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Is the Jobs Data Still Reliable? Yes, at Least for Now. (Ben Casselman/New York Times)

Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Is the Jobs Data Still Reliable?  Yes, at Least for Now.  —  When last month's jobs report showed unexpected weakness in the labor market, President Trump fired the head of the agency that produces the data and named a loyalist to run the department that produces those numbers.

2025-09-05 15:05:00 UTC

New York Times

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Trump grows pessimistic about the prospect of ending the Russia-Ukraine war (NBC News)

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 …

2025-09-05 14:50:00 UTC

NBC News

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Live Updates: U.S. Labor Markets Stalled This Summer, With August Data Adding to Slowdown (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)

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.

2025-09-05 14:40:01 UTC

New York Times

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Tesla Offers Unprecedented $1 Trillion Pay Package to Musk (Dana Hull/Bloomberg)

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 …

2025-09-05 14:20:00 UTC

Bloomberg

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Hundreds Arrested in Immigration Raid at Hyundai Site in Georgia (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)

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 …

2025-09-05 13:35:00 UTC

Wall Street Journal

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Talks Between Adams and Trump Adviser Center on Saudi Ambassadorship (New York Times)

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.  —  Close advisers have been crafting a plan for President Trump …

2025-09-05 13:30:04 UTC

New York Times

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GOP senators signal to Trump that Kennedy is on thin ice (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)

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 …

2025-09-05 13:25:01 UTC

The Hill

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Trump Administration to End Security Programs Protecting European Allies From Russia (Erica L. Green/New York Times)

Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Trump Administration to End Security Programs Protecting European Allies From Russia  —  Ending the longstanding program is expected to impact hundreds of millions of dollars that have gone toward countries that border Russia.  —  The United States will move to end support for a program …

2025-09-05 13:20:03 UTC

New York Times

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How Stephen Miller is running Trump's effort to take over D.C. (Washington Post)

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 …

2025-09-05 13:20:03 UTC

Washington Post

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The overwhelming evidence that the Supreme Court is on Donald Trump's team (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The overwhelming evidence that the Supreme Court is on Donald Trump's team … Last month, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dropped an inflammatory allegation on most of her colleagues. … Jackson labeled this decision “Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist.”

2025-09-05 13:05:01 UTC

Vox

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Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown (Jeff Cox/CNBC)

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.

2025-09-05 12:55:00 UTC

CNBC

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Trump's pick to lead BLS ran Twitter account with sexually degrading, bigoted attacks (CNN)

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 …

2025-09-05 12:30:00 UTC

CNN

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Trump's "strongly disapprove" numbers are record-setting (not in a good way) (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)

G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Trump's “strongly disapprove” numbers are record-setting (not in a good way)  —  Nearly a majority of Americans strongly disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president.  That is starting to have political costs  —  the New York Times reported that Donald Trump is trying to get the Republican Party …

2025-09-05 12:25:00 UTC

Strength In Numbers

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How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart (New York Times)

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 …

2025-09-05 11:10:00 UTC

New York Times

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Hochul to Sign Order to Get Around U.S. Limits on Covid Vaccine (Joseph Goldstein/New York Times)

Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
Hochul to Sign Order to Get Around U.S. Limits on Covid Vaccine  —  Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York plans to authorize pharmacists to provide the vaccine to almost anyone who wants it without a prescription.  —  In an effort to ensure more New Yorkers can get the latest Covid vaccines …

2025-09-05 03:45:00 UTC

New York Times

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US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia  —  Move comes as Washington pushes Nato allies to pay more towards their own defence  —  The US is to phase out security assistance programmes for European armies along Russia's border, as it pushes the continent to pay for more of its own defence.

2025-09-05 03:20:06 UTC

Financial Times

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Justice Amy Coney Barrett says country is not in a 'constitutional crisis' (NBC News)

NBC News:
Justice Amy Coney Barrett says country is not in a ‘constitutional crisis’  —  Speaking to Free Press founder Bari Weiss to promote her new book, the conservative justice said the American people should trust the Supreme Court.  —  Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday …

2025-09-05 01:55:00 UTC

NBC News

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Trump to Sign Order Renaming the Defense Department as the Department of War (Erica L. Green/New York Times)

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 …

2025-09-05 01:40:01 UTC

New York Times

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First hearing held on detainees' legal rights at 'Alligator Alcatraz' after judge orders wind down (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)

Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
First hearing held on detainees' legal rights at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ after judge orders wind down  —  A federal appeals court panel on Thursday put on hold a lower court judge's order to end operations indefinitely at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

2025-09-05 01:10:00 UTC

Associated Press

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White House to rebrand Pentagon the Department of War (Politico)

Politico:
White House to rebrand Pentagon the Department of War … Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has embraced “warfighters” as part of the Pentagon's identity, simply posted Thursday night on X, “Department of War.”  —  It would likely cost billions of dollars to change the names of hundreds …

2025-09-05 00:45:01 UTC

Politico

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Exclusive: FBI employees worry Trump's Washington surge is exposing unmarked cars (Jana Winter/Reuters)

Jana Winter / Reuters:
Exclusive: FBI employees worry Trump's Washington surge is exposing unmarked cars  —  President Donald Trump's surge of federal law enforcement into Washington, D.C., is exposing the FBI's fleet of unmarked cars, potentially risking its ability to do its most sensitive national security and surveillance work …

2025-09-04 23:35:00 UTC

Reuters

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Rep. Tim Burchett scraps with protester on Capitol Hill (Chris Marquette/Politico)

Chris Marquette / Politico:
Rep. Tim Burchett scraps with protester on Capitol Hill  —  Rep. Tim Burchett and a protester got into a physical altercation Thursday outside of the Longworth House Office Building that ended with the Tennessee Republican forcefully shoving the man.  The scrap took place shortly after the final House votes of the week.

2025-09-04 23:25:03 UTC

Politico

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Trump to rename Pentagon, restoring historic 'Department of War' in latest military move (Fox News)

Fox News:
Trump to rename Pentagon, restoring historic ‘Department of War’ in latest military move  —  ‘Everybody likes that we had an unbelievable history of victory when it was Department of War,’ Trump told reporters in August  —  FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Friday …

2025-09-04 23:25:03 UTC

Fox News

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Trump to rebrand Defense Department as War Department (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
Trump to rebrand Defense Department as War Department  —  The president is expected to sign an executive order Friday, though it is unclear if he can permanently change the agency's title without legislation from Congress.  —  President Donald Trump is expected to rename the Defense Department …

2025-09-04 23:20:00 UTC

Washington Post

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Donald Trump is unpopular. Why is it so hard to stand up to him? (The Economist)

The Economist:
Donald Trump is unpopular.  Why is it so hard to stand up to him?  —  Republicans are servile.  Courts are slow.  Can the Democrats rouse themselves?  —  If a single political idea has tied Americans together over their first quarter of a millennium, it is that one-person rule is a mistake.

2025-09-04 23:00:00 UTC

The Economist