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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 \u2014 both higher than forecasters had expected.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s tariffs to their customers. \u201cRetailers\u2019 tariff bill has come down marginally in the last few months, but they have continued to lift their selling prices,\u201d Samuel Tombs, chief U.S.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 2% target.<\/p>\n

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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 in\ufb02uencerNick Fuentes,Marla Rose stands outside the Cook County Courthouse in Maywood on Friday. ANTONIO PEREZ\/CHICAGOTRIBUNE By Rebecca Johnson CHICAGO TRIBUNE Far-rightin\ufb02uencerNickFuen- 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.<\/p>\n

Fuentes appeared virtually on Zoom at a court hearing, held at the Maywood Courthouse on Friday,whereCookCountyJudge CelestiaMaysallowedMarlaRose toreadtheapologylettertoherself butnotoutloud.Shealsocouldn\u2019t keepacopy. RosetoldtheTribunelaterthat it was about three or four short paragraphs and, to her, seemed not heartfelt and \u201cpretty boiler- plate.\u201d The apology said some- thing to the effect of \u201cI apologize foroverreactingtoyouruninvited visit,\u201dshesaid. \u201cI\u2019m not expecting a marching band or confetti to fall out of the sky or anything like that,\u201d Rose said.\u201cButanapologyissomething that\u2019s not withdrawn from you \u2026<\/p>\n

The fact that they put it out and claweditback,Idon\u2019tbelievethat they\u2019reinterestedintrulyshowing remorse.\u201d Fuentes\u2019 attorney, Robert Rascia, declined to go into the speci\ufb01csoftheapologyletterafter the hearing. He said, however, that it\u2019s a \u201csimple misdemeanor battery case that this woman has \u2018All I\u2019m seeking is justice\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

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 \ufb01t that description, based on data from the Illinois Violent Death ReportingSystem,whichisoper- atedbyNorthwesterninpartner- shipwiththeIllinoisDepartment ofPublicHealth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThisisabiggerproblemthan we may think as a society,\u201d said Maryann Mason, lead author of the report and a professor of emergency medicine at North- western University Feinberg SchoolofMedicine. \u201cWe hear about an egregious casehereandthereandwethink they\u2019reveryrareanduncommon, but I think we see here that for a segmentofthepopulation,thisis something that happens \u2026 more often than anyone would like to admitandlookat,\u201dMasonsaid. Ofthe121childrenwhodiedin thesecases,about60%wereages 1to3.About24%wereages4to6, andnearly16%wereages7to10. Crying and fussiness are developmentally appropriate for young children, \u201cso it tells us Fatal child abuse in state affects the youngest most Come May 3, the Chicago Snowballs will put their spin \u2014alatheSavannahBananas\u2014 onAmerica\u2019spastime,amoment owners say already has thou- sands of fans on a waitlist to scoretickets.<\/p>\n

Withtheirlaunch,theSnow- ballsjointheranksofarenewed vigor in remembering sports gamesare,attheircore,games.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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