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PARIS (AP) — Russia's war in Ukraine and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are dragging down global economic growth more than expected and driving up inflation that will stay high into next year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Monday in a darkening outlook. The Paris-based organization projects worldwide growth to be a modest 3% this year before slowing further to just 2.2% next year, representing around $2.8 trillion in lost global output in 2023. The war in Ukraine has driven up food and energy prices worldwide, with Russia a key global energy and fertilizer supplier and both countries major exporters of grain for millions of people worldwide already facing hunger. Meanwhile, China's COVID-19 lockdowns have shuttered large parts of its economy. “The war, the burden of high energy and food prices, as well as zero COVID-19 policies from China, mean that growth will be lower, and inflation will be higher and more persistent,” OECD … [Read more...] about OECD: War in Ukraine to drag on global economy into 2023

PHOENIX (AP) — Most Americans prefer politicians who work across the aisle, Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said Monday in a forceful defense of her brand of bipartisanship, which has infuriated the left and is likely to draw her a primary challenge. Members of Congress face “intense pressure” to play to the extreme elements of their own party, alienating the American people from their government, Sinema argued in a speech in Kentucky, where she spoke at a University of Louisville center named for Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Both parties are responsible, she said. “More and more it seems like Americans are being told that in order to be a member of either political party, you must adhere to a strict set list of policy viewpoints,” Sinema said. “But I don’t think that’s how a majority of Arizonans or Kentuckians or everyday Americans think." Sinema plays an outsized role in defining what's possible in Congress. One of two moderate Democrats in the 50-50 … [Read more...] about Sen. Sinema defends bipartisanship at McConnell Center

WASHINGTON (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Washington in early December for the first state visit of President Joe Biden's tenure, an occasion marked by pomp and pageantry that is designed to celebrate relations between the United States and its closest allies. The Dec. 1 visit, following the U.S. midterm elections and the Thanksgiving holiday, will be the second state visit for Macron, who was first elected to lead his country in May 2017 and won a second term earlier this year. Macron also had a state visit during the Trump years. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced the visit Monday, saying it will “underscore the deep and enduring relationship with France, our oldest ally.” It will be the first time the White House has hosted a world leader for a state visit since the coronavirus outbreak. The invitation comes as a sign that relations between Biden and Macron have come full circle. The relationship tanked last year after the United … [Read more...] about France’s Macron lands 1st state visit of Biden’s presidency

Former President Donald Trump has learned time and again that the best way to kill legal action is to first delay it. And while Trump’s “special master” gambit initially showed promise in that regard, the tactic may have actually backfired and put him on a fast-track collision course with the federal government he once led. Two separate court decisions last week have empowered the FBI to move swiftly in its investigation against Trump for mishandling classified information . “Who knows what’s still at Mar-a-Lago? Who knows where the rest of it is? It’s obvious that Trump can’t be trusted—and neither can his lawyers. But at least the bluff has been called on using the courts to delay this,” said Carl W. Tobias, a University of Richmond law school professor. Trump’s preemptive strike last month—a lawsuit against the feds—tried to block the FBI from reviewing the documents seized at his oceanfront Mar-a-Lago mansion . That legal fight has now been split in two. On one … [Read more...] about Trump’s ‘Special Master’ Delay Is Already Backfiring

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 12 Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 2-8: Oct. 2: Critic Rex Reed is 84. Singer Don McLean is 77. Country singer Jo-el Sonnier is 76. Actor Avery Brooks (“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”) is 74. Guitarist Mike Rutherford of Genesis and Mike and the Mechanics is 72. Musician Sting is 71. Actor Robin Riker (“General Hospital,” ″The Bold and the Beautiful”) is 70. Actor Lorraine Bracco (“The Sopranos”) is 68. Guitarist Greg Jennings of Restless Heart is 68. Singer Phil Oakey of Human League is 67. Singer Freddie Jackson is 67. Singer-producer Robbie Nevil is 64. Drummer Bud Gaugh of Sublime and Long Beach Dub All-Stars is 55. Musician Gillian Welch is 55. Actor Joey Slotnick (“Boston Public,” ″The Single Guy”) is 54. Country singer Kelly Willis is 54. Singer Dion Allen of Az Yet is 52. Actor-talk show host Kelly Ripa (“Live With Kelly … [Read more...] about Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 2-8

NEW YORK (AP) — The chief of the U.S. Capitol Police during the Jan. 6 siege has a book deal. Steven A. Sund's “Courage Under Fire: Under Siege and Outnumbered 58 to 1 on January 6” will come out Jan. 3, just shy of the two-year anniversary of the riot by supporters of President Donald Trump. "It’s time to break my silence and reveal everything that I know happened,” Sund said in a statement released Monday by Blackstone Publishing. Sund resigned under pressure soon after Jan. 6 and testified the following month that he hadn't seen an FBI field report warning of potential violence. He said the overrunning of the U.S. Capitol was the result of widespread failures. “No single civilian law enforcement agency — and certainly not the USCP — is trained and equipped to repel, without significant military or other law enforcement assistance, an insurrection of thousands of armed, violent, and coordinated individuals focused on breaching a building at all costs,” he testified. … [Read more...] about Former U.S. Capitol Police chief has deal for Jan. 6 book

0 Politics & Government Cook County's unemployment rate increased recently. Rich Scinto , Patch Staff Posted Reply NORTH CENTER-ROSCOE VILLAGE, IL — The latest national unemployment and jobs figures portray a labor market that is moving closer to normal, but the country still has a record number of job openings. The unemployment rate in the North Center-Roscoe Village area has largely improved since the beginning of the pandemic, but the rate increased from March to April, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Cook County's unemployment rate was 8.7 percent in April, which was up from 8.4 percent in March. That reflected significant improvement from April 2020, when the unemployment rate stood at 17.1 percent. Cook County's April unemployment rate is higher than Illinois’s 7.1 percent rate, according to the latest local figures from the BLS. The United States added 559,000 non-farm jobs in May, … [Read more...] about Unemployment Increases In North Center-Roscoe Village Area: Feds

0 Seasonal & Holidays Pumpkin patches in the North Center-Roscoe Village area are gearing up for the peak season. Local News , Patch Staff Posted Reply NORTH CENTER-ROSCOE VILLAGE, IL — It's the time of year to think about picking up a pumpkin or two near North Center-Roscoe Village, whether your search for the best takes you to patches and fields or your local grocery store. In some areas, however, experts fear that heavy summer rains could have increased the likelihood of a blight that affects many vegetables including pumpkins, dampening the outlook for the pumpkin crop this fall. Illinois is a top producer of pumpkins in the United States, with around 17,399 acres harvested in 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture census. The state ranked first for most acres harvested in 2017. The USDA says six states — Illinois, California, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia and Texas — are responsible for 40 … [Read more...] about Pumpkin Availability In North Center-Roscoe Village Area For 2021

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close Video More than over 4 million fentanyl pills seized at Arizona border checkpoint in 2022 Fox News senior national correspondent William La Jeunesse reports from Nogales, Arizona at the busiest checkpoint on the U.S.-Mexico border and the illicit fentanyl crisis there on 'The Story.' NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! It takes just two milligrams of fentanyl to kill an adult male. In this year alone, the Border Patrol has already seized over 10,600 pounds of this illicit drug – which means that there was enough fentanyl smuggled into the country to kill every single American roughly seven times over. But that is only fentanyl we have accounted for; we do not know precisely how much fentanyl got past Border Patrol and is currently poisoning our fellow citizens. In Michigan, we saw 218 pounds of this deadly drug seized in 2021. Last month, the city of Flint scored a fentanyl bust so large that it could have harmed 80,000 … [Read more...] about Biden’s border policies fuel fentanyl crisis that’s killing thousands of Americans