Axios

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• 5 USS Theodore Roosevelt Group and About 9,000 Sailors and Marines Deploy Toward Middle East; Trump Calls Post-Midterm Iran Bombing 'Possible'
• 5 U.S. Job Openings Were 7.08 Million in August, Below Forecasts; Conference Board Confidence Index Falls to 81.9, Lowest Since 2014
• 3 DHS Signs Contracts Worth Up to $7.3 Billion to Build ICE Detention Space at Government Sites in Five States
• 2 ShinyHunters Says It Breached FBI Recruitment Systems and Took 2-3 Terabytes of Personnel Data; FBI Says It Is Investigating FBIjobs.gov
• 2 Massie and Khanna Say 218 House Members Have Committed to a Second Epstein Files Discharge Petition
• 2 Federal Judge Orders 30 Days' Notice Before Any Demolition or Major Physical Change at the Kennedy Center
• 4 Trump Says All 50 States, D.C. and Puerto Rico Have Joined Medicaid 'Most Favored Nation' Drug Pricing Model
• 3 Trump Tells Axios He Faces a 'Big Decision' on Iran, Days Before Meeting With Six Gulf States
• 5 Postmaster General Says USPS Stopped Building Mail-Ballot Barcode System After Supreme Court Left Injunction in Place
• 3 U.S. Military Reviews Sept. 1 Strike on Iranian Wedding; Vance Says He Is 'Extremely Skeptical' of Tehran's Account
• 2 Charlotte City Council Takes Up Nine-Month Extension of Data Center Building Pause
• 3 NC Regulators Weigh Duke Energy Progress Rate Settlement That the Company Calls a 6.8% Residential Increase and the Attorney General Calls 9.3%
• 3 U.S. Officials Say Trump Declined Saudi Request for Strikes on Houthis, Offered Intelligence and Targeting Data
• 3 Oxfam's 2026 Best States to Work Index Ranks North Carolina Last Among 52 States and Territories
• 3 NPR Analysis of AdImpact Data Finds More Than $45 Million Spent on Ads Mentioning Data Centers Since January