“She wants to really be a great leader and is committing time into developing those skills to help this culture and her teammates as a rookie.” he said. “So that’s been really impressive on the floor. I think you take for granted some of the things she’s able to do. But extremely high IQ, she’s picked up, you know, concepts and reads, very early. And then it’s just, you know, she’ll adapt to the physicality.”
that the central bank was likely to keep its key interest rate unchanged at about 4.3% as it waited to see how Trump’s policies impacted the economy. Trump called for the Fed to cut rates on Friday.“There’s a lot of waiting and seeing going on, including by us,” Powell said. “And that just seems like the right thing to do in this period of uncertainty.”
It’s International Fact-Checking Day, an event to highlight the work of fact-checkers around the world.marking the day, Angie Drobnic Holan, director of the the International Fact-Checking Network, noted the recent challenges faced by fact-checkers, including a loss of funding and attacks on fact-checkers and their organizations.“This is indeed a crisis for fact-checkers, but it’s even worse for the general public,”
Wednesday. “Disinformation hurts people. It has real-world consequences. Without fact-checking, more grandparents will fall victim to financial scams. Adults will refuse to vaccinate children against proven killers like measles. Teens will read faked reports of current events with no way to tell them apart from the real thing.”The IFCN launched in 2015, started the event in 2016 and has more than 170 members around the world. Each signatory has been vetted and approved by independent assessors. They are required to show a commitment to nonpartisanship and transparency, about both sources and funding.
The Associated Press is a member of the IFCN, a unit of the Poynter Institute.
Getting the facts right has been core to AP’s mission since our founding in 1846. When a public figure says something questionable, it is our job to investigate it and offer the facts.to advise Parliament on issues that affect Indigenous lives. Indigenous Australians account for 4% of the population and are the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority.
The referendum was defeated and the government was accused by critics of focusing on a minority group instead of the needs of the majority during an inflation crisis.Albanese, who is divorced and has an adult son, was to become the first Australian prime minister to marry in office after he proposed to his fiancee Jodie Haydon on Valentine’s Day last year.
The couple initially planned to marry before the election, but Labor strategists feared a wedding during a cost of living crisis could hurt his reelection chances. Albanese now says it will happen after the election, but before the end of the year.He has been accused of focusing too much on life after politics by buying a