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6:10 PM ET, September 5, 2025

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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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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 …
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.
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.
Lauren Aratani / The Guardian:
US added just 22,000 jobs in August, continuing slowdown amid Trump tariffs
Daily Kos:
New jobs numbers are so bad, Trump would rather discuss Epstein
Discussion: Politico
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 …
CNN:
Massive immigration raid at Hyundai megaplant in Georgia leads to 475 arrests. Most are Korean
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 …
Discussion: New Republic
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New York Times:
CBS Abruptly Changes Editing Rules After Attacks From Administration
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Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Is the Jobs Data Still Reliable? Yes, at Least for Now.
Discussion: Axios and The Independent
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
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 …
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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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 …
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 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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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 79, Awkwardly Hides Bruised Hands Under the Table During Tech Bro Dinner
Discussion: Tampa Free Press
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.
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.
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: Daily Kos and 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 …
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 …
Discussion: twitchy.com and American Greatness
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.
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.
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 and Newsweek
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.
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.
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
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Trump Says He Will Not Attend G-20 Summit in South Africa
Discussion: Politico, CBS News and New York Times
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
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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
Cambridge Core:
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Brittany Gibson / Axios:
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Discussion: The Hill
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
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