Saturday, September 6, 2025

The News Roundup – Domestic and International (The 1A) 2025-09-05

Domestic

Jobs numbers are out. They indicate a stalling labor market, with U.S. employers adding just 22,000 jobs in August and unemployment rising to 4.3 percent.

After rumors about the president’s supposedly failing health swirled online last weekend, Donald Trump appeared in public at a press conference this week announcing the relocation of the Space Force headquarters from Colorado to Alabama.

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse spoke on Capitol Hill this week and the GOP-controlled House released some 30,000 pages of documentation concerning the deceased financier’s dealings. However, Democrats on the body’s oversight committee pointed out that only 3 percent of said pages contain new information not previously disclosed to the public.

Florida announced this week that it’s set to become the first state in the U.S. to end vaccine mandates in schools, including for young children.
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International 

The leaders of China, India, Russia met this week in a display of friendship meant to signal unity to the world. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chinese President Xi Jinping convened in China for a summit of powers not aligned with the West.

Meanwhile, Putin told officials in Kyiv he was willing to try and negotiate the end the war in Ukraine should “common sense prevail.” However, he also threatened that he was prepared to continue should he not find terms agreeable.

A major earthquake in Afghanistan killed more than 2,000 people and injured more than 3,000. Now, the nation’s Taliban officials are calling for international aid.
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