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Consumer prices increased 8.5% in the 12 months ending in March, a number that is sure to fuel consumer anxiety and erode support for Joe Biden’s agenda. White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters before the numbers were released that March’s inflation would “be extraordinarily elevated due to Putin’s price hike.” “We expect…

In addition to calculating category-specific indices, NBEU also calculated a single combined score that equally weights the z-scores of the three components and then transforms to a 0-100 scale.

Brian Benjamin is accused of funneling state funding to a real estate investor in Harlem in return for thousands of dollars in illegal campaign donations to his 2021 comptroller campaign. New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin has surrendered to authorities to face campaign finance fraud-related charges in connection with a…

As a result, the US Dollar weakened in an initial reaction, with the DXY slipped back to test 100.  The annual rate of US inflation, as per the Consumer Price Index (CPI), came in at 8.5% in March, slightly the median economist forecast for a reading of 8.4% and higher versus February’s…

Even worse for the president’s party, they offer little reason to believe that things will improve for Democrats before the November midterm elections. The president’s job approval stands at a weak 42 percent among registered voters in the , while 54 percent disapprove. Among registered voters who feel “strongly” about Biden’s…

The city’s 26 million inhabitants have been barred from leaving their homes or apartment buildings and are now depending on government supplies and overloaded grocery delivery apps for food. Chinese authorities initially planned a phased lockdown in the eastern and western parts of the city, a measure that was extended…

Police said Glazewski screamed at one of the gas station’s employees when she told him he couldn’t put stickers on the pumps. Police charged Glazewski with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, harassment, and criminal offense. It appeared Glazewski had applied several stickers to the Turkey Hill’s station pumps before getting arrested, according to Lancaster…

The attacker evaded a huge manhunt for hours, before being shot dead in a gunfight in nearby Jaffa. In the latest, Raad Hazem, 28, from Jenin in the occupied West Bank, shot people at the Ilka bar on Dizengoff Street, a main thoroughfare full of restaurants and bars in the…

The New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday 2-1. Jeffrey Brown, a federal judge in Texas and an appointee of President Donald Trump who blocked the mandate in January, did not have the jurisdiction to do so. The case that Brown ruled on was initiated in December by Feds for Medical Freedom, a 6,000-member organization…

Three Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Mitt Romney of Utah and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined all 50 Democrats to vote in favor of Jackson.  The vote caps a weeks-long push by Senate Democrats to get Jackson through sometimes contentious confirmation hearings. President Joe Biden nominated Jackson to the Supreme Court in…