swept away an entire hamlet in northern Vietnam, killing 30 people and leaving dozens missing as deaths from a typhoon and its aftermath climbed to 155 on Wednesday. Former NFL…
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will debate for the first time today. Ukraine struck Moscow with a drone attack. Morgan Hanson has today’s News in :90.
Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is under fire from the Republican Party over his response to violence after the death of George Floyd in 2020. Jury selection was scheduled to begin Monday in the federal trial of three former Memphis officers charged with violating the civil rights of Tyre Nichols. Typhoon Yagi…
The White House has blocked the release of audio from President Joe Biden’s interview with a special counsel about his handling of classified documents, arguing Thursday that Republicans in Congress only wanted the recordings “to chop them up” and use them for political purposes. The dispute over access to the recordings is at the center of a…
Former President Donald Trump will head to Minnesota on a day off from his hush money trial for a Republican fundraiser Friday night in a traditionally Democratic state that he boasts he can carry in November. Trump will headline the state GOP’s annual Lincoln Reagan dinner, which coincides with the party’s state convention, after attending…