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A spike in gasoline prices fueled the increase. The so-called core rate of inflation remained in check.

Also: Gas prices fuel inflation; crowds jam Apple stores for new iPad; Belgium mourns bus crash victims.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Updike would have turned 80 on March 18, 2012. Fresh Air honors the late writer with excerpts from several interviews.

Democrats Ron Wyden and Mark Udall are pressing the Justice Department to reveal more about some key provisions of the Act and how it interprets them.

The student council at the University of California Irvine approved a resolution Thursday demanding that Dr. Hazem Chehabi, Syria's honorary consul in Southern California, be removed from the post of chair at the UC Irving Foundation.

Is the battle for the GOP presidential nomination about history? Or is it about math? Santorum may be getting big headlines with his primary wins, but it's Romney who is advancing further to the magic 1,144 number. And more defeats mean more pressure on Gingrich to pull out.

Dharun Ravi, who was accused of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate's love life has been convicted of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy. Tyler Clementi, the spying victim, committed suicide in September 2010.

The expectation briefly pushed Apple's stock price to $600 a share on Thursday.

A new book called Why Nations Fail argues that a lot comes down to politics — not just laws, but also a country's norms.

Kathleen Glanville told others at the newspaper that editorial page editor Bob Caldwell was in his car when he died of a heart attack. But he had been with a young woman, allegedly having sex. Glanville says she was trying to protect his family.