Wall Street looked at the latest inflation numbers and pretty much shrugged. Liz Truss is preparing to rip up the so-called mini-Budget that’s caused massive turmoil over the past several weeks. The economic plan was announced last month and markets immediately recoiled in response to the proposed tax cuts. Read More...
Associated Press
US migrant policy ‘bucket of cold water’ to some Venezuelans
Venezuelan Gilbert Fernández still plans to cross the dangerous Darién jungle into Panama and head toward the United States over land, despite a U.S. announcement that it will grant conditional humanitarian permits only to 24,000 Venezuelan migrants arriving by air. “The news hit us like a bucket of cold water,” Fernández said Thursday, a day after the announcement, which also stated that Venezuelans arriving by land at the Mexico-U.S. border would be returned to Mexico. Fernández spoke to The Associated Press on a beach in Necoclí, a coastal town in Colombia where about 9,000 people, mostly Venezuelans, waited to board a boat to take them to the entrance of the Darién Gap connecting the South American country to Panama.
