The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a key measure of inflation, increased by 8.3 percent in August compared to the same time last year and increased 0.1 percent from the previous month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed on Tuesday.
U.S. consumer prices unexpectedly rose in August and underlying inflation accelerated amid rising costs for rents and healthcare, giving the Federal Reserve ammunition to deliver a third 75 basis points interest rate hike next Wednesday.
Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem announced Monday that she would be on a limited schedule of activities for the next few months after back surgery.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas used the anniversary of September 11 to declare 'radicalized' Americans are now the main terrorist threats to the country.