AP Top Headlines at 2:54 p.m. EDT

The Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday despite persistently high inflation and a spike in energy prices caused by the Iran warOil prices are back to jumping, while sinking technology stocks drag Wall Street lowerIran has launched a barrage of missiles at American forces in the Middle EastDr. Anthony Fauci has wrapped up his appearance at a Republican-led committee hearing about the COVID-19 pandemic after repeatedly invoking the Fifth Amendment and declining to answer dozens of questions from senatorsThe Fifth Amendment is part of the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights and protects against self-incriminationA Massachusetts mother who strangled her three young children and tried to kill herself sobbed in court as jurors listened to her husband's anguished 911 cal