Tipsheet: Jobs report adds fresh concerns over Monday's unemployment cliff

View in your browser     Jobs report adds fresh concerns over Monday's unemployment cliff BY SYLVAN LANE   More than 9 million Americans are set to lose their unemployment benefits and millions more will see their weekly incomes plummet as a host of federal pandemic jobless aid programs expire next week. Three programs covering a combined 12.1 million people will end on Monday without action from the White House or Congress. Twenty-six states pulled out of at least some of those programs earlier this summer as businesses struggled to fill a record-breaking 9 million job openings. Read the full story here     Retiring GOP senator urges party not to nominate Trump in 2024 BY JORDAN WILLIAMS   Retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey (Pa.) urged his party to not nominate former President Trump in the 2024 presidential race. Read the full story here     Biden signs executive order directing release of some 9/11 documents BY BRETT SAMUELS   President Biden on Friday signed an executive order directing the Justice Department and other agencies to review and release certain documents related to the FBI's investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Read the full story here     Texas judge hands narrow win to abortion providers fighting new 6-week ban BY JOHN KRUZEL   A Texas state judge on Friday temporarily blocked an anti-abortion group from enforcing Texas's new 6-week abortion ban against Planned Parenthood, handing a narrow legal victory to abortion rights advocates. Read the full story here       Economy adds just 235K jobs in August as delta hammers growth BY SYLVAN LANE   The U.S. added 235,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate fell to 5.2 percent as the economy appeared to falter under surging coronavirus cases, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. Read the full story here     Texas law opens door for other states to pursue abortion restrictions BY JUSTINE COLEMAN   The Supreme Court’s refusal to block the Texas “fetal heartbeat” law, the most restrictive abortion legislation in the U.S. to date, is expected to inspire more Republican-led states to follow in the Lone Star State’s footsteps. Read the full story here     Senate panel will probe Supreme Court's Texas abortion ruling, 'shadow docket' BY JOHN KRUZEL   A Senate panel has set its sights on the Supreme Court’s increasingly common practice of deciding weighty cases on an emergency basis, a procedure the justices used this week to greenlight Texas’s severe curtailment of abortion access. Read the full story here     Watchdog group seeks ethics probe over McCarthy's Jan. 6 comments BY REBECCA BEITSCH   A public interest group is calling for an ethics investigation into House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after he told communications companies that the GOP “will not forget” if they turn phone and email records over to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Read the full story here     Blinken: Taliban must uphold commitments to international community BY LAURA KELLY   Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday emphasized the Biden administration’s expectation that any Taliban-led government in Afghanistan will act in accordance with commitments it made to the international community. Read the full story here     Delta variant's spread hampers Labor Day air travel, industry recovery BY KARL EVERS-HILLSTROM   The airline industry’s recovery has been grounded by the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, prompting U.S. travelers to cancel travel plans for Labor Day weekend.  Read the full story here     The domestic legacy of our global 'war on terror' BY CHRISTOPHER J. COYNE   OPINION l While attention is currently focused on its withdrawal from Afghanistan, we must note that in prosecuting its war on terror, the U.S. government has also massively expanded its powers at home. While these powers have been adopted in the name of protecting people and freedom in America, they also pose a threat to our liberty. Read the full story here     Tell our troops: 'Your sacrifice wasn't in vain' BY GIL TROY   OPINION l Every American should step outside and cheer wildly, yelling out that simple cliché that goes straight from the souls of we-the-comfortable-people to them, our inconvenienced heroes: “Thank you for your service.” Read the full story here     The Associated Press: Hurricane Ida evacuees urged to return to New Orleans BY REBECCA SANTANA, MELINDA DESLATTE and KEVIN McGILL With power due back for almost all of New Orleans by next week, Mayor LaToya Cantrell strongly encouraged residents who evacuated because of Hurricane Ida to begin returning home. But outside the city, the prospects of recovery appeared bleaker, with no timeline on power restoration and homes and businesses in tatters. Read the full story here     The New York Times: Health officials advise White House to scale back booster plan for now BY SHARON LaFRANIERE and NOAH WEILAND Top federal health officials have told the White House to scale back a plan to offer coronavirus booster shots to the general public this month, saying that regulators need more time to collect and review all the necessary data, according to people familiar with the discussion. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: US COVID deaths hit 1,500 a day amid delta scourge BY ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA, DAN KEATING and JACQUELINE DUPREE Deaths have climbed steadily in recent weeks after falling to the low 200s in early July — the latest handiwork of a contagious variant that has exploited the return to everyday activities by tens of millions of Americans, many of them unvaccinated. Read the full story here     Reuters: Kabul airport reopens to receive aid, civilian flights to operate soon - Qatari ambassador BY YOUSEF SABA EDITING Qatar's ambassador to Afghanistan said a technical team was able to reopen Kabul airport to receive aid and that it would be prepared for civilian flights soon, Al Jazeera reported on Saturday. Read the full story here     Bloomberg: Global gas price surge threatens to dent the economic recovery BY STEPHEN STAPCZYNSKI, VANESSA DEZEM and CATHERINE BOSLEY Natural gas prices are undergoing a historic surge, and it’s bad news for everyone from ceramic makers in China to customers of patisseries in Paris. Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? 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