U.S. employers added 147,000 jobs in June as the American labor market continued to show surprising resilience. The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1 percent from 4.2 percent in May, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Hiring rose modestly from a revised 144,000 in the previous month, beating economists’ expectations of fewer than 118,000 new jobs and a rise in the unemployment rate.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will meet with Edan Alexander at the White House on Thursday. Now 21, the American–Israeli from New Jersey was the last living American hostage in Gaza, and was released in May. The soldier was 19 when Hamas terrorists stormed his base in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attack, and kidnapped him into the Gaza Strip. Alexander moved to Israel in 2022 after finishing high school, and enlisted in the Israeli military….