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ABC News’ Stephanie Ramos is joined by co-founder of the Yale Budget Lab to discuss the latest jobs report, which showed a major slowdown of hiring in recent months.

President Donald Trump has ordered two nuclear submarines to move into the “appropriate regions” in response to what he called Russia’s “highly provocative statements.”

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday after a new jobs report showed a major slowdown of hiring in recent months.

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The president said he did the right thing by firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, when asked by reporters about it at the White House.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett said she's been drawn out of the district where she lives.

He said he ordered the submarines to be positioned in "appropriate regions."

Former Vice President Kamala Harris said she loves her home state, but the U.S. political system is broken in her interview on “The Late Show.”

President Donald Trump on Friday ordered two nuclear submarines to move into the “appropriate regions” in response to Russia’s “highly provocative statements.”

CPB said it would cut a majority of its jobs by the end of September.

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Bryan Steil was booed when he expressed support for President Donald Trump’s trade policies in a town hall on Thursday night.

President Donald Trump took questions about trade, interest rates after signing an executive order that would bring back the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools.

Former President Joe Biden accused President Donald Trump’s administration of trying to “erase justice” and “dismantle the Constitution” in a speech at the National Bar Association awards gala.

Rep. Bryan Steil was pressed on Trump's trade policies and Medicaid cuts.

Sixty-seven people were killed in the crash.

250 Guard members will remain on duty into next week.

Rohit Chopra, former FTC commissioner, discusses President Donald Trump’s trade war and its impact on the U.S. economy.

The test was discontinued in 2012 under former President Barack Obama.

His comments were met with strong pushback from Democrats, AARP.

Trump endorsed Whatley for the job.

The White House says special envoy Steve Witkoff will go into Gaza Friday to inspect food distribution and survey the conditions there.

Construction on the project will start in September.

Donilon was the latest former Biden official called before the committee.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday that construction will soon begin on a White House ballroom. The addition will be 90,000 square feet.

ABC News' Linsey Davis discussed the push by politicians on both sides of the aisle to release the Epstein files with Republican Sen. Katie Britt.

These employees are being paid as part of the deferred resignation program.

President Donald Trump is defending his use of tariffs just one day before his Aug. 1 deadline.

Trump has said he's known Epstein since the late 1980s.

New congressional maps were proposed by state legislators in Texas following a push by President Donald Trump for maps more favorable to Republicans.

Michael Whatley, the chair of the Republican National Committee, formally launched his bid to be North Carolina's next senator Thursday afternoon.

ABC News' Linsey Davis discusses the environmental agency's latest move with former senior advisor to the Biden administration's EPA, Zealan Hoover.

Yinon Levi is accused of killing Palestinian who worked on Oscar-winning film.

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) criticized the Federal Aviation Administration for not "taking ownership" in the deadly Black Hawk helicopter collision with a passenger jet near Washington Reagan National Airport in January. During a hearing on Wednesday that is set to continue this week, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy alleged that some FAA tower employees knew there "was a problem" with U.S. Army helicopters flying in close proximity to passenger aircraft near the airport. Sixty-seven people died on Jan. 29 after a regional American Airlines jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over Washington, D.C., officials said, the nation's first major commercial airline crash since 2009. The Army helicopter was on a training flight at the time of the collision. “Every sign was there, that there was a safety risk and the tower was telling you that," Homendy said of the air traffic controllers working at Reagan National Airport (DCA) at the time. "Yet you...

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., engaged in a fiery debate with members of his party to advance a bill that would ban members of Congress, and their spouses, from trading or holding individual stocks.

Everytown for Gun Safety’s Nick Suplina joins ABC News’ Linsey Davis to unpack what the Manhattan shooting tells us about the effectiveness of some of the strictest gun laws in the U.S.

Ricchetti appeared voluntarily.

Several Republicans claimed Hawley was attacking them for their wealth.

A flurry of recent major economic news provides a barometer of the U.S. economy as President Donald Trump’s tariffs steer the nation toward a trade policy untested in recent history.

The university said it was never notified that it had violated any law.

Monarez is the first CDC director nominee who required Senate confirmation after Congress passed a law requiring it in 2022.

An independent Pentagon watchdog is looking into Hegseth's Signal chats.

A timeline of what Trump has said about how their relationship fell apart.

NIH said in an email that it was working to make the "limitation short-term."

Former Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Wednesday that she will not run for governor of California.

President Donald Trump has pushed maps more favorable to Republicans.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris announced Wednesday that she won’t run for California governor in 2026.

"This is what oversight looks like," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

The decision could give her greater leeway for a presidential run in 2028.

Senate Democrats are attempting to force the Justice Dept. to release the Jeffery Epstein case files by invoking a decades-old federal law.

Brandi Bynum, unit chief for the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Countering Human Trafficking, discusses what a typical trafficking case looks like and how to spot some of the key signs.