Tracy Mumford

But it's notable that six Republicans joined with Democrats to push back on the president.

GOP leaders had been trying to avoid this kind of vote, in part because they didn't want Republicans to have to go on the record as supporting tariffs, which could be a divisive topic in the midterm elections.

They even went as far as manipulating what counts as a day in Congress to drag out a deadline on the topic.

The question of whether Trump's sweeping tariffs will stand is also playing out in the Supreme Court.

The justices are expected to rule soon on whether he had the authority to put them in place to begin with.

And new data from the Labor Department shows that the job market is off to a stronger-than-expected start this year after a very bumpy 2025.

The January jobs report shows employers added 130,000 jobs.

The peppy results could be a sign that the labor market is emerging from a period of extremely slow hiring brought on by trade wars, the administration's immigration crackdown, and its firing spree of government workers.

Experts warn, though, that the economy is not growing evenly.

They've called it a K-shaped economy, as in the letter K. Basically, higher-income households keep climbing up, like one branch of the letter, while lower-income households are struggling more and more, their branch angling down.

The chief economist at U.S.

Bank wrote in a report recently that the country has hit a 60-year peak in income inequality, a stat to drive that home.

Last year, one-third of Americans' total net worth was held by the top 1% of households.

This morning, a group of biotech researchers have published a new study that points to a potentially transformative method of fertility treatment.

Many types of those treatments involve retrieving eggs from women, and the more eggs there are, the higher the chances are of getting a viable embryo that could lead to a birth.

The researchers discovered, though, that conventional methods of finding those eggs often miss some, and they've developed a device to collect more of them.

Fertility clinics have traditionally used high-power microscopes to search for eggs in what's known as follicular fluid, then discarded that fluid.

The new method takes the fluid and runs it through a device that's basically like a mini pinball machine with a series of bumpers and lanes that catch eggs that might have otherwise been missed.

Using that technique, the scientists were able to find additional eggs for more than half of patients.

In one case, one of those eggs led to a pregnancy and healthy birth.