The Brooklyn Nets have selected Drake Powell with the No. 22 pick in the 2025 NBA draft. Powell entered this past collegiate season as a highly touted recruit and 2024 McDonald’s All-American, ultimately starting 24 of 37 games in his lone season at North Carolina.

Drake Powell, an NC native, emerged as a key starter for North Carolina in the later half of the year thanks to his defensive intensity.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was back on Capitol Hill for his second day of testimony. This time he was in front of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Powell has said recent economic data would likely have justified cutting interest rates,

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell resumed two days of congressional testimony on Wednesday, appearing before the Senate Banking Committee after scrutiny before a House panel the day before that focused on the Fed's concerns that the Trump administration's tariff plans will raise inflation.

Waller highlighted that inflation has been running close to the Fed’s 2% target, and said the current rate setting (targeting 4.25%-4.5%) is 1.25 to 1.5 percentage points above neutral -- in other words,

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made clear this week that he’s not ready to give in to demands by President Donald Trump to immediately cut U.S. interest rates. So what would convince him?

Higher tariffs could begin raising inflation this summer, a period that will be key to Federal Reserve consideration of possible rate cuts, Fed Chair Jerome Powell told members of Congress on Tuesday.