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Dragon Bravo Fire Grows to Largest Wildfire in the Continental U.S.  The New York Times Two wildfires in US west spur ‘fire clouds’ with erratic weather systems  The Guardian Grand Canyon’s Dragon Bravo Fire reaches ‘megafire’ status, surpassing 100,000 acres  FOX Weather Here’s why the Dragon Bravo Fire containment decreased by half over weekend  KTAR News 92.3 FM Fire at Grand Canyon National Park …

U.S. Hiring Slowed Sharply Over the Summer  The Wall Street Journal Dark clouds emerge for Trump on economy  The Hill The shock jobs report sets off this recession alert and holds fresh clues that AI may be boosting unemployment, JPMorgan says  Fortune Trump says economic growth ‘shatters expectations’. Data says otherwise  Al Jazeera Opinion | The bleak economic picture emerging from the jobs numbers  The …

Katie Ledecky’s historic reign continues after she beat rival Summer McIntosh in one of the biggest non-Olympic swimming races during Saturday’s women’s 800-meter freestyle at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. [Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football league for the 2025 NFL season] The race, dubbed “the biggest race of this century, men or women, from outside of the …

A surprisingly weak July employment report has intensified expectations that the Federal Reserve will resume cutting interest rates as soon as September, with mounting evidence of a slowing U.S. economy and faltering labor market offsetting persistent inflation worries driven by new tariff hikes. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) had previously left rates unchanged at a range of 4.25% to …

Bonds and the dollar are sounding the alarm about the U.S. economy. Stock investors might want to heed the warning.  MarketWatch Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq sink after weak jobs report, Trump’s tariff redux  Yahoo Finance ‘Bad News Is Bad News’: Jobs Data Shatters Wall Street’s Calm  Bloomberg Stocks Drop as Trump’s New Tariffs Weigh on Markets  The New York Times 5 …

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting migrants who entered the U.S. legally on humanitarian grounds, potentially curtailing arrests at immigration courts that have triggered controversy across the country. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb of Washington, D.C., barred federal immigration officials from using two Trump administration directives to apply a fast-track deportation process known as …

As the institutions on THR’s annual list prepare the next generation for the future, many are turning to virtual production, LED walls and, yes, AI. Published on August 1, 2025 AFI students shoot a scene in a Los Angeles studio. Ray Chang/Courtesy of AFI “Before film school, we were just making short films on our own. We did everything — …

One of the most significant turbulence events in recent American history happened on Wednesday night during a flight out of Salt Lake City International Airport. In all, 25 passengers and crew were injured when a Delta Air Lines flight headed to Amsterdam encountered extreme turbulence over southwestern Wyoming, bouncing the plane over 1,000 feet in either direction. Flight DL56 diverted …

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The newly announced trade deal between the U.S. and the European Union contains what looks like a dramatic rebalancing of the trade relationship for autos. The EU’s automakers will pay a 15% import tax on what they send to America, while the U.S. automakers will pay nothing to the …

U.S. factory sector contracts for 5th straight month in July, ISM shows  MarketWatch US Manufacturing Contracts at Fastest Pace in Nine Months  Bloomberg Manufacturing PMI® at 48%; July 2025 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®  PR Newswire U.S. Factory Activity Continues to Contract  The Wall Street Journal Gold testing resistance at $3350 as US ISM Manufacturing PMI falls to 48  KITCO Source link