A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana. The Trump administration immediately appealed to a higher court, asking that the executions move forward.
Trump in recent weeks has repeatedly attacked the Federal Reserve— and Jerome Powell, the man he chose last year to lead it, personally — for the central bank's interest rate increases, which the president has blamed for stock market turmoil and signs of economic weakness.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, in a speech in Stockholm, warned against taking that independence for granted given its recent success in keeping inflation low.
President Donald Trump picked Powell after deciding to break with recent tradition and not offer Janet Yellen, the first woman to lead the nation’s central bank in its 100-year history, a second four-year term.
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