Published January 27, 2025 06:13 PM EST Key Takeaways On Monday evening, the Senate confirmed Wall Street veteran Scott Bessent as the Treasury Secretary. He replaces Janet Yellen in the White House’s top financial job, overseeing the IRS, banking regulations, and managing the nation’s $36 trillion national debt. Bessent will play a key role in
Key Takeaways Mortgage rates are up just a couple of basis points since last week, keeping them near their post-Christmas low. Rates on new 30-year fixed-rate loans averaged 6.98% on Friday, as compared to the 4-week low of 6.93%. 15-year loans saw their Friday-to-Friday average rise a more sizable 8 basis points, now up to
War Stories Trump Sowed Chaos in His First Week of Foreign Policy Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. President Donald Trump’s first week back in the White House sparked more drama than maybe any in history—the 70
Oswiecim, a small Polish town of around 10,000 inhabitants, was occupied by the German Wehrmacht in 1939, annexed and renamed Auschwitz. In 1941, the Nazis established the largest German extermination camp in this area, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. By the end of January 1945, the Nazis had murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz.
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The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat yet another term on top of his three decades in power. “Needed!” the posters proclaim beneath a photo of Lukashenko, his hands clasped together. The
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‘It really did something to your soul,’ says Holocaust survivor published at 21:02 Greenwich Mean Time Katya Adler and Kathy Long Reporting from Auschwitz One of the survivors who attended today’s commemorations is Mala Tribich, now in her 90s, who was nine when she was forced into a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland. She was
By RAF CASERT and STEPHEN McGRATH Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BRUSSELS (AP) — The prize in this art heist is worth more than its gold. To Romania, the ancient helmet is a priceless cultural heirloom. To the Netherlands, it’s a stolen artifact that authorities hope to retrieve to uphold a reputation