Some 475 people were detained during an immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles, according to a Homeland Security official.

Steven Schrank, Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations, said at a news briefing Friday that the majority of the people detained were from South Korea. “This operation underscores our commitment to jobs for Georgians and Americans,” Schrank said.

South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lee Jaewoong described the number of detained South Koreans as “large,” though he did not provide an exact figure.

Thursday’s raid targeted one of Georgia’s largest and most high-profile manufacturing sites, touted by the governor and other officials as the largest economic development project in the state’s history.

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The latest book on the president is a memoir by his son, adviser and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, Eric Trump.

Threshold Editions, a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Friday that Eric Trump’s “Under Siege” will be published Oct. 14. Threshold is calling the book “a raw, unflinching insider account of life under a global spotlight” that includes “behind-the-scene moments” of Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns. “Under Siege” will include a foreword by the president, whose “Crippled America” (later retitled “Great Again”) was published by Threshold in 2015.

In a statement Friday, Eric Trump said “Under Siege” was “the story of a family that refused to back down.”

He’s not the first of President Trump’s children to have a book deal. Donald Trump Jr.’s books include “Triggered” and “Liberal Privilege” and Ivanka Trump has released “The Trump Card” and “Women Who Work.”

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said Friday during a news conference in Arkansas said his agency would vote at its Sept. 30 on a proposal to lift a restriction that prohibits state and federal prisons from jamming signals of phones that prisoners aren’t allowed to have.

Prisons officials have long said the devices are dangerous, allowing inmates to run criminal enterprises while behind bars. The debate over using technology to block calls and messages has gone on for years, and federal legislation to allow jamming has repeatedly failed.

A message was left seeking comment from CTIA, a wireless industry group that opposes jamming.

Immigration attorney Charles Kuck said both of his clients who were detained arrived from South Korea under a visa waiver program that enables them to travel for tourism or business for stays of 90 days or less without obtaining a visa.

“They were both engaging in normal visa waiver activities,” Kuck said, adding that his clients haven’t been able to call him yet. “Still lawfully here doing the activities that are lawful for a visa waiver to do.”

One of his clients, he said, has been in the U.S. for a couple of weeks, while the other arrived about 45 days ago. He did not provide details of the kind of work they were doing.

“They were planning to go home shortly,” Kuck said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reshuffling his senior staff in Foggy Bottom as he takes on an increasingly influential role in the Trump administration’s national security leadership.

A senior State Department official says that his current chief of staff, Mike Needham, will become the department’s new policy planning chief, a post that has often has an outsized role in formulating policy.

Needham, who will retain his position as State Department counselor, will replace Michael Anton, who plans to leave government later this year after completing a review of a new National Security Strategy. Anton will hold a different title until he departs, the official said.

Rubio’s current deputy chief of staff, Dan Holler, will replace Needham in the chief of staff position, according to the official who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement of the changes set to be made on Monday.

Both Needham and Holler are former high-level Rubio aides from his days in the Senate.

— By Matthew Lee

The plant is still under construction. It’s where Hyundai has partnered with LG Energy Solution to produce batteries that power electric vehicles.

Some of the detained employees worked for the battery manufacturer, while others were employed by contractors and subcontractors at the construction site, Steven Schrank, the lead Georgia agent of Homeland Security Investigations, told reporters Friday.

Operations at Hyundai’s EV manufacturing plant weren’t interrupted, said plant spokesperson Bianca Johnson. Hyundai Motor Company said in a statement Friday it was “working to understand the specific circumstances” of the raid and detentions.

“As of today, it is our understanding that none of those detained is directly employed by Hyundai Motor Company,” the company’s statement said.

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp says he’s sending the Georgia National Guard later this month.

It’s the latest indication that President Donald Trump’s law enforcement operation in the nation’s capital will drag on.

Kemp said he will mobilize roughly 300 guard members in mid-September to relieve soldiers from other states. Seven other states have sent National Guard troops so far.

Kemp said Georgia’s soldiers may be armed and will support law enforcement. Kemp said he already sent 16 soldiers this week to perform non-policing support roles.

“The August jobs report is the latest indication that Donald Trump is crashing our economy in real time and driving us toward a recession,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the top House Democrat, said in a statement.

The U.S. added about 22,000 jobs in August, a recent low, while the employment rate rose to its highest since 2021.

President Trump has criticized the jobs data, which are collected by the Bureau for Labor Statistics. Trump last month fired the head of the nonpartisan agency and appointed an economist affiliated with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

Jeffries continued that “life is becoming increasingly more expensive while unemployment is the highest in years.”

The New York Democrat also criticized the Republicans’ signature tax and spending law as “saddling the economy with trillions of dollars in debt” and cutting health and social welfare programs “in order to enact massive tax breaks for their billionaire donors.”

Over a recent two-year period, the Pentagon funded hundreds of projects done in collaboration with universities in China and institutes linked to that nation’s defense industry, including many blacklisted by the U.S. government for working with the Chinese military, a congressional investigation has found.

The report, released Friday by House Republicans on the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, argues the projects have allowed China to exploit U.S. research partnerships for military gains while the two countries are locked in a tech and arms rivalry.

“American taxpayer dollars should be used to defend the nation — not strengthen its foremost strategic competitor,” Republicans wrote in the report.

“Failing to safeguard American research from hostile foreign exploitation will continue to erode U.S. technological dominance and place our national defense capabilities at risk,” it said.

The Pentagon and didn’t immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a requirement for automakers to begin hitting minimum sales levels for electric vehicles next year, an official familiar with the matter said Friday.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to speak publicly ahead of Carney’s announcement.

Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau set the target, requiring that in 2026 20% of passenger vehicles sold should be zero-emission vehicles.

Removing the requirement comes as automakers deal with the impact of President Trump’s tariffs.

Carney is set to announce later Friday measures for workers and businesses in those sectors most impacted by the U.S. tariffs and trade disruptions.

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— Rob Gillies

Pentagon officials were slated to brief congressional national security staff on Friday but no top-level session for Hill leaders was expected.

Congress has already adjourned for the week and many lawmakers have left town. House Speaker Mike Johnson is in Canada attending the G7 summit of global leaders.

Senate Foreign Relations Chairman James Risch has acknowledged being in touch with the administration about the military strike, but provided no further details.

But House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries had called on the Trump administration to provide a full briefing for Congress.

They were detained during an immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles, according to the Homeland Security official.

Steven Schrank, Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations, spoke at a news briefing in Savannah on Friday. No charges were immediately announced.

“This operation underscores our commitment to jobs for Georgians and Americans,” Schrank said.

South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lee Jaewoong described the number of detained South Koreans as “large” though he did not provide an exact figure.

At 10:30 a.m. ET, Trump will receive his intelligence briefing.

At noon, he’ll participate in an ambassador credentialing ceremony.

At 2 p.m., he’ll sign executive orders, followed by an announcement at 4 p.m., then a 7 p.m. dinner in the Rose Garden, according to the White House.

Congressman Greg Steube of Florida and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah formally introduced the “Department of War Restoration Act of 2025” in the House and Senate respectively.

“It should always be clear to anyone who would harm our people: Americans don’t just play defense,” Lee said in a statement earlier this week.

“From 1789 until the end of World War II, the United States military fought under the banner of the Department of War,” Steube, an Army veteran, said in a statement. “It is only fitting that we pay tribute to their eternal example and renowned commitment to lethality by restoring the name of the ‘Department of War’ to our Armed Forces.”

President Trump said he wants to change the Pentagon’s official title because the War Department title “just sounded better.”

Only Congress has the power to establish, shutter and rename federal departments, meaning the legislation is required to formalize Trump’s name change.

The statement from Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, came in response to Friday’s jobs report that said U.S. employers added just 22,000 jobs last month amid uncertainty over Trump’s economic policies.

“Donald Trump’s chaotic tariffs, failed policies, and fake trade deals have slowed job growth and continually raised prices on American families,” Schumer said.

The Senate voted in April to reverse some of Trump’s proposed tariffs on Canada, but the House did not act on the legislation.

U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson got a major boost Friday in her bid to succeed Iowa’s Republican Sen. Joni Ernst just days after Ernst confirmed she wouldn’t run for a third term. Within hours of Ernst’s announcement Tuesday, Hinson said she would run for the open seat.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Tim Scott handed Hinson an endorsement Friday in a joint statement. Thune said Hinson would bring to the Senate her “unrelenting energy” working for President Trump’s agenda.

Hinson, who represents Iowa’s northeastern corner, joins two other Republicans in a primary for Ernst’s seat.

President Trump launched Operation Warp Speed in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, an effort he’s credited with saving tens of millions of lives. During a Cabinet meeting last week, he likened it to “one of the greatest achievements ever.”

Sitting at the table as a proud Trump spoke was Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who came under fire at a congressional hearing Thursday for his work to restrict access to vaccines, including the very COVID-19 shots still touted by his boss.

The three-hour hearing exposed an odd dichotomy: One of Trump’s most universal successes in his first term remains Operation Warp Speed, yet his handpicked health chief and a growing cadre of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” supporters are distrustful of the very mRNA vaccine technology that the president has championed.

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Defense officials were scheduled to provide a classified briefing Friday morning to Congressional leaders and key Hill committees about the strike. But it was canceled without explanation, according to a person familiar with the plans who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

— Michelle L. Price.

Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.2% in premarket trading Friday, while Nasdaq futures gained 0.6%, propelled by another strong earnings report from chipmaker Broadcom. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell slightly.

In the bond market, Treasury yields fell after the government said U.S. employers added just 22,000 jobs last month as the labor market continued to cool under uncertainty over President Trump’s economic policies, particularly tariffs.

The slowdown in the job market could bolster the case for Federal Reserve to cut its main interest rate, which Fed Chair Jerome Powell has already signaled as a possibility. An announcement of a rate cut at the Fed’s next meeting Sept. 16-17 could reduce other borrowing costs in the economy, including mortgages, auto loans, and business loans.

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South Korea on Friday expressed “concern and regret” over a major U.S. immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles.

South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lee Jaewoong described the number of detained South Koreans as “large” though he didn’t provide an exact figure.

His ministry would not confirm or deny South Korean media reports saying that about 300 South Koreans were detained in Georgia on Thursday. The Atlanta office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which assisted immigration authorities at the site, posed on the social media site X that about 450 people total were apprehended.

Hyundai’s South Korean office didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

President Trump’s administration has undertaken sweeping ICE operations as part of a mass deportation agenda. Immigration officers have raided farms, construction sites, restaurants and auto repair shops.

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— Factories shed 12,000 jobs last month, the fourth straight month that manufacturers have cut payrolls

— Construction companies cut 7,000 jobs, and the federal government 15,000

— Labor Department revisions cut 21,000 jobs off June and July payrolls

— Workers’ average hourly earnings rose 0.3% from July and 3.7% from August 2024, exactly what forecasters expected

The Trump administration is taking its immigration crackdown to the health care safety net, launching Medicaid spending probes in at least six Democratic-led states that provide comprehensive health coverage to poor and disabled immigrants living in the U.S. without permanent legal status.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is scouring payments covering health care for immigrants without legal status to ensure there isn’t any waste, fraud or abuse, according to public records obtained by KFF Health News and The Associated Press.

While acknowledging that states can bill the federal government for Medicaid emergency and pregnancy care for immigrants without legal status, federal officials have sent letters notifying state health agencies in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington that they are reviewing federal and state payments for medical services, such as prescription drugs and specialty care.

The federal agency told the states it’s reviewing claims as part of its commitment to maintain Medicaid’s fiscal integrity.

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That’s partly because of the lingering effects of 11 interest rate hikes by the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve in 2022 and 2023 and partly because Trump’s policies, including his trade wars, have created uncertainty that leaves managers reluctant to make hiring decisions.

So far in 2025, the economy has generated 85,000 new jobs a month, down from 168,000 last year and an average 400,000 a month during the hiring boom of 2021-2023 as the United States roared back from COVID-19 lockdowns.

“The labor market is showing signs of cracking,” said Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union. “It’s not a red siren alarm yet, but the signs keep growing that businesses are starting to cut workers.‘’

The Labor Department said Friday that hiring decelerated from 79,000 in July. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3%, the Labor Department reported.

When the department put out a disappointing jobs report a month ago, an enraged President Trump responded by firing the economist in charge of compiling the numbers and nominating a loyalist to replace her.

Talking to reporters Thursday night at a dinner with wealthy tech executives, Trump had seemed to shrug off whatever hiring numbers would come out Friday. “The real numbers that I’m talking about are going to be whatever it is, but will be in a year from now,’’ the president said.

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