ALT US job growth slows, easing pressure on Fed to hike rates before midterms Employment gains last month came in below expectations, with previous estimates revised down. Avatar of Cassandra Dumay By: Cassandra Dumay | 10/02/2026 09:35 AM EDT | Updated 10/02/2026 11:26 AM EDT

ALT Today's the 8th anniversary of the brutal slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, ordered by Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman. We cannot trust Saudi leaders, yet Trump wants to allow them to enrich uranium that could be used for nuclear bombs. Stop the deal.

ALT Elon Musk to return his attention to government, advise Pentagon on future of war Musk will join Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and former House speaker Newt Gingrich in leading the Defense Department’s Project Meridian. October 1, 2026 at 9:10

ALT Senator Markey Statement on Bipartisan Permitting Reform Proposal Washington (October 1, 2026) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement following the release of a bipartisan permitting reform proposal. “I’m never going to ignore that Trump’s attacks on American-made clean energy fueled the energy crisis we’re in now—not to mention his boosterism of power-hungry data centers—all of which have been enabled by Republicans in Congress. The Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill and the Trump administration’s illegal actions to block clean energy projects and rescind grants have killed tens of thousands of megawatts of clean power, stopped creation of union jobs, raised costs for families at home and on the road, and dumped pollution in communities across the country. Data center developers are hijacking our energy grid and using ratepayers to subsidize their profit-making operations, while also polluting air and

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ALT Most of the children, dressed formally with neatly styled hair, waited impatiently for the judge. Among the first to appear before the judge was a 13-year-old Honduran boy named Angel. He didn't have an attorney. Asked whether there was a reason he couldn't return to Honduras, Angel told the judge, "My mom and almost my entire family are here. It's too dangerous to go back." But that wasn't enough for the judge, who told the boy he did not qualify for asylum. "Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?" The judge asked. "I don't know," Angel replied before bursting into tears. He stared ahead stoically and continued to cry, eventually saying: "I have no one. I have nothing."