- Yahoo Finance
Fed's Daly favors waiting to gain confidence that inflation is dropping
The San Francisco Fed president said she didn't want to make projections about rates because of 'uncertainty about what the next few months of inflation will look like.'
- Associated Press
Florida's major power company prepares for this year's hurricanes by dealing with a fake one
Under blue skies, officials at Florida's largest power company dealt Thursday with the aftermath of a major hurricane that slammed into Miami and Fort Lauderdale — or a pretend one, anyway. Florida Power & Light is conducting its annual mock hurricane drill this week, simulating how it would respond if a hurricane struck the state and devastated the power grid. Ian was one of the worst disasters ever to strike Florida, killing 150 people as it hit the Gulf Coast near Fort Myers in 2022, leaving millions without power.
- Reuters
US 'deeply troubled' by actions against protesters in Georgia
The United States is deeply troubled by actions taken against those protesting a draft law in Georgia and the government should change its course, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday. Georgian security forces have repeatedly deployed tear gas, pepper spray and water cannon against protesters who have been staging almost daily demonstrations for around a month against the government's "foreign agents" bill. The protesters say the bill is authoritarian and inspired by similar legislation in Russia that has been used to clamp down on dissent there.
