Inflation increased 8.6% last month, the highest since 1981, and shelter costs reached their fastest 12-month gain since 1991. / CNBC Related: Average gas prices in the US have also now reached $5 for the first time. / NPR See also: "OPEC is a price-fixing conspiracy by 13
To make this Four Tet video, Trevor Jackson wrestled with vintage digital equipment and experienced "sleepless nights with my head full of ASCII."
Singer Julee Cruise, who collaborated with David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, has died at 65.
For the first time, microplastics have been found in freshly fallen Antarctic snow. / BBC News The number of African migrants trying to make it to the US southern border may soon hit a record high. (By 2050, 86 million Africans will be displaced because of climate events.) / Bloomberg Six takeaways
A rehearsal video shows, up close, the physical control and athleticism of dancers with the Igor Moiseyev Ballet. via The Kid Should See This
The House of Representatives committee investigating January 6 holds its first first public hearing tonight. / The Associated Press A former president of ABC News is producing tonight's hearing "as if it were a blockbuster investigative special." (Unrelated: Newspapers can be woven into art.) / Axios, Colossal The
In yesterday's primaries, San Francisco voted to oust its progressive DA, Chesa Boudin, just over halfway through his four-year term. / San Francisco Chronicle Elsewhere, Republicans who voted to create the Jan. 6 Committee survived their primaries—a possible signal of Trump's waning influence over the
Boris Johnson remains the United Kingdom's Prime Minister despite 148 of his MPs voting to oust him. / The Guardian Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky says the country has lost too many to "simply cede our territory." / BBC News Tick-tock reporting of the 2021 attack on
Russia has restarted its attacks on Kyiv, launching missles into the city for the first time in more than a month. / Reuters According to US officials, Russia is trying to sell up to a half-million tons of grain it stole in Ukraine—possibly to countries facing possible famine. / The
This week in the Russia-Ukraine war: assessing 100 days of an invasion that is reshaping Europe. / The Guardian A recession in 2024 looks likely for the United States, and likely to be mild, but it will expose "glaring fragilities" around the world. / The Economist Microsoft says it
