Getty Images US President Donald Trump said he would fire the head of the agency charged with publishing some of America’s most closely watched economic data, after a weaker-than-expected jobs report stoked further alarm about his tariff policies. His decision to move forward with plans to sharply raise tariffs on goods from countries around the…
U.S. hiring slows as unemployment rate ticks up U.S. hiring slows as unemployment rate ticks up 02:03 President Trump ordered his administration to fire the commissioner of labor statistics, Erika McEntarfer, after the July jobs report showed a sharp slowdown in hiring and a steep downward revision to May and June’s hiring numbers. “No one…
“We are barely surviving,” says Hussain, a garment worker at a factory in Pakistan. “I live in a two-room house with my five children. I hardly manage my utilities on my salary, and we are living hand to mouth. The wages are not enough.” Hussain is one of hundreds of Pakistani workers making clothes for…
Pet owners splurged on their furry friends as a cat expo opened in Hong Kong on Friday, spending thousands of dollars on products ranging from food to DNA tests for hereditary diseases and jewellery items made with feline hair. The three-day Hong Kong Cat Expo, which has been held annually since 2023, features more than…
President Trump said in a social media post Friday afternoon that he directed members of his administration to fire Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the BLS on Friday published a July jobs report that contained what it called “larger than normal” revisions to data from May and June. The July…
There are reports Napoli are ready to offer Andre Frank Zambo Anguissa a much longer contract than anticipated, to June 2029, to shrug off transfer speculation. It had been suggested he could be departing this summer, as his current deal only runs to June 2026. epa11852755 Napoli’s midfielder Frank Anguissa celebrates after scoring during the…
Alphabet’s Google on Friday asked a U.S. appeals court to keep on hold an order that required sweeping reforms to the technology giant’s app store Play, after losing a key ruling this week in a lawsuit brought by “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games. Source link
Donald Trump has said that he has deployed nuclear-capable submarines to the “appropriate regions” in response to a threatening tweet by Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev, suggesting that he would be ready to launch a nuclear strike as tensions rise over the war in Ukraine. In a post on Truth Social on Friday, Trump wrote…
Image source: Getty Images Every time we get a rally, people start speculating about the next stock market crash. So with the FTSE 100 powering past 9,000, and global markets climbing too, it’s no surprise the worriers are warning of trouble in August. Reuters reports that “big investors” fear a repeat of last year’s August rout, sparked by…
Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been transferred from a federal correctional facility in Tallahassee, Florida, to a facility in Bryan, Texas, CBS News has learned. No reason was given for the move. Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence after she was convicted in 2021 for her role in helping…