A key measure of US inflation — the Consumer Price Index — slowed in July to an annualized pace of 2.9%, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. This is the first time inflation has risen by less than 3% since 2021 and comes in lower than analysts’ estimates. It’s the latest sign that inflation is cooling. Analysts had estimated a 3% rise, matching June, according to market research firm FactSet. In June, the CPI had fallen to a three-year low.

More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its war against Hamas, the health ministry in the enclave said Thursday, yet another dark milestone in the 10-month-old conflict. The ministry said 40 people had died in Gaza during the past 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths since October 7 to 40,005 – about one in every 55 people in the enclave. More than 92,401 have been...

In May 1971, on The Dick Cavett Show, the theatre director Jonathan Miller had a prickly encounter with the Conservative politician Enoch Powell. He rebuked Powell for raising concerns about integration, culture clashes and social disruption, claiming that the Tory MP and others were creating a problem where none needed to exist. In Miller’s account, ordinary Britons would barely notice any downsides of immigration in their day-to-day experience — unless those like Powell primed...

Advanced missiles may not be the most desperately needed commodity the Russians are giving the North Koreans by way of payment for millions of artillery shells. How about goats? In a country where thousands of children are growing up stunted, the arrival of 447 goats, 432 females and 15 males, is creating as much excitement as boatloads of missiles and the technology to make many more of them. The port city of Nampo, on the Yellow Sea 36 miles southwest of Pyongyang, “is equipping goat...

The Biden administration is touting a win. The White House announced Wednesday night, Aug. 14, federal officials had come to an agreement with drug companies to lower the prices of Medicare’s ten most popular – and expensive – prescriptions. The White House said the lower prices should save taxpayers around $6 billion, while older Americans could save roughly $1.5 billion on their medications. According to the White House, this deal will impact the price of drugs used by millions to help manage...

Karelina’s sentencing, weeks after the prisoner exchange, underscored the risks of travel to Russia, with U.S. officials warning of a sharp rise in hostage diplomacy — the practice of arresting foreign citizens for political leverage or use in prisoner exchanges. Russia swapped 16 prisoners including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, Washington Post contributing columnist Vladimir Kara-Murza and other prominent political prisoners, and several German citizens, in return for 10...

“I love people, and my health is good, so I’m happy to do what I can,” said Grace Carr of Allentown, Pa., who has worked at the same hospital for 80 years. Source: Nurse began working at hospital during WWII and hasn’t stopped. She’s 97. Love it!

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