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FACT FOCUS: US poverty rate is at an all-time low, but there are other factors to consider

New York, September 30, 2026 (AP) — President Donald Trump is adding to the economic numbers he touts, claiming the United States’ lowest poverty numbers in history. In part, he is correct. His comments, made Sunday and again Monday, are supported by the Census Bureau’s latest annual poverty report, released earlier this month, which found that the poverty rate in 2025 was the lowest it’s been since tracking began nearly 70 years ago. But another measure of poverty, widely regarded among experts as more comprehensive, is not at an all-time low. Plus, the 2025 poverty rate only reflects the first

Lower Fed hike odds, oil dip lend RBI hand in supporting rupee

Lower Fed hike odds, oil dip lend RBI hand in supporting rupee

MUMBAI, Sept 30 (Reuters) – The Indian rupee faces a less challenging backdrop on Wednesday, after a fall in US rate-hike expectations and slightly ​softer oil tempered pressure on a currency that has needed ‌regular RBI support. The rupee is expected to open at 95.94-95.99 per dollar, according to traders after closing Tuesday at 95.98. It fell to a two-month ​low of 96.1475 before recovering amid likely Reserve Bank of ​India intervention. Over the past few weeks, the rupee has repeatedly ⁠needed RBI intervention to moderate its decline, with high oil ​prices, rising US Treasury yields, weak portfolio flows and

How sugar from outer space became one of the backbones of life on Earth

Sydney, Sep 30 (Conversation) Is there life elsewhere, or is Earth unique in the universe? This is one of humanity’s great unanswered questions. One way to approach this mystery is to investigate how life began here on Earth. Our research explores the conditions where a mixture of molecules somehow transformed from chemistry into biology. In a new study published in Scientific Reports, we shed new light on one possible step in this process: how a fragile sugar from outer space may have helped create the conditions for its own survival on Earth, where it eventually became the backbone of one

Ex-Union minister R K Singh attacks CEC over criminal case, calls for criminal cases against him

New Delhi, Sep 29 (PTI) Former Union minister R K Singh has accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of committing “illegalities” over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, calling upon opposition parties to file criminal cases against him. Singh, a former Union home secretary who served in the Narendra Modi government for nearly seven years, also criticised the Supreme Court for upholding the SIR. He demanded fresh elections in states where polls were held while appeals against voter deletion were pending. “Do you want India to remain a democracy? Then you must understand what Gyanesh Kumar, the CEC,

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