After a bad employment report in August, President Trump fired the official in charge of the numbers. This month’s data was just as disappointing.The economy added only 22,000 jobs in August. President Trump’s high tariffs and mass deportations appear to have created noticeable pressure on employers
Some of President Trump’s pressure tactics appear to have backfired, sending would-be allies into the embrace of China.“Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday morning, as he posted a photo of the three nations’ leaders meeting in
President Trump and his defense secretary say they want to return to the era when America won wars. They largely ignore the greatest accomplishment of the past 80 years: avoiding superpower conflict.“Everybody likes that we had an unbelievable history of victory when it was Department of War,” Presi
As he signed an order recognizing the Defense Department as the “Department of War,” President Trump said that the country “could have won every war, but we really chose to be very politically correct.”“The Department of War sends a signal,” President Trump said on Friday. The change, he added, was
The 2019 operation, greenlit by President Trump, sought a strategic edge. It left unarmed North Koreans dead.President Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, had an erratic relationship. They met on Sentosa Island in Singapore in 2018.
The Trump administration failed to tell lawmakers about a 2019 SEAL Team 6 incursion into North Korean territory that went awry.President Trump with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, in 2019.
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.A Homeland Security official said 475 people, most of whom are South Korean citizens, were arrested at a construction site in Ellab
A court had ruled that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia could not be sent back to his homeland, but now the administration sees a loophole. On Friday, Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers were told that he would be sent to the small African nation of Eswatini.Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia at a U.S. Immigration an
Protesters held demonstrations and city leaders spoke against the prospect of a surge of federal agents.Police encountered demonstrators trying to block government vehicles from leaving an ICE facility in Broadview, Ill., outside Chicago, on Friday.
After years of training (clowning, Butoh and more), the longtime friends take on Samuel Beckett’s towering drama on Broadway.
The upcoming U.S. Dietary Guidelines will instead be influenced by a competing study, favored by industry, which found that moderate alcohol consumption was healthy.The report that has been sidelined is one of several that have upended a long-dominant narrative about alcohol that suggested that mode
Studies over the last decade of acetaminophen use in pregnancy — including a recent scientific review — have yielded mixed results but have not found a causal connection.A new scientific review has been swept up in a larger, politically fraught debate over the causes of autism.
The Sunday show “Face the Nation” will no longer edit recorded interviews with newsmakers. The administration accused the network of deceptively editing an appearance of the homeland security secretary.Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem on “Face the Nation” last weekend.
The discussions were said to be part of an effort to consolidate opposition to Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor, but appeared to be fading on Friday.Mayor Eric Adams has told allies he is considering a range of options at a time when polls show his path to re-election has all but closed.
Carl Heastie, the speaker of the Assembly, has not yet endorsed his fellow lawmaker. He’s not the only prominent Democrat to hold back support.The Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie, has asked Zohran Mamdani to do more to placate their colleagues who take issue with his stance on Israel.
He and his classmates from a historically Black college in Greensboro, N.C., desegregated a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, inspiring similar protests across the nation.
The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works.Anthropic’s Claude chatbot has become one of the world’s most popular A.I. systems.
Armani amassed a cavalcade of celebrity spokespeople. Many came through a former journalist named Wanda McDaniel.Giorgio Armani and Samuel L. Jackson met through Wanda McDaniel, who helped Mr. Armani pioneer a new way of collaborating with celebrities.
Activists are hoping to recreate the magic of 1970’s Earth Day — at a moment when the movement’s future is cloudier than ever.
A Syrian immigrant in Southern California beat the odds — twice — and now some Powerball players see an ineffable magic at work in his store.
The Powerball jackpot hit $1.8 billion ahead of Saturday’s drawing, making it the second-largest and inspiring many to play.If no one matches all six numbers of the Powerball drawing on Saturday, the jackpot could become the largest in history.
Economic data suggests labor supply and immigration changes are affecting job growth. The Federal Reserve can’t fix that, but Trump can.
Our biggest adversary is waiting for the West to collapse.
Also, Israel strikes a Gaza City landmark. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
