Today is Wednesday, August 13th. We're talking about the latest inflation report, as some new

questions come up about how reliable the government data really is. Also, how highly sensitive

American records may have gotten into the hands of Russian hackers. Plus, changes are coming

to the Smithsonian Museums. A crash landing revealed a meteorite 20 million years older than Earth,

and the White House is planning its first cage fight. Those stories and even more news coming up.

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I'm Erica Mandy. Thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this.

The latest inflation report came out this week showing prices have not been rising as much as

expected. We're talking about the consumer price index. That measures what Americans pay for goods

and services. It rose 2.7% last month as compared to one

year earlier. But it did not change as compared to one month earlier. It helped that gas prices

went down, and overall the cost of goods did not go up as much as economists feared, meaning

a lot of businesses have not been passing on tariff costs to their customers, at least not yet.

But analysts also noted a pretty big hike in the cost of services, for example, health care,

haircuts, dry cleaning, and pet services. And at least some of them believe that's tied to

President Trump's immigration crackdown, since businesses in the services industry that have

been relying on immigrant labor

might have to raise pay to attract new workers. And those costs could be passed onto customers.

Meanwhile, there are concerns over the quality of the government's data, not just for inflation,

but also employment reports. Because of budget cuts, some data collection has been suspended.

Plus, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics got fired earlier this month,

with President Trump saying jobs data had been rigged for political reasons.

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