A key U.S. inflation gauge slowed last month as President Donald Trump’s tariffs have yet to noticeably push up prices. Spending by Americans slowed despite rising incomes, potentially an early reaction to higher prices on some imported goods. Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that consumer prices rose just 2.1% in April compared with a year earlier, down from 2.3% in March and the lowest since September. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 2.5% from a year earlier, below the March figure of 2.7%, and the lowest in more than four years. Economists track core prices because they typically provide a better read on where inflation is headed.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says over 2.1 million meals have been distributed to Palestinians in four days.

France’s Macron: “Right now, Europe is giving Israel a free hand. We must work towards recognizing a Palestinian state. If we abandon Gaza and allow Israel a free hand, we will kiII our own credibility.”

An information technology specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency was charged Thursday with attempting to transmit classified information to a representative of a foreign government, the Justice Department said. Prosecutors say Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested at a location where he had arranged to deposit sensitive records to a person he thought was an official of a foreign government, but who was actually an undercover FBI agent. The identity of the country Laatsch thought he was in communication with was not disclosed, but the Justice Department described it as a friendly, or allied, nation. It was not immediately clear if Laatsch, who was set to make a court appearance Friday, had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.

Ahmed al-Jabali has been sentenced to six years in prison after stabbing a Jewish barber, saying that the Israel-Gaza war gave him the right as a Muslim to “punish Jews.”

Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Eric Schmitt of Missouri announced on Thursday that they will be leading a Senate hearing next month aimed at uncovering who was effectively making presidential decisions in place of Joe Biden, and how efforts were coordinated to conceal his cognitive challenges.
The two senators revealed that the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold its first session on June 18, focusing on what they describe as a close circle of Biden family members and staffers who allegedly took over key responsibilities while Biden was “sidelined.”

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