@dailyplugusa: Here's everything that happened in America in the last 12 hours. The Federal Reserve unanimously raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 3.75 to 4.00 percent, marking the first increase since 2023 to aggressively fight elevated inflation. The United States House of Representatives passed a sweeping bipartisan sanctions bill targeting Russia and Iran, sending legislation to President Trump that authorizes up to one hundred percent tariffs on top purchasers of Russian oil or natural gas. Seventeen prominent scientists filed a major class-action lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health over an alleged political keyword-screening policy, charging that the federal agency unconstitutionally flags grants containing terms like "gender" and "climate change". The United States State Department extended visa sanctions denying entry to Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority officials, effectively blocking Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas from attending the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in New York. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro was arrested in Minneapolis on state felony charges of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and falsely reporting a crime regarding the January shooting of a Venezuelan national. The House approved the Ratepayer Protection Act in a dominant 417 to 3 vote, directing state utility regulators to consider measures that force large-load customers like data centers to cover the heavy incremental costs of their electricity upgrades. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a ninety-day emergency waiver easing strict hours-of-service limits for fuel-hauling truck drivers, letting commercial drivers operate up to sixteen hours a day to prevent major supply-chain disruptions. A federal appeals court allowed the Department of Housing and Urban Development to shift 1.3 billion dollars in homelessness-program funds, staying a lower court order that blocked the money from being used for transitional housing grants. United States stock indexes plummeted sharply following the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike and news conference, forcing the Dow to drop 1.2 percent while the S&P 500 closed down 0.4 percent after trading higher earlier in the day. #USNews #NewsUpdate #BreakingNews #newsfeed #News

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