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Marketplace All-in-One - It’s not just you — food prices rose 2.4% last year

The cost of food consumed at home was up 0.7% month-over-month in December, and 2.4% year-over-year. Go back five years, and grocery prices are up 25%. And like so many things in this economy, the rising cost hurts the poorest Americans most. Also in this episode: Americans carry credit card debt longer than they used to, two ultra-low-cost U.S. airlines make plans to merge, and we get an update from Kansas grain farmers.


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The Gist - Reese Gorman on Congress’s Vanishing Backbone — and Dexter Filkins’ Rubio “Zig and Zag” Portrait

Reese Gorman of Notus (and the On Notus podcast) explains the outlet's "teaching hospital" model for young journalists—and reports that Republicans are privately furious about being cut out of Venezuela, tariffs, and appropriations, even as almost none of them do anything to reclaim Congress's prerogatives beyond symbolic discharge petitions. Then, Dexter Filkins' new profile is our guide to Marco Rubio's ideological malleability as career strategy: swallow the zig, repeat the zag. Plus, why the left's most radical policy ideas can spread under the cover of benevolent framing and definitional ambiguity—and why that's a branding and governing problem for Democrats even if the far right remains more dangerous overall.

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CBS News Roundup - 01/13/2026 | Evening Update

President Trump tells CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil that he'd take "very strong action" if Iran begins hanging protesters. Trump touts economy and slams Federal Reserve chairman in Detroit speech. Actor/director Timothy Busfield turns himself in to face child sex abuse charges in New Mexico.

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Newshour - Trump tells Iran protesters: “Help is on its way”

President Trump told Iranian protesters that help was “on its way” and encouraged them to keep demonstrating. Around 2,000 people, including some of the country’s security forces, have now reportedly been killed since protests began. We hear from the uncle of a 23-year-old fashion student who is one of the casualties.

Also in the programme: how scientists in Japan might have identified how to limit procrastination; and the enduring appeal of the queen of crime-writing, Agatha Christie.

(Photo: US President Donald Trump in Dearborn, Michigan, US, 13th January 2026. Credit: Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)

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WSJ What’s News - JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon Says It’s a Bad Idea to Interfere With the Fed

P.M. Edition for Jan. 13. The JPMorgan Chase CEO spoke out today in support of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, who is being investigated by the Justice Department. WSJ reporter Alexander Saeedy says Dimon’s position reflects that of many on Wall Street. Plus, President Trump rules out talks with Iran and tells protesters there that “help is on the way.” We hear from Journal national security correspondent Alexander Ward on what we know about possible U.S. action in Iran, and how countries in the Gulf are reacting. And what the latest numbers on inflation mean for the Fed. Alex Ossola hosts.


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State of the World from NPR - Food returns to Gaza. Is it getting to the people who need it?

It has been three months since the ceasefire in Gaza began and food that is desperately needed after being largely blocked for two years has begun returning by the truckload. We go to Gaza City to see what kind of food is arriving and where it is going.

And we visit a haven in Tel Aviv for Jews and Palestinians to interact amid heightened tensions. In a nail salon.

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Consider This from NPR - What happens if the Fed loses its independence?

The Trump Justice Department has subpoenaed the Federal Reserve for information related to its multibillion-dollar renovation of the Fed's headquarters in Washington.



The move comes on the heels of months of President Donald Trump trying to influence Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.

And while he told NBC News he doesn’t know anything about the Department of Justice investigations, members of Congress, including some Republicans, say they’re concerned the independence of the Federal Reserve is now at risk.

The Federal Reserve decides monetary policy across the United States. Its decisions help shape the global economy. What happens if that independence is threatened?  President Trump has been trying to influence Federal Reserve policy, since his first term.

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WSJ Minute Briefing - JPMorgan Profit Slump Weighs on Dow

Revenue for the bank missed targets. Plus: Delta airlines shares fall after the government shutdown cut into profits. Katherine Sullivan hosts.


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