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Retail Spending Slips As Inflation Climbs In January, Adding To Economic Concerns Retail Spending Slips As Inflation Climbs In January, Adding To Economic Concerns
Retail Spending Slips As Inflation Climbs In January, Adding To Economic Concerns After a solid holiday season, US retail sales took a surprising step back to start 2025, snapping a streak of growth and fueling worries about the economy. Retail and food services sales fell 0.9 percent in January, according to Census Bureau data released on Friday, Feb. 14. The decline reversed the trend from December 2024's revised increase of 0.7 percent, signaling that consumers may be feeling the squeeze from rising prices. Economists had predicted only a slight decline, with Dow Jones estimating a 0.2 percent drop, NBC News reported. The sales totals were seasonally adjusted but…

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by Chris Spiker
Business
Inflation Climbs To Start 2025, Fueled By Dramatic Egg Price Jump, Fears Over Trump Policies Inflation Climbs To Start 2025, Fueled By Dramatic Egg Price Jump, Fears Over Trump Policies
Inflation Climbs To Start 2025, Fueled By Dramatic Egg Price Jump, Fears Over Trump Policies Inflation unexpectedly accelerated in the first month of 2025, adding political and economic pressure to President Donald Trump's campaign promise of immediate relief to high consumer prices. In January, overall inflation climbed 3.3 percent year-over-year for core items and 0.5 percent monthly, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Wednesday, Feb. 12. That ran slightly ahead of economists' prediction of 3.2 percent inflation, NBC News reported. Core items exclude notably volatile prices for food and energy. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) still inc…

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by Chris Spiker
News
Leaked Audio Captures VA Congressional Candidate Slamming Liberals In Roe V. Wade Overturn Leaked Audio Captures VA Congressional Candidate Slamming Liberals In Roe V. Wade Overturn
Leaked Audio Captures VA Congressional Candidate Slamming Liberals In Roe V. Wade Overturn Yesli Vega, the republican nominee for Congress in Northern Virginia's 7th District, recently downplayed the possibility of a woman becoming pregnant from a rape, which brought swift condemnation from Democrats and pro-choice groups, reports said. Vega hopes to unseat Rep. Abigail Spanberger in November.  Axios released audio on Monday, June 27, from an exchange it said Vega had with a supporter at a campaign rally in Stafford last month. The person asks Vega in the leaked recording: “I’ve actually heard it’s harder for a woman to get pregnant if she’s been raped. Have you heard that?” "We…

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by Josh Lanier
Police & Fire
VIDEO: Vandal Smashes Up Every Pump At Fredericksburg BP Station VIDEO: Vandal Smashes Up Every Pump At Fredericksburg BP Station
Video: Vandal Smashes Up Every Pump At Fredericksburg BP Station Gas prices have taken chunks out of our wallets recently as the cost for a gallon hovers just below $5 across northern Virginia. One man in Fredericksburg exacted some payback earlier this month when he attacked every pump at a station.  Fredericksburg police released a video of the man going ham on every gas pump at the BP station at 2307 Emancipation Highway just after 11 p.m. on June 6. It's unclear why he was so upset, but many commenters on Facebook understood his sentiment. Posted by Fredericksburg Police Department on Friday, June 10, 2022 "He’s just doing what all of us have had…

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by Josh Lanier