Billboard's recent change in threshold for songs to remain in the top 40 of the Hot 100 list booted Kendrick Lamar and SZA's hit "Luther." This made history, ending a 35-year streak of rap tracks on the top 40 spots on the chart.

Last month, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), a policymaking body at the Fed, projected two additional quarter-point rate cuts over the remainder of the year. By contrast, Trump has called for rate cuts totaling as much as 3 percentage points. Trump has carried out a pressure campaign at the Fed with little precedent.

The conviction against former deputy sheriff Sean Grayson, who is white, carries a potential sentence of between four and 20 years.

OpenAI is laying the groundwork for an initial public offering that could value the company at up to around $1 trillion, three people familiar with the matter said, in what could be one of the biggest IPOs of all time and give CEO Sam Altman access to a much larger pool of capital to pull off his ambitious agenda.

Democrats wanted a fight over health care, but it's the millions of people who rely on food assistance that could suffer the immediate consequences of a government shutdown.

The San Diego Padres are reportedly doing their due diligence on Albert Pujols as they look for their next manager.

The request means the justices won’t rule on the issue until at least mid-November, which would leave President Donald Trump’s attempted troop deployment blocked for more than a month.

The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the second time since September. Before that, it had gone nine months without a cut. The federal funds rate is the rate at which banks borrow and lend to one another.