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Rebecca SlaughterLeah Millis | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to allow him to fire Federal Trade Commission commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, who lower courts ordered reinstated after he terminated her.Trump wants the Supreme Court to pause her reinstatement as he appeals the case.”President Trump acted lawfully when he removed Rebecca Slaughter from the FTC,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement.”Indeed, the Supreme Court has twice in the last few months confirmed the President’s authority to remove the heads of executive agencies,” Desai said. “We look forward to being vindicated for a third time —…

A worker pickets outside the Boeing Defense, Space & Security facility in Berkeley, Missouri, US, on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. Neeta Satam | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBoeing is hiring new workers to replace employees in its defense unit as their strike enters a second month without a new contract agreement.”Unfortunately, the union continues to demand more of everything while also saying it has no control over what it will take to end the strike, driving the parties further apart,” said Dan Gillian, a vice president at Boeing and senior executive at the St. Louis site, where many of the defense…

Lululemon shares plunged 20% in extended trading after the company gave a much worse than expected full-year outlook, as tariffs take a bite from its profits.The company topped second-quarter earnings estimates but slightly missed revenue expectations. It said it expected President Donald Trump’s tariffs to hit its full-year profits by $240 million.Lululemon said it expects full fiscal-year earnings of $12.77 to $12.97 per share, well below Wall Street estimates of $14.45 per share. It also anticipates full-year revenue of $10.85 billion to $11 billion, compared with Wall Street expectations of $11.18 billion.”We are facing yet another shift today within the…

DALLAS (AP) — Ruth Paine, whose kindness to Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife as a young mother near Dallas would leave her inexorably linked to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 92.Paine died on Sunday in a senior living facility in Santa Rosa, California, her daughter Tamarin Laurel-Paine said Thursday. Oswald’s wife and children had been staying at Paine’s home in the Dallas of suburb of Irving in the fall of 1963. Oswald stayed at the house the night before the assassination, and before setting off to his job at the Texas School…

The New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 26, 2025.Brendan McDermid | ReutersThe August jobs report on Friday is expected to confirm the labor market is weakening. Just by how much is what will matter to investors. It can’t be too slow, nor can it be too hot.Wall Street is on edge heading into Friday’s nonfarm payrolls. Economists polled by Dow Jones are forecasting the U.S. economy added 75,000 jobs last month, a weak estimate that’s only slightly higher than the dismal 73,000 headline number in the July report. The unemployment rate is also projected to tick higher, to 4.3% from…

The Trump administration said Thursday it is abandoning a Biden-era plan that sought to require airlines to compensate stranded passengers with cash, lodging and meals for flight cancellations or changes caused by a carrier.The proposed rule would have aligned U.S. policy more closely with European airline consumer protections. It was proposed last December in the final weeks of then-President Joe Biden’s administration, leaving its fate in the hands of his Republican successor.In a document posted Thursday, President Donald Trump’s Transportation Department said its plan to scrap the proposed rule is “consistent with Department and administration priorities.” Trump has sought to…

ATLANTA (AP) — A former top elections official who made a name for himself defending Georgia’s 2020 presidential election tally against threats from supporters of President Donald Trump is now running to be the state’s elections chief.Republican Gabriel Sterling, 54, filed paperwork Tuesday to run for secretary of state and announced his candidacy Thursday.“Georgia elections are the safest in the nation and I will fight every day to keep it that way,” Sterling said in a statement.Sterling was for six years the right-hand man of Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger until resigning recently. Trump famously asked Raffensperger in a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced pointed bipartisan questioning during a contentious three-hour Senate hearing Thursday addressing his efforts to pull back COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and the turmoil he has created at federal health agencies. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arrives before the Senate Finance Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arrives before the Senate Finance Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)Read More Sen. Raphael Warnock,…

A Social Security Administration (SSA) office in Washington, DC, March 26, 2025.Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” provides relief to certain Social Security beneficiaries who pay taxes on their benefits.But it doesn’t eliminate those levies entirely.Now, Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, introduced a bill on Thursday — titled the You Earn It, You Keep it Act — to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits. A House version of the bill was introduced by Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minnesota, in April.Gallego’s bill would permanently eliminate federal taxes on Social Security benefits.It would also expand the Social Security…

TIPTONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Data from a cellphone used by a Tennessee man accused of killing four members of the same family and kidnapping a baby showed he was in the vicinity of a wooded area where the bodies were found with gunshot wounds and covered by tarpaulins, an FBI agent said Thursday.FBI Special Agent Scott Lawson testified during a preliminary hearing for Austin Robert Drummond, who has pleaded not guilty to charges including first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping in the July 29 killings.Drummond appeared in court wearing handcuffs. He did not speak during the hearing. After about two hours…