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Second Weak Jobs Report Undercuts Trump’s Claims of a Booming Economy

After a bad employment report in August, President Trump fired the official in charge of the numbers. This month’s data was just as disappointing.

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The economy added only 22,000 jobs in August. President Trump’s high tariffs and mass deportations appear to have created noticeable pressure on employers.
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Leaders of African Separatist Movement Indicted in Minnesota

Insurgents seeking to form a new nation for English speakers in Cameroon were led by men living in Minnesota, federal prosecutors said on Friday.

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Joseph H. Thompson, the acting U.S. attorney in Minnesota, at a news conference late last month. “Minnesota is not a launchpad for overseas violence,” he said in a statement on Friday about the indictment.
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U.S. Is Increasingly Exposed to Chinese Election Threats, Lawmakers Say

Two Democrats on the House China committee noted the use of A.I. by Chinese companies as a weapon in information warfare.

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Democrats on the House China committee said the office of Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was “stripping away the guardrails that protect our nation from foreign influence.”
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Chicago Braces for Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Protesters held demonstrations and city leaders spoke against the prospect of a surge of federal agents.

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Police encountered demonstrators trying to block government vehicles from leaving an I.C.E. facility in Broadview, Ill., outside Chicago, on Friday.
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After Rayner’s Resignation, Farage’s Reform UK Party Sees An Opportunity

Nigel Farage, the leader of the anti-immigration party Reform U.K., spoke to supporters just after news broke that the deputy prime minister had resigned.

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Nigel Farage, the leader of the right wing populist Reform U.K. party, after delivering his speech at the party’s conference in Birmingham, England on Friday.
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After UK Deputy Premier Resigns, Farage Seeks to Capitalize

Nigel Farage, the leader of the anti-immigration party Reform U.K., spoke to supporters just after news broke that the deputy prime minister had resigned.

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Nigel Farage, the leader of the right wing populist Reform U.K. party, after delivering his speech at the party’s conference in Birmingham, England on Friday.
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What We Know About Trump’s Crime and Immigration Crackdown Across the U.S.

The president has sent soldiers and federal agents to some cities, and promised to do the same in others, prompting lawsuits and stirring outrage among local leaders.

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Members of the California National Guard were deployed during immigration protests in downtown Los Angeles in June.
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Trump Administration Threatens Abrego Garcia With Deportation to El Salvador

A court had ruled that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia could not be sent back to his homeland, but now the administration sees a legal loophole.

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Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore last month.
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BART System in Bay Area Resumes Train Service After Morning Commute Meltdown

Bay Area Rapid Transit suffered a systemwide outage for the second time in four months because of a computer problem. Service was fully restored just before noon local time.

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The transit system suffered a similar outage this year in May, which lasted several hours.
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Duchess of Kent, Royal Who Comforted a Wimbledon Loser, Dies at 92

A member of an aristocratic family, she married the Duke of Kent, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Dispensing with royal decorum, the duchess embraced Jana Novotna after she lost the 1993 Wimbledon women’s final to Steffi Graf.
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The Return of the ‘War Department’ Is a Message From Trump

President Trump and his defense secretary say they want to return to the era when America won wars. They largely ignore the greatest accomplishment of the past 80 years: avoiding superpower conflict.

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“Everybody likes that we had an unbelievable history of victory when it was Department of War,” President Trump said.
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Le don du sang fait son retour en Guyane

En Guyane, les collectes de dons de sang vont bientôt pouvoir reprendre, après 20 d'interdiction. Elles avait été arrêtée en 2005 en raison notamment du risque de contamination à la maladie de Chagas. Le territoire d'Amérique du Sud dépendait depuis deux décennies des envois de poches sanguines de l'Hexagone.

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Deauville sous les étoiles et hommages à Giorgio Armani

Kristen Stewart, Scarlett Johansson, Pamela Anderson et Kim Novak… Les stars illuminent le Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville. Dans ce numéro, Louise Dupont et Genie Godula reviennent sur les temps forts de cette 51ᵉ édition riche en avant-premières et en hommages. Et alors que le cinéma est en fête, le monde de la mode pleure le styliste italien Giorgio Armani, disparu à l'âge de 91 ans. Créateur visionnaire, il laisse une empreinte indélébile, saluée de toutes parts. 

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Donald Trump veut son ministère de la Guerre, une idée à contre-courant et coûteuse

Le président Donald Trump prévoit de signer vendredi un décret visant à renommer le ministère américain de la Défense en celui de la Guerre. Cette appellation n'est plus utilisée depuis 1947, comme dans la plupart des pays du monde. La France fait toutefois aussi figure d'exception avec son ministère des Armées.

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