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Added on the 04/08/2014 22:32:14 - Copyright : GossipCenter
They held their tongues as long as they could about the violent and now-viral elevator security footage, and now Beyonce, Jay Z and Solange have broken their silence about the whole ordeal.
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell says that his "confidence has grown" that the battle against inflation is on track. "After a pause earlier this year, progress toward our 2 percent objective has resumed. My confidence has grown that inflation is on a sustainable path back to 2 percent," he says in a keynote speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium in the US state of Wyoming. SOUNDBITE
Kamala Harris says she's faced tough elections in the past. "We were underestimated at practically every turn, but we never gave up, because the future is always worth fighting for," she tells the crowd at the Democratic National Convention, before adding, "that’s the fight we are in right now, a fight for America’s future." SOUNDBITE
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo announces in a video that he has asked Congress for legal reform to remove Attorney General Consuelo Porras from office amid a corruption investigation. "As a president directly elected by the people with an explicit mandate to fight for transparency and against corruption," he says, "I cannot allow this injustice to continue." SOUNDBITE
France's National Assembly passes a bill designed to combat foreign interference, including a trial allowing intelligence services to use algorithmic surveillance techniques, currently reserved for counter-terrorism, for this purpose. IMAGES