Monthly Archives: October 2022

Food inflation might be slowing — but that doesn’t spell good news for food prices just yet

Food prices are still high by historical standards. Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images Food inflation is easing, but food prices are still high by historical standards. The UN’s Food Price Index fell for the sixth straight month in September, but was still up 5.5% on-year. Aside from raw material prices, other factors — such as…

Ex-federal prosecutor on Trump’s claims about Bush stashing away secret government files: ‘People say stuff like this when they’re guilty and scared’

Former President Donald Trump is being investigated by the DOJ over his handling of sensitive government documents. Seth Herald/Getty Images Trump said former President George H.W. Bush kept secret government files at a Chinese restaurant. He also called for the late president to be investigated, despite Bush having died in 2018. Former prosecutor Joyce Vance…

Russia has unleashed a firestorm of attacks on multiple Ukrainian cities after a blast damaged a bridge in Crimea and crippled a key Russian supply line

Rescuers use a hose to extinguish a fire in a residential building damaged after a strike in Zaporizhzhia, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Sunday. MARYNA MOISEYENKO/AFP via Getty Images Multiple Ukrainian cities were attacked on Monday morning. Ukraine’s vice prime minister confirmed that Kyiv, Dnipro, and Zaporizhzhia were struck. The attacks came after…

Putin says the Crimea bridge blast was a ‘terrorist act’ carried out by Ukraine’s ‘special services’

Workers seen restoring the railway tracks on the Kerch Strait Bridge, which links Crimea to Russia, on Sunday. Contributor/AFP via Getty Images Vladimir Putin said the Kerch Strait Bridge blast was a “terrorist act” carried out by Ukraine. Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the blast, although its officials have hinted at it. Ukrainian officials…