The DC troop fight runs on crime numbers the city cannot vouch for
Police data shows violent crime in Washington up 3 percent this year even as homicides fell 32 percent, on a table the department calls preliminary.
Politics
The National Guard is booked in Washington until January 2029
More than 4,600 troops from the District and 24 states and territories remain, and the Pentagon has costed the rest of the mission at $1.4 billion.
The Numbers
AllOfficial series, each dated to the observation it comes from.
Inflation3.3%
Unemployment4.1%
30-year mortgage6.69%
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
The film Warner Bros wrote off for taxes opens in theaters August 28
Coyote vs. Acme sat finished and unreleased for nearly three years, after Ketchup Entertainment bought it from Warner Bros for a reported $50 million.
The Michael Jackson biopic hit $1 billion with critics against it
Michael took $372.3 million in the US and Canada, and Lionsgate is targeting a production start on a sequel late this year.
Politics
4 stories · updated 11 AugFCC chair took $75,000 in gala tickets from a company he regulates
Watchdog groups asked ethics officials to investigate gala tickets Paramount gave FCC commissioners during its merger reviews. One wants the chairman disqualified.
Trump narrows birthright citizenship in two new orders
In CDC data for 2024, 9,576 births were to mothers with foreign addresses. The Center for Immigration Studies puts it as high as 26,000.
Ohio's two GOP senators urge Max Miller to resign
Ohio law gives Miller until Saturday to quit the ballot in his Cleveland-area district, ahead of a 4 p.m. Monday deadline to name a replacement.
Minnesota asks Abbott to extradite ICE agent in Minneapolis shooting
Until Castro reaches Minnesota there is no trial. He has sat in a Texas cell since May, over a shot that went through a door and lodged in a child's bedroom wall.
World
2 stories · updated 10 Aug
A dead SpaceX rocket hit the moon and joined 209 tons of junk
SpaceX's spent Falcon 9 stage struck at 5,400 miles an hour, 19 months after a launch that carried two landers toward the moon.
Colombia's new president declares talks with armed groups over
Sworn in at Cali, the first president to take office outside the capital, he gave armed groups 100 days to surrender. His party holds one Chamber seat and four in the Senate.
Business
3 stories · updated 10 AugThe job market is cooling and the Fed is still debating a rise
Futures traders cut the odds of a September rate rise after the July jobs report, but Fed officials had spent the week arguing for higher rates to fight inflation.
US payrolls fell 23,000 in July as revisions erased 103,000 jobs
Sweetgreen cuts 2026 sales outlook on cyclospora outbreak fears
| Federal funds target range | 3.5 to 3.75 percent |
| PCE inflation, year to June | 3.7 percent |
| Unemployment rate, July | 4.1 percent |
| Nonfarm payrolls, July | down 23,000 |
| Average hourly earnings, year to July | up 3.2 percent |
As filed
Entertainment
2 stories · updated 8 Aug
Health
3 stories · updated 10 AugFDA approves the first mRNA flu shot after refusing to review it
The FDA approved the first influenza vaccine made with mRNA, months after refusing to review the application. Clearance for adults over 65 is conditional on a further study.
Head Start rule strips federal standards and adds new mandates
Grant overhead would be capped at 5 percent, down from 15, the engine of a claimed $2.2 billion saving the rule's own accounting puts at $0.94 billion.
Public Citizen says Medicare delayed Creon price talks by seven years
AbbVie's Creon cost Medicare $1.49 billion in 2024 and the drug picked instead cost about half a billion less.