Lying from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman,
the government says consumer inflation sped up in August.
The consumer price index rose 2.9% from what it was a year ago.
Although the Federal Reserve is looking for lower inflation, it may cut interest rates next week.
That's because the Fed is also concerned about a weakening job market.
Mourners in New York City have gathered to pay respects to the victims of the September 11th attacks.
Today marks 24 years
since the September 11th attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and launched the United States into 20 years of war.
Empire's Quill Lawrence reports from New York City.
Dignitaries and family members of the deceased gather each year in Lower Manhattan at what is still called Ground Zero.
A memorial now lies where the Twin Towers collapsed after being struck by hijacked airliners on the morning of September 11th,
2001.
A plane also struck the Pentagon in Virginia and another crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers rushed the cockpit.
The American retaliation dubbed the global war on terror lasted 20 years in Afghanistan and continues in the Middle East under a congressional authorization for the use of force passed in 2002.
Those wars have cost the lives of thousands more American troops and hundreds of thousands of mostly civilians across the Muslim world.
Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
New York.
Authorities in Utah are scheduled to hold a news conference this hour to discuss yesterday's shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
He was speaking to university students outdoors when he was shot and killed.
No suspect has been identified.