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• President Donald Trump said he intends to nominate Brett Matsumoto to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• Matsumoto is a career economist with deep BLS ties and expertise in data measurement.
• Economists praised Matsumoto's nomination, signaling potential

The Senate voted on Friday evening to pass the federal budget, funding everything except for one entity: the Department of Homeland Security, which was given a two-week funding extension in order to

• Newly released emails reveal Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly gave luxury gifts to Kathryn Ruemmler.
• Ruemmler, who says her association with Epstein was professional

• Crowds across the US are protesting against ICE in a general strike on Friday.
• Some local businesses closed for the day to support the protests.
• The demonstrations come amid the White House's crackdown on immigration.

Local businesses across the US forwent income for the

• Don Lemon was released on Friday after his arrest late Thursday by federal agents.
• The arrest came after he covered a protest that disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota.
• Lemon was in Los Angeles covering the Grammys when he was arrested, his lawyer said.

Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor, was released on Friday following his arrest in Los

Would it surprise you to learn Microsoft booted Jeffrey Epstein from its online gaming platform? As spotted by XboxEra, the latest batch of Epstein's emails shows that in December 2013, he was "permanently suspended due to harassment, threats, and/or abuse of other players."

But it appears the real reason may be simpler: A second email from Microsoft to Epstein the very same day shows he

Peloton said on Friday that it's cutting around 11 percent of its staff, mostly impacting "engineers working on technology and enterprise-related efforts," reports Bloomberg.

Last August, Peloton laid off six percent of its workforce and told investors it would continue layoffs globally in 2026, in an attempt to cut at least $100 million of annual spending by the end of the fiscal year.

• The federal government is entering a partial shutdown.
• While the Senate passed a spending package late Friday, the House is out of session through the weekend.
• Here's what to expect in the coming days.

The US federal government is shutting down again, but

• Nike and Costco teamed up for the release of the Kirkland Signature SB Dunk Lows.
• The unexpected sneaker launch caused frenzy at selected Costco stores.
• Resale prices for Nike SB Dunk Lows hit $350 on StockX.

Fly kicks probably aren't what you think of when you hear

• Bill Gates on Friday called the claims in Epstein documents "absurd and completely false."
• A 2013 email from Epstein to himself suggested Gates got an STD from "illicit trysts."
• Melinda French Gates, Bill's ex-wife, has said his ties to Epstein contributed to their divorce.

Bill Gates, through his philanthropic foundation, issued

The stock prices of some major video game companies, including Take-Two Interactive, Roblox, and Unity, had notable declines on Friday, just a day after Google announced its Project Genie tool that lets users prompt AI to generate interactive experiences, Reuters reports. Take-Two's stock price closed at $220.30 (down 7.93 percent from yesterday), Roblox's closed at $65.76 (down 13.17