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wholesale prices came in hotter than expected last month. The Labor Department reported Friday that its producer price index, which measures inflation before it hits consumers, rose 0.5% from December and 2.9% from January 2025. Economists had forecast a 0.3% increase for the month and 1.6% year over year, according to a survey by the data firm FactSet. Excluding food and energy prices, which bounce around from month to month, core wholesale prices rose 0.8% from December and 3.6% from January 2025 — both higher than forecasters had expected.

The year-over-year increase in core prices was the biggest since March of last year. Driving the increase was an uptick in the wholesale price of services, led by higher profit margins for retailers and wholesalers. The increase suggests that companies are passing along the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs to their customers. “Retailers’ tariff bill has come down marginally in the last few months, but they have continued to lift their selling prices,” Samuel Tombs, chief U.S.

economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, wrote in a commentary. Prices for core goods climbed 0.7% from December and 4.2% from January 2025 on hefty increases in the prices of cosmetics, pet food, some metals and metal-cutting machinery. Energy prices were down as gasoline prices dropped 5.5% from December and 15.7% from a year earlier. Wholesale food prices also fell. The producer price report comes two weeks after the Labor Department reported that consumer prices rose just 2.4% last month compared to a year earlier, closing in on the Federal Reserve’s 2% target.

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PlayersJonah Campbell,left front,andTommy Chyna,centerfront,take direction from cheercoachTonya Radcliffe as they learn a dance routine during practice forthe new Chicago Snowballs baseball team in Rosemont on Feb.17. CHRIS SWEDA/TRIBUNE Following a hearing regarding a misdemeanorbattery case against far-right influencerNick Fuentes,Marla Rose stands outside the Cook County Courthouse in Maywood on Friday. ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGOTRIBUNE By Rebecca Johnson CHICAGO TRIBUNE Far-rightinfluencerNickFuen- tes has written an apology letter to the woman he was accused of pepper-spraying more than a year ago as she attempted to ring thedoorbellofhiswestsuburban home.

Fuentes appeared virtually on Zoom at a court hearing, held at the Maywood Courthouse on Friday,whereCookCountyJudge CelestiaMaysallowedMarlaRose toreadtheapologylettertoherself butnotoutloud.Shealsocouldn’t keepacopy. RosetoldtheTribunelaterthat it was about three or four short paragraphs and, to her, seemed not heartfelt and “pretty boiler- plate.” The apology said some- thing to the effect of “I apologize foroverreactingtoyouruninvited visit,”shesaid. “I’m not expecting a marching band or confetti to fall out of the sky or anything like that,” Rose said.“Butanapologyissomething that’s not withdrawn from you …

The fact that they put it out and claweditback,Idon’tbelievethat they’reinterestedintrulyshowing remorse.” Fuentes’ attorney, Robert Rascia, declined to go into the specificsoftheapologyletterafter the hearing. He said, however, that it’s a “simple misdemeanor battery case that this woman has ‘All I’m seeking is justice’ By Lisa Schencker CHICAGO TRIBUNE Children ages 3 and younger were most often the victims of fatal child abuse in Illinois between 2015 and 2022, accord- ingtoasoberingnewreportoutof NorthwesternUniversity.

Crying or fussiness were the mostcommonlyreportedbehav- iorsinchildrenbeforetheywere killed,accordingtothereport. For the report, Northwestern researchers aimed to analyze violentdeathsofIllinoischildren ages 10 and younger who died at the hands of caregivers between 2015and2022. They found 121 cases that fit that description, based on data from the Illinois Violent Death ReportingSystem,whichisoper- atedbyNorthwesterninpartner- shipwiththeIllinoisDepartment ofPublicHealth.

“Thisisabiggerproblemthan we may think as a society,” said Maryann Mason, lead author of the report and a professor of emergency medicine at North- western University Feinberg SchoolofMedicine. “We hear about an egregious casehereandthereandwethink they’reveryrareanduncommon, but I think we see here that for a segmentofthepopulation,thisis something that happens … more often than anyone would like to admitandlookat,”Masonsaid. Ofthe121childrenwhodiedin thesecases,about60%wereages 1to3.About24%wereages4to6, andnearly16%wereages7to10. Crying and fussiness are developmentally appropriate for young children, “so it tells us Fatal child abuse in state affects the youngest most Come May 3, the Chicago Snowballs will put their spin —alatheSavannahBananas— onAmerica’spastime,amoment owners say already has thou- sands of fans on a waitlist to scoretickets.

Withtheirlaunch,theSnow- ballsjointheranksofarenewed vigor in remembering sports gamesare,attheircore,games.

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