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How our reporting worksEconomists surveyed by Reuters expected payrolls to rise by 90,000. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said payrolls and the 4.2 percent unemployment rate both changed little. July and August together are 60,000 lower than previously reported.
Read the storyFor three decades they could ask for release. In July 2025 the Trump administration said the law forbids it. Nine federal appeals courts have said it does not.
Read the storyThe September 17 order denied an emergency hearing but required written notice more than 30 days before the defendants implement a change to the project plans previously presented to the court, including demolition of the main building. It did not decide whether demolition would be lawful.
Read the storyThe first increase since July 2023 was widely expected. July's 9-to-3 vote to hold became a unanimous vote to raise, and 16 of 18 policymakers saw at least one more increase this year as appropriate.
Read the storyThe estimate counts what it will take to replace the munitions fired, the extra flying hours, fuel, lost equipment, and other operations. It leaves out damaged bases, veterans' care, and other agencies. The Defense Department did not answer CBO's requests for its own numbers, and by June 30 had paid out $4.9 billion of the $7.4 billion it had committed.
Read the storyMacklemore played two MetLife Stadium shows, then lost eight scheduled appearances. Four later departures covered different tour roles.
Read the storyThe Postal Service's new rule told election offices to mail ballots in approved envelopes with a barcode for every voter and to enroll each ballot recipient in an online portal, and said outbound ballot mailings that did not comply would be returned to the authorized ballot mailer, an election official or a mail service provider that official has authorized to send the ballots; the check did not apply to voters' returned ballots. On September 14 the Supreme Court refused the government's request to lift a judge's block on those requirements, so they stay blocked for elections through November 3, 50 days later. The Court did not rule on the March executive order behind the rule, and the one justice who explained a vote to deny the stay wrote that the Postal Service may well have the power to issue such a rule for a later election.
Read the storyAir Force Secretary Troy Meink said it on September 14 at a conference in Maryland, and the Space Force chief repeated it the next day. Neither said what the weapons are, how many there are, or when they went up. The 1967 treaty that governs space bans only nuclear and other mass-destruction weapons in orbit.
Read the storyThe United States signed three 50 percent proclamations on July 20 under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930. Canada answered on August 22. Finance Canada said the countermeasures would be effective as of 12:01 a.m. on September 8. The Canadian order names that date.
Read the storyDenmark announced the visit on September 1. On September 7 the European Commission, Greenland, and Denmark signed a declaration that says it creates no legal or financial obligations. The Commission press release, not that declaration, named a €200 million package for this year and next.
Read the storyOn Sunday the solicitor general filed application 26A305, asking the justices to pause a September 4 injunction of Postal Service ballot-mail rules. That injunction covers elections on or before November 3. Sunday's filing is 58 days before that election.
Read the storyThe FAA named the flight 21 Air 7598, a Boeing 767-300 arriving from San Juan. Fire crews found the plane beyond the airport boundary on fire. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating and has not given a cause.
Read the storyThe Saturday 48-hour notice to the Federal Election Commission is two $5 million independent expenditures to Del Ray Media LLC for connected TV and digital ads in the race for Sen. John Cornyn's seat. That $10 million is the filing, not an ad-tracking estimate, and it is not a contribution to Ken Paxton's campaign.
Read the storyForecasters expected 53,000 to 65,000. The employer survey estimated payrolls rose by 162,000, two and a half to three times those forecasts. Restaurants and public schools supplied 101,000 of the gain, and the July loss that opened this series was revised to a gain of 21,000. The unemployment rate held at 4.1 percent.
Read the storyThe ruling is unanimous. The November 3 House election uses the 2022 districts whether or not voters approve House Bill 1, unless a federal court steps in. As of September 8 none had: the state's stay request sat with the U.S. Supreme Court and two new federal suits sat in St. Louis. The referendum is on the ballot as Proposition A.
Read the storyH.R. 6500 keeps most federal agencies at fiscal year 2026 rates through December 11, 2026. The Senate had passed the same text 90 to 6 on August 8. The president signed it September 2 as Public Law 119-103.
Read the storyEight months after U.S. forces captured Maduro, the White House announced majority control of 65 billion barrels through a private operator. The instruments are a 35 percent stake, later called warrants, and a 20 percent purchase right. No contract has been published.
Read the storyForecasters expected a gain of 83,000. Instead the economy lost jobs, the two prior months were revised down by a combined 103,000, and the unemployment rate fell for the wrong reason: fewer people working or looking.
Read the storyOutside the vote line, the statement changed by one verb. The vote turned a split already visible in June into three formal dissents: a 9–3 hold, with three regional presidents asking for a hike, the first time since 2016 that three dissenters pulled in the same direction.
Read the storyThe June 17 decision looked like calm: a 12–0 hold, a four-paragraph statement. The projections underneath flipped from a cut to a hike, and six weeks later the dissents arrived.
Read the storyIn May 2016 Marco Rubio told the Senate to pass the full $1.9 billion the White House wanted against Zika. This page holds his words from that morning and all 15 roll calls he cast as the money shrank to $1.1 billion and became law in September.
Read the storyAs a Gang of Eight author, Marco Rubio drew one careful line in 2013: security measures before permanent status, not before provisional legal status. His votes on S. 744 track that line. The broader 'security first' impression many listeners took away is a separate question, and this page keeps the two apart.
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