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A man shops for produce at a supermarket in Monterey Park, Calif. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption toggle caption FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images/AFP Annual inflation rose less than expected in September, according to a crucial report published Friday, nine days later than normal due to the government shutdown. Consumer prices rose 3.0% in September from a year ago, slightly below forecasters’ expectations, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). On a month-to-month basis, prices rose 0.3%, cooling slightly from the 0.4% inflation reported in August. Overall, the inflation data likely add fuel to…

Wanda Bright, a federal worker affected by the shutdown, picks up food from the Capital Area Food Bank in Hyattsville, Md., on Tuesday. Tyrone Turner/WAMU hide caption toggle caption Tyrone Turner/WAMU The sight was staggering in Prince George’s County, Md., home to more than 60,000 federal workers: middle-class professionals lined up for boxes of pasta, protein and produce to feed their families. After a two-hour wait, Wanda Bright had finally reached the front of the line — just as the first batch of supplies ran out. The Capital Area Food Bank had started the day with 300 boxes, enough for…

President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during a roundtable on criminal cartels in the State Dining Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said late Thursday that he was ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of a television ad opposing U.S. tariffs that he said misstated the facts and called “egregious behavior” aimed at influencing U.S. court decisions. The post on Trump’s social media site came after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he aims to double his country’s exports to…

Society / StudentNation / October 23, 2025 The Thai-Cambodian border conflict is just one of the many stories going underreported in the country as Trump’s funding cuts leave citizens and journalists scrambling. Ad Policy A military truck transporting the belongings of a resident past the Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap province.(Tang Chhin Sothy / Getty) This story was produced for StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which is dedicated to highlighting the best of student journalism. For more StudentNation, check out our archive or learn more about the program here. StudentNation is made possible through generous funding from The…

Farmer Jose Esquivel surveys his field of cattle on June 13, 2023 in Quemado, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Brandon Bell/Getty Images North America This year, Destinee Weeks and her husband, who manage a herd of about 250 cattle in northern Oklahoma, began to see a profit for the first time in a decade. So Weeks was shocked and dismayed when she learned President Trump was looking to import more beef from another country. “ It feels like a slap in the face to rural America,” she said. “It makes you feel invisible and overlooked.” Beef…

Politics / October 23, 2025 The demolition of the East Wing is a symbol of a system that long ago stopped caring about the kind of blatant graft that Trump loves. Ad Policy Demolition of the East Wing of the White House on Wednesday, October 22, 2025.(Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg via Getty Images) It’s long been evident that the MAGA siege on American governance is a glorified wrecking job, but this week’s installment has been just a little too on-the-nose: After pledging not to molest the White House in the process of constructing a $250 million ballroom addition seemingly cribbed…

People detained by federal agents walk into a suburban Chicago ICE detention center in Broadview, Ill., on Sept. 19. Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images via AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images via AFP/Getty Images Immigration and Customs Enforcement has recorded its deadliest year since the early 2000s as agency officials push to increase the number of people in its custody. According to a review of deaths by NPR, at least 20 people have died in ICE custody so far this year. The number comes as ICE is also holding nearly 60,000 people in immigration detention, the highest…

Politics / October 23, 2025 From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore. Ad Policy Pete Buttigieg’s appearance on Pod Save America did not go very well.(Breaking Points) When the North Carolina Democratic Party adopted a first-of-its-kind resolution at its June convention calling Israel an apartheid state and demanding a total US arms embargo, it didn’t receive much attention. And yet, in the months since, it’s become clear that North Carolina’s Democrats were ahead of a growing trend. Multiple Democratic members of Congress who were previously backed…

In response to U.S. Postal Service changes, California state officials are urging mail-in voters for a special election on congressional redistricting to return their ballots before Election Day to help ensure their ballots get postmarked by the deadline. Here, a post office in Montclair, Calif., is seen last year. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images Changes at the U.S. Postal Service are forcing people who rely on postmarks when voting, filing taxes or mailing legal documents to be extra careful when cutting it close to deadlines. Postmarks include the dates that USPS stamps on envelopes, and…

new video loaded: Inside Our Reporter’s Collection of Guantánamo PortraitsCarol Rosenberg, a reporter who has covered the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay since it opened in 2002, describes a collection of stylized portraits of its detainees in the war against terrorism. The photos were taken as part of a Red Cross program for the detainees to communicate with their families.By Carol Rosenberg, Laura Bult, Coleman Lowndes, Stephanie Swart, June Kim and Zach CaldwellOctober 23, 2025 Source link