Category: World

The Trump administration has unveiled the new CHOICE Arrangements, aimed at enabling small business owners to offer health insurance to employees at a much lower cost. The Custom Health Option and Individual Care Expense Arrangements, formerly known as Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs), were…

President Donald Trump reacted to news the United States added 162,000 jobs to the economy in August, noting it broke “all estimates” by double and triple. In a post on Truth Social, Trump continued to call for lowering “the interest rates because the U.S.A. is…

The federal workforce has contracted by 336,000 employees since President Donald Trump took office, reflecting his administration’s drive to reduce the size of the government bureaucracy. Federal government employment fell by another 5,000 in August to 2.674 million, the Labor Department said Friday. That is…

Sam Altman OpenAI has released a new model called GPT-6 Astra to a limited set of customers, calling it the world’s most intelligent AI system and the first of its models to trigger advanced internal safety protections because of its cyber capabilities. NBC News reports…

Columbus police have paused their use of Flock automatic license plate readers after an officer was accused of searching the same plate more than 270 times over roughly 14 months. The Columbus Dispatch reports that Mayor Andrew Ginther called the allegations against the officer “deeply…

Chinese “fast fashion” giant Shein went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Tuesday and the results have not been encouraging. The company, once privately valued at over $100 billion, was only valued at $26.5 billion in its initial public offering (IPO) and its…

Alaska Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Mary Peltola has made fishing a central theme of her political brand and 2026 campaign, but she did not sponsor any fish-related legislation during her first term in the U.S. House after taking office in 2022. Peltola has made fish…

On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Open Interest,” White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Christopher Phelan responded to a question on whether the White House has any further policies lined up to deal with inflation by pointing to Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh’s statements on inflation…

On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Open Interest,” White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Christopher Phelan responded to a question on hourly earnings not keeping up with inflation by saying that “Part of the booming economy that we’re having in the labor market that was…

The Weekly Wrap: This Is What Full Employment Looks Like Welcome back to Friday! It’s the first Friday of the month, which means it is Jobs Friday, and it is now Labor Day weekend. This will be a special edition of our weekly wrap focused…