Consumer prices stayed high in August as the Iran war's energy shock fueled a fresh burst of inflation, Axios' Courtenay Brown reports.

• That's squeezing household budgets, with signs that underlying inflation is proving stubborn across the economy.

By the numbers: The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% in August from the previous month.

• Prices were up 3.4% from a year earlier, holding steady from July.

⛽️ Gas prices jumped 3.9% in August, accounting for more than a third of the overall monthly increase. Energy prices rose 2.1%.

• Core inflation also accelerated, with shelter costs gaining 0.3% after a 0.1% increase in July. Airfares rose 2.7%, while vehicle prices were also up.

🏥 Yes, but: Medical care prices fell 0.2%, and motor vehicle insurance dropped 0.8%.

The inflation data carries unusual weight ahead of next week's Fed meeting, where policymakers will consider the first interest rate hike in nearly three years.

• With less than two months before the midterms, renewed inflation pressures could also complicate the Trump administration's efforts to convince voters that affordability is improving.

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"This is history, this is history."

• That's what photojournalist Spencer Platt was thinking 25 years ago as he photographed the events unfolding on the morning of 9/11.
• Platt and fellow Getty photographer Mario Tama told Axios' Sarah Grillo what it was like on the ground that day.

Tama had just been hired by Getty Images two months before when he got the urgent call from his assignment editor. Rushing out the door of his Lower East Side apartment, he recalled the horror of what he was documenting:

• "There was definitely some cognitive dissonance — it was totally unfathomable. As I got closer on foot, I came across an office worker being treated on the ground, stunned and bloodied. Seeing blood coming out of his ear made the human toll of what was happening frighteningly real."

While trying to reach Ground Zero, Tama saw the South Tower collapse:

• "I then heard a kind of shearing sound and looked up and, horrifyingly, I recall the tower tilted a bit and started to pancake down. In that moment, I went from being a photojournalist to any other New Yorker running for their life. It was absolutely terrifying."

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1. 🕯️ In Manhattan, Terry Strada, who lost her husband, Tom Strada, on 9/11, used the annual reading of the names of those killed to plead with the Trump administration to confront Saudi Arabia about alleged ties to the terror attack, which the kingdom has denied. Keep reading.
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Scientists have retraced the steps of a Tyrannosaurus rex that went for a stroll 66 million years ago across what's now North Dakota, Axios Denver's Alayna Alvarez reports.

• They say the finding is the first known trackway left by an adult T. rex.

🪏 Paleontologists from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and Liverpool John Moores University, who jointly made the discovery, say the find offers a rare look at how the iconic dinosaur moved.

• Their discovery was published this week in the "Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology."

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