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9/5: CBS Evening News – CBS News Watch CBS News Breaking down the August jobs report that has economists talking; Man achieves dream of making the LSU marching band at 66 years old Source link

Politics / September 5, 2025 Two bills making their way through the California legislature seek to end masking of federal agents and other tactics that are terrorizing communities. Ad Policy Protest signs on the ground outside of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco in July that read, “Protect Our Neighbors / Protegiendo Nuestros Vecinos” and “Keep Families Together / Manteniendo Familias Unidas.” (Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images) California state Senator Scott Wiener (D-11th District) is on a mission to rein in America’s new secret police. His bill, the No Secret Police Act (SB 627), would make…

For the second time in two days, Venezuela has flown military aircraft in the vicinity of the USS Jason Dunham in international waters near South America, multiple Defense Department officials confirmed to CBS News Friday, describing the action as turning into a “game of chicken.” The aircraft, which one Defense Department official said were F-16 fighter jets, flew over the Dunham sometime overnight Thursday. It was unknown if the aircraft was armed. The Dunham, an Aegis guided-missile destroyer, did not engage, the officials said. The aircraft was within weapons-range for both the aircraft and the ship, the officials added. This…

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,…