Trump considering 11 candidates for Fed chair, including David Zervos and Rick Rieder, sources say

Trump considering 11 candidates for Fed chair, including David Zervos and Rick Rieder, sources say

The Trump administration is considering 11 candidates to replace Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell when his term expires in May, including three that have not previously been publicly named, according to two administration officials who declined to be named. The new names includes Jefferies Chief Market Strategist David Zervos, former Fed Governor Larry Lindsey, and…

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Movie Review: In ‘Miroirs No. 3,’ a slender and elegant tale of mutual rehabilitation

Movie Review: In ‘Miroirs No. 3,’ a slender and elegant tale of mutual rehabilitation

Christian Petzold’s beguiling and restorative new drama “Miroirs No. 3” begins with a glance and a car crash. Wreckage and its long-term aftermath have long marked the movies of Petzold, arguably Germany’s foremost filmmaker. In his finest and most exquisitely haunting film, 2014’s “Phoenix,” an Auschwitz survivor and cabaret singer (Nina Hoss, colossally good) returns…

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Voice of America and Radio Farda’s Persian services cover Israel-Iran conflict despite cutbacks

Voice of America and Radio Farda’s Persian services cover Israel-Iran conflict despite cutbacks

In the early days of Israel’s attack on Iran, U.S.-operated Radio Farda, which broadcasts in the Persian language in Iran, debunked a state media report that an Israeli pilot had been shot down and captured. Its journalism has continued despite the Trump administration’s threat to its future, along with a Persian-language television outlet run by…

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