Over 185,000 illegal immigrant arrests were made at the U.S.–Mexico border in August, according to provisional U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics obtained by The Epoch Times. Some 186,424 apprehensions were made by border agents during the month. Most arrests—about 53,400—took place in the Del Rio Sector an area of 55,063 square miles in Texas, […]
The U.S. labor market could be showing signs of slowing down after the economy added 315,000 new jobs in August, down from 528,000 in July. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the unemployment rate edged higher to 3.7 percent, up from 3.5 percent. Economists had forecast a gain of 300,000 new jobs and […]
LONDON—JPMorgan cuts its fourth quarter growth forecast for China to 4.0 percent quarter-on-quarter from 5.0 percent on Friday, citing the impact of power shortages and the recurrence of COVID-19 clusters hitting consumer spending and services. “Looking back, we have downgraded China’s growth forecasts five times since August,” JPMorgan’s Haibin Zhu said in a note, adding […]
New home sales in the United States rose for the second month in a row in August, though increasing demand is showing signs of slowing down because of high prices. A Sept. 24 report from the Census Bureau (pdf) showed that sales of new residential houses increased 1.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate […]
The pace of consumer price inflation fell in August to its lowest monthly level since February, though the 12-month rate of inflation remained historically high, a new government report shows. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.3 percent in August from July, the Labor Department said in a Sept. 14 report, with consensus forecasts predicting a slightly […]
America’s private employers added just 235,000 jobs in August, significantly undershooting market expectations and fueling speculation that the weak signal in the labor market recovery may lead the Federal Reserve to delay tapering of stimulus. The Labor Department’s jobs report, released Sept. 3, shows that non-farm payroll employment rose by 235,000 in August, down from 943,000 jobs […]
Private sector employment in the United States rose by 374,000 in August, sharply undershooting consensus expectations of 613,000, according to Wednesday payrolls data from the Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Research Institute. While differences in methodology mean there’s weak correlation between ADP employment data and the Labor Department’s closely watched nonfarm payrolls report, due Friday, the […]
A stunning blue moon illuminated the sky over the weekend. A blue moon is the third full moon in a season containing four full moons, rather than the usual three, according to Sky & Telescope magazine. People in the Americas were able to see a nearly full moon Saturday night, before the true blue moon […]
Most 20-year-olds are still trying to figure out what they want to do in life. Not Boyan Slat. Ever since he was 16-years old, the Dutch teenager has had one mission – To clean up the trillions of pieces of plastic that are polluting our oceans and killing precious marine life. What’s amazing is that […]
All cats are remembered by their owners, but few cats are remembered by the world. Everybody will remember the late and great Tombili however, because the famously laid-back feline just got immortalized with its very own statue. Tombili rose to fame when somebody snapped and shared a photograph of it chilling in a ridiculously relaxed […]
