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The US jobs report smashes expectations. Graham Plattner goes on the defense after new damaging claims. While the New York Times gets massive blowback for its handling of the story. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Friday, June 5th, and this is Evening Wire.

In some welcome economic news, the US economy added 172,000 jobs in May. That blows away expectations as economists projected only about half that much. To add to the good news, both the April and March numbers, which were already solid, were revised up. April jumped up 65,000 jobs to 179,000, while March was boosted up to 214,000. The new jobs report also shows that the unemployment rate remained flat at 4.3%.

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Plattner is out on damage control again, this time after a new damaging and much-criticized New York Times report. Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham has more.

3 of Plattner's ex-girlfriends described Plattner as physically threatening. One said he was emotionally and physically abusive, describing one incident where Plattner locked her in a room until she could, quote, calm down. Plattner went on MSNOW on Thursday to deny the allegations.

There are some allegations in this piece that I just want to be kind of unequivocal about, are simply not true. Um, anything alleging physicality, anything alleging that I knew what my tattoo was, these are the statements of someone who's politically motivated.

Plattner stood by his assertions that he did not know that a tattoo he had on his chest for years was a Nazi symbol until after he launched his campaign.

How does she know it's a Nazi tattoo in August of last year and you don't know it's not Nazi tattoo in August of last year?

Oh well, she certainly didn't send that text to me.

One of Plattner's exes from the Times story, Lindsay Fifield, released a statement this morning slamming the outlet's treatment of her story. Fifield said on X that the article was, quote, a setup. Times journalists reached out to her and spent weeks working on the story, she said. Reporters went through messages, interviewed her friends, read diary entries, and in the end wrote a story that seemed angled to undermine Fifield's account. She wrote, quote, the journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Plattner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims, shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.

A tech CEO living in California has been arrested and accused of giving American tech to Iran. Daily Wire contributor Tim Pearce has more.

63-year-old Jamshid Gomi is a dual American-Iranian citizen who lives in California's Newport Coast. Federal agents arrested him this week for conspiring to violate sanctions on Iran According to the Justice Department, Ghomi took American tech and gave it to the Iranian nuclear and military establishments. Prosecutors say he worked at the scheme for a decade, collecting American equipment and sending it through fronts in the UAE. Ghomi's Iran-based tech company would then sell the contraband to customers such as the Iranian military or the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, which ran Tehran's centrifuge and uranium enrichment programs. Between 2014 and 2018 alone, prosecutors say Ghomi moved over 250 metric tons of networking equipment to Iran.

Almost 3 days since the polls closed in California's primaries, some key races still have not been decided. Daily Wire reporter Zach Jewell has more.

For days, the percentage of votes tallied for California governor and Los Angeles mayor has remained stuck at around 60%. In the LA mayor race, the standings haven't changed either. Incumbent Karen Bass is projected to move on to the runoff election, and independent Spencer Pratt is in second, trailing by about 30,000 votes. The next closest is about 30,000 votes behind Pratt. In the race for California governor, Republican Steve Hilton remains ahead of former Biden cabinet member Javier Becerra, though they remain close, within 2 points. Billionaire Tom Steyer trails Becerra by about 6 points.

The Trump administration suspects that billions of taxpayer dollars are being lost to fraud and waste in government healthcare programs. Homepage managing editor Jordan Schroeder has more.

The Trump administration is launching a major crackdown to cut off that waste and fraud. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, also known as CMS, Administrator Dr. Oz outlined the effort on Thursday.

There were 9 million people on Obamacare. 9 million. To date, more than 20 million. Like, what happened? What happened was we completely took the guardrails off. And because there wasn't an earnest desire to keep track of whether you were appropriately honored or not, we had massive increases of people joining the program. We believe that 35%, roughly, of the people that are using the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare exchanges, because they've never used the program once, they've never filed a claim, may not be legit.

Federal officials suspect that much of those tax dollars are flowing to illegal aliens. Oz said that he had identified at least $2 billion worth of aid going to recipients in the country illegally. To cut down on waste, Oz and CMS want to put up more restrictions on those that qualify with rules such as work requirements.

Anthropic is calling for a global slowdown in AI development before the systems outgrow the need for human oversight and control. The company said this week in a blog post that AI may soon reach a point of, quote, recursive self-improvement. That's where an AI system is able to autonomously design and develop its own successor. While a system capable of doing that could yield significant benefits, Anthropic announced, quote, we believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow down or temporarily pause frontiers tier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology.

The weight loss drug craze has created a headache for American retailers who are seeing margins eaten away by a surge in returns. Lifestyle reporter Lauren Baer has more.

The rising popularity in weight loss drugs is likely behind new consumer behavior when it comes to online shopping. Customers now routinely buy 2 or 3 different sizes of the same outfit before picking one and sending the extras back. According to the Wall Street Journal, retailers have seen such returns explode over the past 3 years, and that's created a problem for their bottom line. Handling returns can be costly with more money spent on shipping, labor, and warehouse storage. On top of that, the outfits may be returned out of season, forcing retailers to sell them again at a discount. Retailers are trying to adapt. Some have become more precise when describing an outfit's fit. Some actively encourage customers to double-check sizing before ordering, and some have started to increase prices to cover the rising costs of doing business online.

For the first time in a generation, a church in Nantucket won't hold a reading of America's founding documents on the 4th of July. The reason, quote, political protest of its own whiteness. The board of trustees of the Nantucket Unitarian Universalist Church said that they'll skip their traditional reading of the Declaration and Constitution this year in political protest. They cite the Supreme Court ruling against race-based redistricting in a congressional map. The canceled tradition is part of, quote, an ongoing process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness.

4 Senate Republicans once again joined Democrats to block Trump's pro-election integrity Save America Act. Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and Tom Tillis united with all the Democrats to tank the bill, which in part requires voter ID. This is the GOP's second attempt to attach the bill to their budget reconciliation package, and the second time it's failed.

An Arkansas judge has tossed a second-degree murder charge against a sheriff nominee who was about to go on trial for killing a man who allegedly groomed and raped his 14-year-old daughter. The case against Aaron Spencer was dismissed by a judge Thursday after law enforcement lost a dashcam memory card that may have captured the fatal shooting of 67-year-old Michael Fosler. Fosler has been charged with grooming and abusing Spencer's young daughter. Spencer allegedly gunned down Fosler after catching him driving off with her. Here's Spencer on why he's running for sheriff.

I'm the father who acted to protect his daughter when the system failed. And through my own fight for justice, I have seen firsthand the failures in law enforcement and in our circuit court, and I refuse to stand by while others face these same failures.

The College World Series continues. Krennan Cone host David Cone has the latest.

College baseball ramps up again this weekend after an exhilarating start to the regional round, which saw the top 2 overall seeds, UCLA and Georgia Tech, Both get knocked out. We're now down to 16 teams in the Super Regionals. West Virginia hosts Cal Poly, Troy hosts Little Rock, UNC will host Southern Cal, Auburn is set to host Ole Miss, Kansas hosts Oklahoma, Alabama will host St. John's, Texas hosts Oregon, and Georgia will host Mississippi State. The winner of each best-of-three series will move to the College World Series in Omaha.

The remains of a missing woman who worked at a sensitive US nuclear development lab were found decaying in a forest in New Mexico on Thursday. That's So Criminal host Lyndon Blake has the story.

Melissa Casillas, who worked as an administrative assistant at Los Alamos, was found dead in Carson National Forest with her body propped up against a tree near an abandoned gun. This is the same lab in New Mexico where previous employee Anthony Chavez, who was 79 years old, disappeared in a similar manner just weeks before. The day Casillas went missing, she wiped her phones before leaving them behind, along with her ID. This, however, brings closure to one of the several mysterious cases of scientists or employees who worked at sensitive nuclear or space technology labs disappearing without a trace.

And the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings starts this Saturday. The Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord launched on June 6th, 1944. More than 4,000 Allied soldiers gave their lives that day, and it remains the largest seaborne invasion in history.

Those are your drive home updates this evening. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And in case you missed it earlier today, we covered some major stories including the Carmelo Anthony murder trial getting underway, a Democrat congressional candidate with terrorist links coming under scrutiny, and the DOJ filing an updated indictment against the SPLC. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with a weekend edition of Morning Wire.