The White House marked Labor Day by celebrating job growth and wage gains for Americans, slapping back at critics who paint a more pessimistic picture of the Trump economy.
“As Americans across the nation mark Labor Day, President Trump stands as the champion of the American Worker,” the White House said.
The White House credited Trump with a "private sector boom," with half a million jobs added and small business optimism on the rise as government payrolls decline from Trump's sweeping downsizing efforts.
The administration touted continuous real wage gains since Trump's inauguration in January, including a 1.4% inflation-adjusted increase among blue-collar workers over the past year.
According to preliminary government data shared on Monday, 1.2 million foreigners have exited the labor force since President Trump returned to the White House and launched his immigration crackdown.
The stunning figure is just one sign of how Trump is reshaping the economy to prioritize American workers, who have long been forced to compete with a glut of cheap, foreign labor.
Trump's critics have pointed to signs of a slowing jobs market, but the White House notes that American workers have accounted for all net job growth since January.
Employment among native-born Americans has gone up 2.4 million, while foreign employment has decreased, a stark shift after immigration hit all-time highs under Trump's predecessor.
Trump's trade policies are also "leveling the playing field" for American workers, the administration said, citing $8 trillion in new corporate investment in American production, although the long-term impact of those commitments remains unclear.
So far, Trump's tariffs have not resulted in a surge in prices as many economists predicted, with gas prices hitting five-year lows over the Labor Day weekend.
The economy is sure to weigh heavily in next year's midterm elections. Trump and his Republican allies have started selling his Big, Beautiful Bill as a victory for workers, citing tax savings for the middle-class and workers who rely on tip income.
The administration is preparing a list of professions that qualify for Trump's tax cut on tips - with workers in industries like hospitality, entertainment, and food service expected to benefit.
Despite improvements for American workers, steep economic challenges remain, with housing costs at all-time highs. Trump is considering declaring a national emergency to address the housing crisis, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
"We're trying to figure out what we can do, and we don't want to step into the business of states, counties and municipal governments," Bessent said. "I think everything is on the table."
President Donald Trump said during an interview with The Daily Caller's Reagan Reese that he would consider reopening asylums for people with severe mental illness, asserting that society "can't have these people walking around."
Reese was asking Trump about his crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., part of which involved dealing with mentally ill homeless people who have become a fixture on D.C. streets.
"Would you be open to the government reopening insane asylums for people with serious mental illness?" Reese asked him.
“Yeah I would,” Trump answered, then elaborated on the reasons why.
Trump continued, “Well, they used to have them, and you never saw people like we had, you know, they used to have them. And what happened is states like New York and California that had them, New York had a lot of them. They released them all into society because they couldn’t afford it.
“You know, it’s massively expensive. But we had, they were all over New York. I remember when I was growing up, Creedmoor. They had a place, Creedmoor, they had a lot of them, Bellevue, and they were closed by a certain governor."
“It’s a rough situation," he concluded, "because you can't have these people walking around."
Mental illness is a significant factor in homelessness, because people with severe mental illness can't hold down a job and often have a deep mistrust of authority figures, banks, and other fixtures of modern society.
Part of Trump's D.C. crime crackdown has involved emptying homeless encampments, offering those living in the makeshift dwellings shelters they can go to where they will receive food, a place to sleep, and services they need to become functional members of society again.
This will surely include mental health treatment for many of them, as well as substance abuse treatment, career counseling, job opportunities, and life skills education.
Trump is touting the success of his D.C. crackdown, calling the nation's capital a "crime-free zone."
“I mean, I knew we’re going to do it, but it went faster than I thought… Now, in two weeks, it’s going to be even better. I’m calling it, it’s a crime free zone now,” he continued. “People are going to restaurants that haven’t gone out in four years. They didn’t even want to go in their car because they get the you know, they have..,you see, the carjacking is down 87 percent.”
Even D.C.'s Democrat Mayor, Muriel Bowser, is lauding the efforts of the federal law enforcement in her city after initially resisting them.
“We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city,” she said at a press conference last week.
An award-winning actor who previously worked alongside major Hollywood stars like Kevin Costner and Tom Hanks has passed away.
Graham Greene, who co-starred in Costner's "Dances With Wolves" and Hanks' "The Green Mile," died on Monday at a hospital in Toronto, Canada, at the age of 73, according to the New York Post.
The Canadian-born Native American, who "stumbled into" acting after first working in several other trades, excelled at the craft, has been nominated for and won dozens of awards, and was honored recently with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
A representative for Greene confirmed to the Post that the actor died on Monday at a Toronto hospital with his wife of several decades, Hilary Blackmore, at his side, and leaves behind her along with his daughter, Lilly Lazare-Greene, and his grandson, Talo.
The rep described Greene as "a man of high moral character who will be missed," and noted that he was "finally free" of the unspecified "lengthy illness" he'd been battling.
He was born in 1952 in Ohsweken, part of Canada’s Six Nations Reserve, and though he would go on to have a prolific decades-long career in theater and Hollywood, acting was not his first calling for how to make a living.
In a 2018 interview with Reader's Digest Canada, when asked what he'd be doing if he wasn't an actor, Greene replied, "I’d probably be a welder. I started out as a carpenter, a welder, a draftsman, a carpet layer, a roadie, and an audio tech."
"I stumbled into acting, and I thought, These people keep me in the shade, give me food and water, take me over to where I say what I’m supposed to say, then they take me back," he added. "Wow -- this is the life of a dog!"
According to Greene's IMDb page, he has 188 credited appearances as an actor in movies, TV shows, and video games that date from the late 1970s through this year, including several projects at various stages of production that have not yet been released.
His most notable appearance was as "Kicking Bird" in 1990's "Dances With Wolves," in which he co-starred alongside Costner, and for which he was nominated for an Academy Award as the Best Supporting Actor in the film that otherwise had a total of 12 nominations and won seven Oscars overall.
Another memorable role came in 1999 as death row inmate "Arlen Bitterbuck" in the Hanks film "The Green Mile," as well as "Joseph" in the 1994 film "Maverick" that starred Mel Gibson and Jody Foster.
Often, though not always, Greene portrayed Native American characters in the dozens of movies and TV shows he appeared in over the years, and his acting abilities earned him several prestigious awards and nominations for his work in that regard, per his IMDb page.
In total, Greene boasted 22 wins and 18 nominations for various honors, including a Grammy Award for a spoken word album for children.
In 2021, the actor was further honored for his entire body of work with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-CA), who led the Judiciary Committee during both impeachments of President Donald Trump during his first term, announced Monday that he will not seek an 18th term in Congress in 2026.
Nadler will be 79 when he retires from Congress after 34 years.
He said that his experience seeing the mental decline and advanced age of former President Joe Biden convinced him of the need for generational change in the Democrat Party.
“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that," he said.
Nadler said he would not involve himself in the Democratic primary that would ensue.
His district in Manhattan is one of the wealthiest in the country.
He didn't say who he thought could replace him, but his longtime aide Assemblyman Micah Lasher may seek the seat, according to reports.
Nadler has hated Trump since the 1980s when they disagreed over development projects in the borough.
More recently, Nadler voiced opposition to mask-wearing by ICE agents even as attacks against them skyrocketed.
Earlier in the summer, Nadler seethed with rage when DHS entered his office and briefly handcuffed an aide while accusing his staff of "harboring rioters," a charge he vehemently denied.
He tried to pack the Supreme Court and wanted to impeach Justice Brett Kavanaugh if Republicans gained the majority in the House, which they did.
Nadler was almost famous for talking out of both sides of his mouth, depending on who benefitted politically.
In 1998 he called the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton a "lynch mob," while in 2019 he criticized President Donald Trump for using the same term to describe his own impeachment.
His bald-faced lies about Trump during impeachment diminished the credibility of Democrats and ended up boosting Trump's popularity in the end.
Good riddance to Nadler, who became little more than a foil for conservatives and a laughingstock, the more he spewed his irrational hate.
A federal court has intervened to stop the Trump administration from deporting hundreds of unaccompanied child migrants from Guatemala, Breitbart reported.
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ordered a temporary halt to the deportation of these children who seek humanitarian protection in the U.S.
The order came in response to concerns that these deportations would bypass critical legal safeguards designed for migrant minors without proper deportation procedures.
Judge Sooknanan, a Biden appointee, acted swiftly on a Sunday to issue the temporary restraining order, which specifically covered children without finalized deportation orders.
The restraining order initially focused on a smaller group of ten children, between the ages of 10 and 17. Lawyers representing these minors argued that deporting them would ignore laws meant to provide children the chance to apply for asylum and other forms of legal protection.
Drew Ensign, representing the Trump administration in court, confirmed compliance with this order and detailed ongoing deportation logistics halted by the judge's action.
During the legal proceedings, Ensign provided an update on the operational status, revealing, "On the ground, I believed one plane had taken off earlier but had come back." This confirmed that all prepared deportation flights were paused.
Controversy arose from how the administration sought to handle over 600 minor deportations, with claims from the administration that these children had self-reported having familial ties back in Guatemala.
The halt reflects broad concerns over the procedural fairness and humanitarian considerations in the deportation protocols applied to unaccompanied migrant children.
Stephen Miller, a senior official in the Trump administration, voiced strong opposition to the judge's ruling, positing that the decision undermines parental reunification efforts.
Miller articulated strong discontent, stating, "These smuggled migrant children were orphaned in America by the Biden Administration. The minors have all self-reported that their parents are back home in Guatemala. But a Democrat judge is refusing to let them reunify with their parents," highlighting a deep divide in perspectives regarding immigration management.
This judicial block has catalyzed a significant policy standoff, reflecting the intricate and often polarized nature of immigration debates in the United States.
Projected legal reviews will explore the complexities of the case further, examining the intersections of executive decisions and legal protections for vulnerable migrant groups.
An analysis of these issues will set pivotal precedents about the scope of rights and protections available to child migrants collected at U.S. borders, particularly from Central America.
This case thereby not only involves the immediate futures of these children but also the broader trajectory of U.S. immigration policy and humanitarian law.
Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a car accident in New Hampshire this weekend that left him with a fractured spine.
The resilient former New York mayor, who is a close friend of President Trump, was released from a hospital Monday afternoon in "high spirits", the New York Times reported.
Michael Ragusa, the head of Giuliani's security, released a statement on Sunday explaining that Giuliani was struck "from behind at high speed" on Saturday night.
Moments earlier, Giuliani had stopped on the side of the highway to assist a woman who was involved in a domestic violence incident. Giuliani called 911 and stayed with the woman until police arrived.
"Following this, while traveling on the highway, Mayor Giuliani’s vehicle was struck from behind at high speed,” Ragusa’s statement continued. “He was transported to a nearby trauma center, where he was diagnosed with a fractured thoracic vertebrae, multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg.”
Ragusa said the car accident was random and not related to the domestic incident preceding it.
19-year-old Lauren Kemp, of Concord, has been identified as the driver of the Honda HR-V that hit Giuliani's Ford Bronco, which was being driven by his spokesperson Ted Goodman on Interstate 93 near Manchester.
State troopers witnessed the crash, which sent both cars into the median, police said.
“Thank you to all the people that have reached out since learning the news about my Father,” Andrew Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani’s son, wrote in a post on X. “Your prayers mean the world.”
The sad news of Giuliani's injuries led to mockery from some leftists on social media - but Giuliani is staying strong, his friend Arthur L. Aidala told the Times.
“I have some healing to do, but I’m otherwise in great shape," Giuliani told Aidala.
Giuliani became known as "America's mayor" for lifting the nation up after the horror of September 11, 2001.
In the Trump era, Giuliani has become a widely hated figure among Democrats. His loyalty to Trump has come with a price: for his efforts to challenge the 2020 election, Giuliani lost his law license, and he had his mugshot taken in a since-derailed criminal case brought by a disgraced Democratic prosecutor.
The former mayor was also ordered to fork over $148 million to a pair of election workers who demanded just about everything he owned, including his apartments and World Series rings, before he reached an undisclosed settlement.
In the wake of Giuliani's car accident, President Trump announced that he is awarding his friend the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
A Texas man was arrested for threatening to chop off the head of a Trump administration staffer and kill their family - with the persistent suspect continuing to leave voicemails after the feds told him to stop.
Thomas Austria Crouse, of Austin, is facing up to five years in prison if convicted. The identity of the victim was not shared by the U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas, which announced the charges.
The FBI, Secret Service, and Capitol Police are investigating the case, which began on the night of August 25 with an alarming phone call.
According to a criminal complaint, Crouse called the "personal phone of an individual working for the President of the United States" and left a voicemail. It was not immediately clear how Crouse got the person's cell number.
Crouse "allegedly threatened to find the administration official, decapitate them, and kill the victim’s family," a Justice Department said.
"Given the violent nature of the voicemail and the references to the victim’s job as a presidential staffer, the voicemail was reported to the FBI. The criminal complaint alleges that further investigation revealed the phone call came from Austin. Crouse was identified as the caller."
The following day, Crouse agreed to stop making threats during an interview with the FBI, but the pledge lasted only a few hours.
The suspect instead continued to leave five additional voicemails for the victim, telling them to commit suicide.
On August 27, the feds arrested Crouse "based on a criminal complaint accusing him of transmitting an interstate communication containing a threat to injure the person of another."
Was the target a member of Trump's Cabinet? Or someone less well-known?
We do not have many details, but we do know that the incendiary climate being stirred up by the left exposes anyone tangentially connected to Trump to danger - including rank-and-file ICE agents who have come under violent attack for just doing their jobs.
Trump, of course, continues to face constant threats that have been encouraged by years of hyperbole comparing him to a dictator.
While the Justice Department is taking these threats seriously, the same, sadly, cannot be said of our deeply compromised judiciary.
Judge James Boasberg - the notorious Obama judge who tried to hold Trump officials in contempt for ignoring his arbitrary demands to stop deportation flights - has just released a woman from federal custody who had threatened to kill Trump.
The suspect in that case, Nathalie Jones, is a self-described schizophrenic who blames Trump for the death toll from COVID - a belief that was likely encouraged by the hysterical, leftist media.
The Justice Department urged the courts to keep Jones in jail, noting her "brazen decision to drive to Washington, DC, the day after telling law enforcement she would take the POTUS's life", but Boasberg found she is not a danger to the public and let her go, pending trial.
Washington D.C. has become markedly safer since President Trump's federal takeover last month, leading the president to boast that the nation's capital is now a "crime free" zone.
"DC IS NOW A CRIME FREE ZONE, IN JUST 12 DAYS!!! President DJT," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Metropolitan Police data shared on September 1 shows that carjackings have fallen 50%, homicides have gone down 38%, and overall violent crime is down 19% since the crackdown began August 7.
Trump's success has the city's own Democratic mayor, Muriel Bowser, to credit him with safer streets.
“We know that when carjackings go down, when use of gun goes down, when homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer,” the mayor said last week.
Trump began the crackdown after a brutal carjacking attack in August left a former DOGE staffer bloodied.
According to a Labor Day post from attorney general Pam Bondi, there have been nearly 1,600 arrests, and 165 illegal guns seized so far.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been involved in the crackdown, which has led to the arrest of some foreign gang members.
Trump shared an example of a report he received with his social media following, which noted, in part, that an "El Salvadorian national and member of the MS-13 designated terrorist organization was administratively arrested."
Trump has threatened to intervene in other Democratic cities plagued by street crime, including Chicago, where over 50 people were shot this Labor Day weekend. The governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker (D), has refused Trump's offer of help.
"Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot, in Chicago last weekend, and JB Pritzker, the weak and pathetic Governor of Illinois, just said that he doesn’t need help in preventing CRIME. He is CRAZY!!! He better straighten it out, FAST, or we’re coming! MAGA. President DJT," Trump wrote.
In another post, Trump praised mayor Bowser for her cooperation, which he contrasted with the defiance of other Democratic leaders "who spend all of their time trying to justify violent Crime, instead of working with us to completely ELIMINATE it, which we have done in Washington, D.C., NOW A CRIME FREE ZONE,” he added.
Next, we can expect out-of-touch liberals to "fact check" Trump's claim that D.C. is "crime free."
Of course, no city is ever completely safe, but Trump is absolutely correct that D.C. is in much better shape now than it was a few weeks ago.
Do Democrats want to be a part of the problem, or the solution? The choice is theirs.
Special prosecutor Robert Mueller, 81, who headed the investigation into Trump-Russia collusion after the election of President Donald Trump in 2016, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2021 and won't be able to testify about federal involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein case, according to his family.
“Bob was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in the summer of 2021,” Mueller’s family said in a statement to the New York Times on Sunday.
“He retired from the practice of law at the end of that year. He taught at his law school alma mater during the fall of both 2021 and 2022, and he retired at the end of 2022. His family asks that his privacy be respected,” the statement said.
Mueller handled the Epstein case during his tenure as FBI director from 2001 until 2013. He was expected to appear on Tuesday before the House Oversight Committee and answer questions about his handling of the case.
Mueller has had trouble moving and speaking recently, which is why he is apparently unable to testify.
The Parkinson's diagnosis might answer a lot of questions about why Mueller seemed so disoriented and stumbling when he testified before the House Intelligence Committee for three hours in 2019.
“I was surprised that Mr. Mueller was so disoriented,” Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) told the New York Post after his testimony.
“He was unable to answer some basic questions, which really surprised me,” she said.
Parkinson's Disease usually affects people over the age of 60. It causes tremors, slowness, and speech difficulties, and there is no cure.
Symptoms of the disease can be managed with medications and other therapies, but it is progressive and usually gets worse over time.
After the statement from Mueller's family, the committee withdrew its subpoena for Mueller to testify.
"We've learned that Mr. Mueller has health issues that preclude him from being able to testify. The Committee has withdrawn its subpoena," a committee aide said in a statement.
Mueller was only one of many high-profile witnesses from which the committee sought testimony.
Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee James Comer (R-KY) has also brought in ex-FBI Director James Comey, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, and former Attorneys General Eric Holder Jr., Merrick Garland, Alberto Gonzales, Jeff Sessions and William Barr to testify about their involvement in the Epstein case.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) signed an executive order on Saturday that ordered city police not to cooperate with federal agents or military troops amid a supposedly imminent crackdown on crime there similar to the one going on in Washington, D.C.
“We do not have the luxury of time,” Johnson said during a press conference that included other city leaders.
“We have received credible reports that we have days, not weeks, before our city sees some type of militarized activity by the federal government. It is unclear at this time what that will look like exactly.”
The order was meant to show city employees and residents “how we can stand up against this tyranny," he continued.
Police were ordered to be in uniform, identify themselves, follow body cam procedures, and not to wear face masks, which would set them apart from federal agents.
They were also ordered to enforce all local laws, even if federal agents said something different.
The order "urges" federal agents to also not wear masks and to follow local laws, and aims to prohibit the deployment of any military to the area.
“We will use the courts if that’s necessary,” Johnson warned.
Trump had threatened on social media that Chicago was "next" for a federal crackdown including immigration raids and federalization of police if the local officials couldn't get crime under control.
His actions in D.C. have been successful as far as dropping the crime rate, but it's too soon to tell whether those improvements will last after the feds leave.
The White House responded to Johnson's press conference, calling it a "publicity stunt" and urging city officials to handle the crime problem themselves, if they were able.
“If these Democrats focused on fixing crime in their own cities instead of doing publicity stunts to criticize the President, their communities would be much safer,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement.
Border czar Tom Homan has said that other sanctuary cities including New York, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle could have ICE agents deployed there if crime rates continue.
“Cracking down on crime should not be a partisan issue," Jackson said.