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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business The pain of higher prices continues for US consumers. Record gas prices drove inflation to 8.6% for the 12 months ending in May, higher than the pace in April, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, the government’s basic inflation measure. The reading for core CPI, which strips out volatile
Continue ReadingBy Nathan Vickers Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — A local barber survived a shooting late last week after an angry customer allegedly opened fire. Dráque Murff, the owner of Dráque’s Barbershop on 39th Street, was home recovering Thursday. He told KCTV5 the man had come to his shop
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police have detained dozens of truckers blocking traffic and disrupting movement of goods near factories as a nationwide strike extends into a fourth day. The truckers are urging the government to provide a minimum income in the face of soaring fuel prices that are squeezing their finances. Government
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police have detained dozens of truckers blocking traffic and disrupting movement of goods near factories as a nationwide strike extends into a fourth day. The truckers are urging the government to provide a minimum income in the face of soaring fuel prices that are squeezing their finances. Government
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Russia’s central bank has cut interest rates back to their prewar levels. The bank said Friday that inflation and economic activity are developing better than expected despite sweeping Western sanctions imposed in response to the war in Ukraine. The bank lowered its key rate by 1.5 percentage points, to 9.5%. The
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Russia’s central bank has cut interest rates back to their prewar levels. The bank said Friday that inflation and economic activity are developing better than expected despite sweeping Western sanctions imposed in response to the war in Ukraine. The bank lowered its key rate by 1.5 percentage points, to 9.5%. The
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. futures slipped Friday after the government reported that inflation surged 8.6% in May compared with last year, even more than economists had expected. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials slid 1% and futures for the S&P 500 skidded 1.2% after the government released its consumer price index report. U.S. benchmarks
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. futures slipped Friday after the government reported that inflation surged 8.6% in May compared with last year, even more than economists had expected. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials slid 1% and futures for the S&P 500 skidded 1.2% after the government released its consumer price index report. U.S. benchmarks
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El dolor de los precios más altos continúa para los consumidores estadounidenses, y la inflación no se detiene. Los precios récord de la gasolina llevaron la inflación al 8,6% en los 12 meses que terminaron en mayo, por encima del ritmo de abril, según el último Índice de Precios al
Continue Reading By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has asked Kosovo and Serbia for a clear commitment to reaching a political solution to their long-standing dispute over Kosovo’s independence. Normalization talks facilitated by the European Union started 11 years ago but have yielded little. Tensions between the
Continue Reading By DAVID KEYTON and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian presidential adviser says up to 200 Ukrainian soldiers are being killed every day in Russia’s military onslaught. Mykhailo Podolyak told the BBC that only more and more advanced Western weaponry will turn back the Russian offensive, reduce the casualties and force
Continue Reading By DAVID KEYTON and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian presidential adviser says up to 200 Ukrainian soldiers are being killed every day in Russia’s military onslaught. Mykhailo Podolyak told the BBC that only more and more advanced Western weaponry will turn back the Russian offensive, reduce the casualties and force
Continue Reading TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state-run media say Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has arrived in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on a two-day state visit. The report says a high-ranking political and economic delegation from Venezuela, which like Iran is under heavy U.S. sanctions, is accompanying Maduro on the visit, following an invitation from Iran’s hard-line
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By DAVID SHARP, ANDREW DEMILLO and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A local district attorney’s race in Maine wasn’t generating much attention until a political action committee linked to a deep-pocketed liberal donor with international name recognition suddenly took an interest. A super PAC funded by George Soros, the billionaire investor, philanthropist
Continue Reading By DAVID SHARP, ANDREW DEMILLO and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A local district attorney’s race in Maine wasn’t generating much attention until a political action committee linked to a deep-pocketed liberal donor with international name recognition suddenly took an interest. A super PAC funded by George Soros, the billionaire investor, philanthropist
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Splash House is officially back starting Friday and it will run through the weekend bringing thousands of people into Palm Springs. Instead of being held for two weekends this year, it is going to be held for three weekends. The first being June 10 to12, then again August 12 to 14, and August 19 to
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Diecisiete meses pasaron en un instante. La imagen de vandalismo indómito y violencia fascista desatada por un presidente autoritario que abusa de su poder que se pintó este jueves en la primera audiencia en horario estelar de la comisión del 6 de enero de 2021 fue casi más aterradora que cuando
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The prices of gas, food and most other goods and services jumped in May, raising inflation to a new four-decade high and giving American households no respite from rising costs. Consumer prices surged 8.6% last month from 12 months earlier, faster than April’s year-over-year increase of
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The Palm Desert Aquatic Center (PDAC) has been facing a lifeguard shortage in recent months, which has forced the facility to change its hours. Lifeguards are the safety net of local public pools that determine whether or not a pool will be open. Lately, it has been hard for some facilities to fill in spots
Continue ReadingCNN By Jamie Gangel, Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Jeremy Herb, CNN Conservative Republican election attorney Ben Ginsberg will be among the witnesses testifying Monday before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, as the panel seeks to scrutinize how former President Donald Trump’s election lies led to
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