Inflation shock, Newark safety concerns, Menendez brothers’ resentencing & more
CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm making a robot head with an Amazon box. |
| 0:03.0 | I've painted it silver and Daddy helped me make it. |
| 0:05.0 | At Amazon, we're actually using paper bags for more of our deliveries. |
| 0:08.0 | And now I'm making a paper hot air balloon |
| 0:11.0 | and I even made a little brown basket |
| 0:13.0 | and I'm making a dog that looks just like Monty. |
| 0:16.0 | Just one of the ways we've reduced the weight of our packaging by more than 40% since 2015, |
| 0:20.0 | which is still good for playtime. |
| 0:22.6 | Mom, where's the scissors? To learn more, visit about amazon.com.com. |
| 0:28.0 | Upward slash sustainability. Hello from CNN. I'm Joe Beck, with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, May 13th. |
| 0:37.9 | US inflation slowed to its lowest rate in more than four years last month. |
| 0:43.2 | That's an unexpected and welcome development at a time when tariffs are expected to cause |
| 0:48.0 | prices to rise. Consumer prices rose 0.2% in April, bringing the annual inflation rate to 2.3%, which is a cooler |
| 0:57.0 | reading than the 2.4% seen in March. |
| 1:00.5 | Economists had expected inflation to rise, but the figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| 1:05.6 | show prices didn't rise as much as they thought they would. |
| 1:08.9 | And the data comes as the US and China announced they were rolling back tariffs on each |
| 1:13.3 | other's goods for 90 days. |
| 1:15.6 | That's sent U.S. stocks surging, and has economists feeling cautiously optimistic. |
| 1:22.1 | President Donald Trump will be hoping to boost U.S. investments as part of his trip to |
| 1:26.1 | the Middle East this week. |
| 1:31.8 | He arrived in Saudi Arabia today, where he'll be speaking at an investment forum, |
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