Month: August 2025

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer praised President Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after the Friday release of the July jobs report. In a statement on social media, Chavez-DeRemer hailed Trump’s decision to fire BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after the agency, which is housed in the Labor Department, released…
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Senate Democrats reacted with outrage and disbelief to the news that President Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after the agency released a weaker-than-expected jobs report that showed the economy gained only 73,000 jobs in July and did far worse than previously reported in May and June. “Just absolutely insane,…
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Andry Hernández was a gay makeup artist whom the U.S. let into the country because of persecution he’d face in Venezuela.

Tariff concerns are affecting parents as they begin back-to-school shopping early to avoid the higher costs they believe are coming for school supplies, according to a Wednesday survey from U.S. News.   Sixty percent of parents already began back-to-school shopping as 62 percent expect to pay more this year than last year, according to the survey. …
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Several Senate Democrats are calling for an investigation into the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision to settle a lawsuit blocking Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks.  Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) raised concerns to the DOJ inspector general Friday about the…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that peace talks with Ukraine have been stalled due to “inflated expectations” as leaders continue to urge the Kremlin to shift course.  “All disappointments come from inflated expectations,” Putin told reporters Friday, according to The New York Times.  “In order to solve the issue in a peaceful way, we…
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In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump blasted the moderate Republican after she opposed two of his major initiatives.

Trump’s unhinged, on-again, off-again tariff scheme led to a weak jobs report Friday.

A recruiting email sent this week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement‘s (ICE) deputy director is part of a federal hiring blitz of officers, but the promise of a $50,000 signing bonus directed at local sheriff’s deputies isn’t sitting well with some officials, who feel their departments are being poached. More than $46 billion of…
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The last six months of Biden’s presidency saw twice as many jobs added as the first six months of Trump’s second term.

Virginia gubernatorial nominee and Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) clashed with CNN reporter Manu Raju on Friday over her past criticisms of President Trump.  Raju pressed Earle-Sears over the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce this year, which have had a significant impact on Virginia, given its large population of federal workers.  “Do you…
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President Trump said Friday the U.S. is positioning two nuclear submarines in “appropriate regions” near Russia, a move he blamed on threatening rhetoric from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who remains a top Kremlin adviser. Trump cited in a Truth Social post what he called “highly provocative statements” from Medvedev and said the submarines were…
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Cambodia floated plans Friday to nominate President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for helping broker a ceasefire agreement that helped the country end its border war with Thailand.  “He should get the Nobel, not only for his work on Cambodia but also elsewhere,” Cambodian deputy prime minister Sun Chanthol said in an interview with…
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Donald Trump and former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have traded taunts in recent days.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) said Friday it will begin “an orderly wind-down of its operations” after seeing its budget cut through GOP-led legislation. “Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,”…
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President Trump in his first six weeks in office has made a number of moves to remake American arts and cultural institutions — particularly those in the nation’s capital — in the MAGA image. His administration has cut funding for arts programs, installed the president as the head of the Kennedy Center and attempted to…
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Making employees miserable has helped the administration push them out the door through deferred resignation and early retirement programs.

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The main super PAC affiliated with President Trump reported nearly $200 million in the bank as it looks ahead to the 2026 midterms in which control of Congress will be up for grabs.  MAGA Inc., which was key in promoting Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, reported $196.1 million in cash on hand in a mid-year filing…
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Apple expects to face $1.1 billion in tariff-related costs next quarter, on top of $800 million from the previous three-month period, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Thursday.  The iPhone maker, which has been hit particularly hard by President Trump’s tariff push, still reported strong quarterly earnings, posting $94 billion in revenue and $23.4 billion in…
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, was quietly transferred from a federal prison in Florida to a federal prison in Texas, according to a Bureau of Prisons official.  “Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas,” BOP official Benjamin…
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Flags in the Sunshine State are being flown at half-staff Friday in honor of Hulk Hogan, the professional wrestler who died from a heart attack last week at the age of 71. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) also proclaimed Aug. 1 as “Hulk Hogan Day” and called the wrestler a “true Floridian.” “His larger-than-life personality…
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Democrats on Capitol Hill are hammering President Trump and his GOP allies for Friday’s underwhelming jobs report. Released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the analysis revealed that U.S. employers added 73,000 jobs in July — well below economists’ estimates of 100,000 — while the figures for May and June were revised dramatically…
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