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Wholesale prices rose sharply in February, providing another sign that inflation continues to percolate even aside from rising energy prices.The producer price index, a measure of pipeline costs that producers receive for their products, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.7% on the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. Excluding volatile food and energy costs, the so-called core PPI increased 0.5%.Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for increases of 0.3% for both measures.For the all-items index, prices rose faster than the 0.5% pace in January. However, the core increase was less than the 0.8% for the prior month.

A Republican has won a special election for the Virginia House of Delegates with an overperformace bucking a recent trend of Democrats making gains in GOP-held seats, according to unofficial results. As of 1am E.T., Andrew Rice had secured 62.46 percent of the vote in the election for House District 98 compared to Democrat Cheryl Smith’s 37.5 percent with more than 11,000 votes counted. When an election was last held for the seat in 2025, Republican Barry Knight secured 56.6 percent of the vote to Smith’s 43.2 percent. The seat became vacant after Knight died last month, leading to a...

On late Tuesday afternoon, a gunman opened fire at a VA Clinic in Jasper, Georgia, resulting in one employee being critically injured. According to the Jasper Police Chief Matt Dawkins, a gunman opened fire at the clinic and shot a Veterans Affairs employee. Jasper police quickly responded to the scene and fatally shot the gunman outside the clinic. The employee was immediately airlifted to a local hospital, where their condition is unknown.

@Nigel_Farage Our brilliant young minds are being replaced by goat herders from Afghanistan.

Afghanistan Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani on Wednesday promised retribution for this week's Pakistani air strike that killed hundreds at a Kabul drugs rehabilitation centre. "We will take revenge," the Taliban government minister said at the mass burial of some of the victims in the capital, calling those behind Monday night's bombing "criminals". "We are not weak and helpless. You will see the consequences of your crimes," he added. The Taliban authorities have said that about 400 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in the strike, which was the deadliest attack yet in the recent upsurge in violence between...

This has been pretty entertaining today. I've been catching a bunch of Nick's videos in between stories, and holy smokes - what he's finding doing his trademark wander around and knock on doors is, well, classic Shirley. That sweet face and so innocent, pre-pubescent teenage boy's voice, 'If I open a hospice, can I get a brand new Maybach, too?'The kid is a treasure. This is where it all starts. He's at what looks like an old, rundown two-story motor inn. The kind you might remember from trips as a kid, where you drove through some sort of an arch...

The illicit trade has long thrived in the region but is feeling the knock-on effects of the war which has engulfed the Middle East following US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Supplies coming across the 900-kilometre (560-mile) border between Pakistan and Iran have dropped by nearly half and driven up prices. "Before the war, the rate was good," Hakeem Ullah, a 35-year-old driver, told AFP. "We used to get petrol for 150 rupees ($0.54). But now, after the war, we are getting petrol for 190 rupees per litre." Ullah is one of dozens of young men in the border towns of Balochistan...

The Arizona sheriff leading the hunt for Nancy Guthrie has responded to efforts to recall him for being “an embarrassment” for his handling of the high-profile kidnapping case. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos addressed the effort to oust him soon after it was first revealed by The Post on Tuesday. Republican congressional candidate Daniel Butierez told The Post on Tuesday that he had launched the recall campaign over Nanos’ handling of the Guthrie case as well as allegations he misrepresented his employment history. There is increasing disquiet over his conduct among rank-and-file Pima County police officers as well as Sheriff...

The man accused of killing a Theodore mother and her two children made his first court appearance Friday on newly filed capital murder charges that could lead to the death penalty. Hector Argueta-Guerra, 31, is charged with the murders of 40-year-old Aurelia Choc, her 17-year-old daughter Niurka Zuleta Choc, and 2-year-old Anthony Garcia Choc. The family was reported missing in late January. Their bodies were discovered Wednesday buried together in a wooded area in Summerdale. Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood says he's reviewed the preliminary autopsy results. "The findings are gruesome. The findings are horrific. This family did not...

Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, attended the final talks between the US and Iran and judged that the offer made by Tehran on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent a rush to war, the Guardian can reveal. Powell thought progress had been made in Geneva in late February and that the deal proposed by Iran was “surprising”, according to sources. Two days after the talks ended, and after a date had been agreed for a further round of technical talks in Vienna, the US and Israel launched the attack on Iran.

U.S. forces hammered Iran’s anti-ship missile sites near the Strait of Hormuz with 5,000-pound bunker-buster bombs on Tuesday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said. The strikes near the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil choke point, come as Iran’s stranglehold over the vital waterway has grown concerns over the regime’s threats to oil tankers. "Hours ago, U.S. forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz," CENTCOM posted Tuesday evening on X. Deep GBU- 72 penetrator weapons, often referred to as bunker busters, are designed to cut...

Allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior and abuse of young women or girls have emerged against iconic late labor organizer Cesar Chavez, and the ​union he co-founded will not take part in annual celebrations of him, ‌according to statements on Tuesday. The Cesar Chavez Foundation, which preserves memorials including his California gravesite, said the alleged "inappropriate sexual behavior" occurred while Chavez was president of the United Farm Workers Union, which he co-founded ​in 1962. The union said there were allegations that Chavez "behaved in ways that are ​incompatible with our organization’s values" while adding that it had no direct ⁠reports or...

One of the five men convicted in the brutal rape of the Central Park jogger is a New York City councilman while another is running for his own spot on the council, but the City Council’s ethics committee is instead charging Councilwoman Vickie Paladino with “disorderly” behavior for criticizing Zohran Mamdani and his raft of appointees sympathetic to Islamic terrorism. The New York City Council Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics, whose members include 8 Democrats and only 1 Republican, has taken no action over the fact that a New York City Council employee, Rafael Bohorquez, turned out...

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2033985281653936563 Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes·18hWIOAH 🚨 James O’Keefe went undercover in Los Angeles posing as homeless‘On hidden cameras, petitioners admitted they are paid $7–$10 per signature — earning $1,000 or more per day’🚨 The homeless are being farmed for votes and paid cash and drugsMarch 17, 2026

Nearly four in 10 new homes built by 2030 will be needed to accommodate migrants arriving in Britain, according to fresh analysis. The research, conducted by the Conservative Party, draws on projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) latest Economic and Fiscal Outlook. According to the OBR, net migration between 2026 and 2030 is expected to reach almost 1.2 million people. Using ONS data on average household size, the Conservatives estimate this would require around just under 500,000 additional homes for new arrivals alone. Britain is projected to deliver about 1.34 million new homes over the same period. The...

Our new socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has proposed many destructive initiatives. But if there is one that stands out above all the others as his signature issue, it is his plan to raise income taxes on the “ultra-wealthy,” which he has defined as those people earning $1 million of more per year. The City of New York does not have the authority on its own to raise income tax rates, either at the State or City level, so he has requested that the State Legislature enact his proposed premium taxes on “millionaires.” Here’s what I’m wondering: If the Legislature goes...

Britain’s ‘missing babies’ can be blamed on immature men who are delaying responsibilities until later in life, according to a report. Research from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) think tank predicts around 600,000 young women may miss out on motherhood partly because men don’t feel ready for children until they get older. In the report, called Baby Bust, the organisation says there are a range of reasons for falling birth rates including the cost of childcare, wanting to move into a larger house, prioritising a career or not finding the right partner. But it also attributes some of the...

Most Americans aren't aware of it, our troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked 150 plus times by Iranian proxies.And when we say Iranian proxies, we got to be clear about what that is.That's the Iraqi government, and the Iraqi government is controlled by Iran.Mar 18, 2026

The O’Keefe Media Group on Tuesday released part one of its investigation into a California elections fraud cash for ballots scheme. James O’Keefe and his team of journalists went undercover on Skid Row in Los Angeles posing as homeless people.

T The solution to the Iranian drone problem may already be in the pipeline. This involves a long-serving U.S. drone, the Raytheon Coyote. The latest version, the Block 3NK (Non-Kinetic) has demonstrated that it can knock down numerous enemy drones without ever actually striking them – and then turn around and do it again. The first version of the Coyote originated in a 2004 requirement from the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research for a small, expendable UAV to serve with the P-3 Orion antisubmarine aircraft. The drone was to be launched from the plane’s sonobuoy tubes, at which...