Skyrocketing auto insurance costs helped contribute toinflationaccelerating at a faster-than-expected pacein Marchand are adding to the ever more expensive costs for U.S. vehicle owners.On a monthly basis‚ car insurance prices as part of theconsumer price indexrose by an unadjusted 2.7%‚ while the year-over-year increased by 22.2%‚ according todata released Wednesday. The index is a key inflation gauge and a broad measure of the cost of goods and...

FBI director Christopher Wraybemoaned the uneven supportMexico has given US law enforcementto help prevent dangerous cartels and deadly drugs from entering the country.Wray testified on Thursday before a House Appropriations subcommittee where he pleaded for more cooperation on various issues‚ saying the US needs much‚ much more help from south of the border.I would say its very uneven. Weve had some instances where weve had a key arrest and extradition were...

LaTonya Mullins-Mobley was surfing the web for Arizona Cardinals gear when she stumbled across an ad forTemu‚ the Chinese online-marketplace app known for ultra-discounts. She couldnt believe the low prices.These days‚ Mullins-Mobley‚ who is 53 and works for a cellphone carrier‚ jokes that shes having an affair with the app. She buys clothing‚ including T-shirts with Bible quotes for her daughter. She started a sunglasses company‚ picking up pairs from Temu for $3 and selling them...

NPR is facing both internal tumult and a fusillade of attacks by prominent conservatives this week after a senior editor publicly claimed the broadcaster had allowed liberal bias to affect its coverage‚ risking its trust with audiences.Uri Berliner‚ a senior business editor who has worked at NPR for 25 years‚ wrote inan essaypublished Tuesday by The Free Press‚ a popular Substack publication‚ that people at every level of NPR have comfortably coalesced around the progressive...

For those of us born after the baby boom‚ June 17‚ 1994‚ was nothing less than our JFK moment.Where were you during theO.J. Simpson chase? The night that law enforcement trailed Simpsonthe wildly popular NFL Hall of Famer‚ sports commentator‚ and sometimes actor who goofed around in thoseNaked Gunmovies‚ who was now incomprehensibly a fugitive from justice‚ wanted for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldmanin a white Bronco‚ up a...

The family ofHall of Fame running back O.J. Simpsonannounced Thursday that the former Buffalo Bills star died after battling prostate cancer‚ prompting reactions from around the NFL community. He was 76.Simpson‚ whose illustriousNFL careerwas overshadowed by the trial and eventual acquittal in the 1994 killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman‚ passed away on Wednesday‚ his family confirmed in a statement posted on X.";On April...

O.J. Simpson‚ the American football star and actor who was acquitted in a sensational 1995 trial of murdering his former wife but was found responsible for her death in a civil lawsuit and was later imprisoned for armed robbery and kidnapping‚ has died at the age of 76.Simpson‚ cleared by a Los Angeles jury in what the U.S. media called ";the trial of the century‚"; had died on Wednesday after a battle with cancer‚ his family posted on social media on Thursday.Simpson avoided prison when...

PresidentJoe Bidenis standing by hispredictionthat the Federal Reserve will enact an interest rate cut before the end of the year. The President doubled down on the rate cut prediction despiteaConsumer Price Index (CPI)printreleased on Wednesday suggesting thatinflationwas reaccelerating.Well‚ I do stand by my prediction that‚ before the year is out‚ therell be a rate cut‚ Bidensaidduring a Wednesday press conference...

Another firmer-than-anticipated inflation report delivered a meaningful setback Wednesday to the Federal Reserves hope that it could buoy prospects of a so-called soft landing by dialing back some of the past years interest-rate increases.Solid hiring and the prospect that inflation might settle out closer to 3% than the Feds 2% goal could call into question whether the central bank will be able to cut rates until much later in the year without evidence of a sharper slowdown in the...

America seemed headed for an economic fairy-tale ending in late 2023. The painfully rapid inflation that had kicked off in 2021 appeared to be cooling in earnest‚ and economic growth had begun to gradually moderate after a series of Federal Reserve interest rate increases.But 2024 has brought a spate of surprises: The economy is expanding rapidly‚ job gains are unexpectedly strong and progress on inflation shows signs of stalling. That could add up to a very different conclusion.Instead...