Mutinous soldiers who staged a coup in Niger declared their leader the new head of state on Friday, hours after the general asked for national and international support despite rising concerns that the political crisis could hinder the nation’s fight against jihadists and boost Russia’s influence in West Africa.
Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who told police she was kidnapped after she went missing for two days, was arrested on Friday and charged with two misdemeanors for making false statements to police, Hoover Police Department Chief Nicholas Derzis announced during a press conference on Friday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of consumer prices that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve fell last month to its lowest level since March 2021, the latest sign that inflation in the United States is steadily cooling from its once-painful highs.
The inflation report that the Commerce Department issued Friday also showed that Americans’ willingness to keep spending, despite two years of high inflation and 11 Fed rate hikes over 17 months, remains a powerful driver of the economy.
Consumer spending rose 0.5% from May to June, up from 0.2% the previous month.
This can occur as persistent consumer demand enables more companies to raise prices, thereby keeping inflation above the Fed’s target and potentially causing the central bank to raise rates even higher.
Powell declined to offer any signal of the central bank’s likely next moves.
The Fed’s policymakers consider core prices a better measure of where inflation might be headed.
Overall prices will increase slightly and at a slower ratewhich is fine. We do not want prices to decrease overall. That causes a whole host of issues. What we want is low, consistent inflation so that you know roughly what prices will be next year.
Some things will decrease in price, of course, but overall prices went up very slightly. One other thing to note is that this specific indicator does not take food and energy prices into account. There is another indicator for that.
It looks like the inflation rate for food is coming down but it is still higher than typical. The war in Ukraine and bad crop yields in China because of heat waves are likely responsible for that. Energy prices look like they have dropped pretty significantly though.
He told one co-worker the trip was for a family emergency and used “shushing” emojis, the court documents allege.
This reads like that Eli Manning SNL sketch where his murder alibi is that he was at home sending horny texts. So funny to read out emojis in a court document.
Russia has filled huge swaths of Ukraine with mines and I doubt Russia will be sending Ukraine their records (lol) of where the fields are after the war. The minefields created by Russia’s war of conquest will be an ongoing issue in the country for decades.
Assuming Ukraine wins the war, we will likely see a large rebuilding effort, which will necessarily include getting the majority of these cleared out.
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