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Saturday, August 02, 2025

The No. 2 U.S.-based automaker by sales volume projects a $3 billion loss this year from tariffs. read more


For weeks, President Donald Trump was promising the world economy would change on Friday with his new tariffs in place. It was an ironclad deadline, administration officials assured the public. read more


The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Friday that it will wind down its operations ... read more


Mark Joseph Stern: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services declared flatly that the children of immigrants who are "unlawfully present" will "no longer be U.S. citizens at birth." They will, instead, inherit the status of their parents, rendering them detainable and deportable as infants and throughout their lives. There is no indication that the government will provide some grace period before snatching up and imprisoning this new underclass of noncitizen babies; they are apparently subject to arrest from the moment of birth. read more


Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon reinstating the national fitness assessment implemented in public schools from 1956 until 2013. read more


The Trump administration and the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced plans to begin building a new digital health information system, in collaboration with a growing list of private-sector companies. read more


Stocks were under pressure on Friday to kick off August trading as investors weighed stark signs of a weakening economy and President Donald Trump's modified tariff rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 717 points, or 1.2%. The S&P 500 shed 1.7%, while the Nasdaq Composite dipped 2.3%. read more


Nonfarm payroll growth was slower than expected in July and the unemployment rate ticked higher, raising potential trouble signs for the U.S. labor market. read more


A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's bid to cancel deportation protections and work permits for more than 63,000 Nicaraguan, Honduran and Nepali immigrants, saying the decision by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared rooted in racism. read more


Michael Wolff is sitting on a trove of 100 hours of interviews with Jeffrey Epstein and says he sent the disgraced financier a message only hours before his death. by Jonathan Alter read more


The FBI redacted Donald Trump's name, along with the names of other prominent public figures, from references in the Jeffrey Epstein files, three people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg's Jason Leopold. read more


Friday, August 01, 2025

The education agency that investigates discrimination claims faces a 'sinister' overhaul, current and former staff tell The Times read more


Six months after Trump bragged about a "historic" realignment, voters from across the political spectrum have soured on the president. read more


Acute necrotizing encephalopathy is deadly in more than a quarter of kids diagnosed with the inflammatory brain disease. read more


President Donald Trump is now meeting with four-star general nominees personally, a notable departure from past practices that raises ethical concerns about the further mingling of political roles within the military's highest ranks. read more


Twenty five people aboard a Delta Air Lines flight were taken to hospital Wednesday after "significant turbulence" forced a plane traveling from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam to make an emergency landing ... read more


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