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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 …
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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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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown
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Lauren Aratani / The Guardian:
US added just 22,000 jobs in August, continuing slowdown amid Trump tariffs
US added just 22,000 jobs in August, continuing slowdown amid Trump tariffs
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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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NewsNation, Christian Science Monitor and The New Civil Rights Movement
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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Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Today in Politics, Bulletin 200. 9/5/25
Today in Politics, Bulletin 200. 9/5/25
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The Hill, Deseret News and Al Jazeera
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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CNN:
Massive immigration raid at Hyundai megaplant in Georgia leads to 475 arrests. Most are Korean
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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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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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Mediaite, Task & Purpose and twitchy.com
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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Jason Breslow / NPR:
President Trump signs order to rename the Defense Department as the Department of War
Washington Post:
In defense of the War Department
In defense of the War Department
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Air Force Urges Personnel With ‘Highly Professional Image’ To Stand With Trump At Event
Air Force Urges Personnel With ‘Highly Professional Image’ To Stand With Trump At Event
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Raw Story
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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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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Bloomberg, MSNBC, Advocate, Gizmodo, The Independent, Mediaite, New Republic and Raw Story
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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
Washington Post:
Defying past criticism, Trump plans G-20 summit at his Doral resort — Hosting the summit at a Trump property could invite the allegations of self-dealing that prompted the president to cancel a similar move involving the G-7 during his first term. — Just now
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
G20 Summit in 2026 to Be Held at Trump's Club Near Miami, President Announces
G20 Summit in 2026 to Be Held at Trump's Club Near Miami, President Announces
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The Hill, New York Post, CBS News, Bloomberg and KSTP-TV
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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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 Times:
Adams Insists He's Running for Mayor Despite Saudi Ambassadorship Talks — The discussions were said to be part of an effort to get Mayor Eric Adams to end his mayoral campaign in New York City, but appeared to be fading on Friday. — Close advisers have spent days crafting a plan …
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Eric Adams says he's staying in NYC mayoral race
Eric Adams says he's staying in NYC mayoral race
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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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Axios, Letters from an American, Forbes, To the Contrary, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, NBC News, Meidas+, The Fucking News, The Moderate Voice, Futurism and MSNBC
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / NBC News:
Ahead of Kennedy hearing, GOP saw poll showing Trump voters support vaccines
Ahead of Kennedy hearing, GOP saw poll showing Trump voters support vaccines
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Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, Los Angeles Times and New York Post
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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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.
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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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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
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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Daily Kos and The Post Millennial

