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US employers added just 143,000 jobs last month, jobless rate falls to 4%

By PAUL WISEMAN
Feb 07, 2025 6:10 am - The U.S. labor market probably started 2025 the way it spent most of last year: Generating decent, but unspectacular, job growth.
Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts

By Hannah Natanson, Gerrit De Vynck, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
Feb 06, 2025 7:58 pm - Representatives from Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service have fed sensitive data from across the Education Department into artificial intelligence software to probe the agency’...
13 states to sue over DOGE access to government payment systems containing personal data

By DAVE COLLINS
Feb 06, 2025 7:48 pm - Democratic attorneys general in several states vowed Thursday to file a lawsuit to stop Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing federal payment sys...
Trump administration plans to slash all but a fraction of USAID jobs, officials say

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER
Feb 06, 2025 7:43 pm - WASHINGTON — The Trump administration presented a plan Thursday to dramatically cut staffing worldwide for U.S. aid projects as part of its dismantling of the U.S. Agency...
Justice Department sues Illinois and Chicago over immigration enforcement

By Derek Hawkins and David Nakamura
Feb 06, 2025 7:11 pm - The Justice Department sued the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago on Thursday, seeking to block state and local protections for undocumented immigrants that the T...
Swedish police say mass shooter was connected to school where he opened fire

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA, SERGEI GRITS and STEFANIE DAZIO
Feb 06, 2025 4:33 pm - OREBRO, Sweden — The shooter who earlier this week killed 10 people in Sweden’s worst mass shooting was connected to the adult education center where he opened fire with ...
Egypt lobbies against Trump plan to empty Gaza of Palestinians as Israel makes preparations

By SAMY MAGDY
Feb 06, 2025 4:23 pm - CAIRO — Israel says it has begun preparations for the departure of Palestinians from Gaza despite international rejection of President Donald Trump’s plan to empty the te...
How Rubio’s trip abroad was overshadowed by foreign policy at home, from USAID to Trump's Gaza plan

By MATTHEW LEE
Feb 06, 2025 3:58 pm - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have hoped to spend his first trip abroad focused exclusively on issues close to his heart: immigration, counternarcotics and curbing Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere.
Trump blames ‘obsolete’ US air traffic control system for the plane and chopper collision near DC

By JOSH FUNK
Feb 06, 2025 11:25 am - President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed last week's deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter on what he called an “obsolete” computer system used by U.S. air traffic controllers, and he vowed to replace it.
Justice Department sues Illinois, Chicago over immigration enforcement

Derek Hawkins
Feb 06, 2025 10:45 am - The Justice Department sued the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago on Thursday, accusing them of impeding the Trump administration’s immigration policies. The department seeks a court order to bar protections for immigrants that exist at the state and local level.

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