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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Fires Official Over Jobs Report, Echoing an Authoritarian Playbook — In firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics, the president underscored his tendency to suppress facts he doesn't like and promote his own version of reality.
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Nicholas Grossman / Arc Digital:
To Live Inside a Lie — President Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Director Erika McEntarfer because the latest monthly jobs report looks bad and Trump wanted it to look good. He accused McEntarfer of “faked” numbers, but that's almost certainly a lie.
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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
U.S. jobs data “very unreliable,” top Trump econ adviser says — The labor statistics chief that President Trump fired Friday is a “terrific person, but the jobs data her agency produced has become “very unreliable,” National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said Sunday.
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Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Trump Fired America's Economic Data Collector. History Shows the Perils. … President Trump said he ousted the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the numbers produced by her agency were “rigged” to hurt him politically.Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett defends Trump's firing of labor statistics head — In an interview on NBC News' “Meet the Press,” Hassett called for a “fresh set of eyes” at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. — White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett on Sunday defended President …
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The Guardian, Silver Bulletin, Mediaite, ABC News, NewsMax.com and The Hill
George A. Akerlof / New York Times:
Why Trump's Meddling in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Matters — Imagine a group of 5-year-olds playing a board game. The rules are clear, the goal is fair, and one child edges ahead — until, suddenly, another child starts losing. That's when the trouble begins. “He cheated!” the losing child yells.
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, Raw Story and Associated Press
Ashley Ahn / New York Times:
Until Trump Fired Her, She Was an Economist With Bipartisan Support
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The Hill, Politico, Civil Discourse …, Vanity Fair and RTÉ
Washington Post:
White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge — President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt. — Just now
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USA Today, Reuters, Rolling Stone and The Independent
Politico:
DOJ is walking back the White House's goal to arrest 3,000 immigrants per day … It's not the only case that has featured the 3,000-arrest-per-day target as a crucial piece of evidence that the administration's single-minded drive to rack up arrests may have prompted immigration authorities to cut corners or break the law.
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Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Latino GOP lawmakers voice worry about Trump's mass deportation campaign
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Associated Press:
Senate heads home with no deal to speed confirmations as irate Trump tells Schumer to ‘go to hell’ — The Senate left Washington Saturday night for its monthlong August recess without a deal to advance dozens of President Donald Trump's nominees, calling it quits after days …
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Adeel Hassan / New York Times:
Trump Lashes Out at Charlamagne Tha God Over Epstein Comments
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Axios:
“Nuclear option” lingers over Senate as members leave for August recess
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The Gateway Pundit, Fox News, Roll Call, Breitbart, Washington Examiner, RedState, The Daily Caller and The Hill
Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Trump's Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit. … Shipping containers at the Port of Baltimore. Even before the latest tariffs set in, revenue from taxes collected on imported goods grew drastically this year.Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
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Stuart Anderson / Forbes:
Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students — Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. — SaveComment — The Trump administration is using rules, policies and formal agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.
Greg Jaffe / New York Times:
Laura Loomer Attack on West Point Appointee Reflects Larger Fight Over Trump — Jen Easterly, who had served in Republican and Democratic administrations, was headed to the academy. Then a right-wing activist stepped in. — Hours after West Point pulled its offer to have her teach cadets …
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Associated Press:
‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds — Many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective,” according to a poll that finds considerable pessimism within Democratic ranks. Republicans are more complimentary of their party …
Eve Batey / Vanity Fair:
Ghislaine Maxwell, Elizabeth Holmes, And Jen Shah Are At The Same Texas Prison — Jeffrey Epstein's famous confidante, the disgraced founder of Theranos, and the former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City are all serving time at Bryan Federal Prison Camp. — As demands for President Donald Trump …
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Vimal Patel / New York Times:
A Tiny Conservative News Outlet Pioneered the Attack on Higher Education — Campus Reform was founded years ago to expose what it calls leftist bias on college campuses. The online site's cause has gone from fringe to mainstream. — Around the height of the pro-Palestinian campus protests last year …
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Rex Huppke / USA Today:
You know who loves the Epstein scandal? President-in-waiting JD Vance. — So is it that hard to believe Vance is watching Trump digging his Epstein hole deeper and deeper and thanking his lucky stars for the president's incompetence and history of loutish behavior?
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Salon, Jacobin and twitchy.com
David Edwards / Raw Story:
FCC commissioner admits Colbert's firing is ‘a consequence that comes from Trump’ — Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chief Brendan Carr suggested that late-night host Stephen Colbert was fired as “a consequence that comes from” President Donald Trump.
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Kiki Intarasuwan / CBS News:
Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — Washington - The Senate on Saturday approved the nomination of Jeanine Pirro, an ardent loyalist of President Trump and a FOX News fixture, confirming the cable news personality to a top prosecutor post in Washington, D.C.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
After 47 years on the political beat for The Post, it's transition time — Dan Balz writes on his retirement from full-time work at The Washington Post after 47 years. — Just now — About two months ago, my wife was out for a walk and stopped to talk with a man working in his yard.
Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian:
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein — Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women — On 2 July, the jury delivered a guilty verdict on some of the charges against the music mogul Sean Combs, accused of horrific sexual abuse …
George Steer / Financial Times:
Wall St and Silicon Valley ride high as tariffs hit Main Street — Banks and Big Tech are booming but slowing US growth is hurting other companies across the board — A divide is widening in the US economy as the biggest banks and technology groups shrug off Donald Trump's tariffs …
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump's mental acuity — Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffs, but Trump's increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored — Donald Trump's frequently bizarre public appearances …
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
DNC chair says Democrats ‘absolutely’ ready to fight back against GOP redistricting — Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin said on Sunday that Democrats are “absolutely” well positioned to fight back against Republicans redistricting efforts.
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