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US consumer prices dropped 0.1% in Dec 2022 but remain at record high

The US Consumer Price Index fell a very modest 0.1 percent in December, according to Labor Department data released Thursday

Biden takes classified documents, information very seriously: White House

US President Joe Biden takes classified documents and information "very seriously", the White House said Thursday hours after it revealed that more classified documents were found from his residences and private offices. The Attorney General has appointed a Special Counsel, Robert Hur, to investigate the discovery of classified documents at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. and the Bidens' personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware. "It is important for the American people to know this, is that the President has said, he takes classified documents and information very seriously," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at her daily news conference. "This is something, as you all know, that he will not shy away from saying and has continued to say this this week. And again, he was surprised that these records have been found. "He does not know what's in them and his team, once they identified that these documents were there, they immediately reached out

Singer Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, passes away at 54

Presley was taken to the hospital early on Thursday morning after going into cardiac arrest at her Calabasas, California, home

Biden, Kishida meet: To announce steps to raise US-Japan ties to new level

'From our perspective, the message is absolutely clear. Japan is stepping up and doing so in lockstep with the United States'

Powerful storms slam central Alabama; at least 6 killed, 12 injured

Officials estimate that 40 to 50 homes were damaged or destroyed by storms that cut a strip across the county

Large tornado damages buildings, uproots trees in Selma, Alabama in US

A large tornado damaged homes and uprooted trees in Alabama on Thursday as a powerful storm system pushed through the South

LIVE: Former Union Minister Sharad Yadav passes away, confirms his daughter

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Electric vehicles look poised for slower sales growth this year: Report

We expect 13.6 million plug-in passenger vehicle sales in total for this year, with around 75% of those being fully electric

Gold gains on softer dollar as markets await US inflation data: Report

Gold prices rose on Thursday to near an eight-month peak, helped by a weaker dollar, as investors braced for a U.S. inflation report expected to provide clues to the Federal Reserve's rate-hike path

Video programming distributor DirecTV to layoff hundreds of workers

The employees were notified last week of the layoffs, which will take effect on January 20, according to the report

US Congressman George Santos refuses to step down over resume lies

Santos, a 34-year-old Republican elected in last year's midterm elections to represent New York's 3rd congressional district, tweeted on Wednesday, "I will NOT resign!"

US Inflation report for Dec could show another month of cooling prices

The US inflation report for December being released Thursday morning could provide another welcome sign that the worst bout of spiking prices in four decades is slowly weakening. Or it could suggest that inflation remains persistent enough to require tougher action by the Federal Reserve. Most economists foresee the more optimistic scenario: They think December marked another month in which inflation, though still uncomfortably high, continued to cool. According to a survey by the data provider FactSet, analysts have predicted that consumer prices rose 6.5 per cent in December compared with a year earlier. That would be down from 7.1 per cent in November and well below a 40-year high of 9.1 per cent in June. On a month-to-month basis, the economists think prices were flat in December. Even more significant, a closely watched gauge of core prices which excludes volatile energy and food costs is expected to have risen just 0.3 per cent from November to December and 5.7 per cent fro

US, Japan agree to boost security cooperation amid China worries: Report

The United States and Japan plan to boost military and security cooperation as their top national security officials hold talks on Wednesday. The U.S. and Japanese foreign and defense ministers are set to agree to adjust the American troop presence on the island of Okinawa. And, as they prepared to meet, Japan's defense ministry announced it was ready to start construction on an uninhabited island where the two militaries will hold joint military exercises. The two nations are revising their joint defense posture as they confront rising threats from North Korea and increasing aggressiveness from China. Wednesday's discussions will be followed by a meeting on Friday between President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at which they will underscore the importance of the relationship. Fishida, on a weeklong trip to visit allies in Europe and North America, signed a defense agreement with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday that strengthens military ties ..

Joe Biden's legal team finds more documents with classified markings

President Joe Biden's legal team has discovered additional documents containing classification markings in a second location, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The revelation comes days after an attorney for the president said Biden's lawyers had discovered a "small number" of classified documents at his former office space in Washington. Earlier this week, the White House confirmed that the Department of Justice was reviewing "a small number of documents with classified markings" found at the office. Biden's attorneys had discovered the documents at the offices of the Penn Biden Center and then immediately called the National Archives about the discovery, the White House said. Biden kept an office there after he left the vice presidency in 2017 until shortly before he launched his Democratic presidential campaign in 2019. The person who spoke to the AP Wednesday said the president's legal team found additional classified material at a second

US, Japan agree China represents greatest shared strategic challenge

The two sides also promised to reinforce deterrence as well as expand the scope of their security treaty even into space

US authorities charge more than 100 with gun, drug crimes in 3 states

Federal authorities announced a blitz of arrests and indictments Wednesday against more than 100 people charged with gun and drug crimes in three US states. The flurry of charges from the Justice Department in Georgia, West Virginia and New York comes as federal officials work to combat an uptick in violent crime, particularly involving guns. The Biden administration has tried to showcase federal, state and local efforts to get guns and repeat shooters off the streets. Federal prosecutors and FBI agents were particularly busy in southern Georgia, where an indictment was unsealed charging 76 people with involvement in what authorities called a gang-related network that distributed methamphetamine, fentanyl and other illegal drugs. Authorities called it the largest indictment ever filed in the 43-county Southern District of Georgia. The FBI sent SWAT teams and agents from Atlanta and neighbouring South Carolina and Florida Wednesday to help round up more than 30 suspects in coastal ..

Thousands of nurses go on strike for 3rd day in New York over low wages

Hundreds of nurses wearing red hats continued to line both sides of Madison Avenue near the entrance of Mount Sinai Hospital on Wednesday morning

Departures resume after FAA lifts ground stop; no evidence of cyberattack

Flight-tracking website FlightAware showed 4,948 delays for US flights at 10:05 a.m.

Thousands of flights grounded across US after FAA system outage

A total of 1,230 flights were delayed within, into or out of the United States as of 7.19 am ET (1219 GMT), flight tracking website FlightAware showed

Operations normal at Indian airports amid US air traffic disruptions: DGCA

DGCA said operations are normal at all airports in India, and "there does not seem to be a cause for concern" amid air traffic in the US getting affected due to a technical failure in the system