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President Trump on Friday took a swipe at twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton during a roundtable discussion at the State Department. “Today, President Donald J. Trump held a historic roundtable with the mining industry where he announced over $2 billion in critical mining and mining-related projects to revitalize the industry and over $180 million in mining school investments to bolster the American mining workforce,” the White House said. At one point during the roundtable meeting, President Trump trolled Hillary Clinton. “There was a woman named Hillary Clinton and she wanted the miners of West Virginia to learn how to make…

FILE – A job seeker waits to talk to a recruiter at a job fair Aug. 28, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.The U.S. economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July, a surprisingly weak report that quickly shifted expectations for the Federal Reserve’s next move on interest rates. A Dow Jones poll of economists had forecast a median gain of 83,000 jobs, putting the headline number 106,000 below expectations.Now add in revisions that brought the May and June numbers down by 103,000 from previously reported levels, along with an earlier revision…

Wall Street is again using insurance guarantees to turn difficult-to-rate credit exposure into highly rated securities. Assholes who wear Vineyard Vines all summer on Wall Street have once again put those Wharton PhD’s to good use by again “discovering” that assets so toxic and illiquid they make drinking cement taste like Fiji water apparently become safe when you rearrange them, rename them, and place an insurance company between the losses and the people buying them. Sound familiar? Explaining CDOs in the movie “The Big Short” According to Bloomberg, UBS and other firms have been exploring structures that package stakes in private-credit…

Mexican authorities arrested a Texas police officer accused of shooting four people, killing three of them and kidnapping his son before trying to cross the border back into the United States. The incident took place this week in the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, where 35-year-old Chad Eberle is accused of having shot four people in an apparent domestic dispute and then kidnapping his young child. Three of the victims, two females and one man, died at the scene, while the fourth victim was rushed to a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the head,  information provided…

President Donald Trump holds a roundtable discussion on American mining at the State Department on Friday, August 7. Trump has worked in his second term to make America independent from relying on China for rare earths and critical minerals. In May, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told Breitbart News that mining and energy sector jobs were a “sure-fire, long-term career.” Read the full article here

The US efficiency agency lied about terminating leases and published unverified grant cuts, the Government Accountability Office has found The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), suggested and initially spearheaded by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, credited itself with billions of dollars in federal budget savings that could not be independently verified, a government watchdog said Thursday.US President Donald Trump launched the now-defunct initiative shortly after he took office last January, tapping Musk as his government efficiency czar. The agency was billed as a sweeping effort to cut waste and bureaucracy across the federal government and its sprawling $7 trillion annual…

President Trump on Thursday declined to say whether he would support RINO Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s reelection as GOP Leader next year, citing his frustration with Thune’s failures on the SAVE America Act and terminating the filibuster.  Trump spoke to Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman on Thursday for an interview that aired on Friday. While discussing the confirmation of Todd Blanche to serve as Attorney General, Trump took aim at RINOs John Cornyn and Lisa Murkowski for opposing Blanche. Trump was then asked if he would support John Thune for another term as Leader, and he declined to say. On…

A pair of capybaras, the largest known rodents in the world, was filmed entering the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso in southwestern Brazil and have since gone viral throughout the week for their nonchalant enjoyment of the building’s lobby. The incident reportedly occurred on Thursday, July 30, and was filmed by legislature employee Diego Peralta, who told the local newspaper Diario de Cuiabá that the rodents live in a park across the street and walk over to the legislative grounds every evening to feed on grass and peruse the landscape. They do not commonly enter the building, however, and appeared to…

The Weekly Wrap: The Jobs Report Was Much Better Than It Looked Welcome back to Friday! The jobs report fell far short of expectations this week but there was plenty of good news buried beneath the rubble. Especially if you are a student hoping to see your teachers and school staff fired. But, also, this was the best month in quite a while for durable goods manufacturing employment. Meanwhile, people are worried that married black mothers are relying on their husbands. Let’s go. Manufacturing Is Booming—The Employment Story The July jobs report was officially disappointing. The U.S. economy shed 23,000…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed responded to a question on funding for Israel by saying that tax money should be spent in Michigan “rather than to send it to a foreign government that might use it in the form of bombs and tanks to destroy infrastructure and schools and hospitals there.” But also said that “I don’t believe that there’s really a difference between offensive or defensive weapons” and he opposes the Iron Dome. Host Kaitlan Collins asked, “Can you clarify for us what your position is on funding for Israel, if…