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Hurricane Kiko, a powerful Category 4 storm, is swirling in the Pacific Ocean and heading west in a direction toward Hawaii.  Forecasters warned that swells from the storm could reach the Hawaiian Islands by the end of the weekend and cause life-threatening surf and rip currents. As of 11 p.m. Eastern Time Friday, the storm was located some 1,130 miles east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii, and 1,335 miles east-southeast of Honolulu, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center reported in its latest advisory. Its maximum sustained winds were topping 140 mph, and it was moving west-northwest at around 12 mph.The storm is expected to…

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson testifies on Capitol Hill on May 15, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North America The Federal Trade Commission is moving to vacate its rule banning noncompete agreements, reversing what was seen as a signature accomplishment of the commission under President Biden. Noncompetes are employment agreements that prevent workers from taking new jobs with a competing business or starting one of their own, usually within a certain geographic area and timeframe after leaving their job. The ban, championed by former FTC chair Lina Khan,…

  6:19 PM / September 5, 2025 Trump: Some vaccines “just pure and simple work” and “should be used” Mr. Trump encouraged the use of vaccines when asked about Florida’s plans to roll back all vaccine mandates for schoolchildren. “I think you have to be very careful when you say that some people don’t have to be vaccinated. It’s a very, you know, it’s a very tough position,” he said. “Look, you have vaccines that work. They just pure and simple work. They’re not controversial at all. And I think those vaccines should be used, otherwise some people are going to…

Last July, thousands of delegates packed into Target Center in Minneapolis for the city’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party convention. In an upset, Minnesota State Senator Omar Fateh won the endorsement with the support of more than 60 percent of delegates—the first DFL endorsement over an incumbent running for Minneapolis mayor since the party’s founding in 1944. Delegates supporting current mayor Jacob Frey, who initially secured 31 percent, staged a last-minute walkout in protest of the voting system, to no avail in the moment. Shortly after, Frey announced that he would continue to campaign for reelection without the endorsement.But one month later, the…

Breaking down the August jobs report that has economists talking – CBS News Watch CBS News The U.S. economy added 22,000 jobs in August — well below expectations. Kelly O’Grady has more. Source link

Washington — A federal judge in California ruled Friday that the Trump administration’s attempt to end the Temporary Protected Status program for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan and Haitian migrants was unlawful.The move by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen effectively sets aside the administration’s attempt to end temporary legal protections and work permits for certain people from Venezuela and Haiti — unless his ruling is overturned on appeal. Chen ruled in favor of the National TPS Alliance, an organization that represents TPS holders across the country, and a group of Venezuelan migrants who received protections under the program.”This case arose…

Supporters of Bureau of Labor Statistics employees join a rally outside the Labor Department on Friday, September 5, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Andrea Hsu/NPR hide caption toggle caption Andrea Hsu/NPR With a new, sobering jobs report out Friday, some current employees at the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) are seeking to reassure the American public that the government’s economic data is reliable and worthy of their trust. “Our job is to deliver economic data guided by law and statistical practice —not partisan whim,” they wrote in a statement read aloud at a rally outside the Labor Department’s Washington,…

Giorgio Armani leaves a legacy not only as a seminal figure in the history of fashion, but also as a visionary business leader who built a globally recognized brand and multibillion-dollar business empire, industry experts said after his death Thursday at age 91.”Armani made certain that his vision was consistent and that it was always classy, even down to presentation in the Armani Exchange stores,” Shawn Grain Carter, an associate professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, told CBS MoneyWatch.Re Giorgio, or “King George,” as the Italians call him, Armani famously created luxury looks for Hollywood starlets on the red…

Politics / September 5, 2025 The problem of gerontocracy includes the donor class. Ad Policy Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) poses with President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House on January 5, 2025, in Washington, DC.(Kent Nishimura / Getty Images) Republican Senator Susan Collins is facing a tough reelection bid in Maine next year, but she has an ace up her sleeve: Hollywood Democrats who love her and are ready to fill up her election coffers. On August 19, The New York Times reported that Collins will be attending a fundraiser on her behalf on September 26…

The Trump administration is expected to issue an executive order as early as Friday establishing a designation for state sponsors of wrongful detention, CBS News has learned, in a move that would allow the U.S. to punish countries that illegally detain U.S. nationals or take them hostage. The effort is aimed at curbing the number of Americans who elect to travel to such countries, and encouraging the leaders of those countries to immediately free Americans currently held there.Modeled after the designation of state sponsors of terrorism, the measure would provide tools for the State Department to penalize nations that use detained…