President Donald Trump‘s administration touted the economy‘s addition of 64,000 jobs in November and blamed the uptick in unemployment on federal workers. The unemployment rate rose to 4.6%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which published the delayed November jobs report on Tuesday after the 43-day government shutdown. This marks the highest unemployment rate in four […]

Michele Tafoya, a former sideline reporter for the NFL, will soon decide whether to run for the Senate in Minnesota, a blue-leaning state that Republicans are freshly contesting amid a sprawling fraud scandal. The National Republican Senatorial Committee has been recruiting Tafoya, who left sports broadcasting in 2022 for a career in politics, to run […]

Federal agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) are publicly feuding over the congresswoman’s claim that officers pulled over her son in a traffic stop in Minnesota. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons clarified on Tuesday that his personnel had no record of pulling over Omar’s son following the Omar’s initial statement on […]

The Department of Labor announced on Monday it is sending staff to Minnesota to investigate concerns about fraud in the state’s Unemployment Insurance Program.   The department’s decision to authorize an “on-site specialized UI strike team” in Minnesota makes it the latest of several federal agencies deploying agents to investigate reports of widespread fraud in the […]