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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with President Biden's top economic adviser, Jared Bernstein, about the state of inflation in the United States according to Thursday's Consumer Price Index report.

The Senate and House have approved a $1.5 trillion government spending package, plus $13.6 billion in emergency funding for Ukraine. Billions in new COVID aid requested by the White House was cut.

The Dow Jones industrial average topped 23,000 for the first time, crossing another milestone amid better-than-expected earnings reports and concerns that stocks are approaching another bubble.

Only 7 percent of the nation's hospitals assessed by Medicare were good enough to win 5-star ratings. The government used patient reviews to come up with the grades.

Federal health agencies have to slash their spending on contracts by more than a third, on top of the 10,000-person staffing cuts which started this week.

The morning headlines from NPR's The Two-Way.

The day's news includes word of a deadly listeria outbreak tied to Colorado cantaloupes and the capture of fugitive George Wright.

Dr. Jann Blackstone discusses her advice for co-parenting during the pandemic.

By one measure, China is poised to become the world's largest economy by the end of the year. Why is this shift happening years before most estimates predicted it would?

It was a bonanza year for blockbusters — four topped the $300 million mark — but there was a trove of art-house gems, too. Herewith, Bob Mondello's 10 favorite films of 2007, plus an additional baker's dozen that deserve another mention at year's end.