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Hold the rate. The Fed can’t pump oil.

The Federal Reserve opted to maintain interest rates between 3.75 percent and 4 percent during its recent meeting, a decision supported by analysis suggesting that recent inflation was primarily driven by energy costs rather than widespread economic pressure.

California has become unaffordable — but Congress can do something about it

California Reps. Vince Fong and James Gallagher introduced two joint resolutions to overturn the California Air Resources Board's Vessels At-Berth and Commercial Harbor Craft regulations, which they argue act as hidden climate taxes increasing costs for consumers.

Free to discriminate: How the Supreme Court unraveled the Voting Rights Act 

Thirteen years later, the damage is clear. States freed from federal oversight, many of them states of the old Confederacy, have adopted new restrictions on voting that dramatically dilute minority voting power.

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