https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/jobs-report-revision-flips-trump-era-gain-loss-its-fueling-bad-poll

Thursday’s jobs report added to mounting evidence that the U.S. labor market is losing steam.

The September report, compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), found that employment in July and August was overstated by 33,000.

Job creation in July was revised down by 7,000 from a gain of 79,000 to 72,000 and job gains in August were lowered by 26,000 from a gain of 22,000 to a loss of 4,000.

Originally slated for release on Oct. 3, the September jobs report was postponed amid the nation’s longest government shutdown, which temporarily furloughed BLS staff.

According to the report, federal employment has declined by 97,000 since its January peak. The BLS clarified that workers on paid leave or receiving severance remain classified as employed in its establishment survey.

The weaker jobs picture is mirrored in how Americans see the economy.

According to a fresh Fox News national survey, 76% of voters rate the economy negatively, compared with 67% in July and 70% at the close of former President Joe Biden’s tenure.

Voters largely blame President Donald Trump for the downturn, with about twice as many holding him responsible for the current economy as former President Joe Biden, and three times as many saying his policies have hurt them personally.

https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-to-be-primaried-11079953

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is expected to face a primary challenge in 2028, as discontent grows among some Democrats over his increasingly outspoken breaks with the party.

In a post on X, the Pennsylvania Working Families Party said it intends to mount a primary challenge against Fetterman in 2028, vowing to recruit a candidate who can take on the Democrat.

"We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman once again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the U.S. Senate," the post read. The party has not yet fielded a candidate.

Newsweek reached out to representatives of Fetterman via email for comment.
Why It Matters

This potential primary challenge highlights growing fractures within the Democratic Party and underscores the tension between party loyalty and progressive priorities. Fetterman’s willingness to break with Democrats on key votes, such as the recent budget bill, has fueled criticism from progressive groups like the Pennsylvania Working Families Party.

A primary challenge could force Fetterman to defend his record to the party’s base, potentially shaping the Democratic agenda in Pennsylvania and signaling how far party activists are willing to push incumbents who deviate from their policy expectations.

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-republicans-now-at-risk-of-losing-seats-in-midterms-not-gaining-them-11085694

Texas Republicans could now lose seats in the November 2026 midterms, not gain them.

Because of a ruling on redistricting in the state, the party is unlikely to pick up new seats from redrawn electoral maps.

Meanwhile, according to unrelated analysis by political scientist Larry Sabato, the party may find it more difficult to keep hold of two seats it won in the November 2024 election as they are shifting toward the Democratic Party.

Newsweek reached out to the Texas Republican Party to comment on this story outside of normal business hours.

Why It Matters

There has been a national redistricting fight in which Republicans and Democrats alike have attempted to draw new state maps to impact the results of future votes.

Redistricting could have a major impact on upcoming elections, including the November 2026 midterms, which will affect the balance of power in Congress and, in turn, Trump's ability to carry out his agenda. Republicans have a narrow majority of 219 to 214 in the House of Representatives, so if they lose a handful of seats it could have a huge impact on the last two years of Trump's term.

On Tuesday, federal judges ruled that Texas cannot use a new Republican-drawn congressional map, ruling that there was "substantial evidence" showing "that Texas racially gerrymandered." The map was expected to deliver five additional seats to the GOP.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-social-media-harm-us-court-filings-allege-2025-11-23/

Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.

In a 2020 research project code-named “Project Mercury,” Meta (META.O)
, opens new tab scientists worked with survey firm Nielsen to gauge the effect of “deactivating” Facebook, according to Meta documents obtained via discovery. To the company’s disappointment, “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison,” internal documents said.
Rather than publishing those findings or pursuing additional research, the filing states, Meta called off further work and internally declared that the negative study findings were tainted by the “existing media narrative” around the company.
Privately, however, a staffer insisted that the conclusions of the research were valid, according to the filing.
“The Nielsen study does show causal impact on social comparison,” (unhappy face emoji), an unnamed staff researcher allegedly wrote. Another staffer worried that keeping quiet about negative findings would be akin to the tobacco industry “doing research and knowing cigs were bad and then keeping that info to themselves.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qx1lenvjo
Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced she will resign from office, an unexpected turn for the high-profile Republican.

One of Donald Trump's MAGA superstars and staunchest defenders, the Georgia congresswoman's relentless calls for releasing files related to late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and recent criticism of some of his policies led to a bitter public feud.

After the US president labelled her a "traitor", she said in a video announcing her departure: "I refuse to be a 'battered wife' hoping it all goes away and gets better."

Trump, who had threatened to support a Republican challenger to unseat Greene, called her resignation "great news for the country" in an interview with ABC News.

"For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD," he later wrote on Truth Social.

"Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country!"

Greene said in her video statement, posted on social media, that she would leave the US Congress on 5 January 2026.

She said that she did "not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms".

She had been one of the loudest demanding the release of documents related to Epstein, an issue that once united Trump and his base but has since become divisive.

Trump had spent months arguing that the issue was a distraction concocted by his political detractors.

"Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for," Greene said in her resignation letter.

Over the last few months, she has gone on a number of high-profile news shows and was critical of Trump and fellow Republicans.

The identity of ‘Bubba’ has remained a mystery after the latest tranche of Jeffrey Epstein emails took the world by storm. In one of the mails, from the convicted child sex offender's brother, Mark, there is a mention of 'Trump blowing Bubba.'

The reference to President Donald Trump kicked up a row, with many speculating Bubba to be former President Bill Clinton, since that's been his nickname from back when he was an Arkansas politician. However, Mark Epstein confirmed to Newsweek that the Bubba mentioned here is not Clinton.

Now, a bizarre claim has been made that Ghislaine Maxwell had a horse named Bubba. This outlandish claim, to be sure, comes from unverified profiles and has been widely circulated online.

What to know about Ghislaine Maxwell's horse
While several social media profiles have claimed that Maxwell had a horse named Bubba, there is no official report on the same. However, Epstein's accomplice has made no secret of her love for horses.

In an interview with TalkTV, Maxwell had shared the time she interacted with the late Queen of England. She had said, “the story that we shared was about horses because I love horses and she loves horses and so we talked about horses briefly, I remember, and just shared a love of horses. And that was one of her great loves."

One person on X wrote, “Wait a minute. Ghislaine Maxwell owned a horse named Bubba!”. Another added, “Fun fact: Ghislaine Maxwell had a horse named Bubba. The plot thickens.”

A person claiming to be an independent investigative journalist, wrote, “Ghislaine Maxwell’s actual horse was named Bubba. No, seriously. Before Epstein’s “downfall” she had a show-jumper with UK registries.”

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/is-bubba-ghislaine-maxwells-horse-bizarre-claim-rises-amid-jeffrey-epstein-email-about-donald-trump-bill-clinton-101763315631939.html

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5610071-trump-sues-california-mask-ban/

The Trump administration filed a lawsuit against the state of California on Monday, alleging its law banning federal immigration officers from wearing face masks is unconstitutional.

The lawsuit, filed in the Central District of California against California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D), says that the state does not have the authority to regulate Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

Newsom signed the No Secret Police Act and No Vigilantes Act into law in September. The pair of measures, which take effect on Jan. 1, ban federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks while carrying out operations in the state and require non-uniformed officers to visibly display identification while performing their duties, respectively.

Before signing the acts into law, Newsom said that federal immigration officers would no longer be “hidden from accountability” while conducting operations in the Golden State.

“That’s not the America we’ve grown up in. And so we are pushing back,” the governor added at the time.

The lawsuit, filed on Monday, however, asks the court to declare that the laws violate the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and issue a preliminary injunction prohibiting California law enforcement officers from enforcing these laws.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/11/15/federal-reserve-gov-deportations-are-slowing-inflation-n2666516

Fed Official Backs VP Vance: Illegal Immigration Drove Soaring Housing Prices

Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran told Fox News that deportations are slowing inflation.

"A significant amount of the inflation that we experienced for years is because we through millions of new people into the country without sufficiently expanding the housing stock and sufficient expansion of other forms of fixed capital," Miran said.

He continued: "The truth is that they're living somewhere, and that's a place where other people in America aren't living, and that was inflationary."

"Cutting down net migration to zero, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think, is very deflationary."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/humiliated-johnson-fumes-epstein-files-174930232.html

A “pathetically humiliated” Speaker Mike Johnson was visibly fuming when his plan for an Epstein files bill blew up in his face.

The Republican said he was “deeply disappointed” that the Senate passed legislation to declassify files related to Jeffrey Epstein without amending it—something he was clearly taken aback by as he left a state dinner.

“I was just told that Chuck Schumer rushed it to the floor and put it out there preemptively,” he told a MS NOW reporter on Tuesday. “It needed amendments.”

The bill in question had already passed the House with flying colors, with only a single GOP representative voting against it. Johnson demanded that his fellow Republicans in the Senate make changes to the legislation before sending it back to the House.

Senate Leader John Thune, a Republican, did not heed Johnson’s call, and the bill passed the Senate after its minority leader, Chuck Schumer, called for unanimous consent.

Next, the bill heads to Trump’s desk for signing or vetoing. The president pledged Monday that he will sign the bill, despite asserting for months that the issue of Epstein needs to be moved on from.

Johnson, a known Trump suck-up, said he spoke to the president immediately after the Senate passed the bill. Asked how Trump felt, Johnson did not rule out a veto.

“I just spoke to the president about that,” he said of the bill’s need to have additional protections for those not accused of a crime. “We’ll see what happens.”
MS NOW’s Mychael Schnell then asked Johnson, “So do you think he may veto it?”
Johnson answered, “I’m not saying that.”
Schnell shot back, “Is he supportive of it in its current form?”
“We both have concerns,” he responded.

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https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/article_cd39f16c-5eef-49db-88d5-3b57afa26cfd.html

(The Center Square) – Several defendants who are among the first indicted on terrorism-related charges for their alleged connection to an Antifa attack on law enforcement officers are scheduled to plead guilty this week and next, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Texas.

A grand jury indicted nine North Texas Antifa Cell operatives on charges of providing material support to terrorists in the July 4 attack against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas.

“This is the first indictment in the country against a group of violent Antifa cell members,” Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy Larson said. “The charges the Grand Jury has leveled against these defendants, including material support for terrorists, address the vicious attack perpetrated by an anti-ICE, anti-law enforcement, anti-government, anarchist group.”

Terrorism charges were brought after President Donald Trump designated Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization” in September and directed federal agencies “to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations” connected to Antifa, The Center Square reported.

Charges also brought against the nine include riot,with the intent to commit an act of violence; conspiracy to use and carry an explosive and doing so during a riot; attempted murder of officers and federal employees; discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence; and document concealment.

Updated charges brought in the case “underscore the seriousness of the crimes committed,” FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge Joseph Rothrock said.