Judy Woodruff:
There were similar reports from other cities across China.
Back in this country, one of the former Minneapolis police officers involved in the killing of George Floyd was sentenced today to 3.5 years in state prison. J. Alexander Kueng helped to restrain Floyd during a fatal encounter in may 2020. Kueng is already serving federal prison time for violating Floyd's civil rights.
Inflation at the wholesale level has risen again. The U.S. Labor Department says that producer prices were up 7.4 percent in November from a year earlier. Now, that was down from October, but still more than economists had expected. The latest look at consumer prices comes out next week.
And, on Wall Street, the inflation news was bad news to stock traders. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 305 points to close at 33476. The Nasdaq fell 77 points. The S&P 500 slipped 29. For the week, the Dow lost nearly 3 percent. The Nasdaq fell more than 3 percent. The S&P 500 dropped 4 percent.
Still to come on the "NewsHour": Dr. Anthony Fauci addresses the uptick in respiratory illnesses this holiday season; a space historian examines the parallels between NASA's first moon landing and the current Artemis mission; author and Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux reflects on her genre-bending work; plus much more.
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