Watch Live: FBI’s Patel testifies at hearing in aftermath of Kirk assassination

  2m ago Grassley gavels in hearing, says Patel inherited FBI “infected with politics” Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who chairs the committee, gaveled the hearing in shortly after 9 a.m.  “We meet today in the aftermath of the political assassination of Charlie Kirk, a school shooting in the senseless murder of Ukrainian refugees,

Fed Expected to Deliver First Rate Cut Since Last December

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 11, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The Federal Reserve is overwhelmingly expected to pull the trigger on an interest rate cut when it concludes its Sept. 16-17 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)