Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, a slowdown in hiring

sends a warning signal about the health of the U.S. economy. Four years after the U.S. withdrew from

Afghanistan, thousands of Afghan immigrants in America face deportation, despite their fears that they'll be targeted by the Taliban.

There is no justice. There is no court.

They were just all of their soldiers to check their aim and just shoot you in your head.

And the rise of artificial intelligence and the infrastructure needed to support it causes a sharp rise in electricity bills.

Welcome to the News Hour. Fresh government data show the labor market hit a wall this summer. The August jobs report came in far weaker than expected, signaling a slowdown that could challenge the president's economic message.

Employers added just 22,000 new jobs last month. The only sector that added significant numbers was health care.

Several other sectors, including manufacturing, lost jobs. Revision also showed that the economy

lost 13,000 jobs in June. That is the first net loss since December of 2020 during the pandemic.

President Trump was asked about those weaker numbers. He said high interest

rates were partly to blame and predicted unprecedented job growth to come next year. He then

cast some doubt on the latest data and said there may be more adjustments to come.

The other thing is so many different, so many different elements aren't included yet.

And one of the things we've learned, and we learned that the hard way, watching over the last few months,

are the corrections that people have been making.

They'll say, you're losing jobs, and then they'll say, by the way, we have a correction a month later.

This was the first monthly jobs report since the president fired the commissioner of the Bureau

of Labor Statistics just hours after a weak jobs report last month.

Experts said today they've seen no problems with the agency's work yet or the acting commissioner

overseeing it.

I spoke about all of this earlier today with Austin Gulesby, the president and CEO of

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