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Rbuk Judge blocks 2 provisions in North Carolina@ s new abortion law; 12-week near-ban remains in place
WASHINGTON@AP@?A key Federal Reserve official raised the possibility Tuesday that the Fed could decide to cut its benchmark interest rate as early as spring if inflation keeps declining steadily.The official, Christopher Waller, a member of the Feds Board of Governors, cautioned that inflation is still too high and that its not yet certain if a recent slowdown in price increases can be sustained. But he sounde stanley cupe d the most optimistic notes of any Fed official since the central bank launched its aggressive streak of rate hikes in March 2022, and he signaled that the central bank is likely done raising rates.Waller is regarded as a relatively@hawkish official, meaning that he typically favors higher rates to combat inflation rather than low rates to boost job growth. But he has also become somewhat stanley cup@of a bellwether for the Fed@ overall rate-setting commit stanley cup usa tee.If inflation continues to cool@for several more months ?I dont know how long that might be ?three months, four months, five months ?that we feel confident that inflation is really down and on its way, you could then start lowering the policy rate just because inflation is lower,@Waller said in remarks at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.@It has nothing to do with trying to save the economy or recession. Fed officials have previously suggested that eventually, cooling inflation would lead the Fed to cut rates. Thats because, adjusted for inflation, the central banks b Tfsw Supreme Court Justice Alito reports German princess gave him $900 concert tickets
The Legislatures Judiciary Committee heard more than six hours of often emotional testimony Thursday about three bills that, despite the earnest intentions of their sponsors, would wrongly elevate governments role in private decisions women make about their reproductive health. The committee correctly recommended Friday that all three bills ought not pass.Pro-life advocates presented one of the bills, LD 760, sponsored by Republican Rep. Ellie Espling of New Gloucester, as a way to ensure that a stanley cups@womans decision to have an abortion reflects@informed consent.@Maine law currently requires an attending physician who discusses abortion procedures with a woman to tell her the number of weeks elapsed from the time of conception and the risks associated with an abortion. If the woman asks, the physician will share information about alternatives to abortion. A womans written consent is required before she can have an abortion.Esplings bill would mandate that physicians talk to women about@stanley trinkflaschen abortion alternatives, even if they do not ask to do so. It also would require physicians to provide@the name of the physician performing the abortion, scientifically accurate information about the fetus and the fathers liability for support.@Espling proposed stanley cup@a change Friday that would have required a doctor to show a woman an ultrasound if she asked before making a decision.These measures are unnecessary. They constitute an inappropriate intrusion of the political debate about abortion into the
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