5 PM ET: AG Garland on Capitol Hill, Fed pauses rate hikes, free Covid-19 tests & more

The Federal Reserve said today it’s hitting the breaks on rate hikes, but Wall Street wasn’t completely happy - we’ll tell you why. Attorney General Merrick Garland was in the hot seat on Capitol Hill today, taking questions from Congress. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shared the harrowing experience of Ukrainian villagers during a UN Security Council meeting today. The president of Azerbaijan said his country’s so-called “anti-terror” operation in a majority-Armenian area was successful. And, the US government is set to relaunch its free Covid-19 test program.

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