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A striking percentage of job growth has consisted of immigrant workers — with one bank estimating they accounted for as much as two-thirds of the net gains over the last year.
The suspect began his rampage with a gas station robbery, officials in Florida said early Friday.
Since last week, thousands of residents have left the island by plane and ferry, as hundreds of earthquakes continue to shake the region.
As average 30-year mortgage rates have stayed stuck around 7%, the net share of consumers who believe they’ll fall in the next 12 months declined sharply in Fannie Mae’s latest survey on housing market attitudes.
A North Carolina judge is expected to rule Friday on whether a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias during jury selection, potentially opening the door to death row inmates throughout the state getting resentenced.
Iran's supreme leader says negotiations with America “are not intelligent, wise or honorable,” after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested he wants nuclear talks with Tehran despite reimposing his “ maximum pressure ” approach to Iran. The remarks on Friday by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei upend months of signals from Tehran to the United States that it wanted to negotiate over its rapidly advancing nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of crushing economic sanctions worth billions of dollars.
The United States added fewer jobs than expected in January although hiring remained healthy, government data showed Friday, marking resilience in the labor market heading into President Donald Trump's new term.The data indicate the US economy remained in good shape heading into Trump's second presidential term, which began on January 20, analysts noted.
The European Union must act to lower energy prices and curb illegal migration, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday, as he laid out Warsaw's priorities for its six-month presidency of the bloc during a visit by EU commissioners. Worries about the cost of living and migration have fuelled a rise in right-wing, eurosceptic parties in many parts of the European Union. Tusk has previously said pro-European parties must act decisively on these issues, which will likely feature prominently in this year's Polish presidential election.
US stock markets rose but European shares fell Friday as investors digested a cooler US jobs report at the end of a volatile week marked by concerns over a trade war.The jobs data caps a turbulent week for stock markets and currencies after US President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on China.
The U.S. economy added fewer jobs in January than economists had forecast, although the jobless rate edged lower.
Investors took in Amazon earnings, with the all-important jobs report on deck.
President Donald Trump's sweeping assertions of executive power during his first weeks back in office appear headed toward U.S. Supreme Court showdowns, but it remains an open question whether or how much the justices might act to check his authority. Since taking office on January 20, Trump's views of presidential authority appear far less restrained than those of his White House predecessors, according to legal scholars, citing actions such as seeking to restrict birthright citizenship, withholding funding appropriated by Congress and removing heads of independent federal agencies. Trump prevailed in three major cases last year at the Supreme Court, whose 6-3 conservative majority includes three justices - Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett - he appointed during his first term as president.
Hamas accused Israel of multiple breaches of their ceasefire agreement on Friday, a day before the scheduled exchange of three more Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners in the latest stage in a fragile deal aimed at ending the war in Gaza. As well as delaying the entry of hundreds of trucks carrying food and other humanitarian supplies, Hamas said Israel had only allowed in a fraction of the tents and mobile homes needed to provide shelter to people returning to their bombed-out homes.
At least two people were killed and three more injured when a possible tornado ripped through communities near Knoxville, Tennessee, Thursday night causing widespread damage.
Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, holds more than $1 million of stock in a fashion company founded in China. Patel entered Trump’s orbit as a congressional staffer of modest means. As Patel awaits Senate confirmation to become the next FBI director, his private-sector work is drawing renewed scrutiny from ethics experts and Democrats who say the interests of his former clients could conflict with those of the law enforcement agency he's likely to soon lead.
Republican governors and state lawmakers are eager to embrace the Musk-driven cuts to Washington — and make sure some of that chaos doesn’t trickle down to their states.
Crews in Alaska are searching for a plane that went missing with 10 people on board while over Norton Sound off Nome.
New York on Friday ordered a weeklong shutdown of all live bird markets in New York City, Westchester and Long Island after seven cases of avian flu were detected at bird markets in the city. Gov. Kathy Hochul said there is no immediate threat to public health and that the temporary closure of bird markets comes out of an abundance of caution. No cases of avian flu have been detected among humans in New York, officials said.
For now, he said, the Fed is in "wait and see" mode amid uncertainty over the economic effects of Trump administration policies, he told CNBC. With unemployment at 4% and a cooling rental market poised to help bring overall inflation closer to the Fed's 2% goal, he said, "we're in a very good place to just sit here until we get a lot more information on the tariff front, on the immigration front, on the tax front, etc." Meanwhile, he said, the next two months of inflation data will be paramount in shaping Fed policy, he said.
The gain in jobs was below what was expected, but the job counts for November and December were revised upward by a combined 100,000.
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