We start the day's other news with the U.S. Federal Reserve. Officials left interest rates unchanged for the fourth straight time today.

They also said they expect to cut rates twice by the end of the year, even as worries over inflation persist.

At a press conference today, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that uncertainty is unusually elevated amid ongoing concerns over the impact of President

Trump's tariffs.

People will be trying not to be the ones who pick up the cost, but ultimately the cost

of the tariff has to be paid. And some of it will fall on the end consumer. We know that

because that's what businesses say, that's what the data say from past. So we know that's coming, and we just want to see a little bit of that before we make

judgments prematurely.

Just hours before this afternoon's Fed announcement, President Trump renewed his complaints

about Powell's unwillingness to cut rates, calling him stupid and even floating the idea of

installing himself as chair.

The State Department says it's resuming the process to allow foreigners to apply for student

visas.

But applicants will now have to make their social media accounts public for review,

or they could be rejected.

The department said its officers will be

looking for signs of, quote, hostility toward the citizens, culture, government, institutions,

or founding principles of the United States. Last month, the Trump administration temporarily

stopped scheduling new interviews for such visas. It's part of a broader crackdown on overseas students hoping to

study here. The Supreme Court is reviving plans to store nuclear waste at sites in Texas and New

Mexico. The justices today rejected a challenge from Texas and a group of landowners over a private

company's plans to store the material in the state.

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