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United States Consumer Confidence Falls for Second Straight Month as Inflation and Labor Concerns Persist

The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index declined again in August, reflecting continued household concerns about inflation, rising input costs and changing interest-rate expectations that could weigh on consumer spending.
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Turnbull Warns AUKUS Could Leave Australia Without Promised Nuclear Submarines
California Billionaires Pour More Than $150 Million Into Fight Over Proposed Wealth Tax
German Broadcaster Goes Dark to Warn AfD Could End Its Saxony-Anhalt Service
United States Consumer Confidence Falls for Second Straight Month as Inflation and Labor Concerns Persist
United States Immigration Arrests Surpass Fifty Thousand in July as Deportation Campaign Intensifies
Treasury Department Expands Iran Sanctions With Threat of Financial Exclusion for Foreign Businesses
Trump Administration Proposes More Than One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fee for New H-1B Visas
Trump Administration Prepares to Revoke Visas for Up to Two Hundred Thousand Asylum Seekers
Canada Announces Fifty Percent Retaliatory Tariffs on United States Goods as North American Trade Conflict Escalates
United States Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration Executive Order Restricting Mail-In Voting to Move Forward Ahead of Midterm Elections
Hedge Fund Leaders Criticize Treasury Bond Buyback Strategy as Debt Markets Shift
House Republican Campaign Chairman Faces Ethics Complaint Over Use of Floor Recordings
California Governor Gavin Newsom Sues Trump Administration Over Mail-In Voting Order
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