Private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, well below expectations, ADP says

Companies in the private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, payroll processing firm ADP said Wednesday.

The figure is well below economists’ estimates of a GAIN of 95,000 jobs and down from the prior month’s revised reading of 29,000.

"Though layoffs continue to be rare, a hesitancy to hire and a reluctance to replace departing workers led to job losses last month," said Nela Richardson, ADP's chief economist. "Still, the slowdown in hiring has yet to disrupt pay growth."

Professional and business services experienced the most job losses in June with a decline of 56,000, according to ADP. Education and health services lost 52,000 and financial services lost 14,000.

Manufacturing added 15,000 positions, leading job creation in June. Trade, transportation and utilities gained 14,000 jobs, construction added 9,000 and natural resources and mining added 8,000.

Large businesses – those with 500 or more employees – added 30,000 jobs in the month. Businesses with 50 to 499 employees lost 15,000 workers. Establishments with fewer than 50 employees lost 47,000 jobs.

Annual pay for job-stayers decreased to 4.4% from 4.5% while annual pay for job changers fell to 6.8% from 7%.

The ADP data is released before the Labor Department's nonfarm payrolls report, which is due on Friday morning and can differ notably. The government data is expected to show an increase of 110,000 positions, below the 139,000 reported in May.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/private-sector-lost-33000-jobs-june-well-below-expectations-adp-says

The perp has been at large for over a week and not a single outlet has ID'd her.

HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An employee at a 7-Eleven in Hollywood is brain dead after she was allegedly attacked by a manager, according to the victim's family.

Last Tuesday around 2:10 p.m., Los Angeles police responded to a battery call at the convenience store at Melrose Avenue and N. Arden Boulevard.

Police said there was a fight between two employees. One of the employees, Jessica McLaughlin, was taken to a hospital.

A GoFundMe campaign set up by McLaughlin's family says she was attacked by one of her managers.

Jessica's brother says the manager sat on top of her and didn't let her breathe.

"I don't know what, how we're gonna get past, it's gonna be a hard road, it's gonna be a struggle to get, to get past this one. I can't even explain. I'm just lost, I feel," said Sean McLaughlin.

McLaughlin's family says she's brain dead, and they are raising money for her funeral.

Police say the suspect is not in custody.

"Our hearts are with those impacted during this difficult time," 7-Eleven said in a statement. "The suspect has been terminated, and we continue to fully cooperate with law enforcement in their investigation."

The family's lawyer says they are looking for accountability and justice.

https://abc7.com/post/la-7-eleven-employee-brain-dead-attack-manager-family-says/16906210/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trans-teen-chess-win-germany-192521074.html
In competitive chess, where the clash of queens and bishops usually eclipses cultural warfare, a teenage girl has found herself at the center of Germany’s latest front in the debate over transgender women’s inclusion in sports.

Nora Heidemann, 17, a trans girl from North Rhine-Westphalia, made history this month by winning Germany’s under-18 girls’ chess championship, scoring 7.5 out of nine points and outperforming 27 rivals. Her victory, reported by Apollo News, a German political news outlet, and later detailed in The Times of London, has triggered a fierce conversation over who belongs in women’s competitions — even in pursuits where brainpower, not physical power, rules the day.

Heidemann’s competed in the open U18 division at her state-level event but failed to qualify directly, according to Apollo News. Her legal gender change was finalized only after the deadline for girls’ registration had passed. Ultimately, she secured one of five discretionary “free places,” awarded based on performance ratings, not gender identity, the outlet reports.

Still, her win has fueled skepticism from some quarters of the German chess community. Nadja Jussupow, head of the German Commission for Women’s Chess and a former champion, stated that more trans women have been entering women’s tournaments since Germany’s Self-Determination Act took effect in 2021. The Times reports that she claimed some cisgender women players were considering quitting, fearing unfair competition.

Jussupow suggested a one-year waiting period for newly legally recognized trans women before competing in women’s categories, a proposal that reportedly found support among some women’s chess referees.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/30/russia-military-challenges-summer-offensive/

Russia has unleashed its summer offensive in Ukraine’s east and is slowly grinding forward with its advantage in manpower, artillery shells and missiles. The coming months are crucial in President Vladimir Putin’s bid to force Kyiv’s capitulation.

Yet Russia’s progress over the past two years against Ukraine has been glacial, especially compared with the recent lightning strikes by Israel against a much larger Iran. The reason, according to experts, is the state of Russia’s military — a long-standing problem.

Independent Russian military analyst Ian Matveev predicts that Russia’s summer offensive won’t lead to a drastic breakthrough but could gain several thousand square kilometers of territory. The military is incapable of conducting complex operations in Ukraine, he said, because of weaknesses in intelligence, shortages, corruption, logistical failures and poor training.

“These [mass assault] tactics are the only thing the Russian military is capable of at the moment. And it’s very inhumane because in fact dead people are being traded for territory. What we have in the Russian army now is a lot of soldiers, but they have no training.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgqwlvq180o
The online message board 4chan is being investigated by the UK communications regulator over failure to comply with recently introduced online safety rules.

Ofcom says it has received complaints over potential illegal content on the website, which has not responded to its requests for information.

Under the Online Safety Act, online services must assess the risk of UK users encountering illegal content and activity on their platforms, and take steps to protect them from it.

Ofcom is also investigating porn provider First Time Videos over its age verification checks, and seven file sharing services over potential child sexual abuse material.

4chan has been contacted for comment.

Ofcom says it requested 4chan's risk assessment in April but has not had any response.

The regulator will now investigate whether the platform "has failed, or is failing, to comply with its duties to protect its users from illegal content".

It would not say what kind of illegal content it is investigating.

Ofcom has the power to fine companies up to 10% of their global revenues, or £18m - whichever is the greater number.

4chan has often been at the heart of online controversies in its 22 years, including misogynistic campaigns and conspiracy theories.

Users are anonymous, which can often lead to extreme content being posted.

It was the subject of an alleged hack earlier this year, which took parts of the website down for over a week.

Seven file sharing services also failed to respond to requests for information from the regulator.

They are Im.ge, Krakenfiles, Nippybox, Nippydrive, Nippyshare, Nippyspace and Yolobit.

Ofcom also says it has received complaints over potential child sexual abuse material being shared on these platforms.

Separately, porn provider First Time Videos, which runs two websites, is being investigated into whether it has adequate age checks in place to stop under-18s accessing its sites.

> 5 House Republicans say they will vote against GOP megabill over public land sales

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5374352-house-republicans-gop-megabill-public-land-sales-big-beautiful-trump-zinke/

A group of five House Republicans says it will vote against the GOP’s tax and spending bill over provisions in the Senate version that would mandate the sale of land owned by the federal government.

“We support the OB3 passed by the House and generally accept changes to the bill that may be made by the Senate. However, we cannot accept the sale of federal lands that Senator [Mike] Lee seeks,” wrote GOP Reps. Ryan Zinke (Mont.), Mike Simpson (Idaho), Dan Newhouse (Wash.), Cliff Bentz (Ore.) and David Valadao (Calif.).

“If a provision to sell public lands is in the bill that reaches the House floor, we will be forced to vote no,” they added.

Zinke has publicly said he would not support the bill if it mandates the sale of public lands, but a group of five would be enough to actually prevent the bill from passing, since Republicans can only afford to lose three House votes if every Democrat remains opposed as expected.

“It is our hope that the Senate Parliamentarian strips any language from the bill regarding public lands sales, but we hope we can count on you once again to hear our concerns and work with Senate Leadership to remove the provision that will tank the entire Republican agenda,” the quintet said in their letter, which was addressed to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-says-people-who-protest-military-parade-will-be-met-with-very-heavy-force
President Donald Trump has warned that people who protest at his planned military parade on June 14 will be met “with very heavy force.”

The parade, held this Saturday in Washington, D.C., will mark the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary. It is also Trump’s birthday. He’s expected to speak at the event.

Speaking to reporters Tuesday in the Oval Office, Trump said he was unaware of plans to protest the parade but said “these are people that hate our country.”

“For those people who want to protest, they’re going to be met with very big force,” Trump said.

“I haven’t even heard about a protest, but, you know, this is people that hate our country,” he said.

A military parade has been a long-held goal of Trump’s, dating back to his first administration. The event has been criticized by Democrats and others for the cost, estimated up to $45 million, and possible damage to the city’s roads.

>Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director of general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said he believed Tehran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade nuclear material had been moved before the strikes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/iran-uranium-stockpile-whereabouts.html

>A day after President Trump declared that Iran’s nuclear program had been “completely and totally obliterated” by American bunker-busting bombs and a barrage of missiles, the actual state of the program seemed far more murky, with senior officials conceding they did not know the whereabouts of Iran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium.

>“We are going to work in the coming weeks to ensure that we do something with that fuel and that’s one of the things that we’re going to have conversations with the Iranians about,” Vice President JD Vance told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, referring to a batch of uranium sufficient to make nine or ten atomic weapons. Nonetheless, he contended that the country’s potential to build a weapon had been set back substantially because it no longer had the equipment to turn that fuel into operative weapons.

>In a briefing for reporters on Sunday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, Dan Caine, avoided Mr. Trump’s maximalist claims of success. They said an initial battle-damage assessment of all three sites struck by Air Force B-2 bombers and Navy Tomahawk missiles showed “severe damage and destruction.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/07/02/trump-musk-feud-musk-says-trumps-comments-about-him-are-just-plain-wrong/
Elon Musk on Wednesday suggested president Donald Trump's criticism of subsidies received by his companies was wrong, as he continued to mock supporters of the president’s signature spending bill, a day after the president said he’ll look into potentially deporting the Tesla CEO and threatened probes into his companies amid a reignited feud between the two.

In a post on X, Musk responded to a tweet criticizing the president’s Truth Social post bashing him and threatening to scrap federal subsidies received by his companies, writing that remarks were: “Just plain wrong...So disappointing.”

The billionaire also made a post urging people to follow a meme account posting screenshots of old tweets by GOP lawmakers criticizing the national debt alongside posts made on Tuesday hailing the passage of the Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”

Musk’s late night posts were not all critical of Trump, however, as the billionaire reshared the president’s Truth Social post about Israel agreeing to a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and wrote: “Credit where credit is due...[Trump] has successfully resolved several serious conflicts around the world.”

Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Tuesday, Trump was asked if he’ll deport the South African-born billionaire, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen, and said: “I don’t know. We’ll have to take a look.”