WASHINGTON -- US consumer prices fell 0.3 percent in May to mark the biggest decline in three and a half years, as the cost of gas fell sharply, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The gas index sank 6.8 percent, the largest drop since December 2008. So-called core prices...

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