Author: Press Room

Actor Ben Affleck was seen stranded on the Los Angeles Freeway with his son on Saturday after his electric Bronco stopped working. The Batman star and his twelve-year-old son, Samuel, who he shares with ex-wife Jennifer Garner, where able to make their way to a gas station where they indulged in some snacks while they waited for a tow truck to cart their dead EV back home, according to TMZ. Samuel’s life has gotten complicated on the parental front as his mom divorced Affleck in 2017 and now his step mom, Jennifer Lopez, is also preparing to divorce Affleck. However,…

The interminable process to replace failed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as the leader of the Conservative Party has been whittled down to two candidates Wednesday after former Home Secretary James Cleverly was knocked out of the running. Former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick and ex-Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch have been left as the last two candidates standing in the months-long contest for the Conservative Party leadership after a narrow vote among Tory MPs on Wednesday afternoon. The vote saw Badenoch receive the support of 42 fellow MPs, compared to 41 for Jenrick, and 37 for former Home Secretary James Cleverly, who…

Fed’s Rate Cut: A Premature Misstep From A Fed Pressured By Politics and Wall Street The Federal Reserve’s 50-basis-point rate cut in September wasn’t just premature—it was the latest in a series of significant policy mistakes that casts a shadow on the Fed’s credibility. Last Friday’s jobs report laid bare the misjudgment. With 254,000 new jobs and unemployment falling to 4.1 percent, the labor market is gaining strength, not faltering. Wages are up four percent year-over-year, further proof that the Fed’s justification for cutting rates was flimsy at best. But this decision wasn’t made in isolation. It was the culmination…

Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz suggested in an interview with CBS News’s 60 Minutes that aired on Tuesday that his “misspeaking” does not matter because Minnesotans know and support him. “I think folks know who I am. And I think they know the difference between someone expressing emotion, telling a story, getting a date wrong by — you — rather than a pathological liar like Donald Trump,” he responded when asked about his lie that he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square Massacre when he was actually in Nebraska. When pressed on whether he could be trusted…

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices rose in early Asian trade on Thursday on concerns about potential supply disruptions in the Middle East, with Israel planning to strike oil-producer Iran, and on spikes in fuel demand as a major storm barreled into Florida.Brent crude futures rose 37 cents, or 0.5%, to $76.95 a barrel, while the U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures was up 35 cents, also 0.5%, at $73.59 a barrel at 0034 GMT.The world’s largest oil producer and consumer has been hit by a second major storm, Hurricane Milton, which made landfall on Florida’s west coast, spawning tornadoes and…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — In a meeting on Tuesday, the Brown Corporation rejected a student-led proposal that would have seen the university divesting from 10 companies that the students say “profit from and facilitate gross human rights abuses committed by Israel throughout occupied Palestine.”In a letter to the Brown community, Chancellor Brian Moynihan and President Christina Paxson shared that the Corporation voted to accept a recommendation from the university’s Advisory Committee on University Resources Management (ACURM) against divestment.According to ACURM, the committee was unable to find “a causal link between the investmentor expenditure of University resources and the associated harm,”…

Volodymyr Zelenskyy hasn’t lost Republicans — but he’s on notice. Even some Republican supporters of Ukraine on Capitol Hill said that the Ukrainian President had made a strategic error when he visited a weapons plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, over the weekend and separately waded into the presidential race by calling JD Vance “too radical” in a recently published interview. The visit to the plant drew rebukes from Speaker Mike Johnson, who condemned it as a partisan campaign event in solidarity with Democrats, while Zelenskyy’s comment on Vance further complicates his swing through the U.S. as he seeks to shore up…

The Category 4 hurricane that ripped through the eastern seaboard is scrambling election preparations in some of the country’s top battlegrounds — adding to the troubles of administering the vote amid conspiracy theories and toxic partisan divides. The swing states of Georgia and North Carolina were among the most heavily affected by Hurricane Helene, which flooded towns, destroyed buildings, took out power and cell service and forced widespread road closures, with a death toll that has already ticked above 200. The upturning of everyday life has also introduced unanticipated disruptions into the nuts-and-bolts of running a high-stakes presidential election. Now,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — With less than four weeks until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris is facing new urgency to define how her potential presidency would be different from that of President Joe Biden.Her struggle to present herself both as a candidate of change while demonstrating a loyalty to the politician she serves under was made clear Tuesday, when she was asked on ABC’s “The View” how she would lead differently than Biden.Harris said, “We’re obviously two different people” and “I will bring those sensibilities to how I lead.” But when pressed to identify a decision made by Biden that…

A Kansas City community college was briefly evacuated Wednesday afternoon as police responded to reports of a suspicious package near a campus building.The package was sighted outside of the Broadway Plaza building of Metropolitan Community College’s Penn Valley campus, at 3217 Broadway Blvd., according to MCC campus police.Just before 4 p.m. Wednesday, students were instructed to evacuate the building by way of the back entrance. The threat did not actually take place on campus property, the spokesperson said.Since the alert took place near the end of the business day and near a non-academic building, few students and staff were directly…