Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz.

And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, new data shows prices on some goods are beginning to tick up, and the president's tariffs are a key factor.

A State Department report pulls back some of its criticisms of human rights violations around the world.

And the world's largest hunger crisis.

Millions face famine and displacement amid the intensifying civil war in Sudan.

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We are hungry. Our children are naked.

We have nothing to eat but animal feed. There is no water. We have nothing.

Welcome to the News Hour. New inflation figures show President Trump's tariffs are starting to have an impact on consumer prices.

Overall, inflation held steady at 2.7% year over year, but so-called core inflation, which is closely watched by the Fed and does not include volatile food and energy prices ticked up 3.1%. That's the largest

increase in five months. The report was the first from the Bureau of Labor Statistics since President

Trump fired its commissioner Erica McIntyre for earlier this month, accusing her without evidence

of rigging economic data. That firing came just hours after the release of a weaker

than expected jobs report. Late yesterday, the president nominated her replacement, E.J. Antony,

chief economist at the Heritage Foundation. That's a conservative think tank. For more now,

we are joined by Michael Strain. He's the director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

Michael, thanks for joining us. Let's just start off with these new inflation numbers. Overall inflation

holding steady was helped, we should note, by drops in gas and energy prices. But the fact that

core inflation did tick up, how do you look at that? What's behind it? And what does it say about

the overall economy right now?

Thank you. I think it's troubling. As you say, we saw an increase in core inflation. This is,

I think, become a trend. I think we can say that we are in an economy where underlying inflation seems to be

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