Tag: Emergency management
Powell’s high-stakes bet: More jobs but only mild inflation
WASHINGTON — With employers hiring, consumers spending and companies raising some prices, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is embarking on a high-stakes gamble.
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Vegas hitting jackpot as pandemic-weary visitors crowd back
LAS VEGAS — To Mike Anger in Midland, Michigan, a $100 round-trip airline flight and $260 for five nights at a Las Vegas hotel...
Brazil backs away from the virus brink, but remains at risk
RIO DE JANEIRO — For most of this month, intensive care units across Brazil were at or near capacity amid a crush of COVID-19...
Watchdog: US aid to Venezuela driven by more than just need
MIAMI — It was billed as the beginning of the end for Nicolás Maduro. With foreign leaders in tow and the world watching, anti-Maduro...
UK government facing mounting criticism over aid budget cuts
LONDON — The British government faced mounting criticism Wednesday over its planned cuts to overseas aid spending as leaked details point to big reductions...
Wandering cops shuffle departments, abusing citizens
St. Louis — Timothy Loehmann wanted to be a police officer like his father. He got a job in Independence, Ohio, but it didn’t...
Lockdown skeptic looks to eclipse far right in Madrid vote
MADRID — Hailed as a flag-bearer of Spain's anti-lockdown movement, the chief of the country's capital region turned Madrid this year into a European...
Polish right-wing government wins left’s support on EU funds
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s governing conservative party moved closer Tuesday to securing parliamentary support for a national plan on spending the country's share of...
Brazil Senate starts potentially damaging probe of president
SAO PAULO — Brazil’s Senate on Tuesday began an inquiry into the government’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic, a probe that analysts say could...
Indiana governor sues Legislature over emergency powers
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s governor is asking a court to block a new law passed by state legislators giving themselves more authority to intervene when...
