The story of 12345 words and is really exhibit a of how closely parse the words of the Federal Reserve can be especially when as now things are just beginning to feel a little bit squishy the Fed wrapped up its 2 day meeting on interest rates this afternoon and as they do after every meeting chair Powell and company put out a statement it runs about a page their statement does gives the Fed rationale for its decision on rates they raised rates today by the way but it also gives people some clue as to what the central bank thinks the interest rate future might hold So what we re going to do is right with you as a little audio compare and contrast between the operative sentence of the statement from their November meeting and the same sentence from today s statement All right so here we go this is from the statement after the November meeting the committee expects that further gradual increases in the target range for the federal funds rate will be consistent with sustained expansion of
Ari And that s where George Herbert Walker Bush will be laid to rest Steve Futterman c.b.s. News Houston there are calls for an emergency congressional hearing on claims of widespread fraud in a congressional race in southeastern North Carolina there are allegations that Republican operative paid off at least 2 women to go door to door to collect absentee ballots heavily Democratic blatant Robison calories in North Carolina s diet Congressional District 4 were played in County Elections Director right Brit warned about absentee ballot irregularities of the county of the 2010 election your citizens look for you to be accountable for them because they are where they signed go on all and you submit it to no avail incumbent Republican Congressman Mark Harris leads Democratic challenger Debbie created by 905 votes chrysalis c.b.s. News great for old North Carolina scientists say Hawaii s killer way of all Keno eruption may be over because no lava has escaped in 3 months that is the longest
a great and noble man. The best father of her daughter get ahead. And in our grief but a smile knowing that day it is hugging romping. And holding mom stand again. Yeah yeah just a heartbreaking moment I was. Out running errands and I got a news alert and I I was I was parked so it said you know watch live as that news alert was happening and just as I clicked on it. President George w. Bush. Had started to speak and he got to that moment and wow just one of those moments where you know I guess we don t fully a pre she ate and it s unfortunate we don t fully appreciate people off until they re gone and you know that happens with people that we know in our life that aren t famous and it also happens to public figures where you know when they re gone we look back and and we and. And often too we learn their contribution to society. And items that we didn t know I mean I don t know how many people were learning about the former president s military service. You know through all of this
You know those music videos you love on You Tube and the mediums you love to laugh at well proposed digital copyright laws in Europe and other countries kind of want to make those a little less common and they have their roots in a 20 year old copyright law here in the u.s. Called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act So it s a big gnarly here a ball of the law Cory Doctorow is a writer and activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation we reached him in his hotel room in Berlin he and the f.s.f. Have been talking about and litigating over the unintended consequences of the d.m.c.a. For almost 20 years now the law was written at a time when it was newly possible to rip C.D. s and D.V.D. s and put them online illegally downloading music was getting more popular Napster came out in 1999 remember that and this big copyright law the d.m.c.a. Was designed to protect companies and artists from having their work stolen and disseminated all over the internet but almost from the beginning cri
It s Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I m Rachel Martin and I m Steve Inskeep President Trump followed through on one of his last minute campaign promises not the promise of a 10 percent middle class tax cut which was supposed to materialize just before the election but a promise to crack down on immigrants which is going ahead the administration published an executive action against asylum seekers it says when people cross the border from Mexico and apply for asylum they must apply only at a legal port of entry people who cross the border or elsewhere will be denied immigration specialist contend that rule violates a loss a let s discuss this with n.p.r. White House correspondent Scott Horsley Scott good morning good morning what people are we talking about here that be affected this will is really aimed at the large influx of families and children who have been coming to the u.s. Border from Central America if you look at the overall number of people crossing the border illegally i