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President Donald Trump<\/a> says he slipped away from Air Force One<\/a> after a trip last month in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a \u201cdifferent plane\u201d due to a threat he insisted didn\u2019t scare him<\/a>.<\/p>\n Trump downplayed the extraordinary nature of the subterfuge involved in his flight, which saw him stow away in an airport catering container to sneak onto another plane while Air Force One was sent into the sky, essentially as a decoy. <\/p>\n Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan<\/a> won the Minnesota Democratic Senate primary<\/a> Tuesday in the latest victory for an insurgent progressive<\/a> over the party\u2019s establishment. Flanagan defeated centrist U.S. Rep. Angie Craig<\/a> with a pledge<\/a> to fight the influence of corporations and confront Trump.<\/p>\n Here’s the latest:<\/p>\n U.S. inflation slowed last month and a measure of underlying price pressures also cooled, suggesting higher oil and gas prices<\/a> from the Iran war are only having a limited impact on broader costs in the economy.<\/p>\n Consumer prices rose 3.4% in July from a year ago, down slightly from 3.5% in June, the Labor Department said Wednesday. But inflation is still higher than before the Iran war began in February, when it was 2.4%. On a monthly basis, prices rose just 0.1% from June to July.<\/p>\n Inflation has been pushed higher by a series of shocks to the economy, including President Trump\u2019s tariffs<\/a> imposed last spring, higher gas prices stemming from the Iran war, and a surge in investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure<\/a> that has boosted computer chip prices. The key question for the inflation-fighters at the Fed \u2014 not to mention for consumers struggling with high gas and grocery prices \u2014 is how quickly those one-time effects will fade.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Read more<\/a><\/p>\n President Trump pivoted the nation\u2019s attention back to vaccines this week with an executive order<\/a> that aims to scale back the childhood immunization schedule and space out shots into separate visits.<\/p>\n After acting to overhaul the nation\u2019s vaccine policy and guidance<\/a>, the Trump administration had recently largely stepped back from additional changes to focus on less controversial subjects, raising questions over the political impetus behind and implications of the Republican president\u2019s renewed focus on vaccines.<\/p>\n For well over a decade, Trump has expressed his view \u2014 against medical groups\u2019 guidance \u2014 that childhood vaccines should be administered in smaller doses over a long period of time. The executive order sought to bear out that discredited theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n While the move could endear Trump to some \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d voters who want more flexibility on immunizations, it\u2019s also already attracting attacks designed to hurt Trump\u2019s aligned candidates in November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Read more<\/a><\/p>\n Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan<\/a> won the Minnesota Democratic Senate primary<\/a> on Tuesday in the latest victory for an insurgent progressive<\/a> over the party\u2019s establishment.<\/p>\n Flanagan defeated centrist U.S. Rep. Angie Craig<\/a> with a pledge to fight the influence of corporations and confront Trump.<\/p>\n \u201cFor months now, I have been telling you that this campaign was about the many versus the money,\u201d Flanagan said as she celebrated her victory in Minneapolis. \u201cWell guess what? The many just won.\u201d<\/p>\n The outcome was another sign of progressive energy among Democratic primary voters. It comes a week after Abdul El-Sayed won a bitter and divisive primary<\/a> in Michigan that fired up the left and fueled anxiety among party leaders that Democrats will alienate moderate swing voters.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Read more<\/a><\/p>\n President Donald Trump<\/a> said Tuesday that he slipped away from Air Force One<\/a> after a trip last month in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a \u201cdifferent plane\u201d due to a threat he insisted didn\u2019t scare him.<\/p>\n Trump downplayed the extraordinary nature of the subterfuge involved in his flight, which saw him stow away in an airport catering container to sneak onto another plane while Air Force One was sent into the sky, essentially as a decoy.<\/p>\n He also downplayed the risk to the people \u2014 White House officials, security and support staff, and reporters \u2014 he left on the plane.<\/p>\n \u201cThey wanted me to go on a different flight, different plane,\u201d Trump told reporters after returning from an event in Ohio, saying he had little choice in the matter.<\/p>\n \u201cI guess there was a threat out there. I didn\u2019t really ask too much about it,\u201d he said. \u201cI get a lot of threats.\u201d<\/p>\n