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The annual inflation rate increased to its highest point in three years as the cost of energy and other goods rose due to the Iran war, according to data released by the Department of Labor on Wednesday. The consumer price index (CPI), a popular gauge of inflation, rose 4.2 percent over the past 12 months...

Inflation rose four-tenths of a percentage point to 4.2% for the year ending in May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in an update to the consumer price index Wednesday, as high energy prices from the Iran war pushed up the headline number. The inflation reading for May was the highest since April 2023. SOARING […]

President Trump on Wednesday said Iran "will have to pay the price" for stalled peace negotiations and after the U.S. launched renewed strikes against Iran after a U.S. helicopter was shot down and Tehran retaliated. "Iran’s Military is a complete and total mess," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Much of it, like their Navy and...

How do we know when the world has changed? On June 1, a team of scientists published a preprint scientific paper claiming they had edited human embryonic DNA with more precision than any previous attempt. As a technical achievement, the work is undoubtedly impressive, largely avoiding the errors that had accompanied earlier efforts to gene edit embryos. With further development, such embryonic editing could free future children from fatal or debilitating genetic diseases, but as the veteran scie