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The annual inflation rate in June was 3.5%, according to the Labor Department's consumer price index report released Tuesday. The report by the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics attributes the drop in consumer prices, in large part, to a decrease in the cost of energy. The consumer price index is a broad measure of costs for goods and services across the U.S. economy. The June rate also marked a 0.4% decrease from the annualized rate in May. This decline in June was the largest 1-month decrease since April 2020 when the CPI fell 0.8%.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he is replacing his proposed 20 percent reimbursement fee on cargo ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz with trade and investment deals involving Gulf states, while maintaining a blockade on ships traveling to or from Iranian ports or carrying Iranian cargo. “Oil is flowing like never before, thanks to the awesome Power of the United States Military,” Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social, crediting Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine, U.S. Central Command Commander Adm. Brad Cooper, and American service members.

President Trump’s proposed 20% toll on commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz could generate nearly $200 billion annually in revenue — a windfall large enough to cover about half of the federal civilian payroll. Trump announced the concept on Monday — after months of rejecting Iran’s plan for post-war tolls — in what could amount to a negotiating tactic. Brandon Daniels, CEO of supply chain AI company Exiger, told The Post that the annual volume of international commerce in the strait was between $880 billion and $970 billion before the war.

Want to make banker money without stepping foot on Wall Street? Try plumbing for the New York City Housing Authority. From July 2024 through June 2025, NYCHA plumber supervisor Jakub Markowski earned $465,000, including $332,000 for nearly 2,600 hours in overtime — more than the mayor and City Council speaker make combined. While he collected these checks, Markowski also operated two private plumbing companies. The Buildings Department is now investigating him. As the city’s ascendant socialist left pushes for more housing in public or nonprofit hands, NYCHA’s history presents a sordid tale of dysfunction and corruption, with Markowski the latest apparent example. Lest we forget, Shola Olatoye, NYCHA’s chairwoman under Mayor Bill de Blasio,

It’s a move obscene on so many levels: Members of the City Council are looking to vote themselves a fat pay hike. Just days after they approved a gargantuan $126 billion city budget, they took up a measure to boost their salaries more than 18% retroactive to Jan. 1 — plus automatic 2% hikes every year thereafter. The hikes would push members’ pay to $175,500, upper middle-class income territory and more than twice the city’s median income ($81,228). So the move shows complete contempt for city voters, who the pols plainly think won’t notice, as well as for the City Charter, which sets out an entirely different procedure for upping their pay.

Organizations tied to Cuba have openly built a rapid-response protest apparatus attached to a possible U.S.-Cuba military conflict, at the same moment the U.S. government is formally treating that coalition’s Cuban state partner as a hostile influence operation. The National Network on Cuba (NNOC) has been distributing a document since at least June 2026 urging organizers across the U.S. to prepare to protest in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices, military bases, recruiting centers and other federal institutions should the U.S. get involved in military action in Cuba.

You know it's tough times in the entertainment biz when two of the oldest and most storied studios in Hollywood are forced into the merger-and-acquisition tango in hopes that they can both stay afloat. But it's a sign of something even crazier when the buyer threatens to leave Hollywood to escape the state's regulatory noose.That's the word this weekend, when Semafor reported that "Paramount is reportedly considering leaving California" as Attorney General Rob Bonta is reportedly "preparing a lawsuit over its planned $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery." According to the exclusive, Paramount chief David Ellison's—

A federal judge on Monday blasted President Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS and sanctioned his lawyers. Miami-based US District Judge Kathleen Williams, an Obama appointee, referred Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Trump’s other attorneys to the state bar authorities for disciplinary action. “Court finds that this matter was brought for an improper purpose — to gain the imprimatur of judicial legitimacy for a ‘settlement’ that had no viable basis in law or fact,” Judge Williams wrote in a scathing opinion.In May, Judge Williams launched an investigation into the Trump Administration’s settlement with the IRS that led to the $1.77 billion anti-weaponization fund.

A black feminist historian whose work is being labeled as misleading — and who may have lost her cushy academic job — says it all comes down to an attack on black women. The New York Times tells the tale of Kerri Greenidge, whose 2022 book “The Grimkes” was hailed for its narrative about a slaveholding family and its work in the abolitionist movement. Publishers Weekly put the book on its list of that year’s top books, while the American Historical Association handed Greenidge the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, which honors scholars in women’s history and feminist theory.

The US unleashed its military might on Iran after the regime attacked a commercial vessel and declared the Strait of Hormuz closed Saturday. “Iran made a poor choice. Now they pay,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted on X. The Islamic Republic attacked the M/V GFS Galaxy, a container vessel flying the flag of Cyprus, according to United States Central Command. A civilian crew member from the ship is now missing and the vessel suffered significant engine room damage in the strikes, CENTCOM added. The agency vowed that Tehran would pay a “heavy cost” and said that the retaliation,

The primary agent noticed the driver was extremely nervous during the initial immigration inspection. The driver volunteered he was hauling produce in a non-refrigerated trailer and the primary agent directed the truck to the x- ray area for scanning. The tractor trailer traveled northbound driving by the backscatter truck without being scanned. Responding quickly, an agent located the tractor and conducted a traffic stop. When the agent broke the seal on the trailer and opened the door,

The primary agent noticed the driver was extremely nervous during the initial immigration inspection. The driver volunteered he was hauling produce in a non-refrigerated trailer and the primary agent directed the truck to the x- ray area for scanning. The tractor trailer traveled northbound driving by the backscatter truck without being scanned. Responding quickly, an agent located the tractor and conducted a traffic stop. When the agent broke the seal on the trailer and opened the door,