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The number of open jobs in the U.S. economy dropped by 10% and layoffs rose slightly, signs that the labor market is starting to cool. The Labor Department said Tuesday that job openings fell to a seasonally adjusted 10.1 million in August from 11.2 million in July. Openings dropped the…

Tennessee governor calls for probe into university’s youth trans clinic after viral video. Numerous videos were obtained by The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, including one showing a medical ethicist at Vanderbilt warning doctors who may hold “conscientious objections” about such surgeries to go study medicine somewhere else. “The ‘pediatric transgender clinic’ at…

Martha’s Vineyard, has washed its hands in just 44 hours of what local leaders called a “humanitarian crisis” caused by the arrival of 50 migrants flown in from Florida.  The duty of caring for the mostly Venezuelan nationals now falls on the beleaguered backs of the Massachusetts National Guard on the mainland.…

Massachusetts state Sen. Julian Cyr said two planes carrying migrants arrived on the island without warning Wednesday afternoon.  “There was clear coordination,” said Mr. Cyr, a Democrat who represents Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod in Massachusetts known as a vacation destination for many wealthy people. Florida’s governor’s office…

At least one of the migrants, Wazir Khan, agreed with the move, saying he was told his final destination will be New York. Several of the migrants who arrived on Thursday came from Venezuela, Columbia, and other South American countries on a 38-hour bus ride that left Texas on Tuesday…

Now more than double the level it was one year ago, Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) data showed on Wednesday. Rising mortgage rates are increasingly weighing on the interest-rate sensitive housing sector as the Federal Reserve pushes on with aggressively lifting borrowing costs in order to tame high inflation. The central…

Peiter Zatko says Twitter was “a decade behind” security standards, that users’ data is not sufficiently protected and that too many staff have access to it. Mr Zatko was giving evidence following an 84-page long whistleblowing complaint he made about security practices inside the social network. He was fired by…

A “cooling off” period expires Friday, at which time workers can strike, but railroad representatives stress the negotiations are ongoing. Two of the largest railroad unions in negotiations with railroad carriers have drawn a line in the sand: They are demanding more quality-of-life provisions be put into the contract, covering…

Gun rights advocates and gun lobbyists have argued categorizing gun sales would unfairly flag an industry when most sales do not lead to mass shootings. “Following ISO’s decision to establish a new merchant category code, Visa will proceed with next steps, while ensuring we protect all legal commerce on the…

In an 8-1 vote, the Miami-Dade School Board decided against the measure that would have included teaching 12th graders. Board member Lucia Baez-Geller, who brought the measure before the board Wednesday and was the lone vote in favor of it, called the vote results “shocking and sad.” “The 8 to 1 vote…