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On Today’s Episode:

• Is the Jobs Data Still Reliable? Yes, at Least for Now, by Ben Casselman

• Members of Congress Grasp for a Stopgap Deal to Avert a Shutdown, by Catie Edmondson

• Trump to Sign Order Renaming the Defense Department as the Department of War, by Erica L. Green

• Appeals Court Says ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Can Stay Open, by Patricia Mazzei

• The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds, by Steven Lee Myers, Alice Callahan and Teddy Rosenbluth

• Giorgio Armani Changed the Way People Dress. Twice, by Vanessa Friedman

Special thanks to Kassie Bracken and Christina Shaman.

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