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Top News Stories for Sunday, August 3rd 2025
Saturday, Aug 2nd, 2025 -
President Donald Trump says he "did the right thing" by having his team remove the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures, after a weak report showed hiring slowed and was much weaker in April and May than previously reported. Watch Trump's remarks in the player above. "I had issues with the numbers for a long time," Trump said to reporters Friday on the White House's South Lawn. "But today, ...
Source: pbs.org
Saturday, Aug 2nd, 2025 -
MIAMI — A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk's car company Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology and must pay the victims more than $240 million in damages. The federal jury held that Tesla bore significant responsibility because its technology failed and that not all the blame can be put on a reckless driver, even one who admitted he was ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Aug 2nd, 2025 -
A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule homed in on the International Space Station early Saturday and glided in for a problem-free docking — delivering two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a Japanese flier — to the outpost after a 16-hour rendezvous. Catching up from behind and below, the Crew 11 Dragon Endeavour looped up ahead of the lab complex, then to a point directly above the outpost before slowly ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Aug 2nd, 2025 -
Police have found the getaway car of a US military veteran who walked into a bar in the western state of Montana on Friday morning and fatally shot four people, but the gunman remains at large. The shooting happened at The Owl Bar in the city of Anaconda at around 10:30 local time, the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation said. The bar owner told AP news agency he thinks the suspect just "snapped". Police ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Aug 2nd, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Smith is accused of potentially violating a federal law that prohibits government employees from engaging in political activity Former special counsel Jack Smith , the federal prosecutor who led two federal investigations into President Donald Trump , is being investigated by the Office of Special ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Saturday, Aug 2nd, 2025 -
By JAIMIE DING LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday night to uphold a lower court's temporary order blocking the Trump administration from conducting indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in Southern California. A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held a hearing Monday afternoon at which the federal government asked the court to overturn a temporary ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Aug 1st, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. New lockup is an all-female prison camp that has limited perimeter fencing and is home to fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and reality star Jen Shah Leer en Español long-time associate Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly been moved from her prison in Florida to another institution in Texas, The New York ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Aug 1st, 2025 -
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a nonprofit that distributes federal funds to public radio and television stations in the United States, has announced it would be shutting down as the result of funding cuts under President Donald Trump. On Friday, the group issued a statement saying it had launched an "orderly wind-down of its operations" in response to recent legislation that would cut nearly $1.1bn ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Aug 1st, 2025 -
President Donald Trump isn't saving the . The Department of Education announced earlier in July that interest charges for student-loan borrowers on the SAVE plan are restarting on August 1 after being paused for a year while the plan was facing legal challenges. SAVE, created by former President Joe Biden, intended to give borrowers more affordable monthly payments with a shorter timeline to debt relief. The plan ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Aug 1st, 2025 -
Dr. Adriana Kugler, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, speaks to The Economic Club of New York in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. Kylie Cooper | Reuters Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler announced Friday she is stepping down from her role at the central bank, creating an important vacancy at a time when President Donald Trump is pushing for lower interest rates. In a letter addressed ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Aug 1st, 2025 -
Former vice president Kamala Harris stopped by "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Thursday for her first major interview since losing the 2024 presidential election. Harris, who announced earlier this week that she will not enter the 2026 race for California governor, told Colbert that she wants to take a break from holding political office, saying that, for now, she doesn't "want to go back in the system." "I ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Aug 1st, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge on Friday postponed the Trump administration from revoking the temporary status for Nicaraguan, Honduran and Nepali immigrants, finding the cancellation was likely rooted in racial animus. The 37-page ruling by San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson, a Biden appointee, argued the move by Homeland Security Secretary Krisiti Noem to cancel the ...
Source: foxnews.com
Friday, Aug 1st, 2025 -
Trump Administration Is Cutting Funds to U.C.L.A., Chancellor Says The university is the latest to be targeted by the federal government over accusations that it has not done enough to fight antisemitism on campus. Listen to this article · 4:06 min The federal government is cutting research funds for the University of California, Los Angeles, over claims of antisemitism and bias at the institution, according ...
Source: nytimes.com
Friday, Aug 1st, 2025 -
By Arielle Zionts, KFF Health News RAPID CITY, S.D. — Cassandra Palmier had been meaning to get her son the second and final dose of the measles vaccine. But car problems made it difficult to get to the doctor. So she pounced on the opportunity to get him vaccinated after learning that a mobile clinic would be visiting her neighborhood. "I was definitely concerned about the epidemic and the measles," Palmier, ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com