President Trump’s economic pitch took a serious hit Friday after the latest federal jobs report revealed stunning weakness in the labor market. He responded by firing the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for what he called politically motivated revisions that lobbed off hundreds of thousands of job gains earlier this summer. The…
A federal jury Friday found Elon Musk’s Tesla partially liable for a fatal 2019 crash involving the electric vehicle (EV) maker’s autopilot system. The Miami jury determined Tesla was 33 percent responsible for the crash and ordered the company to pay several million dollars in damages. The family of Naibel Benavides sued the EV maker…
Wagner College, a small, private liberal arts college on Staten Island in New York has agreed to comply with the Trump administration’s restrictions on transgender student-athletes following a federal investigation that stemmed from an incident at a women’s fencing competition in March, the Education Department announced Friday. The department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) launched…
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, an ally of President Trump, scored a Friday win after the country’s lawmakers passed constitutional amendments eradicating term limits. The measure was passed in a 57-3 vote just one year after Bukele broke with the law setting term limits by saying he would seek a second term as president. The…
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Friday slammed the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for a series of reports on job growth he deemed inaccurate. The longtime Trump adviser said the BLS had an “unsettling pattern” of presenting the public with the wrong information. “The BLS doesn’t seem to be able to get that…
The Trump administration revoked a Biden era abortion rule on Friday that allows veterans to receive abortions under their medical package. The Department of Veteran Affairs is reversing a 2022 rule that provided access to abortion counseling and abortions to certain pregnant veterans in addition to VA beneficiaries. “We take this action to ensure that…
The Senate on Friday passed its first tranche of government funding bills for fiscal year 2026 ahead of its upcoming August recess, but Congress is bracing for a potentially messy fight to prevent a shutdown when they return in September. The chamber approved three bills that provide more than $180 billion in discretionary funding for…
“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary on Friday criticized President Trump for proposing the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head be fired after reporting a decline in job growth. Hours before his comments, Trump slammed Commissioner Erika McEntarfer in a Truth Social post alleging she altered job reports to favor former Vice President Harris during the…
Charlamagne tha God shared a soft endorsement for Jon Stewart in an interview set to be published Saturday after discouraging former Vice President Kamala Harris from launching another White House bid in 2028. “I would love to see Jon Stewart run in 2028,” Charlamagne told Fox News’s Lara Trump. “If we’re talking about like a…
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Flood survivors decry ack of aid, ‘toxic pit’ conditions Communities hit by the deadly Independence Day floods face a desperate and confused recovery bereft of state and federal aid, survivors told a field hearing of the Texas Legislature in Kerrville on Thursday. © AP…
