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7:15 AM ET, August 2, 2025

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NBC News:
Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report  —  The president implied that the BLS commissioner, longtime federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data “for political purposes.”  —  President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the firing of the head of the Bureau …
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Paul Schroeder / The Friends of the Bureau …:
Statement on Commissioner McEntarfer's Removal  —  Today, President Trump called into question the integrity of the Employment Situation report that the BLS released this morning.  He accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of deliberately reporting false numbers to reflect poorly on this administration.
Discussion: The Hill, CBS News and ABC News
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics to be fired after weaker-than-expected jobs figures slam markets  —  President Donald Trump on Friday fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt.
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.
Bloomberg:
Trump Fires Labor Statistics Head, Prompting Concerns About Data  —  President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after a report showed weak job growth, prompting outcries from economists and policymakers over the integrity of the data going forward.
Paul Krugman:
Caracas on the Potomac  —  What I wrote just before Trump took office  —  If stagflation breaks out under an authoritarian regime, but officials aren't allowed to report the numbers, did it make a sound?  —  Over the past six months we've watched institution after institution corrupted by the Trump administration.
Discussion: Reuters, Raw Story and The Hill
Neil Irwin / Axios:
Trump says he will fire labor statistics chief after weak jobs report  —  President Trump said he will fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the independent government agency reported weak jobs numbers for July and the preceding month.
New York Times:
Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Rigged,’ Fires Labor Official
Discussion: Axios
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Trump Shoots the Messenger
Discussion: The Atlantic and Reuters
Associated Press:
Trump removes official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report
Associated Press:
Who is Erika McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner fired by Trump?
Discussion: Straight Arrow News
CNN:
Trump fires a senior official over jobs numbers
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump Says He Ordered Subs Repositioned in Rare Nuclear Threat to Russia
Associated Press:
US employers slash hiring as Trump advances a punishing trade agenda
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Not With a Bang, but With a Truth Social Post
NBC News:
Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs report
Discussion: Mediaite
Allison Gill / The Breakdown:
EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas  —  About an hour ago, CNN and NBC reported that Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum security camp in Texas.  —  According to sources who have spoken on the condition of anonymity …
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Comer says he will postpone Ghislaine Maxwell testimony  —  The scheduled congressional deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell, a co-conspirator of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is indefinitely postponed, House Oversight Chair James Comer said Friday.  In a letter to Maxwell …
New York Sun:
EXCLUSIVE: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's Longtime Associate, Is Moved From Florida to a Prison in Texas
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, is transferred to a prison camp in Texas
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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Scott Nover / Washington Post:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announces shutdown following funding loss
Alex Sundby / CBS News:
4 killed in bar shooting in Anaconda, Montana; authorities searching for suspect  —  Four people were killed in a shooting at a bar in Anaconda, Montana, on Friday, authorities said.  A suspect is at large.  —  The Montana Division of Criminal Investigation confirmed to CBS News …
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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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Associated Press:
CDC bars expert groups from advising on vaccines
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
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.
Andrew Ackerman / Washington Post:
Federal Reserve governor to resign early, handing Trump an immediate opening on board  —  Federal Reserve Board Governor Adriana Kugler is stepping down from Fed, creating an unexpected opening for President Trump to shape the Federal Reserve.  —  Just now
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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.
Wall Street Journal:
Hegseth's Latest Battle: Infighting Inside the Pentagon  —  Defense secretary has made a series of missteps and feuded with top generals  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's string of missteps has spurred infighting inside the Pentagon and raised concerns among some Republicans on Capitol Hill about his ability to run the department.
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 …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How the New Texas Map Changes the Outlook for Control of the House  —  Democrats' chances would be hurt if the map were approved, but they would still be favored.  —  So far this election cycle, most analysts have assumed that Democrats will win the House next November.  No, it's not a guarantee.
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 …
 
 
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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
Alexander Puri / MSNBC:
This was Thom Tillis' moment. He did not meet it.
Discussion: Raw Story
Bloomberg:
Cornell Close to White House Settlement of Up to $100 Million
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Federal Court Orders Trump to Answer on Actions Taken for Anti-Voting Order
Jory Heckman / Federal News Network:
IRS rescinds layoffs at civil rights office, an early target of workforce cuts
Discussion: Townhall
Shane Harris / The Atlantic:
A MAGA Attorney Hired Epstein's Lawyer for His ‘Valuable’ Experience
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Politico:
Judge rips Noem's latest termination of immigrant protections: ‘Color is neither a poison nor a crime’
Chris Truax / The Hill:
Trump's mental decline is undeniable — so what now?
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
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