2026-06-19 18:00:17
Kevin Warsh faces a truly daunting task. The new chairman of the Federal Reserve must avoid provoking a president he had to charm to get the job. He needs to repair relations with the Fed’s other policymakers, many of whom he recently criticized — not least, former Chair Jerome Powell, who remains on the central bank’s board for now. While contending with all that, he must also affirm the Fed’s commitment to get inflation back down to 2%.
2026-06-19 18:00:15
The stories would stop any parent cold: Florida middle schooler Colton Remsburg, who was killed by a pickup truck while out buying flowers for his mom. California 13-year-old Angel Roman Mendoza Lopez, struck by a car while headed to a friend’s house. And 15-year-old Violet Harris, an honors student from Chicago, who died after being hit by a car whose driver fled.
2026-06-19 17:40:57
Andy Burnham’s stunning return to Parliament in a special election in the north of England means attention naturally shifts to how soon he can unseat Keir Starmer and fulfil his dream of becoming Britain’s prime minister. But we shouldn’t overlook what the Makerfield by-election means for Reform UK and its leader Nigel Farage.
2026-06-19 12:00:15
Dario Amodei arrived at the G7 summit this week with a problem few tech bosses have faced: The US government had just treated his newest artificial-intelligence models as too dangerous to export. The Anthropic chief executive officer, long admired for warning Washington about AI’s worst risks, suddenly found those warnings turned back on him.
2026-06-19 11:00:15
Founders and venture capitalists love to moan about being stymied by risk-averse rules and regulators in the UK and Europe. Their ambitions get frustrated, investors are put off and the result is less innovation and slower growth, goes the argument. But then there’s Revolut Ltd.
2026-06-19 05:31:07
The taciturn new Fed chair sent the right signals to the market in his debut press conference.
