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By Jeff Ostrowski, Bankrate.com
The Federal Reserve has resumed its war on inflation. After raising rates 10 times in 10 meetings in 2022 and 2023, the central bank took a break in June. But at its July 26 meeting, it was back to fighting form: Fed chairman Jerome Powell announced...

Superstar Lionel Messi has been house-hunting across South Florida, seen with his family checking out some exclusive properties, according to reports.
Messi was spotted with his wife and children over the weekend touring a massive mansion in Fort Lauderdale, right along the Intracoastal Waterway, TMZ reported....

By STEVE PEOPLES, BRENDAN FARRINGTON and KAT STAFFORD
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Civil rights activists cheered when Ron DeSantis pardoned four Black men wrongfully convicted of rape as one of his first actions as Florida’s governor. But four years later, as DeSantis eyes the presidency, their hope that the Republican...

By ZEKE MILLER | AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday announced the first cancer-focused initiative under its advanced health research agency, aiming to help doctors more easily distinguish between cancerous cells and healthy tissue during surgery...