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The US economy added just 73,000 jobs last month, and the monthly totals for May and June were revised down by 258,000 jobs, to 19,000 and 14,000, respectively, according to data released Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

With those monumental revisions, job growth in June was the weakest in more than four years.

Stock futures dropped lower after the jobs report. Dow futures were down 450 points, or 1%. S&P 500 futures fell 1.1% and Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 1.3%.

A US Navy F-35 fighter jet crashed in central California Wednesday near Naval Air Station Lemoore, according to a Navy press statement.

The pilot ejected safely, and the cause of the crash, which occurred around 6:30 pm, is under investigation, the statement said.

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• Powerful Accounts: The Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration and held at a prison in El Salvador said they were physically abused and mistreated during their incarceration.
• Struggling With Freedom: In the first days of freedom, some of the Venezuelan men are still trying to understand why they were singled out for deportation and how they’ll move forward.
• Broad Claims, Exaggerations: Trump and administration officials have made numerous claims about the men deported to El Salvador, many of which have failed to withstand scrutiny.

Authorities are investigating why two women fell ill at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival. They both received peptide injections, an alternative therapy promoted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a way to fight aging and chronic disease.

The Trump administration is set to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas, following the dismantling of foreign assistance programs carried out by the US Agency for International Development, or USAID.

The “preliminary decision” to destroy the USAID-procured birth control was confirmed by a State Department spokesperson, who said the cost of incinerating them would be $167,000.

By Brett Rowland

(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with the European Union on Sunday that will require imports from the 27-nation bloc to face a 15% tariff.

Trump had previously threatened tariffs of 30% on European goods. Trump announced the the deal after a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

"It's a good deal for everybody," Trump told reporters after the meeting at his golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland.

Trump has been on a roll recently, announcing deals with Indonesia (19 tariff on imports), the Philippines (19% tariff on imports) and Japan (15% tariff on imports) earlier this week.

Trump said the EU will buy $750 billion in energy from the U.S. and agreed to invest $600 billion in the U.S.

"We have a trade deal between the two largest economies in the world. It's a big deal, it’s a huge deal, it will bring stability, it will be predictability," von der Leyen said. "It's a good deal, it's a tough deal."

It's the biggest deal Trump has reached so far.

U.S. total goods trade with the European Union were an estimated $975.9 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to the European Union in 2024 were $370.2 billion. U.S goods imports from the European Union totaled $605.8 billion in 2024. The U.S. goods trade deficit with the European Union was $235.6 billion in 2024, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

By comparison, U.S. trade goods with Japan totaled an estimated $227.9 billion in 2024.

Trump has been working to reorder global trade through tariffs to give U.S. companies an advantage at home.

Economists, businesses and some publicly traded companies have warned that tariffs could raise prices on a wide range of consumer products.

Trump has said he wants to use tariffs to restore manufacturing jobs lost to lower-wage countries in decades past, shift the tax burden away from U.S. families and pay down the national debt.

Tom Lehrer, a popular musical satirist who rose to fame in the 1950s and '60s before returning to a career teaching math, has died at age 97.

Lehrer died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Mass., his friend David Herder confirmed to NPR.

He was remembered across the entertainment industry on Sunday, including by "Weird Al" Yankovic, who called Lehrer a "living musical hero" in a social media post on Sunday.

A Southwest Airlines flight dropped several hundred feet in a matter of seconds to avoid a midair collision, after the Federal Aviation Administration said pilots were alerted to another aircraft's presence in the area.

Southwest Flight 1496 was en route Friday to Las Vegas from Hollywood Burbank Airport when just six minutes after takeoff, the aircraft took a nearly 500 foot plunge to comply with traffic alerts issued to the pilots.

Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.

The bills would carry a $5,000 fine for a first-time violation and comes as momentum for such restrictions has increased in the state and nationally.

President Trump visited the Federal Reserve on Thursday to inspect an ongoing renovation of the central bank's Washington, D.C., buildings — and in an unusual moment, then disagreed with Fed Chair Jerome Powell about the final cost of the project.

A Florida federal judge on Wednesday denied a request to unseal grand jury transcripts of a federal investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

President Trump had called for the release of grand jury testimony related to Epstein, who was accused of sexually trafficking children, in response to pressure from lawmakers and some supporters to show more transparency with the case.

U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg of Florida said in her ruling that 11th Circuit law does not permit her to grant the government's request and that her "hands are tied."

• Under Surveillance: Law enforcement agencies have collaborated with private security to surveil largely peaceful protesters opposed to a Nevada mining project called Thacker Pass.
• Terrorism Task Force: An FBI-led joint terrorism task force has at times focused on the protests, according to internal law enforcement communications.
• Tribal Land: Indigenous people protesting the mine say they have been unfairly singled out by authorities for trying to protect their lands.