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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Lashing Out Over Russia and Jobs Data, Trump Displays His Volatile Side  —  The president had been on something of a winning streak.  But when faced with facts and foes that wouldn't bend to his will, he responded with impatience and disproportionate intensity.
Discussion: Wide World of News
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Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Economy Stumbles  —  The President has his new world tariff order in place, but jobs and growth don't look so good.  —  Click for Sound  —  President Trump has now imposed his new tariff regime on the world, and the triumphalism is palpable in MAGA land.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump's authoritarian streak  —  A five-alarm fire tore through the economic establishment Friday after President Trump ousted the government's top labor statistician, accusing her — without evidence — of “rigging” a weak jobs report. … - But apply any of these five storylines …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
Stagflation fears are back  —  America is showing new signs of stagflation — inflation running hotter, the job market suffering new weakness, and economists warning both are at risk of getting worse in the months ahead.  —  Why it matters: The word “stagflation” revives miserable memories of the 1970s …
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Rigged,’ Fires Labor Official  —  Economists said ousting the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics could undermine confidence in government economic data.  — 1.2k  —  President Trump unleashed his fury about weakness in the labor market on Friday …
Discussion: Axios
NBC News:
Republican senators raise concerns about Trump's firing of Labor Dept. official  —  Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday after the agency released a jobs report that showed a significant slowdown in hiring in the U.S.  —  Some Republican senators have expressed concern …
Associated Press:
Who is Erika McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner fired by Trump?  —  The head of the agency that compiles the closely watched monthly jobs report usually toils in obscurity, but on Friday, the current holder of that job was loudly fired by the president of the United States.
Discussion: Straight Arrow News
NBC News:
Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics to be fired after weaker-than-expected jobs figures slam markets
Paul Krugman:
Caracas on the Potomac  —  What I wrote just before Trump took office
Discussion: Bloomberg, Reuters and The Hill
CNN:
Trump fires a senior official over jobs numbers
Associated Press:
Trump removes official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Trump Shoots the Messenger
Discussion: The Atlantic and Raw Story
Bloomberg:
Trump Fires Labor Statistics Head, Prompting Concerns About Data
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows  —  President Donald Trump has already enmeshed the United States military in domestic law enforcement operations involving immigration to an unprecedented degree.  He has authorized a major military buildup at the border.
Discussion: Raw Story
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New Republic:
Department of Homeland Security Memo … HOMELAND SECURITY AND DOD MEETING  —  [The New Republic omitted logistical details here.]  —  STAFF: Chief, Deputy Chiefs of Staff, Steven Munoz, Troup Hemenway, and Joseph Guy, Acting Director of ICE, Todd Lyons, CBP Commissioner, Rodney Scott, Liaison Officer, DoD, Philip Hegseth
Discussion: Mother Jones, Fox News and USA Today
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Federal judges side with Trump on ending union bargaining for federal workers  —  A federal appeals court on Friday sided with the Trump administration, lifting a temporary block on a March executive order that prevented government workers from union bargaining.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Appeals Court Allows Trump Order That Ends Union Protections for Federal Workers
Discussion: Reuters and Commonplace
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:   Federal Court Orders Trump to Answer on Actions Taken for Anti-Voting Order
CNN:
Four people dead in Montana bar shooting, suspect at large  —  Four people are dead after a shooting at a bar in Anaconda, Montana, Friday morning, the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation said in a news release.  —  Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Law Enforcement Center said in a Facebook post …
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Alex Sundby / CBS News:
4 killed in bar shooting in Anaconda, Montana; authorities searching for suspect
Maxwell Adler / Bloomberg:
Trump Administration Suspends UCLA Grants After Rights Probe  —  The federal government is suspending certain research funding to the University of California at Los Angeles over concerns about antisemitism and bias on campus, hitting one of the most prestigious public higher-education systems in the US.
New York Times:
Judges Keep Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Arrests, in Setback for Trump Agenda  —  An appellate panel upheld a finding that federal agents appeared to rely exclusively on race and other factors, such as speaking Spanish, in making arrests.  —  The Trump administration's agenda suffered …
Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Breaking: Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case, Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question  —  The Supreme Court just issued this order:  —  Louisiana had to create that second majority-minority district …
Discussion: Politico and NBC News
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NBC News:
Republican-led House committee postpones Ghislaine Maxwell deposition  —  Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, indicated that next steps will be determined after the Supreme Court decides whether to review Maxwell's appeal.  —  Congressional testimony …
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Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results … Faced with mounting backlash, OpenAI removed a controversial ChatGPT feature that caused some users to unintentionally allow their private—and highly personal—chats to appear in search results.
Brenda Goodman / CNN:
HHS further constrains certain vaccine advisers to the CDC, limiting their input in evidence reviews  —  In a further jolt to the process of reviewing and recommending vaccines at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another group of outside advisers to the agency was abruptly sidelined this week.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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CPB:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding  —  The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release …
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Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Not With a Bang, but With a Truth Social Post  —  The president is rattling a nuclear saber as a distraction.  —  Donald Trump, beset by a week of bad news, has decided to rattle the most dangerous saber of all.  In a post today on his Truth Social site, the president claimed that in response …
New York Times:
Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump's Pay-for-Access Operation  —  A new disclosure shows how corporations and individuals, including many in the crypto business, wrote big checks while seeking favor from the president.  —  When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard …
Lydia Moynihan / New York Post:
Ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith under investigation by Office of Special Counsel after claims of playing politics: ‘No one is above the law’  —  The Office of Special Counsel has launched a formal investigation into Jack Smith, the first official legal probe into his conduct, The Post has learned.
 
 
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Jory Heckman / Federal News Network:
IRS rescinds layoffs at civil rights office, an early target of workforce cuts
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Chris Truax / The Hill:
Trump's mental decline is undeniable — so what now?
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Allison Gill / The Breakdown:
EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas
 

 
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