https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-inflation-treasury-tariffs-rcna241696
The Treasury Department said Monday that inflation "remained above the target of 2 percent in the third quarter," even as President Donald Trump and administration officials continue to assert that there is "no inflation."

Speaking on CBS News "60 Minutes" on Sunday, Trump said, "We have no inflation, we have no inflation."

Trump claimed that he had "already taken care of" inflation, calling 2% "the perfect inflation."

But inflation came in at 3% on an annual basis in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"Food prices for both groceries (food at home) and food services (food away from home) increased moderately in the third quarter," Treasury said in a new "Economy Statement."

The statement released Monday is a regular economic update prepared for the Treasury’s Borrowing Advisory Committee.

The committee consists of nonpartisan bond market executives from firms such as Citigroup, Pimco, JPMorgan and BlackRock, and provides input to the Treasury on government debt and financing issues.

A White House spokesperson did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the Treasury statement.

One of the major drivers of food inflation was record beef prices, due in part to lower herd counts.

"We're gonna get the beef price down very quickly. It'll be very nice, just like eggs," Trump said Sunday on CBS.

Overall, the Treasury Department said that "economic growth solidified in the third quarter with steady business investment and consumer demand."

The third quarter is considered the three-month period from July 1 to Sept. 30.

CEOs of retail and food companies have noted that while consumer spending overall continues at a decent pace, lower-income consumers are faring much worse than middle and upper income Americans.

“Traffic for lower-income consumers is down double digits,” McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski told CNBC in September. “We needed to step in.”

https://www.uknip.co.uk/news/uk/uk-news/swedish-court-sparks-fury-refugee-rapist-wont-be-deported-because-assault-too-short/

Rapist of 16-Year-Old Girl Allowed to Stay Despite Conviction

A Swedish appeals court has caused uproar by ruling that Yazied Mohamed, a 19-year-old Eritrean refugee convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl, will not be deported. The shocking reason? The assault was deemed “too brief” to qualify as an “exceptionally serious offense.”

Mohamed attacked Meya Åberg in September 2024 while she was walking home through a pedestrian tunnel in Skellefteå, after missing her bus following a shift at McDonald’s. He grabbed her phone, dragged her into the tunnel, and raped her—until she managed to break free.

Abandoning all pretense of wanting to help Americans in need or being forced to cut funding to food programs by law, Donald Trump has gone mask off and has taken the audacious step of actively working to prevent Americans from receiving SNAP benefits in defiance of a court order mandating the program be funded in full.
This occurs after Donald Trump's record breaking government shutdown (having broken his previous record) drags into it's 38th day

https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b

BOSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump ’s administration asked a federal appeals court Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly SNAP food benefits amid a U.S. government shutdown, even as at least some states said they were moving quickly to get the money to people.

The judge gave the Trump administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. But the administration asked the appeals court to suspend any court orders requiring it to spend more money than is available in a contingency fund, and instead allow it to continue with planned partial SNAP payments for the month.

The court filing came even as the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a memo to states that it’s working to make funds available Friday for full monthly SNAP benefits.

California and Wisconsin said some SNAP recipients already received their full November payments overnight on Thursday.

“Food benefits are now beginning to flow back to California families,” Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. A spokesperson for Democratic Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin also confirmed that full SNAP payments had gone through.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/06/judge-doj-boeing-00639589

A federal judge on Thursday granted a Justice Department request to dismiss a felony case against Boeing tied to two passenger jet crashes that killed 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas OK’d the DOJ’s motion to dismiss the case. The Trump administration sought the dismissal after it struck a non-prosecution agreement in May with the aerospace company — less than a year after the plane-maker had agreed to plead guilty as part of a deal with the Biden administration. The charge was conspiracy to defraud the government.

Some victims’ families had opposed the move to drop the case, but O’Connor, a President George W. Bush appointee, in a 10-page order Thursday granted the motion because the government “has not acted with bad faith, has given more than mere conclusory reasons for its dismissal, and has satisfied its obligations” under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/layoffs-us-october-surge-two-decade-high-challenger-data-shows-2025-11-06/
U.S.-based employers cut more than 150,000 jobs in October, marking the biggest reduction for the month in more than 20 years, a report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas said on Thursday as industries adopt AI-driven changes and intensify cost cuts.

Tech firms led the job cuts in the private sector, followed by retailers and the services sector, the global outplacement company said.

Cost-cutting was the top reason for the layoffs in October, followed by artificial intelligence, while "DOGE Impact" was the leading reason for job cuts in 2025.

The layoffs in October surged 175% from a year ago to 153,074. From the start of the year to October end, employers have announced 1,099,500 job cuts, a 65% rise from 664,839 in the same time period last year.

So far this year, job cuts are at the highest level since 2020 when 2,304,755 cuts were announced through October.

"Some industries are correcting after the hiring boom of the pandemic, but this comes as AI adoption, softening consumer and corporate spending, and rising costs drive belt-tightening and hiring freezes," said Andy Challenger, chief revenue officer for Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Not only did individual companies announce large layoffs in October, but a higher number of companies announced job cut plans, Challenger said, tracking nearly 450 individual job cut plans in October compared to under 400 in September.

Any economic data from private sources will be on investors' radar as official data continues to be absent with the U.S. government now entering its longest-ever shutdown.

>Party A gets elected
>They start acting like retards
>Temporarily align myself with party B because they say they’ll give me a voice
>Party B gets voted in
>They start acting like retards


https://www.wnewsj.com/2025/11/07/veterans-day-events-planned-across-clinton-county/

It's a tale as old as it is preventable. While Republican incompetence and indifference threatens the lives and livelihoods of American citizens, it falls to Democrats to step in and protect the people.
As Republicans continue to hold the nation hostage with a government shutdown on track to cross the one month mark and the President Trump remains focused entirely on his new ballroom in between cognition tests, Democrat governors are working overtime to pick up the slack.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/gov-tim-walz-announces-emergency-food-shelf-funding-amid-shutdown/

>The federal government shutdown entered its 27th day Monday, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers without pay — and threatening to cut off food assistance for thousands of Minnesotans by the start of November.

>In response, Gov. Tim Walz announced $4 million in emergency state funding to support food shelves across Minnesota. The one-time funding aims to fill the gap as federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits are set to end if the shutdown continues.

>"This is meant to be a bridge," Walz said during a news conference at the Open Door Pantry in Eagan, Minnesota. "It will not make up and backfill everything that is going to drop off starting on Saturday."

>The funds will come from the Department of Human Services' emergency services account and the Family First Prevention Services Act. The state will distribute the money through Minnesota's existing food shelf network. Each food shelf and tribal nation will receive a base amount of $5,000, and additional funding based on local need.

>More than 440,000 Minnesotans rely on SNAP, according to state data. Of those, 38% are children and 18% are seniors. Walz said about 9 million visits were made to food shelves statewide last year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyk3qzq7k7o

Online porn showing choking to be made illegal, government says

Online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation is to be made illegal, as part of government plans to tackle violence against women and girls.

It follows a review which found depictions of choking were "rife" on mainstream porn sites and had helped normalise the act among young people.

Both the possession and publication of such material will be a criminal offence, under amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill currently going through Parliament.

Online platforms would also be required to proactively detect and remove such material or face enforcement action via media regulator Ofcom.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said the change would make choking in pornography a "priority offence" under the Online Safety Act, putting it on the same level as child sexual abuse material and terrorism content.

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said: "Viewing and sharing this kind of material online is not only deeply distressing, it is vile and dangerous. Those who post or promote such content are contributing to a culture of violence and abuse that has no place in our society.

Conservative peer Baroness Bertin warned earlier this year that there has been a "total absence of government scrutiny" of the pornography industry.