US employers added just 143,000 jobs last month, jobless rate falls to 4%
U.S. employers added just 143,000 jobs last month, but the unemployment rate fell to 4% to start 2025.
Author: Associated Press
EV maker Scout Motors wants to sell directly to buyers but can’t do it in its home state
Volkswagen-backed Scout Motors is making a massive bet in the electric SUV market with a carefully cultivated experience that will allow some customers to buy the company’s vehicle in minutes on an app and then use it to handle everything after from repairs to updates and upgrades.
Former Gamecock Sterling Sharpe elected into Class of 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame
South Carolina football great Sterling Sharpe becomes first Gamecock to be elected into Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2nd federal judge in 2 days blocks President Trump’s birthright citizenship order
A second federal judge in two days has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally.
Judge temporarily blocks Trump plan offering incentives for federal workers to resign
A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal workers by offering them financial incentives, the latest tumult for government employees already wrestling with upheaval from the new administration.
Protesters in cities across the US rally against Trump’s policies, Project 2025 and Elon Musk
Demonstrators gathered in cities across the U.S. on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s early actions.
Trump blames ‘obsolete’ US air traffic control system for the plane and chopper collision near DC
President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed last week’s deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter on what he called an “obsolete” computer system used by U.S. air traffic controllers, and he vowed to replace it.
ACC changes baseball tournament from pool play to single-elimination format
The Atlantic Coast Conference is changing its baseball tournament to a single-elimination format.
Mexico deploys the first of 10,000 National Guard troops to US border after Trump’s tariff threat
A line of Mexican National Guard and Army trucks rumbled along the border separating Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, among the first of 10,000 troops Mexico has sent to its northern frontier following tariff threats by President Donald Trump.
First military flight lands in Guantanamo Bay with migrants deported from the US
The first U.S. military flight deporting migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay landed in Cuba on Tuesday evening, according to a U.S. official.
