The U.S. economy added 187,000 jobs in August – in line with expectations – but America’s unemployment rate also increased sharply to 3.8 percent in numbers released Friday.
Health care, leisure and hospitality, social assistance, and construction grew, but transportation and warehousing declined. The recent labor market headwinds, such as the Hollywood actor and writers strikes that dropped workers from payrolls – and the July bankruptcy of trucking company Yellow – have partially contributed to the high unemployment rate. The unemployment has rate reached its highest level since early 2022.
Some experts believe that these current labor market conditions suggest a return to pre-pandemic conditions and could lead the Federal Reserve to pause hikes or even cut interest rates in the first half of next year. However, Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist for High Frequency Economics, claims there is an upside risk to inflation, and that another increase in rates later this year cannot be ruled out.
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The U.S. economy added 187,000 jobs in August – in line with expectations – but America's unemployment rate also increased sharply to 3.8 percent in numbers released Friday.
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COVID-19 pandemic era restrictions appear to be returning in Florida, with the Palm Beach Gardens High School, part of the Palm Beach County school district, announcing its Friday night football game against Vero Beach is postponed until September 6th “out of an abundance of caution.”
The news comes shortly after the Florida Governor took aim at former President Donald J. Trump in absentia, for his pandemic handling from the Milwaukee GOP debate stage.
COVID precautions are back in #Florida with canceled high school football games “Out of an abundance of caution”
DeSantis has made his response to the COVID-19 pandemic a cornerstone of his campaign’s message to voters, expressing staunch opposition to new lockdowns, school closures, mask requirements, and vaccine mandates. During debate, he said: “It should have never happened. And in Florida, we led the country out of lockdown, kept our state free and open.”
In 2022, DeSantis pushed back against Florida school districts that sought to reinstate mask mandates and closures during outbreaks of COVID-19, telling the press at the time: “Our schools will be open in the state of Florida… If you’re healthy, you need to be in school.”
Despite his bravado, the latest news from Palm Beach Gardens High School suggests that DeSantis’s fight against pandemic restrictions has been less successful than advertised. The National Pulse previously reported that Governor DeSantis failed to fire his state’s very own Dr. Fauci, Palm Beach County Department of Health director Dr. Alina Alonso.
Dr. Alonso, known as “the face of the COVID-19 pandemic in Palm Beach County,” was given free rein during the COVID pandemic to enforce arbitrary restrictions upon millions of Floridians, including the implementation of mask mandates, establishment of a COVID hotline for lockdown snitches, and even creating an armed COVID compliance police force. In 2023, Dr. Alonso retired, stating her replacement Dr. Jyothi Gunta, “will make a great new director.”
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COVID-19 pandemic era restrictions appear to be returning in Florida, with the Palm Beach Gardens High School, part of the Palm Beach County school district, announcing its Friday night football game against Vero Beach is postponed until September 6th "out of an abundance of caution."
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A 52-year-old Oklahoma elementary school principal is a well-known drag queen who was arrested and charged with the possession of child pornography and drugs in the early 2000s.
Shane Murnan – who goes by the alter ego Ms. Shantel Mandalay when in drag – was recently named principal of John Glenn Elementary School in southwestern Oklahoma City. Murnan has performed as a drag queen for nearly two decades and has “won” awards such as “Miss Gay Sooner Plains America” and “Miss Gay of Oklahoma USofA Classic”.
The newly-minted principal was also charged with possessing child pornography in 2001, while working as a fifth-grade teacher in Oklahoma. “At least four images” were found on his digital devices, leaving him facing up to five years imprisonment, until disputes between different courts saw the case dismissed. One judge simply ruled there was no proof the people in the images were underage. Another disagreed, ruling the images, “did represent child pornography.” Yet, another court once again dismissed the case because “there was not enough evidence.”
Murnan served a probation term for a marijuana charge before having his criminal record removed in 2003. He was later named a defendant in a “criminal probable cause initial filing” for an undisclosed case in October 2020 while working as an assistant principal.
The drag-obsessed teacher was appointed principal of the school earlier this summer, in time for the 2023-24 academic year.
Meet Shane Murnan- elementary principal at @wh_isd.
Shane is a drag queen who performs for children and reads books about gender to kids while dressed in drag.
Shane was also previously arrested on child porn charges.
A 52-year-old Oklahoma elementary school principal is a well-known drag queen who was arrested and charged with the possession of child pornography and drugs in the early 2000s.
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The Islamic call to prayer, or Adhan, can now be blasted across New York City without regard to neighborhood noise restrictions on Fridays, following guideline changes introduced by Democrat city mayor Eric Adams.
“Something that I heard when I visited Morocco, when I visited Saudi Arabia, when I visited Oman, when I visited Jordan, when I visited so many Arab and Muslim countries, I heard the call of prayer. ,” said Mayor Eric Adams, currently presiding over an unprecedented migrant crisis in his “sanctuary city”.
“[T]his city is going to join a rich tradition, cultural, and faith belief… to my Muslim brothers and sisters that are here, as-salamu alaykum,” he continued, promising his audience they would no longer “have to apply for a permit to amplify your call to Friday prayer. You are free to live your faith in NYC.”
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The Islamic call to prayer, or Adhan, can now be blasted across New York City without regard to neighborhood noise restrictions on Fridays, following guideline changes introduced by Democrat city mayor Eric Adams.
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Washington Post‘s “fact-checker” Glenn Kessler has admitted President Joe Biden regularly lies to the public regarding his past, not simply embellishing, but outright fabricating details about his personal and family history.
Kessler begins with Biden’s lie over his Delaware home nearly being burned down, claiming: “I almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette and my cat,” and adding in another speech: “We had to be out of that house for about seven months while it was repaired, because so much damage was done to the house… Half the house almost collapsed.”
No such thing happened, with AP reports from the time confirming a small kitchen fire was put out within 20 minutes.
WaPo also derides Biden’s story of Amtrak conductor Angelo Negri, who supposedly informed Biden he had traveled more on Amtrak than he had on Air Force planes while serving as Vice President of the United States. The story is impossible. “Biden did not pass the 1.2 million-mile mark until 2016; Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993, 16 years before Biden became vice president. Negri died in 2014, two years before Biden claims they had this conversation.”
Biden’s claims to have been arrested in a Civil Rights protest were false; he was never arrested trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison; and the stories he tells about people such as “Corn Pop” and indeed his outright plagiarism have scarcely bothered the corporate media until recently. But concerns over Biden’s age, mental competence, and involvement with his son’s foreign business deals appears to have given the press the green-light on such stories.
Even then, Glenn Kessler and the Washington Post can’t help but defend Biden’s penchant for lying to the public: “…like many politicians, [Biden] likes to tell stories — stories that attempt to connect his life story with his audiences and make up an essential part of his persona.”
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Washington Post's "fact-checker" Glenn Kessler has admitted President Joe Biden regularly lies to the public regarding his past, not simply embellishing, but outright fabricating details about his personal and family history.
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Elon Musk will require X (formerly Twitter) users to let him collect their “biometric information” and “personal information” including “employment history, educational history, employment preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement, and so on” from September 29th.
The biometric information is “undefined” on the user’s supposed “consent” but could include face, fingerprint, and voice recognition, and will be used for “safety, security, and identification purposes”.
The personal information will be used to “recommend potential jobs for you” and also “share[d] with potential employers when you apply for a job”.
Combined with “publicly available information” scraped from all manner of sources, this newly-collected data will also be used “to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models,” the new policy states.
Musk continues to advertise X as a burgeoning free speech platform under his ownership, but the implementation of invasive data collection alongside the hiring of censorious executives and the suspension of users for expressing support for capital punishment, for example, suggests it may soon be little different from Jack Dorsey-era Twitter.
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Elon Musk will require X (formerly Twitter) users to let him collect their "biometric information" and "personal information" including "employment history, educational history, employment preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement, and so on" from September 29th.
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Brian Kemp, the supposedly Republican Governor of Georgia, is rejecting calls to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the RICO prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 18 other individuals accused of interfering the 2020 presidential election.
“Up to this point, I have not seen any evidence that DA Willis’s actions – or lack thereof – warrant action by the Prosecuting Attorney Oversight Commission,” Kemp said at a press conference on Thursday before adding, “But ultimately that will be a decision that the commission will make.”
Gov. Kemp (R-GA) in his hurricane presser squashes idea of calling a special session targeting DA Willis, which Trump & his allies have pushed:
“A special session of the General Assembly to end-run around this law is not feasible and may ultimately prove to be unconstitutional.” pic.twitter.com/DqUTLveNAl
The Georgia Governor specifically rejected the call by Republican State Senator Colton Moore for a special legislative session to review the actions by District Attorney Willis, arguing that the move would “…ignore current Georgia law and directly interfere with the proceedings of a separate but equal branch of government.” Kemp declined to mention Moore specifically by name in his remarks.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis did not escape criticism from Kemp, however. The Governor said Willis’s decision to prosecute former President Trump during an election “…sows distrust and provides easy pickings for those who see the District Attorney’s action as guided by politics.”
On August 14th, a Fulton County grand jury handed down indictments of former President Trump and 18 other individuals for interfering in the 2024 presidential election in Georgia. Last week, when former President surrendered himself at the Fulton County jail, The National Pulse was the first to confirm and report Trump’s mugshot.
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Brian Kemp, the supposedly Republican Governor of Georgia, is rejecting calls to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the RICO prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 18 other individuals accused of interfering the 2020 presidential election.
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New York Attorney General Letita James, who campaigned for office during the Donald Trump administration on a platform of going after the “illegitimate president” in the courts, is pressing a judge to rule against the now-former president before he even goes to trial.
AG James has been pursuing Trump, his children, and their family business for years now, claiming the MAGA kingpin overstated his net worth by $812 million to $2.2 billion from 2011 to 2021 and seeking sanctions including a $250 million payment and a near-ban on the Trumps doing business in New York in a civil trial scheduled for October.
She wants the courts to issue a summary judgment against Trump related to fraud the trial starts, however, citing a supposed “mountain of undisputed evidence”.
Her pursuit of Trump has likely cost millions already, based on reporting of Trump’s ongoing legal fees related to the case, representing a significant strain on the law enforcement budget at a time when crime in New York City is recovering from a 22 percent spike in major crime in 2022.
Five of seven categories of major crime have receded since this surge over the course of 2023 – so far – but felony assault and especially grand larceny auto offenses were still on the rise in statistics released early August.
Crime is also likely significantly greater that law enforcement figures suggest, due to both underreporting and undercharging – an issue even Democrat state governor Kathy Hochul had to acknowledge after rapist refugee Van Phu Bui was initially released without bail after almost killing a man in the street.
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New York Attorney General Letita James, who campaigned for office during the Donald Trump administration on a platform of going after the "illegitimate president" in the courts, is pressing a judge to rule against the now-former president before he even goes to trial.
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A 25-year-old man has been charged with criminal mischief and a ‘hate crime’ after he removed and damaged a number of LGBTQI+ pride flags placed on a fence in New York City’s West Village neighborhood in June.
Patrick Murphy is alleged to have engaged in a “criminal mischief pattern” alongside two other men by the city’s authorities after pride flags at the Stonewall National Monument were vandalized. Despite the months-long effort to locate and charge Murphy, the damage saw around only a dozen small LGBTQI+ and trans flags thrown onto the floor and several flag sticks broken.
New York City Councilor Erik Bottcher posted a number of photos of the small mess on X (formerly Twitter), stating, “If anyone thinks this is going to intimidate us or weaken our resolve, they’re mistaken.”
Someone vandalized the rainbow flag display on the Stonewall National Monument on Christopher Street, snapping the flag sticks and throwing them on the ground. If anyone thinks this is going to intimidate us or weaken our resolve, they’re mistaken. 🌈 👊 pic.twitter.com/sFdue8NrPG
Murphy disputes the claims and has pleaded not guilty, according to court records. His attorney, Robert Gottlieb, argued: “It is preposterous to conclude that Patrick was involved in any hate crime.”
“The evidence will clearly show that whatever happened that night involving Patrick was not intended to attack gays or their symbol, the gay pride flag,” Gottlieb added.
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A 25-year-old man has been charged with criminal mischief and a 'hate crime' after he removed and damaged a number of LGBTQI+ pride flags placed on a fence in New York City's West Village neighborhood in June.
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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health says two residents of the state tested positive for the West Nile Virus. A woman in her 70s was exposed while visiting another part of the United States, while a man in his 40s was exposed to the virus in the Greater Boston area.
This is the first time the West Nile Virus has been detected in Massachusetts residents in 2023 according to Public Health Commissioner Robert Goldstein, MD, PhD. He warned residents: “Populations of mosquitoes that can carry and spread this virus are fairly large this year, and we have seen recent increases in the number of WNV-positive mosquito samples from multiple parts of the Commonwealth.”
West Nile Virus first appeared in the United States in 1999. The mosquito-born virus belongs to the flavivirus family – along with dengue fever, yellow fever, and Zika. Culex mosquitoes become carriers for the virus when they use their proboscis bite and draw blood from infected birds. The virus can then subsequently be passed on to humans when they are bit by its mosquito hosts.
Most people who are exposed to West Nile never experience any symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Around 20 percent of people exposed will develop febrile illness, marked by severe flu-like symptoms – and may experience fatigue for several months after the illness has gone away on its own. Severe, and sometimes fatal, conditions such as encephalitis and meningitis are rare – developing in an estimated 1 out of every 150 confirmed cases.
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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health says two residents of the state tested positive for the West Nile Virus. A woman in her 70s was exposed while visiting another part of the United States, while a man in his 40s was exposed to the virus in the Greater Boston area.
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