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Why did U.S. job growth slow dramatically in August 2025?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. Hiring in the U.S. slowed significantly in August. The labor department says employers added twenty-two thousand jobs during the month, far fewer than were expected. NPR Scott Horsley tells us the nation's jobless rate ticked higher to four point three percent.
For the second month in a row, the report shows US employers added far fewer jobs than forecasters had expected. Factories and construction companies cut jobs last month, as did the federal government. Healthcare was one of the few industries to add jobs, and even there hiring was slower than in previous months.
What triggered the immigration enforcement raid at the Hyundai battery plant in Georgia?
Revised figures show a net loss of jobs in June for the first time since the depths of the pandemic in late twenty twenty. The Federal Reserve has been keeping a close eye on the softening job market as it weighs a possible interest rate cut later this month. Investors widely expect the central bank to lower its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington.
The South Korean government is expressing concern about an immigration enforcement raid at the site of a Hyundai electric car battery factory in the state of Georgia. Four hundred seventy five people were detained in the federal action, Homeland Security Special Agent Steven Schrank.
We have also received many leads from community members, from prior workers. We have conducted many arrests through the immigration operations throughout the state of Georgia that have identified other employees that when encountered informed us that they worked there.
How are 35 nations planning a peace‑keeping force for Ukraine and what is the U.S. role?
Um we have interviewed folks and we have developed evidence over the course of many months. months in support of the investigation.
Plant is part of a multibilli package of South Korean investments in the US in a deal announced in July. А дай аркулин of thirty five nations came together in Paris to commit a peace-keeping force for Ukraine. Russian president Vladimir Путін гарні. NPR's Elner Beersley reports that Putin says any foreign troops in Ukraine would be a legitimate Russian.
Target. Twenty-six of the thirty-five nations that pledge support to Kyiv say they are willing to put troops on the ground and in the seas and skies of Ukraine to keep the peace once it's established.
Why is President Trump renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War?
The U.S. is supposed to provide some sort of backstop to this mostly European security force. But given President Trump's reluctance to impose tariffs on Russia and his enduring affinity for Vladimir Putin, many wonder if he will commit support to the United States. says Martin Cansay with the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
The commitment of the president himself will depend on on how he he sees the evolution of the conflict, his exchanges with Vladimir Putin.
So far, Putin has rebuffed all of Trump's peace proposals and never wavers from his maximalist demands. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris. On Wall Street, the Dow Down two hundred
and sixty-eight.
What injuries forced WNBA star Caitlin Clark to miss the rest of the season?
This is NPR News. President Trump is modifying the name of the Department of Defense, making the title Department of War a secondary title available to DOD. In an executive order to be issued early in the afternoon, Defense Department officials will be authorized to substitute the word war into their titles. So for example, Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth could use the title Secretary of War. Women's basketball star Caitlin Clark says she is out for the remainder of the WNBA season following multiple injuries. NPR's Matt Bloom reports the twenty-three year old had hoped to return to the court this year.
Clark's troubles started this summer with a right groin injury during a game in July. She also bruised her left ankle during a workout several weeks later.
Who will compete in tomorrow’s US Open women’s final and what are their recent results?
In a post on social media announcing her decision not to return this season, Clark wrote that she spent hours in the gym every day with the goal of recovering. But she and Indiana fever managers decided protecting her long term health and well being. remains their top priority. This is Clark's second season with a fever.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why did U.S. job growth slow dramatically in August 2025?
0:01–0:37
2
What triggered the immigration enforcement raid at the Hyundai battery plant in Georgia?
0:37–1:34
3
How are 35 nations planning a peace‑keeping force for Ukraine and what is the U.S. role?
1:34–2:18
4
Why is President Trump renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War?
2:18–2:57
5
What injuries forced WNBA star Caitlin Clark to miss the rest of the season?
2:57–3:45
6
Who will compete in tomorrow’s US Open women’s final and what are their recent results?
3:45–4:39