DECATUR — The man who told police he carried a gun because “Decatur crazy” won’t be seeing his hometown for a while: he just ...

Trump ramped up calls for the Fed to cut interest rates this week ... Trump, though, has signaled that he's determined to push on with his trade war. The administration is planning to roll ...

Yet the world looks very difference since the Fed last updated its so-called “dot plot” in December. The trade war has heated up. Inflation has stalled. And recession fears have rocked markets.

The Fed meeting took place against a backdrop of mounting concern among financial markets and economists that the trade war could lead the world's largest economy into recession. Stock market ...

At least that's where the betting is in futures markets, where contracts that settle to the Fed's policy rate were increasingly priced for quarter-percentage-point reductions in June, July and ...

DECATUR — Police patrols responding to reports of shots fired Tuesday afternoon found four spent shell casings in the driveway of a home in the 1200 block of North Church Street. Detective Sgt. Brian ...

Speaking from the Oval Office earlier this month, President Trump boasted about the most recent inflation data, highlighting falling egg and oil prices. Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Federal ...

The Fed left interest rates unchanged at its Wednesday policy meeting. As expected, the Fed reiterated it was in no rush to change monetary policy, instead preferring to wait to determine how ...

The rate decision came weeks after Trump touched off a global trade war that sent stocks reeling and triggered concern about a possible recession. Even as the Fed left its main policy lever ...

NEW YORK — The Federal Reserve is set to announce its first interest rate decision since a global trade war touched off by ... less than two weeks after Fed Chair Jerome Powell said tariffs ...

"If the economy remains strong, and inflation does not continue to move sustainably toward 2%, we can maintain policy restraint for longer," Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday. Advertisement ...