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4:50 PM ET, September 5, 2025

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CNN:
Trump's pick to lead BLS ran Twitter account with sexually degrading, bigoted attacks  —  President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics operated a since-deleted Twitter account that featured sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay people …
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Rolling Stone:
Trump Has Successfully Tanked the American Labor Market  —  The president's disastrous tariffs and mass deportation campaign are wrecking the economy … The federal government released another weak jobs report Friday, after the previous poor jobs report resulted in Trump lashing out and firing the Commissioner of Labor Statistics.
Lydia DePillis / New York Times:
Live Updates: U.S. Labor Markets Stalled This Summer, With August Data Adding to Slowdown  —  Employers added only 22,000 jobs in August, and the unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.3 percent.  Revised data also showed that employment fell by 13,000 jobs in June, the first net loss since December 2020.
Lauren Aratani / The Guardian:
US added just 22,000 jobs in August, continuing slowdown amid Trump tariffs  —  Latest report also contained more bad news - the US lost 13,000 jobs in June, according to the latest survey  —  The US jobs market stalled over the summer, adding just 22,000 jobs in August and continuing …
Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post:
Weak summer labor market flashes warning signs for the economy  —  Employers added 22,000 jobs in August but shed jobs in June for the first time since the pandemic.  —  just now  —  The U.S. labor market created few jobs in August and shrank earlier in the summer, a first since the pandemic …
Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal:
Hundreds Arrested in Immigration Raid at Hyundai Site in Georgia  —  South Korea protests after Korean company workers are detained  —  Hundreds of people including South Korean workers were arrested in an immigration raid at a Hyundai Motor battery plant under construction in Georgia …
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New York Times:
South Koreans Are Swept Up in Immigration Raid at Hyundai Plant in Georgia  —  They were among nearly 500 workers apprehended at a construction site for a South Korean battery maker, officials said.  The episode prompted diplomatic concern in Seoul.  —  Immigration authorities arrested hundreds …
Ross O'Keefe / Washington Examiner:
Immigration officers raid Hyundai EV manufacturing site in Georgia
New York Times:
How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart … President Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, had an erratic relationship.  They met on Sentosa Island in Singapore in 2018.Doug Mills/The New York Times  —  A group of Navy SEALs emerged from the ink-black ocean …
Nick Turse / The Intercept:
Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians  —  A current DoD official and many military legal experts say the U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean near Venezuela broke international law.  —  THE LETHAL STRIKE on a boat in the Caribbean on Tuesday was a criminal attack …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Scott R. Anderson / Lawfare:
Did the President's Strike on Tren de Aragua Violate the Law?
Discussion: Vox
Reuters:
US deploying stealth fighter jets to Caribbean for drug fight as tensions with Venezuela rise, sources say
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators signal to Trump that Kennedy is on thin ice  —  Republican senators are sending clear signs of disapproval and unhappiness with Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., making it plain to President Trump that they want the administration to address the chaos …
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / NBC News:
Ahead of Kennedy hearing, GOP saw poll showing Trump voters support vaccines
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS News Agrees Not to Edit ‘Face The Nation’ Interviews Following Homeland Security Backlash  —  CBS News is giving up the power it has to hold “Face the Nation” interviewees to account.  —  The Paramount Skydance news unit said Friday it would cease editing taped interviews with newsmakers who appear on …
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New York Times:
CBS Abruptly Changes Editing Rules After Attacks From Administration
Wall Street Journal:
RFK Jr., HHS to Link Autism to Tylenol Use in Pregnancy and Folate Deficiencies  —  Kennedy's autism report, touted by Trump, will suggest that using the pain reliever during pregnancy may be linked to the developmental disorder  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce …
New York Times:
Talks Between Adams and Trump Adviser Center on Saudi Ambassadorship  —  The discussions are said to be part of an effort to get Mayor Eric Adams to end his mayoral campaign in New York City, clearing a path for Andrew Cuomo.  —  4 MIN READ  —  Zohran Mamdani's Donations Surged After the Primary.
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Brian Barrett / Wired:
Tech CEOs Praise Donald Trump at White House Dinner  —  At a White House dinner Thursday night, America's tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.  —  The camera zooms too close to the president's face; the table at which the tech executives are seated seems far too long.
Dana Hull / Bloomberg:
Tesla Offers Unprecedented $1 Trillion Pay Package to Musk  —  Tesla Inc. proposed a new compensation agreement for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk potentially worth around $1 trillion, a massive package without precedent in corporate America.  —  The long-awaited proposal …
Washington Post:
How Stephen Miller is running Trump's effort to take over D.C.  —  The deputy White House chief of staff has emerged as a key enforcer of the D.C. operation in the month since Trump federalized the local police department.  —  Just now  —  From the head of the conference table …
Discussion: The Post Millennial
John Yoon / New York Times:
Trump Administration Drops Biden Plan for Flight Delay Compensation  —  The Trump administration said it will withdraw President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s plan to require airlines to compensate passengers for carrier-caused disruptions.  —  The Trump administration has said it will drop …
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
The World No Longer Takes Trump Seriously  —  At parades and in the halls of global power, America has been sidelined.  —  The leaders of Russia, China, and North Korea are not good men.  They preside over brutal autocracies replete with secret police and prison camps.
Adam Wren / Politico:
State Rep. James Talarico to jump in Texas Senate race … Democrats have long hoped to flip the Lone Star state, which has at times seemed tantalizingly within reach.  But President Donald Trump won the state by more than 13 percentage points in 2024, a far wider margin than his other two single-digit victories in the state.
Discussion: Newsweek
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Trump faces a large intensity gap in his approval rating  —  On Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump is trying to get the Republican Party to rebrand its “One Big Beautiful Bill” because the law's poll numbers are so bad.  In July, when Congress was taking up the bill …
Discussion: New Jersey Online, Newsweek and MSNBC
Janie Har / Associated Press:
Judge blocks Trump administration's ending of legal protections for 1.1M Venezuelans and Haitians  —  A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States.
NBC News:
Trump grows pessimistic about the prospect of ending the Russia-Ukraine war  —  Whirlwind peacemaking efforts last month appear to have stalled, and there's no sign that Putin and Zelenskyy will meet anytime soon.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has grown increasingly pessimistic …
Punchbowl News:
Maryland Dems may redraw map as redistricting battle rages  —  Democrats are inching toward a mid-decade redistricting in Maryland, one of the few blue states with the ability to counter Republicans' gerrymandering spree. … The Democratic members plan to meet in the next few weeks to discuss a push for a new map.
Catherine Bouris / The Daily Beast:
Top DOJ Official Spills Epstein Cover-Up Plans to Honeytrap  —  PLAYED DATE  —  Pam Bondi's acting deputy chief was filmed bragging to a date about the department's plans to alter the Epstein files.  —  A senior official in the Department of Justice was caught in a honeytrap scheme bragging …
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
JB Pritzker Shows How to Handle Trump  —  Cower before a bully, and he'll only hit you harder.  Stand up to him, however...  Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during a news conference at River Point Park, August 25, 2025, in Chicago.  —  One of the most consistent themes of Donald Trump's rise …
Discussion: Block Club Chicago and USA Today
Brittany Gibson / Axios:
Exclusive: Oversight Committee Dem expands inquiry into Corey Lewandowski  —  The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee fired off two letters seeking the personal financial disclosure forms for Corey Lewandowski, a former adviser to President Trump now serving in a temporary role at the Department of Homeland Security.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
PBS slashes 15% of its staff after federal funding cuts  —  Public Broadcasting Service on Thursday announced a 15% staff cut in response to recent federal funding cuts that stripped PBS and National Public Radio of nearly $1.1 billion in funding for 2026 and 2027.
Eamon Javers / CNBC:
Mystery of former Federal Reserve Governor Kugler's resignation deepens as real estate records raise new questions … Former Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler's abrupt resignation from the board on Aug. 1 - and her unexplained absence at a key meeting two days earlier - left the financial community shocked and confused.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Suzanne Monyak / Bloomberg Law:
Kavanaugh Pushes New Label for Supreme Court Emergency Docket  —  Justice Brett Kavanaugh is doing his best to rebrand the Supreme Court's emergency docket — known colloquially as the “shadow docket” by another name.  —  “I think the term ‘interim docket’ best captures it,” …
 
 
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Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Why is much of the media ignoring questions about Trump's health?
Discussion: Mediaite
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Rep. Cory Mills faces ex-girlfriend in Florida hearing over restraining order request
Discussion: Orlando Sentinel
Scott Bessent / Wall Street Journal:
The Fed's ‘Gain of Function’ Monetary Policy
Discussion: Bloomberg and American Thinker
Cambridge Core:
The Symbolic Politics of Status in the MAGA Movement
Daniel Nichanian / Bolts:
To Boost Turnout, Ballot Measure Proposes Moving New York City Elections to Even Years
David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner:
Pirro announces two 17-year-olds arrested in case of killed intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym
Michael Dorgan / Fox News:
Leaders in AOC's ‘red light’ district push FBI's Kash Patel to end brothel scourge
Discussion: Townhall
 Earlier Items: 
Camilla Schick / CBS News:
Trump to issue executive order to allow punishments for countries wrongfully detaining Americans
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump's economic doom loop
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Stone / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump to reinterpret 1987 missile treaty to sell heavy attack drones abroad
Discussion: Newsweek
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The overwhelming evidence that the Supreme Court is on Donald Trump's team
Discussion: twitchy.com
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
The Epstein discharge petition is headed for success — with a nudge from Dems
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
What is Blueskyism?  —  Bluesky, the Twitter spinoff that was once billed as a kinder …
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Trump to Sign Order Renaming the Defense Department as the Department of War
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved

The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

James Faris / Business Insider:
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