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3:55 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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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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Associated Press
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New York Times:
South Koreans Swept Up in Immigration Raid at Hyundai E.V. 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 …
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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New York Post:
Andrew Cuomo meets with Al Sharpton in apparent attempt for endorsement as speculation mounts in NYC mayoral race
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
CBS Abruptly Changes Rules for Editing ‘Face the Nation’ Interviews
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 …
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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Scott R. Anderson / Lawfare:
Did the President's Strike on Tren de Aragua Violate the Law?
Discussion: Vox and The Gateway Pundit
Nick Turse / The Intercept:
Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians
Discussion: Task & Purpose, Al Jazeera and The Hill
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
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 …
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.
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Trump to Sign Order Renaming the Defense Department as the Department of War  —  The president is turning back the clock to the name the agency held until shortly after World War II.  —  President Trump will sign an executive order on Friday renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War …
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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.
Discussion: New York Post and Reuters
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 …
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
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump's economic doom loop … - Some Republicans already fear inflation could cost them dearly in the 2026 midterms, warning Trump has only a few months to reset his trajectory on voters' most important issue.  — For a president whose credibility on the economy has always been his strongest asset …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Mehek Cooke / Fox News:   Trump's midterm convention is the seismic shift that will reshape America
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Scott Bessent / Wall Street Journal:
The Fed's ‘Gain of Function’ Monetary Policy  —  The central bank put its own independence at risk by straying from its narrow statutory mandate.  —  As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines.  Once released, they can't easily be put back.
Discussion: Bloomberg and American Thinker
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Rep. Cory Mills faces ex-girlfriend in Florida hearing over restraining order request … “I'm scared,” she told the judge.  “I thought I could handle it by myself.  Please help me.”  —  But Circuit Court Judge Fred Koberlein did not rule on Langston's request because the hearing went beyond the 90 minutes set aside for it.
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,” …
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.
 
 
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Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Why is much of the media ignoring questions about Trump's health?
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Adam Wren / Politico:
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Michael Dorgan / Fox News:
Leaders in AOC's ‘red light’ district push FBI's Kash Patel to end brothel scourge
Discussion: Townhall
Camilla Schick / CBS News:
Trump to issue executive order to allow punishments for countries wrongfully detaining Americans
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Mounting Deportations Meet Slow Hiring in a ‘Curious Kind of Balance’
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 …
Ursula Perano / NOTUS:
Senate Republicans Barrel Toward Nuclear Option On Trump Nominees
Discussion: CBS News and STAT
NBC News:
Justice Amy Coney Barrett says country is not in a ‘constitutional crisis’
 

 
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