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G7 finance ministers have agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil exports in an effort to limit funding for President Putin’s war in Ukraine.

U.S. employers added 315,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate rose to 3.7% from 3.5% in July. A tight job market gives workers more bargaining power, but it may also fuel inflation. (Image credit: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)

A group of Republican lawmakers want U.S. Customs to answer questions on its enforcement of a law that restricts the importation of goods from China’s Xinjiang region.

Energy ministers expected to discuss the idea at an emergency meeting next week.

Lukoil chairman Ravil Maganov is the 8th Russian energy executive to die suddenly this year  CNBC Head of Russian oil giant dies after falling from hospital window  CNN Russian oil executive who criticized Ukraine invasion dead after reportedly falling out of hospital

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she’d be ‘happy to drain Texas’ of all its residents: ‘We’ll rent the buses’  Fox News Texas sends bus of migrants to Chicago, mayor calls program ‘racist’  FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth Texas governor sends migrants to Chicago  WGN

Statement by President Biden on Manufacturing in America  The White House

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre  The White House

Trump’s legal gambits offer fresh revelations and deepen his political risk  CNN Trump raid judge to unseal detailed inventory of what FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago, delays special master ruling  CNBC How the DOJ Used Trump’s Methods Against Him  The Atlantic Judge considers temporary

Saudi-owned paper quotes Syrian officials as saying Moscow ordered Iran to leave bases in areas Russia sees as important, as it seeks stability