Epstein Secrets

attempting to play down the risk of a recession. He also pinned the blame for a potential economic downturn on the central bank and its chairman, Jerome Powell. Felicia Sonmez and Damian Palette report: "The Fed funds rate, which Trump is trying to tell central bankers to cut, is currently set at 2.25 perc

e Department fired the officer who was caught on video with his arm around the neck of 43-year-old Eric Garner just before he died five years ago. Devlin Barrett reports: "NYPD Commissioner James P. O'Neill announced the decision Monday, weeks after a departmental disciplinary judge recommended the Page 172

Minister Arturs Kri§ranis Karin§. The vice president will join Trump for events with the emir of Qatar in the West Wing. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivers prepared remarks about stress testing at financial institutions during the Federal Reserve Board Conference in Boston at 8:45 a.m. ELSEWH

dump Trump's nominee for ambassador to Qatar and replace her with someone else in late 2018. Josh Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Devlin Barrett scoop: "Trump had nominated a career Foreign Service officer to ... a key post in a Middle Eastern country with tricky regional relationships, an i

he flew from New Jersey to Washington at the end of his summer break. Back in the White House, Trump renewed criticism of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, bellowing Twitter instructions to the independent central bank on Monday to prime the pump with lower interest rates. The president resists the vi

chemes that deployed some of the largest pieces of malware ever seen to swipe tens of millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims' bank accounts. Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky report: "Officials identified those charged as Maksim Yakubets of Moscow and Igor Turashev of Yoshkar-Ola, Russia. They said tha