China Restricts Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies

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  The Trump administration doubles down on its move to fire a top labor statistician.

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  Plus pressure mounts on Israel to end the war in Gaza after Hamas releases videos of emaciated hostages.

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  Those videos basically create pressure on the government by whipping up a lot of anger and frustration within the Israeli population,

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  which they hope will press the Israeli government to give in to their demands.

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  And China is squeezing the supplies of key minerals for the US defense industry.

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  I'm Azhar Sucri for the Wall Street Journal.

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  The Trump administration has defended the president's controversial move to fire the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics following Friday's weaker than expected job number.

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  Trump's chief economic adviser Kevin Hassett told NBC's Meet the Press that the dismissal is part of Trump's plan for further changes at the agency.

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  The president wants his own people there so that when we see the numbers they're more transparent and more reliable.

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  And if there are big changes and big revisions, we expect more big revisions.

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  Provisions for the jobs data in September, for example,

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  that we want to know why, we want people to explain it.

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