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The Labor Department's inspector general concluded Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer oversaw a hostile work environment inside her own agency during her first months on the job. Career staff quoted anonymously described retaliation against employees who raised concerns about hiring, firings, and enforcement priorities.

Chavez-DeRemer's team disputed the report Thursday, calling it "riddled with mischaracterizations" while acknowledging the department has moved through "significant reorganization." Congressional Democrats immediately called for public hearings, and at least three Senate Republicans said they want the IG to testify in coming weeks.

Members of the UN's nuclear watchdog drafted a resolution reporting Iran to the Security Council over an enrichment program rebuilt to near-pre-strike levels. IAEA officials called the referral the strongest formal step against Tehran in more than a decade.

European board members drafted the language after months of stalled inspection talks and after Iranian officials refused to reopen several sites to IAEA cameras. Chinese and Russian representatives said they will oppose any Security Council resolution built on the report, setting up a familiar veto standoff.

Trump said Thursday he would spend up to $500 million of "my money" to help Republicans hold Congress in November, a personal commitment without recent precedent. Most funds would flow through MAGA Inc., the pro-Trump super PAC that has already banked more than $200 million this cycle.

Republican strategists said the pledge sharpens Trump's grip on the party's fall messaging and could reshape Senate races in six competitive states. Democratic operatives called the announcement "a warning" and are pressing donors to accelerate large-check commitments before Labor Day.

Voters in Saxony-Anhalt could hand AfD its first government in Sunday's regional election, the closest the far-right party has come to executive power in postwar Germany. Mainstream parties have said they will not enter a coalition with AfD regardless of the outcome.

Romania's organized crime unit indicted the Tate brothers on trafficking and sex crime charges, closing a three-year investigation that began with a raid outside Bucharest. Prosecutors allege the pair made more than $1.2 million by coercing a girl into performing sex acts on video chats.

A predawn mudslide swept through Suichuan County in China's Jiangxi province on Saturday, killing one person and leaving eleven others unaccounted for. Days of torrential rain from tropical storm Saudel had soaked the hillside, and a dozen houses were damaged before residents could be moved to higher ground.

A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder case Thursday after the jury deadlocked on charges tied to the 2023 killings of her three children. Prosecutors indicated they will pursue a retrial, and Clancy remains in custody as the process resets.

President Trump called on the Fed to cut rates, even as the same jobs figures pushed markets to lean the other way toward a hike. Public pressure creates another awkward stretch between the White House and Chair Jerome Powell heading into the fall meeting.

Federal officials will review protections for gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act, with the Interior Department given three months to consider removing their protected status. Ranchers have long sought more flexibility to manage wolves that threaten livestock, while conservation groups warn that delisting could jeopardize decades of population recovery.

The Dow tumbled more than 260 points on Friday after a hotter-than-expected August payrolls report jolted traders into pricing a higher chance of a Federal Reserve rate hike at its next meeting. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both closed lower as bond yields climbed.

Hon Hai, the Nvidia partner better known as Foxconn, posted August sales up 52% to NT$921.8 billion, or roughly $29.1 billion. Analysts had penciled in about 37 percent growth for the September quarter, so the data center buildout is still outrunning Wall Street's own forecasts.

Individual traders are pouring money into prediction markets, buying event contracts on soccer matches and congressional races while bitcoin grinds through a yearlong slump. Rotation into AI stocks steepened that slump, and the money leaving crypto is landing on event contracts rather than coming back.

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US and Chinese officials are preparing talks on AI safety for mid-September, the first bilateral meeting devoted solely to the technology in Trump's second term. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent would lead the American delegation, though a White House official has denied that any such meeting is scheduled.

NASA and SpaceX are delaying Crew-13 to the ISS after engineers found an oxidizer leak in the Dragon spacecraft's propulsion system. Teams are troubleshooting on the ground before setting a new launch target.

The Isle of Man Mars Society is pressing candidates to sign a space agreement, hoping to lock the tiny Crown Dependency into the growing legal framework for off-world activity. The island already licenses satellites and sees space as a serious economic play.

Luis Campusano hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the tenth to lift the Padres past the Yankees 3-2 in San Diego on Thursday night. San Diego takes the opener of the three-game set and stays two games behind the Dodgers in the NL West.

Carlos Alcaraz, Frances Tiafoe, and Tommy Paul all reached the fourth round of the US Open Thursday night, setting up multiple marquee American matchups in the men's draw. Alcaraz needed four sets to dispatch Yibing Wu after saying earlier this week he would take more breaks during the season.

The Vancouver Canucks have locked up Zeev Buium on an extension worth $9.38 million per season over eight years. It's a significant long-term bet on the young blue-liner as a core piece of the franchise.

Charlie Woods has signed an NIL deal with TaylorMade, joining his father Tiger on the club maker's roster. The partnership is the clearest sign yet that TaylorMade wants the Woods brand carried into a second generation.

Jay-Z rolled through more than two hours of hits at the first of his two long-awaited London shows, with Lauryn Hill, Wyclef and Giggs joining as surprise guests. It was the closest thing to a Fugees moment London has seen in years.

HBO's Harry Potter series on track for Christmas 2026, with the new Harry, Ron and Hermione cast alongside four of Ron's Weasley siblings. The Ginny Weasley role is being recast, and another season has already been greenlit.

Mellody Hobson choked up publicly recounting how husband George Lucas refused to compromise on his Los Angeles museum through years of design and construction disputes. Hobson said she "saw genius work" that others in the design community had dismissed as excessive.

What it is: Retatrutide is the newest weight-loss compound expected to eventually reach US regulatory approval, and demand for the drug already vastly outstrips supply. Counterfeit and unregulated versions now circulate widely online and through gray-market clinics, feeding a black market that has grown faster than any comparable pharmaceutical shadow trade.

The detail: An investigation into the retatrutide trade traced fake versions from Chinese labs through European wholesalers into home compounding pharmacies operating outside FDA oversight. Some counterfeit vials contained no active drug at all, others had wildly inconsistent concentrations, and a handful contained contaminants ranging from bacterial byproducts to industrial solvents.

Why it matters: The Ozempic era already demonstrated that patient demand for GLP-1-class drugs runs far ahead of production capacity, insurance access, and regulatory review, and retatrutide is on track to be the next chapter in that gap. When approved drugs are unavailable through legitimate channels, patients turn to unregulated alternatives — and the counterfeit market for injectable weight-loss drugs has grown faster than any comparable pharmaceutical black market in modern memory.

What to watch: Whether Eli Lilly's Phase 3 retatrutide trials finish on schedule and reach FDA review by mid-2027, and whether federal enforcement catches up to the compounding pharmacies now operating in a legal gray zone. Any FDA action to shut down large-scale compounding of GLP-1 analogs would signal how aggressively regulators plan to police the next generation of weight-loss drugs, and how much runway the counterfeit market has before it starts colliding with real enforcement.

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