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Employment growth across America has been much weaker than previously thought over the last three months – a sign that the US labor market may be cooling.

The latest non-farm payroll, just released, shows that US employment rose by just 73,000 in July, rather weaker than the 110,000 new jobs expected.

But the big shock comes in the latest revisions to payrolls, with previous estimates for both May and June being revised sharply lower.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics now estimates that just 19,000 new jobs were created in May, 125,000 fewer than the 144,000 previously estimated.

The sustained attention around the Epstein files lets us shine a light on the bipartisan architecture of impunity.

A Liberian-born double amputee was thrown into solitary confinement at a Georgia immigration detention center after refusing to enter his flooded cell — a move that could have destroyed his battery-powered prosthetic legs and left him unable to walk, according to a report.

Rodney Taylor spent three days in a "restrictive housing unit" at Stewart detention center after guards tried to force him into a cell with an inch of standing water. For Taylor, whose microprocessor-controlled prosthetic legs cannot get wet, entering that cell would have been catastrophic, The Guardian reported.

The 46-year-old barber has lived in the U.S. nearly his entire life after arriving from Liberia as a child on a medical visa. He underwent 16 operations and has only two fingers on his right hand.

Donald Trump has extended the deadline for a tariff deal with Mexico by another 90 days, fuelling speculation he could announce pauses for dozens of other countries that face punitive higher import duties from Friday.

As the countdown continues to his deadline for a trade deal – already extended by four weeks from the original 90 days – the US president said he had made the decision to offer more time to Mexico because of the complexities of the trading relationship.

He wrote on social media: “We will be talking to Mexico over the next 90 Days with the goal of signing a Trade Deal somewhere within the 90 Day period of time, or longer.”

A little more than two weeks ago Trump threatened the EU and Mexico with tariffs of 30% on most exports to the US, but last Sunday he concluded a deal with Brussels with a 15% baseline rate from 1 August.

Minnah Arshad
July 30 2025 2:40pm

The U.N. agency tasked with distributing aid in Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, has maintained for months that it has received no specific evidence that Hamas or other armed groups were diverting its humanitarian aid in Gaza.

“These claims are used as a pretext to justify the aid distribution system supported by the Israeli authorities and the United States of America (so called GHF), which falls far from abiding to the humanitarian principles and international humanitarian law,” an UNRWA spokesperson told The Intercept in a statement.

Parts of Fateh and Mamdani’s platforms would be difficult to execute without cooperation from their city councils.

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Trump’s tariffs are aimed at ostensibly boosting US production and fostering a “local for locals” sensibility. Except, it turns out that several American product staples are actually... "Made in Europe"?

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Under FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson’s leadership, the agency has pivoted away from reining in abusive corporate practices.