YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP | | | | The president's son set to plead guilty. | | | |
President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, faces new challenges on the eve of a scheduled court appearance. Also in the news: Heat is still reigning over portions of the U.S. and the Federal Reserve is likely to raise interest rates again today. | | | |
Now, here we go with Wednesday's news |
A new slew of challenges on the horizon for Hunter Biden |
Increased efforts to investigate the president and his oldest son foreshadowed Hunter Biden's scheduled appearance at a court hearing in Wilmington Wednesday, when he is expected to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax crimes. |
On the eve of the court appearance, the GOP chairman of the Ways and Means Committee took the unusual step of filing court documents urging the judge who could potentially reject the deal to consider testimony from IRS whistleblowers. |
Heat wave takes aim at Midwest, Northeast |
After punishing the western and southern U.S. with record-smashing temperatures over the past month or so, the intense summer heat will finally make an appearance across much of the Midwest and Northeast over the next few days. Overall, at least 45 states and more than 100 million Americans will endure temperatures of 90 degrees or higher at some point this week, AccuWeather reported. As the heat dome expands eastward, millions of people in the mid-Atlantic may experience triple-digit temperatures that haven't been reached in years, experts advised. Read more |
Will the Federal Reserve pause, hike, then pause again? |
Get ready for one more rate hit – the 11th interest rate hike since March 2022 — when the Fed announces its decision on rates on Wednesday. The move could surprise some who were lulled into imagining that interest rates would stop climbing as one rate pause last month surely could signal one move after another by the Fed to hold rates steady. The Fed playbook, according to some experts, now could very likely turn into: Pause, hike, pause. The Fed had been raising rates at each meeting since March 2022 and paused for the first time in June. Read more |
Ohio to vote on amendment to protect abortion rights in the state |
A proposed amendment to enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution submitted enough valid signatures to make the November ballot, the Ohio Secretary of State's Office announced Tuesday. Backers of the measure to enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution submitted more than 700,000 signatures earlier this month. Over the past several weeks, local boards of elections officials checked those signatures, tossing duplicates and ones from people who were not registered to vote. The proposed amendment would ensure Ohioans have a right to make their own reproductive decisions, including contraception, fertility treatment, continuing a pregnancy, miscarriage treatment and abortion. Read more | May 13, 2023; Columbus, Ohio, USA; Shanti Miyamoto, left, and Sheryl Murray collect signatures to put a ballot issue about enshrining abortion rights into the state constitution before voters in November 2023. Joseph Scheller/Columbus Dispatch |
UPS, Teamsters reach agreement after threats of a strike |
Just hours after resuming talks Tuesday, UPS and the Teamsters, the union representing roughly 340,000 UPS workers, reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract. The tentative consensus, which UPS CEO Carol Tomé described as a "win-win-win agreement," helped the company and the U.S. economy avoid a potentially crippling blow to the nation's logistics network. The tentative agreement comes after months of intense negotiations and Teamsters threatening to enact what would have been the largest single employer strike in U.S. history. Read more | UPS workers rallied in front of the UPS Centennial Hub ahead of a potential strike on August 1st. July 18, 2023 Jeff Faughender/Courier Journal and USA Today Network |
Photo of the day: USWNT ramps up for Netherlands World Cup match |
After swiftly defeating Vietnam, here comes the USWNT's biggest World Cup test yet: a group game against the Netherlands. It's a rematch of the 2019 World Cup final, which the USWNT won 2-0. The game will kick at 9 p.m. ET, which is 1 p.m. Thursday in New Zealand. The USWNT, of course, knows it has a target on its back, but its players are embracing the pressure. | United States players jog to warm up for a training session at Bay City Park amid the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup on July 24, 2023 in Auckland, New Zealand. Jenna Watson, Jenna Watson-USA TODAY Sports |
Associated Press contributed reporting. | | | | |
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