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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.
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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.
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The Bulwark, NewsNation, The Hill, Al Jazeera and New York Post
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 …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown — Job creation sputtered in August, adding to recent signs of labor market weakening and likely keeping the Federal Reserve on track for a widely anticipated interest rate cut later this month.
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Wall Street Journal, Military and Veteran …, Lawyers, Guns & Money, MSNBC and UPI
Lauren Aratani / The Guardian:
US added just 22,000 jobs in August, continuing slowdown amid Trump tariffs
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Courtenay Brown / Axios:
U.S. economy adds only 22,000 jobs as labor market stalls
U.S. economy adds only 22,000 jobs as labor market stalls
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NPR, CNN, Breitbart, Bloomberg, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Salon, Eye On Housing and Deadline
Scott Horsley / NPR:
Cracks in the U.S. economy: Job growth slows 75% from a year ago
Cracks in the U.S. economy: Job growth slows 75% from a year ago
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Christian Science Monitor, The New Civil Rights Movement and Sherwood News
New York Times:
Second Weak Jobs Report Undercuts Trump's Claims of a Booming Economy
Second Weak Jobs Report Undercuts Trump's Claims of a Booming Economy
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The Fucking News, Newsweek, Raw Story, Fortune and The Hill
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Is the Jobs Data Still Reliable? Yes, at Least for Now.
Is the Jobs Data Still Reliable? Yes, at Least for Now.
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Axios and The Independent
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 …
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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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NBC News, Yonhap News Agency, Jamaica Observer, Gizmodo, New York Sun, Associated Press, The Daily Signal and UPI
Reuters:
US deploying stealth fighter jets to Caribbean for drug fight as tensions with Venezuela rise, sources say — The United States has ordered the deployment of 10 F-35 fighter jets to a Puerto Rico airfield to conduct operations against drug cartels, sources say, adding more firepower …
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Nick Turse / The Intercept:
Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians
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Raw Story, New York Post and Adventus
Scott R. Anderson / Lawfare:
Did the President's Strike on Tren de Aragua Violate the Law?
Did the President's Strike on Tren de Aragua Violate the Law?
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Vox
Catherine Bouris / The Daily Beast:
Hegseth Declares He Has ‘Absolute Authority’ to Kill Suspected Drug Dealers
Hegseth Declares He Has ‘Absolute Authority’ to Kill Suspected Drug Dealers
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twitchy.com, Mediaite and Task & Purpose
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:
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 …
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The Hill, Washington Times, Reason, New York Post, FOREVER WARS, Raw Story, NextDraft, Task & Purpose, New Republic, RedState, The Sun, Mediaite, CBS News and NewsMax.com
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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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Eric Adams says he's staying in NYC mayoral race
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The Guardian, Mediaite, The Post Millennial, Associated Press, Newsweek and Fox Business
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 …
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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
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Wall Street Journal, New York Post and New Jersey Online
Josephine Walker / Axios:
Robert F. Kennedy's nephew calls for his resignation
Robert F. Kennedy's nephew calls for his resignation
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The Hill, New Republic, Raw Story and The New Civil Rights Movement
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.
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Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Trump orders return to the US ‘War Department’ — U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to rename the Department of Defense the “Department of War,” reverting to a title it held until after World War Two when officials sought to emphasize the Pentagon's role in preventing conflict.
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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 …
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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 …
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The Post Millennial
David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner:
Pirro announces two 17-year-olds arrested in case of killed intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym — Jeanine Pirro, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, announced on Friday that two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the killing of a congressional intern this summer.
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.
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CBS News, NOTUS, Washington Examiner, The Texas Tribune, Mediaite and Newsweek
Reuters:
Exclusive: Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers — Close relatives of the federal official who has accused a Federal Reserve governor of improperly claiming primary residence on two properties have declared the same status …
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twitchy.com and American Greatness
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 …
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Associated Press, MSNBC, The Hill, Washington Post, Bloomberg, USA Today, Axios, WTTG-TV, The Daily Signal, The Independent and Washington Examiner
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.
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israelhayom.com, New York Post and Reuters
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 …
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New Jersey Online and Newsweek
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.
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The Hill, CBS News, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Trump threatens more tariffs after EU fines Google €2.95B … Trump and his administration, most notably Vice President JD Vance, have been outspoken in criticizing European tech laws they say disproportionately harm U.S. tech companies and chill free speech.
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.
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Bloomberg
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 …

