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Thank you, Emily. And thank you to the National Association for Business Economics for the Adam Smith Award. It is an honor just to be mentioned alongside past recipients, including my predecessors Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke. Thank you for this recognition and for the opportunity to speak with you today. Monetary policy is more effective when the public understands …

U.S. stocks were on course to drop Tuesday after China hit back at the U.S. with a fresh round of trade policies, reviving fears about ongoing tensions between the world’s two largest economies. Futures tracking the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 250 points, or 0.5%. S&P 500 futures dropped 0.9%, and contracts tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 slid 1.2%. …

Google Introduces Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) Approach that Maps a Spoken Query Directly to an Embedding and Retrieves Information without First Converting Speech to Text  MarkTechPost Source link

Witkoff blindsided by Netanyahu opponents turned Trump supporters during Tel Aviv speech  JNS.org Live updates: October 11, 2025 – Israel-Hamas war  CNN Aid groups scale up relief in Gaza as Starmer prepares to join Trump at Egypt ceasefire summit  BBC Witkoff and Kushner Visit Gaza as Hamas Moves to Reassert Control  The Wall Street Journal Israel: Witkoff, Kushner hail Trump ahead of hostage release  DW …

Thank you to the Economic Club of Minnesota for the opportunity to speak to you today.1 I’m happy to be here for several reasons, one of which is that I have roots in Minnesota. My grandmother was born and raised in Eveleth, where her parents ran a small clothing store they opened in 1906 to serve the growing population that …

Why Arguments About Free Speech Don’t Apply to the Riyadh Comedy Festival  The New York Times Louis C.K. sells out San Francisco show after Saudi backlash  San Francisco Chronicle Bill Burr Fires Back at Critics of His Riyadh Comedy Festival Appearance: “Sanctimonious C***s”  The Hollywood Reporter Opinion | Laughter can’t launder what Saudi Arabia has done  The Washington Post Bill Burr Keeps Cycling Through …

Victoria Beckham Gives Son Brooklyn a Special Nod During Speech for Her New Netflix Doc  AOL.com Victoria Beckham: ‘It takes a lot to make me cry, but I did cry’  The Times Victoria Beckham admits she became ‘very good at lying’ as fame took toll on her health  Fox News Is Brooklyn Beckham in Victoria Beckham’s Netflix Documentary?  Yahoo David Beckham praises ‘warm, loving’ …

Supreme Court Hears Free Speech Challenge to Ban on Conversion Therapy  The New York Times Supreme Court weighs conversion therapy in case from Colorado  NPR Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say  The Guardian Supreme Court to decide if states may ban attempts to ‘convert’ gay and transgender youth  CNN Supreme Court to weigh key conversion therapy case: What’s at …

The Patriots got the biggest win to date in the new Mike Vrabel era, beating Josh Allen and the Bills 23-20, and after the game the head coach had a fired-up message for his guys during his locker room speech. Vrabel, who is in his first year in charge of a franchise that he won a few Super Bowls with …

Since Friday, Sept. 26, Saudi Arabia’s capital city has been hosting more than 50 comics performing in the kingdom’s inaugural Riyadh Comedy Festival, which runs through Oct. 9 and is advertised as “the biggest comedy festival in the world.” Participating stars, such as Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Tom Segura, Louis C.K., and Kevin Hart, are the major draws. Lesser-known names …