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Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates by a Quarter Point, Expects More Red...
Fed Gives Crumbs to Trump With 1/4- Percent Interest Rate Cut
'TOO LATE'
The president has been pushing Fed Chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates for months.
Farrah Tomazin
Political Correspondent
Updated Sep. 17 2025 2:11PM EDT Published Sep. 17 2025 2:10PM EDT
Political Correspondent
Updated Sep. 17 2025 2:11PM EDT Published Sep. 17 2025 2:10PM EDT
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time this year, in a move driven by mounting evidence of a weakening job market that carries political risks for President Donald Trump.
After months of disappointing economic data, the central bank lowered its benchmark rate by a quarter of a percent on Wednesday—less than what the administration had hoped for.
The move comes after the latest annual revisions from the Bureau of Statistics showed that employers created 911,000 fewer jobs for the year to March than previously suggested, in a blow to Trump’s claim that the U.S. has the “hottest” economy in the world.
This story will be updated.
POP MECH: How Sicily became Rome's first overseas province
The helmet likely originated from the Battle of the Aegadian Islands
that took place in 241 B.C. during the First Punic War.
That battle,
which was a major naval confrontation fought between Carthage and Rome for control of the western Mediterranean, ultimately ended the war, which left Sicily as Rome’s first overseas province.
Divers Discovered a 2,200-Year-Old Helmet from the War That Changed the Course of Roman History
It was remarkably preserved.
By Tim Newcomb
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:
- Underwater recovery off the Aegadian Islands in Sicily uncovered a Montefortino-style Roman war helmet.
- The helmet was likely part of the First Punic War from 241 B.C.
- Experts call the helmet one of the most well preserved ever found.
The First Punic War raged during 241 B.C. for control of Sicily, leaving the weapons and armor of fallen soldiers strewn across battlefields and lost to time—unless they’re rediscovered centuries later. One such object is a recently discovered—and strikingly well-preserved—Roman helmet found by divers underwater off the Aegadian Islands. Experts are calling it one of the finest Montefortino-style helmets ever found.
Deep-sea divers from the Society for the Documentation of Submerged Sites, working with Sicily’s Superintendency of the Sea, discovered the bronze helmet—this one complete with cheekpieces, an extremely rare occurrence—according to a translated statement from the Sicily government.
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