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U.S. job growth accelerates in January with 130,000 new positions added
U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs in January 2026, surpassing forecasts and lowering the unemployment rate to 4.3%. Healthcare and social assistance led growth.
Trump wants lower mortgage rates, his Fed pick may push the other way
President Donald Trump has made housing affordability a centerpiece of his economic agenda, repeatedly emphasizing his desire to see mortgage rates fall. But Trump’s choice to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, has spent years criticizing the central bank’s enormous bond portfolio. Any push to significantly shrink the Fed’s $6.6 trillion balance sheet of Treasury […]
All but one Virginia House district could go blue in Democrats’ proposed map
Virginia Democrats released a proposed congressional map that could favor the party in 10 districts, pending voter approval.
Virginia Democrats target military college’s funding after anti-DEI push
Virginia Democrats propose a task force to assess whether Virginia Military Institute should continue receiving state funds.
‘This is war’: In texts, U.Va. board members plotted with Youngkin, decried DEI
As Republican leaders moved to root out what they have criticized as liberal ideology at the University of Virginia, some conservative appointees to its board texted privately about ending “chemical and surgical mutilation” for transgender youth at its hospitals and undoing “regimes of racial classification” in its classrooms, according to nearly 1,000 pages of text […]
Trump seeks to quell data center rebellion
Trump urges tech giants, led by Microsoft, to ensure AI data centers don’t raise electricity bills amid community backlash.
Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born. The data doesn’t show it.
President Donald Trump and White House leaders say that American workers are winning because of his immigration crackdown. But the data doesn’t back that up. Since the summer, Trump officials have been trumpeting the idea that job creation is booming for U.S.-born workers. Trump said so, too, during a prime-time address last month aimed at […]
