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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that he supports a traditional quarter-point increase in the Federal Reserve benchmark short-term interest rate when the Fed meets later this month, rather than a larger increase that some of its policymakers have proposed.Wat
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WASHINGTON 鈥?Police fired pepper spray at demonstrators near the White House and the D.C. National Guard was called in as pockets of violence and vandalism erupted durin
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adidas samba the National Mall, chanting Black Lives Matter, I can ;t breathe and No justice, no peace. Protesters threw water bottles, traffic cones, scooters, even tear gas cans at police lines. They set fire to a car and a trash bin and smashed windows, including at Bay Atlantic University. What are you doing That a school, one man yelled.An American flag hanging at the Export-Import Bank was taken down, burned and replaced with a Black Lives Matter banner.The D.C. demonstration was one of several around the country responding to the death of Floyd, a black man who died in police custody.Trump appeared to cheer
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