law. but what caused this search now? what triggered the apparent approval of attorney general merrick garland and fbi correct director christopher ray, what can we read into this? searching the home of a former president for possible crime would require approval by the justice department and a federal judge would have to agree probable cause has been committed. we have not heard from the doj, that s not unusual, of course, the news is drawing a surge of criticism from republican backers with house minority leader kevin mccarthy even vowing revenge against attorney general merrick garland. cnn s leilayla santiago begins coverage. live outside of mar-a-lago with the latest. leyla. reporter: brianna, if you think about it, it was this time yesterday that fbi agents were going into mar-a-lago. and what exactly they re looking for, what exactly came out of the home. here s what we know so far. we know according to sources familiar with the investigation this was related to pr
criminal. he s only out of prison because his dad is joe biden, they would say. where s hunter, where is hunter? i went to one of them. we have to have where is hunter, as a witness. what do you mean where s hunter, i have made his first name where s hunter. today hunter biden is awaiting a meeting with a probation officer after yesterday s felony conviction on gun charges. while the headline might sound like music to republican ears, his conviction is undercutting their 2024 campaign pitch, that the whole justice system, the doj is owned and operated by president biden himself. from the new york times, quote, many trump allies had been secretly rooting for an acquittal, talking points wrote themselves, it would have been yet more evidence that the united states justice system was rigged in favor of the bidens and against the trumps. tuesday s guilty verdict was inconvenient to that narrative. the inconvenience of the conviction punctures more than campaign talking poin
online shopping world. prices started going up in june of 2020 and they kept going up every single month until this new report came out capturing a decline in july. this 25 month streak of rising prices. when you look at some of the categories we saw electronics fall by 9.3% year over year, that is the most nearly three years. toy prices going down 8.2%. apparel prices falling 1.2%. as far as why this is happening, some of this is for good reasons. supply is extreme proving. in fact, some retailers like walmart and target. they have too much stuff, they have an inventory plug. some of this is not for great reasons. demand has actually taken a hit because of high prices and because of low consumer confidence. in this improvement is not across the board. we should note that adobe found that some inflation categories like groceries and pet products, they re getting hotter so it took even eye on that. it is encouraging to see that
inflation number for consumer prices. that is a big number. and that second number to the right, 0.5%. sorry that didn t get updated. 0.5% from november to december. that is also a big one-month move. when you strip out volatile food and energy, the so-called core rate, that was 5.5% from december 2020 to 2021 and from november to december, 0.6%. you can see these numbers are still running way too hot. this is the hottest inflation in decades. i look inside these numbers, just from november, december, used vehicle prices up 3.5%. anybody trying to buy a used car knows these numbers are running really, really fast here. apparel prices up. household furnishings, new vehicle prices up 1%. those are big numbers for just a november to december just for one month gain. we re still in the teeth here of an inflation problem. the inflation fighter is the federal reserve, the federal
of the cereal, so you have seen wheat, grain, corn prices soaring over the past years. that will be translated into the prices of these products that you buy at the grocery store. cotton prices, suzanne, are at the highest they ve ever been. $1.90 for a pound of cotton. what does that mean? well, that means that many of the retailers, and manufacturers, who for years have been keeping apparel prices very low, because they ve moved a lot of their production offshore, now these cotton prices are starting to pop up. you can see 10% increases in things like underwear, t-shirts, and not just the commodity prices are rising, but a lot of these countries have had low wages for some time. shipping costs are rising for many of these companies who are shipping this stuff halfway around the world. now, let s talk about the refrigerator. you mentioned that the food in the refrigerator, prices are rising. maybe 8% to 10%.