Tag: Donald Trump
U.S. inflation cooled last month, though trade war threatens to lift...
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. inflation slowed last month for the first time since September and a measure of underlying inflation fell to a four-year...
U.S. job openings rise to 7.7M in January
U.S. job openings rose at the start of the year, another sign the job market was solid when President Donald Trump returned to the...
Dow drops 890 as economic worries deepen on Wall Street
NEW YORK (AP) – The U.S. stock market’s sell-off cut deeper on Monday as Wall Street questioned how much pain President Donald Trump will let the economy endure through...
Rubio announces termination of 83% of USAID contracts
WASHINGTON (AP) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency...
Fed Chair Powell says interest rates on hold with economic uncertainty...
NEW YORK (AP) – The Federal Reserve is likely to keep its key interest rate unchanged in the coming months as it waits for widespread "uncertainty"...
U.S. employers add solid 151K jobs in January, unemployment up to...
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. employers added solid 151,000 jobs last month, but the outlook is cloudy as President Donald Trump threatens a trade war,...
Divided Supreme Court rejects Trump administration’s push to rebuke judge over...
WASHINGTON (AP) – A sharply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Trump administration push to rebuke a federal judge who imposed a quick deadline to release billions...
Wall Street falls again as losses wipe out all post-election gains...
NEW YORK (AP) – Stocks racked up more losses on Wall Street Tuesday as a trade war between the U.S. and its key trading partners escalated, wiping...
Dow drops nearly 650 as worries build about the economy following...
NEW YORK (AP) – U.S. stocks tumbled Monday and wiped out out even more of their gains since President Donald Trump ’s election in November, after he said...
URI to eliminate its USAID-funded programming at end of March
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Six programs at the University of Rhode Island that were financed by the U.S. Agency for International Development will be eliminated...


















