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a 118% increase from a year earlier.

The report also showed hiring intentions slid 13% from a year earlier to 5,306, marking the weakest total for any January in the firm's records back to 2009.

President Trump has given a wide-ranging interview ahead of Super Bowl Sunday.

In the conversation with NBC News, the president said he personally decided to pull 700 federal agents from Minnesota amid the uproar over two American deaths in Minneapolis.

The president said he's not happy about the killings of Alex Pretty and Rene Good, and ICE isn't either.

A Quinnipiac poll shows 63% of voters think the administration has not given an honest account of Pretty's death.

President Trump also warned Iran's supreme leader he should be, quote, very worried ahead of high-level talks on its nuclear program tomorrow.

And he touched on his hour-long call yesterday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The president told NBC's Tom Lamas it's important both leaders have a good relationship before he visits China in April.

President Trump also said he would not have picked Kevin Warsh to lead the Fed if he wanted to raise interest rates.

The president was asked what he thinks about Fed independence.

And in the NBC News interview, President Trump said he plans to stay out of the fight between Netflix and Paramount's Skydance over Warner Brothers' Discovery.

And he said if he wins his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and the Treasury Department over an unauthorized release of his tax returns, he'd donate the proceeds to charity.

Now to the latest on the search for NBC Today show host Savannah Guthrie's mother, the network talk show host has sent a public message to her mother's kidnapper saying that her family is ready to talk but wants proof that she's alive.

And Nancy Guthrie was last seen Saturday around 9.45 p.m.

when she was dropped off at home by family after having dinner.

It's Election Day in northern New Jersey.

Voters in the 11th Congressional District will decide which candidates will compete in April to finish the term vacated by Governor Mikey Sherrill.

The special primary election has a crowded field of 11 Democrats.

The winner will face sole Republican Joe Hathaway, who is the Randolph mayor, in the April 16th special general election.