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⭘ Hiring across the U.S. was weaker than expected in July, a sign the labor market is shifting into lower gear.

⭘ Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 100,000 in July, according to the Dow Jones consensus estimate.

⭘ Trump's extensive new tariff regime on swathes of U.S. partners have reignited trade tensions, sending shock waves through markets.

⭘ U.S. employers added just 73,000 jobs in July, according to a report from the Labor Department Friday, as the unemployment rate inched up to 4.2%. Job gains for May and June were also revised sharply lower.

⬤ The imbalance in President Trump's treatment of America's closest trading partners may come from his desire to make Canada the 51st state, some Canadians believe.

⬤ The White House sent special envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee to inspect food distribution sites in Gaza.

⬤ Israel said it would allow more food to enter Gaza and provide secure corridors for humanitarian aid. But U.N. officials say almost nothing has changed.

⭘ Layan and Mira were killed in proximity to IDF soldiers - the Israeli military says intentional harm to civilians is prohibited and their cases will be examined by the authorities.

⭘ Europe's silence has allowed the genocide of Palestinians to continue unchecked – undermining all it stands for

⭘ Steve Witkoff visits Rafah site where hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces

⭘ Employees across multiple divisions agree: They can't imagine how the department will fulfill its legal obligations with roughly half its staff gone.

⭘ Education Secretary Linda McMahon emphasized state-level education control as a nonpartisan priority, citing diverse needs across Republican and Democratic states.

⬤ Republicans have attacked the president, Gregory Washington, over his support for diversity efforts at the university, Virginia's largest public institution.

⭘ Tony Buzbee defended suing Shannon Sharpe, saying the case was worth his time and denied claims he targeted Black men after the two sides settled.

⭘ Bronny James is over two years removed from his scary cardiac arrest; the son of the NBA's all-time scorer said he still deals with health issues.

⬤ England's women's national team, the Lionesses, are two-time Euro champions, upstaging the English men who have failed to bring home a big trophy for 60 years.

⭘ The superstar actor will release his latest film on YouTube so families who cannot afford cinema trips can watch

⭘ Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight tells the BBC writing Bond "has always been on my bucket list".

⭘ I opened the door and saw flames spreading fast. My daughter screamed, 'Mummy!'

⭘ Black-market rental properties are being openly advertised with unsafe conditions, BBC finds.

⭘ Wildfires burning at the Grand Canyon and in Utah are so hot that they're spurring the formation of "fire clouds" that can create their own erratic weather systems.

⭘ Pulitzer prize-winning author Caroline Fraser on the link between air pollution in the US and male violence

⭘ UK Met Office has named Storm Floris which will bring strong winds and heavy rain on Monday.

⭘ Ray, a New York voter in his mid-30s, backed Donald Trump last year after having voted for Joe Biden in 2020, pointing to Trump's pledges to boost the economy.

⭘ Trump's extensive new tariff regime on swathes of U.S. partners have reignited trade tensions, sending shock waves through markets.

⬤ The money is meant to beat Democrats, but some Republicans worry it could be used to beat Republicans, too.

⭘ Billionaire Elon Musk may be gone from President Donald Trump's White House, but he may not be done with Republican politics

⭘ The iconic American company, U.S. Steel was sold to Nippon Steel in Japan earlier this summer. The sale was years in the making and, on the campaign trail last year, President Trump opposed it. But now, he's approved the sale. And the deal also gives the president himself an outsized say in the future of U.S. Steel.

⭘ A longtime Justice Department employee was fired in July because her husband operated ICEBlock, an app that tracks the locations of immigration agents.

⭘ After mass protests, Ukraine's government enacts a law restoring independence to anti-corruption watchdogs, quelling what threatened to turn into a domestic political crisis for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

⬤ Mexico's president, battling U.S. accusations that the cartels have gripped her government, is facing a scandal in which two former officials are on the run and their old boss is now a top senator.

⬤ The university is the latest to be targeted by the federal government over accusations that it has not done enough to fight antisemitism on campus.

⭘ In the first of a three-part special report, a look at the drugs and violence allegedly sweeping through the Cibola county correctional center in New Mexico

⭘ An email sent to officers whose agencies partner with ICE has even some sheriffs who support the Trump administration and its immigration crackdown seeing red.

⭘ A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for tens of thousands of immigrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua.

⬤ Entrevistas a 16 exdetenidos en el Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo de El Salvador ofrecen la visión más completa hasta la fecha sobre las condiciones en esta prisión infame.

⭘ Two Colorado deputies have been disciplined for sending information to federal immigration agents, which is a violation of a new state law.

⬤ Argentina does not meet a key requirement for the U.S. visa waiver program, a State Department cable acknowledges.

⬤ The cyberspace regulator in Beijing said it questioned Nvidia over its H20 chips, which Washington only recently allowed to resume being exported to China.

⭘ Trunk Tools, a generative AI platform, automates some of the more tedious tasks, pinpoints project risks and simplifies documents.

⬤ Vying to control the future of artificial intelligence, Beijing is pushing the application of AI while the U.S. focuses on developing cutting-edge models.

⭘ The population of the city will double in August as thousands of performers and visitors arrive for the Fringe and International Festival.

⭘ Create private chat rooms using the iPhone Notes app collaboration feature with instant messaging capabilities and full control over conversation privacy.

⭘ Wildfires burning at the Grand Canyon and in Utah are so hot that they're spurring the formation of "fire clouds" that can create their own erratic weather systems.

⭘ UK Met Office has named Storm Floris which will bring strong winds and heavy rain on Monday.

⬤ Past strong earthquakes have caused massive and damaging waves far away, but scientists say these tsunami waves were tame by comparison across the Pacific basin.

⬤ The year's strongest earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami warnings and advisories in Hawaii, California, Oregon and Washington.

⭘ The US president promotes classical architecture and loathes 'ugly' wind turbines. Keir Starmer would dismiss him as a nimby, but on this Trump has a point