BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to remain in her job, against the wishes of Donald Trump. Cook will remain in her position pending oral arguments in January on whether Trump has legal cause to fire her.

A California union of 30,000 nurses, pharmacists, therapists and other health workers at Kaiser Permanente have authorized a strike. Kaiser is one of the biggest health conglomerates in the US, and their contract with these workers has expired. A strike could begin at any time.

Soon Meta will start showing ads to users based on their interactions with the company's AI. Zuckerberg says that Meta AI reached 1 billion monthly active users this spring.

BREAKING: The number of jobs created in August has been revised from 54,000 down to -3,000.

Private companies lost 32,000 jobs in September, the biggest slide since March 2023. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/p...

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers. In Virginia, it’s 37%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon is now integrating betting platform FanDuel directly into Amazon Prime. Bettors will be able to link their FanDuel accounts to their Prime profiles and see how their NBA wagers are playing out in real time, according to Amazon’s latest announcement.

Police in California pulled over a Waymo robot car for making an illegal U-turn. But they didn't issue a ticket because they say there's no existing mechanism for issuing traffic violation tickets to robots. www.businessinsider.com/san-bruno-po...

Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The Trump administration plans to furlough 41% of Health and Human Service workers in the event of a shutdown. The administration also plans to furlough 64% of the CDC, 75% of the National Institutes of Health, and 47% of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics says job openings are down 422,000, or 5.5%, from the same period a year ago.

The median nationwide cost of a regular hot cup of coffee has hit $3.52. The median cold brew now costs $5.47.

More than 100,000 federal workers are going to formally resign tomorrow, the largest such mass event in US history. This is part of a Trump program to dramatically gut the federal workforce. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More than 100 million people in America — 41% of adults — are saddled with medical bills they can't pay. kffhealthnews.org/diagnosis-de...

The Trump administration is going to launch a program to find out how much money AI could save the government by denying care to Medicare patients. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US. The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

Nearly one third of federal student loan borrowers are behind on their payments. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Trump administration has illegally moved to end collective bargaining for federal prison workers. The Federal Bureau of Prisons Director has written to nearly 35,000 employees outlining plans to illegally dismantle their union contract.

Hundreds of tenants across four states are uniting to take on the mega-landlord Capital Realty Group, demanding collective bargaining for safe and dignified housing. Inside the Tenant Union Federation’s bold new campaign inthesetimes.com/article/priv...

Soon millions of domestic workers may lose their right to demand even the federal minimum wage—a mere $7.25 per hour—or any overtime. Trump’s Department of Labor is moving to rescind a 2013 rule, leaving millions of domestic workers without wage and hour protections.

BREAKING: Trump just signed an executive order approving the new TikTok proposal. Larry Ellison’s Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX investment fund will be main investors in TikTok’s U.S. business. China still has to approve the deal.

Indianapolis residents have shut down a proposed Google data center. The tech giant wanted to build a massive 500 acre facility, but people got organized and stopped them. The $1 billion data center would've used one million gallons of water a day. www.youtube.com/shorts/bhOHy...

Home prices are up 56% since February 2020. www.npr.org/2025/09/25/n...

BREAKING: Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations that it tricked people into paying for Prime, and sabotaged their attempts to cancel.

The number of American homeowners has stopped growing.

The Department of Justice anti-corruption unit has been cut down to just 2 staffers under Trump.

BREAKING: Elon Musk's xAI has signed a deal with the federal government to allow the integration of its Grok AI with federal agencies.

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations. It includes the Roastery in Seattle, one of its busiest shops. CEO Brian Niccol made $100 million in four months last year.

BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US is in talks to provide Argentina with about $20 billion in aid.

Up to 22.3 million U.S. families will either be cut off from SNAP or see smaller monthly benefits because of the Republicans' "big, beautiful bill." www.cbsnews.com/news/food-st...

There are now 36 crypto billionaires globally, a new record. decrypt.co/340890/more-...

Hiring has now slowed to its lowest pace in a decade, excluding the dip at the beginning of the pandemic.

The U.S. economy has shed 1.2 million jobs since April 2024. www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/09/...

Disney Plus is raising subscription prices. The plan with ads will increase by $2 to $11.99 per month, while the no-ads plan will increase by $3 to $18.99 per month.

Nearly one in three young adults skipped visits to the dentist in the past year—mostly because of cost and a lack of insurance.

The Trump administration has canceled grants for street safety, pedestrian trails, and bike lanes in communities around the country. One official wrote that a project was canceled because it created "a road diet that is hostile to motor vehicles." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A seafood distributor is now recalling shrimp sold at Kroger locations across the country because of concerns about potential radioactive contamination.

A trial is beginning this week that will determine whether Amazon tricked customers into signing up for Prime, then made it extremely difficult to cancel the service.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows Trump to fire a Federal Trade Commission member — breaking nearly a century of precedent.

Nearly half a million people now live in RVs, more than twice as many as were doing so in 2021. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The most recent hunger survey found that about 18 million U.S. households were food insecure.

Three major white collar criminals were convicted in fraud schemes and ordered to pay back over $800 million. Then, Trump pardoned their criminal offenses. Now the SEC is dropping enforcement and they won't have to pay the money back. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Hawaiians are coming together to buy land back from a billionaire investment firm in an unprecedented move. One-third of the island of Molokai is owned by Hong Kong-headquartered billionaire investment firm Guoco Group. Now, people have launched a plan to buy back their island.

Samsung is now showing ads on some U.S. customers’ smart fridges. These fridges cost between $1,800 and $3,500. Samsung says the advertisement program is "enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers."

New York will soon send the state’s first-ever "inflation refund” checks to over 8 million people. The refund payments will range from $150 to $400.

BREAKING: Donald Trump suggests that the federal government might revoke the licenses of TV networks that are “against” him.

BREAKING: The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow Trump to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook.

Democratic Party leadership is calling for the resignation of FCC Chair Brandon Carr. They say he disgraced his office by coercing ABC to bend the knee to the Trump admin. Carr threatened the broadcaster and its affiliates, using his power in violation of the First Amendment.

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

A U.S. District court judge is holding two Amazon executives personally liable is a case over Prime subscriptions and Amazon's malpractice.