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The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the seventh time this year, while signaling that it is moving more cautiously as the U.S. economy slows. The Fed’s rate-setting committee hiked its benchmark rate by 0.5 percentage point on Wednesday, lifting its target rate into a range between 4.25% and …

St. Louis — A hearing begins Monday in a case that will decide if the conviction should be overturned of a Missouri man who’s spent nearly three decades in prison for a murder that two other people later confessed to committing. Lamar Johnson has long maintained his innocence, and St. …

Washington — “Incredibly disruptive.” Wreaking “havoc.” “Potentially damaging for American democracy.” Those are just some of the characterizations of a legal theory that is at the center of a case set to be argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Known as the “independent state legislature theory,” which largely laid …