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President Trump displays a signed executive order during Thursday’s signing ceremony in the White House, surrounded by administration and professional athletes including golfer Bryson DeChambeau and WWE Chief Creative Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images For generations of U.S. schoolchildren, phrases like “shuttle run” and “sit-and-reach” likely conjure vivid memories of …

The U.S. labor market was substantially weaker in the spring and early summer, according to a report Friday from the Labor Department. Employers added far fewer jobs than initially reported. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images The job market weakened sharply during the late spring and early summer as President Trump’s tariffs began to take effect. …

Corporation for Public Broadcasting President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison, shown here in 2017, announced on Friday that CPB would wind down operations by Sept. 30 after losing all federal funding. Zach Gibson/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Zach Gibson/Getty Images/Getty Images North America The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the conduit for federal funds to NPR …

Children look at the Star Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the lyrics of the American national anthem, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in June in Washington, D.C. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Schiefelbein/AP The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. has removed references to President Trump’s two first-term impeachments from an …

Jeffrey Pagulong and his son Christof stand in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on July 29. Pagulong, who is visiting from Boston, said his neck fan “helps a lot” in the high temperature. It makes noise, he said, but the noise is better than the heat. Bill Chappell/NPR hide caption toggle caption Bill Chappell/NPR On a late …

After turns on Broadway and the big screen, Reneé Rapp now has an eye on the pop charts with her new album, Bite Me. Zora Sicher/Interscope Records hide caption toggle caption Zora Sicher/Interscope Records Reneé Rapp was just 19 when she learned she’d be going to Broadway to play the meanest of the Mean Girls, Regina George. Last year, she …

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said Friday it would begin winding down its operations after its funding was eliminated by the Trump administration and Congress. The CPB is a private nonprofit founded in 1967 that serves as a steward of funding for public media. It provides funds to 1,500 local public radio and television stations as well as PBS and …

The accordion playing of Flaco Jimenez, seen here performing during the 2014 Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., came to define contujo and Tejano music of South Texas over a career that spanned more than 70 years. Rick Diamond/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rick Diamond/Getty Images The master of the Tex-Mex …

An activist marches during a 2023 rally in Washington, D.C. for temporary protected status for Central American migrants to allow them to stay in the United States. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday blocked the Trump administration, for now, from terminating Temporary Protected Status for people from Honduras, …

Virginia Giuffre, center, holds a news conference outside a Manhattan court in New York, Aug. 27, 2019. Bebeto Matthews/AP hide caption toggle caption Bebeto Matthews/AP The family of Virginia Giuffre, who was among Jeffrey Epstein’s most well-known sex trafficking accusers, said that it was shocking to hear President Donald Trump say the disgraced financier “stole” Giuffre from him and urged …