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Texas A&M University’s president is stepping down after facing criticism over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender, which led to the professor’s firing. The resignation of school president Mark A. Welsh III was announced Thursday by Texas A&M University System Chancellor Glenn Hegar, who said it was “the right moment for …

Stocks rise on rate cut bets, political upheaval unsettles currencies globally  ReutersView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Stocks rise on rate cut bets, political upheaval unsettles currencies globally  Reuters Bond Markets and the ‘Fiscally Fraught’ Countries  Bloomberg.com Japanese and French Politics Take Limelight for the Moment  Forex Factory Weekly market update: Final stretch before the Fed  MarketScreener Fed rate cut hopes, easing political worries lift Asian stocks  The Edge Malaysia Source link

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), defended his response to the largest measles outbreak in the US in 33 years in a new editorial, calling it an example of “what a focused” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “can achieve”. Kennedy did so in a Wall Street Journal editorial …

Ocean Shipping Rates Sink as Importers Balk at Trade Upheaval  The Wall Street Journal Transpacific carriers hold course despite demand drop and rates pressure  Lloyd’s List World Container Index dropped, continuing decline  Container News Ocean Shipping Rates Are Tumbling as U.S. Importers Pull Back on Orders  The Wall Street Journal Source link

“This is unacceptable”: Former CDC directors condemn RFK’s upheaval  Axios We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health  The New York Times Former CDC directors say RFK Jr.’s actions should alarm every American’  USA Today Inside the CDC turmoil as RFK Jr. eyes sweeping vaccine policy changes  PBS Former CDC directors cast RFK Jr. as ‘dangerous’ in New York Times guest essay  NBC …

Fed Upheaval Sows New Uncertainty About Path of Rates  The Wall Street Journal 3 Great ETFs to Buy Before the Fed Cuts Interest Rates  Morningstar The Fed Will Cut Interest Rates In September? Don’t Be So Sure  Forbes Fed’s Waller sees rate cuts over next 3-6 months, starting in September  Reuters I’m a Financial Adviser: Three Things You Will Wish You Did Before the …

Senator Bernie Sanders published an op-ed in The New York Times on August 30, 2025, urging Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to step down, citing what he calls a “crisis of confidence” in America’s public health institutions. Sanders’ critique comes in the wake of a string of controversial actions by Kennedy, including the abrupt dismissal of …

Facebook Tweet Email Link After backing away from a controversial logo rebrand loudly opposed by many right-wing influencers, Cracker Barrel also quietly made changes to its website this week. The Tennessee-based roadside restaurant chain deleted a dedicated “Pride page” and scrubbed references to employee resource groups, including its LGBTQ+ and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging groups, from another part of …

The sudden firing of two high-ranking antitrust officials this week is signaling upheaval at an agency responsible for arguing some of the biggest tech monopoly cases in decades. Two top deputies to Department of Justice Antitrust Division chief Gail Slater were fired earlier this week for what a DOJ official would only explain as “insubordination” in an unattributed statement. Antitrust …