After cutting its benchmark rate three times in late 2024, the Federal Reserve is expected to leave the rate unchanged at its meeting next week. “The Fed will not see any argument for pushing interest rates lower or sooner in today’s figures,” Carl Weinberg and Mary Chen of High Frequency Economics wrote in a commentary Thursday. “The Fed is focused now on the impact of tariffs on future food prices much more than it is focused on the impact of egg prices on prior (producer price) increases.’’
— Remember the first time you heardThe rap record feels like it came out of nowhere — as so many TikTok smashes do — but continues to endure, moving from hit song of the spring to
to hit song of the fall and beyond. But now, fans of Tommy Richman will get to dive deeper into his musical abilities when he releases the full-length “Coyote,” on Friday. Little is known about the 11-track release, but the lead singles “Whitney,” a disco-funk electro-detour, and “Thought You Were the One” – a hook-heavy R&B ballad – suggest range.— Serj Tankian, frontman of the Grammy-award winning Armenian-American nu-metal bandwill release a short solo EP, “Foundations” on Friday. The release maintains his band’s abrasion but experiments with different forms of audial rebellion. The single
for example, is a kind of psychedelic-punk treatise on the absurdity of everyday mundanity. And it sounds explosive.— There is nothing predictable about the band Being Dead’s sophomore album, “EELS,” produced by
Across 16 tracks that move from asymmetrical egg punk, Devo-worship, a recording of a bus driver who has had enough, timeless, near-psychedelic harmonies and various other oddball sensibilities that make them the best college radio rock band in recent history – Being Dead’s organized chaos is future-seeking and familiar all at once.
— Ellen DeGeneres says her next comedy special coming to Netflix will be her last.She was a lawyer in Cuba before fleeing religious persecution in 2022 with her husband, a daughter, now 4, and her parents, Barbara said. They are seeking political asylum in the United States.
“I would not want my daughter to grow up in a society that excludes her. As a citizen, she will have a lot of rights. I don’t know exactly how many places she would not be able to access if she were not a citizen,” Barbara said.A possible outcome of the court case is babies born to immigrant mothers at the same time in the same American hospital would have different status. One might be a U.S. citizen; the other might not.
Birthright citizenship is among several issues the administration has asked the court to deal with on an emergency basis, after lower courts acted to slow Trump’s agenda. Several of those relate to immigration. The justices are considering the administration’s pleas tofor more than 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela and