Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, the U.S. economy added jobs at a solid pace last month, but massive federal layoffs and rising unemployment paint an uncertain picture of the near future.

A convicted murderer in South Carolina chooses to be executed by

firing squad, the first such execution in 15 years, raising legal and ethical questions.

And what science tells us about transgender athletes as Republicans seek to block them from playing

in women's sports. There are going to be inherent inequalities between people,

and how do we limit those inequalities and yet allow everybody to play? Welcome to the News Hour.

The U.S. labor market made solid gains again last month, adding 151,000 more jobs just before the biggest federal layoffs began to hit.

Unemployment crept up to 4.1 percent. More than

7 million Americans are unemployed. Manufacturing had its best report in months with 10,000 new

jobs, which President Trump hailed at the White House.

We've not only stopped that manufacturing collapse, but we've begun to rapidly reverse it

and get major gains.

We created 10,000 manufacturing jobs in February alone.

That hasn't happened in a long time.

And these aren't government jobs, which actually we cut.

These are private sector manufacturing

jobs. So we gained all of those jobs, 10,000 jobs, and we barely started yet.

The economy actually last added more than 10,000 manufacturing jobs just a few months ago, back

in November of 2024. But there are other warning signs

of what could be ahead, not yet fully captured in this report. The outplacement firm,

Challenger Gray, reported more than 170,000 layoffs last month, more than 62,000 of those

from the federal government. That is the highest monthly total it's reported since

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