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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hiring's up. I'm Chris Foster, Fox News. The March jobs report was released by the Labor Department, and it's stronger than most economists expected after a big drop the month before.
There were 178,000 new jobs created in March, triple the number expected, and the unemployment rate declined to 4.3%. In March, jobs were added in health care, construction, transportation and warehousing. Federal government jobs continue to shrink.
Chapter 2: What were the latest jobs numbers reported for March 2026?
Health care strikes in California and Hawaii had impacted the February report, and it's believed the February report was made even worse by repeated winter storms.
The workforce participation rate slips to 61.9 percent. It's the fewest in four and a half years. People not working or looking for work are not figured into the unemployment rate. President Trump on True Social says the U.S. could reopen the Strait of Hormuz and take the oil with a little more time and says there's more to come after airstrikes on a bridge in Iran.
On day 35 of this war, all parties appear to be on a path towards escalation rather than negotiation. The destruction of that bridge. bridge in Iran by U.S. forces is the first time that we are aware of that the U.S. has targeted civilian infrastructure, albeit U.S. officials saying it would have been used as a military supply route.
This is Fox's Jonathan Hunt.
Chapter 3: Which sectors saw job growth in March 2026?
The Trump administration is asking Congress to approve a $1.5 trillion defense budget, a 44% annual increase.
Non-defense spending would drop by $73 billion, a 10% cut, by eliminating what the administration calls woke, weaponized, and wasteful programs. A president's annual budget is not law and largely serves as a priority list as Congress begins the process of drafting and passing spending bills. At the White House, Jared Halpern, Fox News.
The budget request includes $40 billion for more improvements to the air traffic control system and $10 billion for a presidential fund for construction and beautification projects in D.C. America's listening to Fox News. A Muslim leader in Michigan is in ICE custody.
Salah Sarsour has been the president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee now for five years.
Chapter 4: How did health care strikes affect previous jobs reports?
According to DHS, he's from Jordan. He was convicted of throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of Israeli armed forces and then lying on his green card application about it. A crowd rallied in support of Sarsour, claiming that he was targeted for speaking out against Israel and that he's been a lawful permanent resident in the U.S. for over 32 years.
Fox's Brooke Taylor reporting. Federal lawsuits filed in Minneapolis over ICE operations during Operation Metro Surge.
The ACLU and other groups are accusing ICE agents of violating the Fourth Amendment rights of citizens and immigrants in Minneapolis when they forced their way into homes during recent ICE operations with administrative warrants instead of warrants signed by a judge.
It just seems unthinkable that the government would try and have this kind of power grab.
Minnesota ACLU's Terry Nelson, the lawsuit also accuses DHS of deliberately hiding the policy. DHS, in a statement saying every illegal alien who DHS serves administrative warrants has had full due process. And a final order of removal from an immigration judge, Jeff Manasso. Fox News.
Actress Blake Lively's case against actor director Justin Baldoni is made narrower ahead of next month's civil trial in New York.
The judge ultimately dismissed 10 of Blake Lively's 13 claims against Justin Baldoni. The sexual harassment, defamation, and conspiracy allegations are all now gone. What remains are claims against Baldoni for breach of contract, retaliation, and aiding and abetting in retaliation.
In a statement, Lively's attorneys making clear that the sexual harassment allegations were dismissed because the court determined Lively was an independent contractor, not an employee. Why she co-starred with Baldoni in his movie, it ends with us.
That's Chanley Painter. I'm Chris Foster. Fox News.
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