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.
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.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has acknowledged publicly for the first time that the agency gave false information about its COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring.
As Dr. Mehmet Oz and Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman run neck-and-neck in the final stretch to claim a crucial U.S. Senate seat in the November midterms, questions regarding Fetterman’s overall health — following a near-fatal stroke incident in May — are finally being raised among his own people.