Wholesale prices rose sharply in February, providing another sign that inflation continues to percolate even aside from rising energy prices. The producer price index, a measure of pipeline costs that producers receive for their products, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.7% on the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. Excluding volatile food and energy costs, so-called core PPI increased 0.5%. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for increases of 0.3% for both measures. For the all items index, prices rose faster than the 0.5% pace in January. However, the core increase was less than the 0.8% for the prior month. On a 12-month basis, headline PPI inflation was at 3.4%, the most since February 2025, while core was at 3.9%, according to the BLS. The Federal Reserve targets inflation at 2%.
American hegemony is unraveling in real time as Iran strikes Gulf states and US security guarantees prove hollow
Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss won Tuesday's Democratic primary to succeed Rep. Jan Schakowsky, dealing a blow to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in a race that had turned into a referendum on the group's ability to influence the party. Biss, whose mother is Israeli and whose grandparents are Holocaust survivors, has sharply criticized Israel's war in Gaza " and faced an onslaught of attack ads from a group aligned with AIPAC as a result. Read more
The UK government assessed that Iran did not pose a nuclear threat and saw no evidence of an imminent Iranian attack on Europe when the US and Israel launched their surprise and illegal attack on the people of Iran.
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NBC News senior politics reporter Johnathan Allen spoke to President Donald Trump supporters in Pennsylvania and found some willing to pay more at the pump during the war with Iran, while others were calling it quits with Trump.
The UN OHCHR in Geneva reports: "Since 2 March, at least 886 people have been killed in Lebanon, including at least 111 children. Israeli airstrikes have destroyed hundreds of homes and civilian infrastructure, including healthcare facilities. Deliberately attacking civilians, civilian objects, or medical personnel amounts to a war crime, including the killing of 16 Lebanese health staff."
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Former Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini " a Republican who previously made national headlines for wearing blackface in high school " said Monday he has filed a lawsuit against the University of Florida (UF) on behalf of the school's College Republicans chapter over its disbandment. On March 14, UF announced that it deactivated the chapter after the Florida Federation of College Republicans (FFCR) reported finding that some of its members had "engaged in a pattern of conduct that violated its rules and values, including a recent antisemitic gesture." The news came after a screenshot of a photo was shared on X (formerly known as Twitter) showing two people performing what appears to be a Nazi salute in a chatroom on Guilded, a group chat platform for gamers that was shut down in December 2025. The post from Sloan Rachmuth, who describes herself as an investigative journalist, claimed the photo showed one of the group's members.
President Donald Trump's administration is reportedly seeking to free a former FBI informant who admitted he lied to federal agents during the 2020 presidential election, an insider has claimed. Alexander Smirnov was arrested by the FBI in February 2024 and charged with lying to the agency. He faces a up to 25 years in prison, but the president and his team could be working on releasing Smirnov. An unnamed source speaking to Mother Jones claimed the administration is in the process of aiding the ex-FBI informant with avoiding his sentence and even trial. Smirnov is believed to have lied to the FBI about both Hunter and Joe Biden in 2020. Around the same time, prosecutors claim the ex-FBI informant was paid $600,000 by Economic Transformation Technologies. Two of ETT's owners, Shahal M. Khan and Farooq Arjomand, are associates of Donald Trump. Read more
An Arkansas law requiring that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in public school classrooms was struck down by a federal judge Monday
A new type of battery storage is about to be deployed on the Midwestern grid for the first time. Sodium-ion battery storage manufacturer Peak Energy and global energy company RWE Americas will pilot a passively cooled sodium-ion battery system in eastern Wisconsin on the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) network -- the first sodium-ion deployment on that grid.
Political donations from billionaires and their family members made up 19% of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, the New York Times found. Donations from 300 billionaires and their immediate family members to federal elections in 2024 totaled $3 billion, either directly or through political action committees. Read more
The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee formally subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify before lawmakers over her department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., issued the subpoena after five Republicans on the Oversight Committee and all Democrats voted in favor of a motion to call Bondi to testify about the release of troves of documents related to years of investigations into the late sex offender and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.
The motion was brought by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., earlier this month.
The USS Gerald Ford is headed for service repairs in Crete days after experiencing an hours long fire while deployed in the Red Sea for service in the Iran war. The aircraft carrier will spend over a week in port at the Naval Support Activity Souda Bay for repairs, according to the U.S. Naval Institute. The ship's move from the Middle East comes after a fire that started in the laundry area on Thursday reportedly burned through part of the ship's sleeping quarters and lasted about 30 hours before it was extinguished. Read more
Chief Justice John Roberts warned Tuesday that personal attacks on Supreme Court justices and lower court judges are "dangerous" and said hostility directed toward specific jurists has "got to stop." "Judges around the country work very hard to get it right and if they don't, their opinions are subject to criticism," Roberts said during an event at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston. "But personally directed hostility is dangerous and it's got to stop."
These two cretins got their just reward. Read more
Through lectures, scoldings and outright threats, President Donald Trump and his aides are ratcheting up the pressure on journalists to cover the war in the Middle East the way the administration wants.
