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August 14, 2025
Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, much more than expected
Published Thu, Aug 14 2025 8:31 AM EDT Updated 1 Min Ago Wholesale prices rose far more than expected in July, providing a potential sign that inflation is still a threat to the U.S. economy, a Bureau of Labor Statistics report Thursday showed. The producer price index, which measures final demand goods and services prices, jumped 0.9% on the month, compared to the Dow Jones estimate for a 0.2% gain. It was the biggest monthly gain since June 2022. Excluding food and energy prices, core PPI ...
Go to discussionMan Stopped By Border Patrol Voices Guilt About Voting For Trump, Joins Lawsuit
Aug 13, 2025, 03:49 PM EDT A California man who alleges border patrol agents racially profiled him during a stop in June said in a story Monday that he feels guilty about voting for President Donald Trump in the last presidential election. “I truly believe I was targeted because of my race,” Jason Brian Gavidia told NBC affiliate KNBC on Monday. “I believe I was racially profiled. I believe I was attacked because I was walking while brown. Where is the freedom? Where is the justice? We live i ...
Go to discussionPam Bondi accused of possible witness tampering with Ghislaine Maxwell's prison transfer
August 13, 2025 3:46PM ET Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, including ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD), demanded answers from Attorney General Pam Bondi after Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, was transferred to a "relatively luxurious minimum-security prison camp in Texas." In a letter to Bondi on Wednesday, Democrats noted that the Department of Justice had "inexplicably transferred" Maxwell after she met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanc ...
Go to discussionNewsom urges Illinois, NY to hurry up on redistricting
08/13/25 6:00 PM ET California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday urged Illinois and New York to press ahead with redistricting efforts as GOP lawmakers push to pick up five additional House seats in Texas. “Right now forget the talking; it’s not about press. It’s time to move. You got to move. I mean, enough,” Newsom said. “We’re all saying the right thing. Now we got to do the right thing, which means we got to fight fire with fire,” he told Beto O’Rourke, a former Democratic representative ...
Go to discussionAllies, in jab at Trump, threaten not to buy F-35s
08/13/2025 06:15 PM EDT Allies fed up with Donald Trump’s latest round of punishing tariffs and spending demands are hitting the president where it hurts — his favorite fighter jet. Spain, in the wake of a row with Washington over NATO’s new 5 percent defense spending goal, ditched its multibillion-dollar purchase of the stealthy F-35 fighter jet. Switzerland, reeling from steep U.S. tariffs, is facing increasing pressure across the political spectrum to drop plans for its own F-35 war planes ...
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