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RFK Jr. suspends presidential campaign, endorses GOP nominee Donald Trump – UPI.com

As they have before, members of Kennedy’s family on Friday blasted his political maneuvers as a “betrayal” of his legacy.

“We want an America filled with hope and bound together by a shared vision of a brighter future, a future defined by individual freedom, economic promise and national pride,” his sister Kerry Kennedy said in a statement co-signed by four other Kennedy siblings. “Our brother Bobby’s decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values our father and our family hold most dear. It is a sad ending to a sad story.”

Source: RFK Jr. suspends presidential campaign, endorses GOP nominee Donald Trump – UPI.com

Fed Chair Jerome Powell indicates interest rate cuts are coming amid lowered inflation – UPI.com

 — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday indicated interest rate cuts are on the way as economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic begin to fade.

In his Jackson Hole, Wyo., speech Powell said “the time has come for policy to adjust” amid positive economic data on inflation dropping to an annual rate of 2.5%.

Source: Fed Chair Jerome Powell indicates interest rate cuts are coming amid lowered inflation – UPI.com

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends his presidential bid, at least in swing states – Los Angeles Times (Me: Weirdness +)

Kennedy’s views on some issues — particularly vaccines — were extreme. A particularly problematic example: When he compared Biden’s vaccine policies to the Holocaust. He suggested that Jews, including Anne Frank, had more freedom under the Nazis than Americans living with COVID-19 mandates.

That drew rebukes from many Jewish groups and even a complaint from his wife, actor Cheryl Hines, who called the Frank reference “reprehensible and insensitive.” Kennedy apologized.

Though born into what some viewed as an American political “Camelot,” Kennedy struggled as a young man, particularly with his 14-year addiction to heroin. The candidate sought to use that ordeal to his advantage, saying that his 40 years in recovery made him uniquely qualified to bring new solutions to the nation’s addiction crisis.

But other aspects of his past, including his past relationships with women, became fodder for new criticism.

That included the regurgitation of a 2013 New York Post story, after the tabloid somehow acquired a journal that RFK Jr. allegedly kept in 2001. It included a log of 37 women that he had sex with when he was married to Mary Richardson Kennedy, the Post and other outlets reported.

(Kennedy’s wife had killed herself in the year prior to publication of the story, but she had reportedly found the journal at some point.)…

Source: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends his presidential bid, at least in swing states – Los Angeles Times