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The Justice Department’s move to end the inquiry into the Fed chair, Jerome Powell, reflected the political reality that President Trump, who has spent years trying to get rid of Powell and browbeating him to lower interest rates, would not be able to get his pick for the job installed while the investigation continued.

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A United States naval blockade on Iran is strangling the Islamic Republic’s main economic corridors – leaving Tehran facing a looming oil storage crisis and its citizens grappling with rising food prices and surging unemployment.

Two ships reportedly attacked off Iran after earlier reports of IRGC fire at a gunboat off Oman; Iran claims it has seized two ships