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Inflation is still afflicting American consumers and that means that the elevated interest rates needed to fight it are going to keep afflicting borrowers and taxpayers. The Journal’s Nick Timiraos reports:

Lebanon - A 17-year-old gay female student at Lebanon High School is challenging the school's prom dress code. The teenager has filed suit after she was told by the principal that she couldn't wear a tuxedo to the April prom.

In a move aimed at increasing security and cutting costs, the German government says it will switch most of its administrative computers from Microsoft Windows to the Linux open-source operating system. Tux the Penguin is invading Germany. No, the South Pole creatures at the Berlin Zoo haven't escaped. The bird behind this feathery technology attack is the coat-and-tie clad mascot for the computer operating system Linux. The German government said on Monday it had reached a deal with software giant IBM to deploy Linux software at all government agencies. Saving money, increasing security The move came as a serious blow...