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and PR Scott Horsley reports on the Commerce Department's latest price data."
“Consumer prices in April were up 3.8% from a year ago, according to the Commerce Department's”
inflation yard stick, which is closely watched by the Federal Reserve. That's a bigger annual increase than the previous month. Prices rose 4/10% between March and April, driven in part by higher gasoline prices, by the war with Iran. Stripping out volatile energy and food prices, so-called "core inflation" was 3.3% for
the 12 months ending in April. A separate report from the Commerce Department shows the U.S. economy grew a little more slowly than the first three months of the year than initially reported GDP grew at an annual pace of 1.6% during the quarter, down from an earlier tally of 2%. Scott Horsley and Perenu is Washington.
A source tells NPR the Department of Justice is investigating E.G. and Carroll, the columnist
who won a $5 million civil judgment against President Trump, who she says sexually abused
her decades ago. She also won an $83 million judgment against Trump at a defamation suit. But now, a person familiar with the matter, said on condition of anonymity that the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago, is examining whether Carroll committed perjury in a deposition tied to the civil lawsuits.
Health workers are fighting to contain a growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 240 people are suspected to have died of the disease, emit living stone reports and responses facing a series of complications. On the ground in Mangualu, the gold mining town in eastern Congo at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, doctors say they're having a hard time.
Some people think the disease is fake, and the town's hospital was attacked several times last week.
“This is making contact tracing, which is a crucial part of controlling Ebola's spread, extremely”
difficult.
Complicating response efforts further is insecurity, militia groups plague much of a theory
province, where there are the most cases. The WHO's Director-General describes the situation as "catastrophic collision of disease and conflict." Emmett Livingston reporting people in Iran are now able to go online, this is after more than three months of an internet blackout.
During the U.S. Israeli war on Iran only top officials in regime loyalists could go online. Here's him, piers, Abatrawi. Iran's president, Ms. Iwood Pasechgan, is backing the decision to loosen internet restrictions. Students in Iran need to go online to do end-of-year exams while the private sector already hurt by the war needs access to do business.
Netblocks, which tracks internet activity in countries around the world, confirms connectivity has largely returned in Iran, but it notes people still face heavy filtering.
“Like blocks on video and messaging apps, such as Instagram and WhatsApp.”
On far right officials in Iran are opposed to lifting restrictions on internet access and are pushing back. This is NPR. The U.S. Supreme Court is siding with a black death row in Maiden, Mississippi, who alleges racial bias in the makeup of the jury that convicted him.
The nation's high court ruled in Terry Pitchford's favor by a vote of five to four. More record-breaking heat is expected today in parts of Europe and piers Eleanor Beardsley has more from Paris. What's known as a heat dome has trapped hot air coming from North Africa, causing that misfear to heat up day after day.
It's a classic weather pattern, but scientists say it's being exacerbated by human driven climate change. The European Union's Earth observation program, Copernicus, says Europe is heating twice as fast as the world average in piers Eleanor Beardsley reporting. But one in five pregnancies now results in adverse outcomes such as diabetes and pre-term
births, and piers Maria Gadoi reports on research in the journal, "Jama." A society has become more sedentary. Researchers wanted to know how all that sitting affects pregnancy outcomes. So they recruited 500 women to wear activity trackers throughout their pregnancies. They found that people who spent more than 10 hours a day sitting had twice the risk
of pregnancy complications compared to those who sat about seven hours a day. Here's Leeds study author Bethany Barone Gibbs of West Virginia University. It really was Dr. Long sitting, so sitting more than an hour at a time. That was more strongly associated with having these complications. She says even just standing or moving around a bit regularly helped cut the risks.
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