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Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post:
Employers added 517,000 jobs in January, astonishing labor market growth — January marked the 25th straight month of solid job growth, and the unemployment rate edged down to a new low of 3.4 percent. — The labor market shattered expectations in January, as the economy added 517,000 jobs …
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Wall Street wavers as investors interpret surprising labor trends. — Pace of U.S. Hiring Surges Unexpectedly … U.S. employers added 517,000 jobs in January. — The American labor market unleashed a burst of hiring in January, producing another wave of robust job growth even as interest rates continue to rise.
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Jobs report shows increase of 517,000 in January, crushing estimates, as unemployment rate hit 53-year low — The January jobs report showed nonfarm payrolls increased by 517,000, far higher than the 187,000 market estimate. — The unemployment rate fell to 3.4% versus the estimate for 3.6%.
David Harrison / Wall Street Journal:
Jobs Report to Show Whether Labor Market Cooling Extended Into January — U.S. added 517,000 jobs in January, snapping five-month string of slowing employment growth — White-Collar Recession: Why Job Cuts Are Hitting Professional Workers — Created with sketchtool.
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Washington Post:
Blinken postpones China trip as suspected spy balloon detected over U.S. — Hours before the secretary of state was scheduled to depart for Beijing, the diplomatic visit was called off — President Biden postponed his top diplomat's first official trip to China on Friday in response …
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Chinese spy balloon surveilling US, senior official says — The vessel is described as the size of three buses. — A massive spy balloon believed to be from China was seen above Montana and is being tracked as it flies across the continental United States, with President Joe Biden for now deciding against …
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Washington Post:
What to know about the suspected Chinese spy balloon — The spotting of a high-altitude surveillance balloon over the U.S. mainland has quickly spiraled into a diplomatic incident. U.S. officials say the object is a Chinese spy balloon, while Chinese officials called it a “civilian airship” mainly used to track weather.
CNN:
Blinken postpones trip to Beijing after Chinese spy balloon spotted over US, officials say — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed his upcoming trip to China in response to the flying of a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the United States, according to two US officials.
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U.S. Department of Defense:
DoD Statement on High-Altitude Surveillance Balloon
DoD Statement on High-Altitude Surveillance Balloon
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U.S. Department of Defense:
Senior Defense Official Holds a Background Briefing on High-Altitude Surveillance Balloon
Senior Defense Official Holds a Background Briefing on High-Altitude Surveillance Balloon
Bloomberg:
US Postpones Blinken China Visit in Uproar Over Alleged Spy Balloon
US Postpones Blinken China Visit in Uproar Over Alleged Spy Balloon
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Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
Blinken Trip to China Postponed After Spy Balloon Spotted Over U.S.
Blinken Trip to China Postponed After Spy Balloon Spotted Over U.S.
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New York Times:
Trump Likened to Mob Boss John Gotti in Ex-Prosecutor's New Book — Mark F. Pomerantz, who resigned from the Manhattan district attorney's office last year, wrote that he had pursued a racketeering case against the former president. — Donald J. Trump grew his business, fortune and fame …
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Laura Davison / Bloomberg:
George Santos Produced Broadway's Ill-Fated Spider-Man Musical. At Least, He Claims He Did — Add Broadway producer to the long list of George Santos's fabrications. — While running for Congress in 2021, Santos told some potential donors he was a producer on the musical Spider-Man …
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David Weigel / Semafor:
‘At any age’: Donald Trump pushes the GOP towards targeting transgender adults — You'd be forgiven if you missed Donald Trump's new plan to stop “left-wing gender insanity.” Other Republicans had talked like this for years, and far more media attention went to, say, Ron Desantis getting …
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Tom LoBianco / Yahoo News:
Pence calls for Social Security reform, private savings accounts — 48th Vice President of the United States — WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Mike Pence, a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, said Thursday that he wants to “reform” …
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Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
H5N1 Bird Flu is Causing Alarm. Here's Why We Must Act. — As the world is just beginning to recover from the devastation of Covid-19, it is facing the possibility of a pandemic of a far more deadly pathogen. — Bird flu — known more formally as avian influenza — has long hovered on the horizons of scientists' fears.
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Hunter Biden Claims His Laptop — And asks his dad's government to target his critics. — WSJ Opinion: The Biden Classified-Document Payback — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool. — 1x — Hunter Biden did some reckless things, is unhappy people found out, and so is now doing something equally reckless.
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Joe Schoffstall / Fox News:
Biden took out $250K line of credit against Delaware beach home amid Hunter probe, classified docs scandal
Biden took out $250K line of credit against Delaware beach home amid Hunter probe, classified docs scandal
Matt Stieb / New York Magazine:
The Latest Hunter Biden Revelation Is a New Low
The Latest Hunter Biden Revelation Is a New Low
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Republicans rally around conservatives who lost their elections — The GOP base lionizes some defeated candidates as wronged warriors and avatars of legitimate grievances — Donald Trump — the former Republican president who lost his 2020 reelection bid — spent last Saturday pinging between …
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David Siders / Politico:
The State Where the GOP Would Rather Lose Than Change
The State Where the GOP Would Rather Lose Than Change
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Washington Post:
Restaurants can't find workers because they've found better jobs — Nearly 2 million hospitality and leisure jobs remain unfilled in what economists call a ‘deep, profound’ shift in the labor market — After losing her longtime restaurant job at the beginning of the pandemic, Emilia McGrath scrambled to find a backup plan.
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
ChatGPT's creators can't figure out why it won't talk about Trump — Even ChatGPT's creators can't figure out why it won't answer certain questions — including queries about former U.S. President Donald Trump, according to people who work at creator OpenAI.
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Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Don Lemon ‘screamed’ at ‘CNN This Morning’ co-host, left crew ‘rattled’: sources — Tensions on the set of “CNN This Morning” have recently boiled over, with Don Lemon allegedly “screaming” at co-host Kaitlan Collins off-camera during an ugly December incident that has left the cast and crew rattled ever since, The Post has learned.
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Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
Matt Gaetz wants to make poor Americans work for their health care — Rep. Matt Gaetz is trying to convince his fellow Republicans to demand new work requirements for Medicaid as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling. — The Florida congressman, who has been enjoying new influence within …
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Asta Hemenway / The Daily Beast:
Republican Lawmakers Overheard Calling Omar Decision the ‘Stupidest Vote in the World’ — OOPS! — Not all House Republican were comfortable with the party's decision on Thursday to kick Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) off the Foreign Affairs Committee. Congressional news outlet Roll Call overhead Rep. Ken Buck …
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Fox News:
House Judiciary subpoenas FBI Director Wray to testify on targeting of parents at school board meetings — EXCLUSIVE: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan subpoenaed FBI Director Christopher Wray on Friday, compelling him to testify before the panel and turn over documents …
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
GOP Rep. Clyde hands out assault-rifle lapel pins to House colleagues — By his own acknowledgment, Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (R-Ga.) has been handing out lapel pins shaped like assault rifles to fellow GOP lawmakers — an exercise that comes in the wake of a spate of mass shootings and during …
Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
A packed 2024 field could hand Donald Trump the nomination. He still hates it. — Republicans opposed to Donald Trump are complaining that a massive pile-up in the 2024 presidential field is set to hand him the nomination. But you won't see Trump, who has publicly and privately groused …
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Miami Herald:
Legislature considers allowing Florida to transport migrants from anywhere in the U.S. — In the face of several lawsuits challenging Gov. Ron DeSantis' covert operation to relocate migrants from the Texas border to Massachusetts, the governor's office now wants lawmakers to revise the law …
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Associated Press:
Sorry, not sorry: Some 1/6 rioters change tune after apology — Appearing before a federal judge after pleading guilty to a felony charge in the deadly Capitol riot, former West Virginia lawmaker Derrick Evans expressed remorse for letting down his family and his community, saying he made a “crucial mistake.”
NBC News:
Nearly 600,000 migrants who crossed the border since March 2021 were released in the U.S. with no immigration court dates — Nearly 600,000 migrants who crossed the U.S. border since March 2021 have been released into the U.S. without being charged or given a date to appear in court …
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