alone. and they re expected to rise even further as we reach peak summer travel season. the high prices also driving inflation to the highest level since 1981. the consumer price index jumping 8.6% in may compared to the same time, same month last year. now the white house calling that staggering increase uncomfortably high. cnn s christine romans has more now on these troubling new numbers and how wall street is reacting. american consumers are still feeling the pain of higher prices for just about everything, but especially at the pump. look, the may consumer price index, that number up 8.6% from the year before. the fastest since 1981. and when you look at just the month, prices rose 1% from april to may, 1%, that s a big move in one month. core cpi, which they strip out food and energy which can be more volatile, that rose 6% from last year. prices across the board more expensive than last year. largely driven by shelter, the biggest yearly gain there since 1991. food u
Donald trump is back in court this morning for day 10 of your county, of his criminal trial. Todays proceedings began with another hearing on the repeated, i mean repeated, violations of his gag order. Will talk about that a little later. Things got interesting once keep davidson return to the stand. The former lawyer for both of the women trump is accused of paying off, Karen Mcdougal and Stormy Daniels. From the witness stand, davidson pulled back the curtain on the 2018 statement he wrote on behave of daniels. Seeming to deny her affair with trump. He admitted with trumps sitting in front of him, that the Stormy Daniels statement was designed to look like a denial. It was a nondenial denial you could say. The statement read, quote, i recently became aware that certain news outlets are alleging i had a sexual and or romantic affair with donald trump many years ago. I am stating with complete clarity that this is absolutely false. Its a strange part of the statement. Davidson used par
Delhi High Court has discharged a litigant of criminal contempt proceedings initiated against him for calling the Delhi judiciary corrupt. Read more about the case and the apology.
The judge was prevented from holding court on Monday after TMC lawyers protesting against the protection he granted to BJP's Suvendu Adhikari barred access to his courtroom.
Vineet Jindal and Shashank Shekhar Jha have requested the top law officer to grant consent for initiating contempt proceedings against Sibal, a former law minister.