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            <title><![CDATA[Tiger Woods Arrested for DUI in Florida Rollover Car Crash]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:10:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tom Lehrer, Harvard’s Satiric, Melodic Mathematician, Dies at 97]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:11:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[New York Port Authority Shut Down Due to Multi-Bus Accident]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Short Seller Hindenburg Research to Be Disbanded, Founder Says]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:35:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why the Dollar Is So Dominant]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The currency is big, stable and entrenched in the global economy — which is also why it’s become a compelling target.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Saleha Mohsin]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 04:01:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day: Asia]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabelle Lee]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:30:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day: Asia]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabelle Lee]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:30:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[NRA Chief LaPierre Announces Resignation on Eve of Civil Trial]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Purvis]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:39:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Benioff Woos OpenAI Staff to Salesforce With Offer to Match Pay]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 20:49:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ecuador Rating Cut by Fitch After Killing as Presidential Election Nears]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 22:16:20 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Ecuadorian flag flies outside the Presidential Palace in Quito, Ecuador, on Monday, May 24, 2021. Guillermo Lasso takes office as Ecuador&apos;s president Monday promising to dig the nation out of its deepest economic slump in decades through mass vaccination and by making the country more investor-friendly.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fitch’s US Credit Downgrade Sparks Criticism Along With Unease]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-01/us-rating-slashed-from-aaa-by-fitch-in-echo-of-s-p-s-2011-move</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 21:19:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bond Traders Cement Bets on One More Fed Hike After Jobs Report]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael MacKenzie]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 13:03:50 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Traders More Comfortable With a Fed Pause as Key Jobs Data Looms]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Purvis]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:04:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Debt-Ceiling Relief May Be Short as Focus Turns to T-Bill Deluge]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2023 13:30:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fed Traders Fully Price In an Interest-Rate Hike Once Again]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 13:01:07 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Saturday, June 26, 2021. The Federal Reserve might consider an interest-rate hike from near zero as soon as late 2022 as the labor market reaches full employment and inflation is at the central bank&apos;s goal.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Auction Yield Tops 6% for Bill Maturing in Debt-Cap Danger Zone]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 15:58:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[T-Bills Show Wariness About Default Even as Debt Ceiling Talks Progress]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Securities due in early June still have a non-payment premium after “productive” Biden-McCarthy meeting]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Harris]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 15:15:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bond Traders Laser-Focused on Washington as Debt-Cap Risks Grow]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Purvis]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, May 1, 2023. The Treasury secretary told US lawmakers that her department’s ability to use special accounting maneuvers to stay within the federal debt limit could be exhausted as soon as the start of June.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Treasury Has Just $88 Billion of Measures Left to Avoid Debt Cap]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Purvis]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2023 20:17:41 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 18: People walk past the Treasury Department on January 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned leaders that the federal government will reach its limit on the amount of money it is able to borrow on January 19th and that further action is needed by lawmakers to prevent economic default. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Worried Markets Want to Believe a Debt-Ceiling Deal Can Be Done]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There’s been little progress so far in Washington, but optimists are hopeful that the US can avoid default]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2023 18:00:09 GMT</pubDate>
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