Christopher Hopkins

Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released inflation data for April, and it wasn't pretty. The Consumer Price Index registered a gain of 3.8% over the previous year compared with 3.3% for the 12 months ending in March. A few days later, the bureau's wholesale price index came in smoking hot at 6% year over year, more than double what most economists predicted.

The second cohort of women with links to the Islamic State group have arrived back in Australia from Syria. They flew back into Sydney and Melbourne late yesterday - more than six years after being taken into refugee camps in Syria.

The latest group of families connected to ISIS fighters have spent their first night in Australia, after arriving from Syria.

A new law passed overwhelmingly by the Tennessee legislature may force the state's second-largest drug store chain to vamoose.

Elon Musk made history again this month with the largest public offering of a company in the history of the known universe.

Alan Greenspan, who served as chair of the Federal Reserve under four presidents, passed away last week at the age of 100. He died of complications related to Parkinson's disease, according to his wife, NBC News journalist Andrea Mitchell.

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, approved the final text of the Declaration of Independence. George Washington was not there.

On June 23, members of Congress did something commendable and all too rare: They came together to pass legislation in a broadly bipartisan move to address the housing affordability crisis in the U.S.

American interest in Spain has surged thanks to their victory over Argentina in the FIFA World Cup.

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