Senior journalist Judy Woodruff of PBS apologized and offered a clarification after claiming that former President Donald Trump had tried to kill a ceasefire deal in the Middle East for political gain. Woodruff was widely criticized for the comments made during a broadcast on Monday from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. 'This isn’t journalism. It’s advocacy on behalf of Democrats.'"The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed it would help the Harris campaign," said Woodruff. The Prime Minister's Office in Israel categorically denied the claim. On Wednesday, she issued the clarification and apology. “I want to clarify my remarks on the PBS News special on Monday night about the ongoing cease fire talks in the Middle East," wrote Woodruff. "As I said, this was not based on my original reporting; I was referring to reports I had read, in Axios and Reuters, about former President Trump having spoken to the Israeli Prime Minister," she continued. "In the live TV moment, I repeated the story because I hadn't seen later reporting that both sides denied it. This was a mistake and I apologize for it.”Woodruff had been immediately scolded for airing the unconfirmed report. "My former colleague @JudyWoodruff knows better than to make such an electrifying statement about Trump and Netanyahu and not source…if it is true, then just source it…we can all deal w/ the truth..not to source is just gossip and not journalism..it is national enquirer," responded Greta Van Susteren of Newsmax. "This is a lie from @JudyWoodruff - shame on @pbs for having 4 other people sit in silence while Woodruff slimes Trump with a lie," said Richard Grenell, who worked in the Trump administration. "Why doesn’t PBS have dissenting views? This isn’t journalism. It’s advocacy on behalf of Democrats. Shame on Judy."Woodruff wasn't the only figure criticized for comments about the ceasefire at the DNC. Socialist Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York was excoriated by pro-Palestinian activists for claiming that candidate Kamala Harris had been working "tirelessly" for a ceasefire. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Biden-Harris administration's Department of Labor overstated job gains by 818,000 and was forced to revise down the total in its preliminary annual benchmark review.The DOL previously estimated that the economy would create approximately 242,000 jobs per month. However, a tally of payroll data from April 2023 through March 2024 revealed that only 174,000 jobs were added monthly.Nearly half of the downward revisions were for the professional and business services sector — a decrease of 358,000 jobs. The DOL also overestimated leisure and hospitality by 150,000, retail trade by 129,000, and manufacturing by 115,000.The administration's nearly -30% revision of the job numbers marks the most considerable overestimation since 2009. However, the final figures will not be reported until February 2025.Former President Donald Trump torched the Biden-Harris administration for the exaggerated job numbers, calling it a "massive scandal."On Wednesday morning, Trump wrote on social media, "The Harris-Biden Administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics to hide the true extent of the Economic Ruin they have inflicted upon America.""New Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the Administration PADDED THE NUMBERS with an extra 818,000 Jobs that DO NOT EXIST, AND NEVER DID," Trump continued. "The real Numbers are much worse than that and, if Comrade Kamala gets another four years, millions more Jobs will VANISH overnight, and Inflation will completely destroy our Country."Trump warned that a Harris-Walz administration would eliminate Americans' life savings. "With a TRUMP VICTORY, we will once again have the Greatest Economy in History," he remarked.During Trump's campaign stop in North Carolina on Wednesday afternoon, he stated, "It really isn't a revision. It's a total lie."Jared Bernstein, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, released a statement defending the administration, claiming that "neither the preliminary nor final revision directly affect estimates of job growth in recent months – important to keep in mind when assessing today's labor market.""The estimate of -818,000 is 'wedged in' at -68K over 12 months of job growth, Apr23-Mar24. IF it sticks—which we won't know until Feb' 25—that takes job gains over that period from gangbuster 2.9 million to solid 2.1 million," Bernstein continued, "or from about 240,000/month to 170,000/month. The latter, which is also the average over the past 3 months, is plenty strong enough to keep the expansion on pace.""The *preliminary* (it will change before it's official) payroll benchmark revision doesn't change the fact that this has been and remains a strong jobs recovery, powering real wage gains, solid consumer spending, and record small biz creation," he said. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Apple does an admirable job of stamping out significant software bugs before they impact users, but issues do still occasionally slip through the cracks. On Wednesday, a security researcher on Mastodon revealed the existence of a bug in iOS that causes iPhones and iPads to crash when typing in a specific set of characters. As the researcher notes, if you swipe past your Home Screen pages to the App Library, you will find a search bar at the top of the screen. Typing the characters "":: into that search bar will then cause the built-in Home Screen manager, SpringBoard, to crash. In the comments of the researcher's post, others noted that the fourth character doesn't have to be a second colon. As long as you type "": in first, SpringBoard will immediately crash when you type in a fourth character. TechCrunch also reports that the same bug is present in the Settings app if you scroll up and type the characters in the search bar there. When I tested the bug in my App Library, my iPhone screen turned black and showed a loading circle in the middle of the screen. It lasted for a few seconds before I was sent back to my Lock Screen. The same test in Settings simply closed the Settings app. The good news is that it doesn't appear to have any impact on security. “It’s not a security bug,” Ryan Stortz, an iOS security researcher, told TechCrunch. Unlike other similar bugs that have plagued Apple's mobile operating system in the past, there doesn't appear to be a way to remotely trigger this bug on someone else's device. For now, this seems to be little more than a weird quirk in iOS. Don't Miss: iPhone 16: Release date, rumors, features, A18, price, AI, and more The post iOS bug: Type in these four characters and your iPhone will crash appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $525+ free Today’s deals: Pixel 9 preorder offers, $20 waterproof speaker, $225 HP laptop, $89 Sony earbuds, more Today’s deals: $199 Apple iPad 9, $30 Crest 3D Whitestrips, $298 Sony XM5 ANC headphones, more Today’s deals: $224 iPad, New back to school blowout, $198 Sony XM4 headphones, $98 eufy smart lock, more