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Arizona’s attorney general is suing to force the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, to swear in Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who won a congressional special election in September. Grijalva was elected on 23 September in the southern Arizona district that her father, Raúl Grijalva, held until his death earlier this year. Kris Mayes, the Democratic attorney general in Arizona, had …

Treasury Traders Await Payrolls Report That Could Sway Fed Bets  Bloomberg.com August jobs report to show further ‘softness growing’ in the US labor market as Fed rate cuts near  Yahoo Finance Friday’s jobs report could confirm a slowing labor market. But will stocks care?  CNBC Labor Department to deliver first jobs report since Trump’s BLS firing  The Hill It will take a doozy of …

President Donald Trump has made clear in recent weeks that he’s willing to use the vast powers of his office to prevent his party from losing control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections. Some of the steps Trump has taken to intervene in the election are typical, but controversial, political maneuvers taken to his trademark extremes. That includes pushing …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has sacrificed an estimated 1 million of his soldiers, killed and wounded, in a three-year campaign to crush Ukraine. Now President Donald Trump is betting that his go-to economic weapon — tariffs — can succeed where Ukrainian drones and rockets haven’t, and finally persuade Putin to end his war. Tariffs, which the U.S. …