Activists and opposition leaders have that warned El Salvador is following Venezuela’s path towards dictatorship after the Central American country’s congress scrapped presidential term limits, paving the way for Nayib Bukele to seek indefinite re-election.

“Democracy in El Salvador has died,” opposition congresswoman Marcela Villatoro declared late on Thursday as the legislature – in which Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas party controls 90% of seats – approved the highly controversial constitutional reform, by 57 votes to three.

Villatoro accused fellow lawmakers of dealing a “death blow” to the country’s democratic system during the late-night session. “Today some people applaud this. Tomorrow they will regret it,” she said, comparing El Salvador’s slide into authoritarianism

The US economy added 73,000 jobs in July, far lower than expected, amid ongoing concerns with Donald Trump’s escalating trade war.

Forecasters surveyed by Bloomberg had predicted the July jobs report would show a drop in added jobs to around 109,000. The unemployment rate rose to 4.2% from 4.1% in June.

The Bureau of Labor also slashed the number of jobs added in recent months. May’s jobs figure was revised down by 125,000, from 144,000 to 19,000, and June was revised down by 133,000, from 147,000 to 14,000 – a combined 258,000 fewer jobs than previously reported.

Healthcare and social assistance added 73,300 jobs over the month but growth was dragged down

The Trump administration is planning a pilot program to cover “miracle” weight loss drugs under the government health insurance systems for low-income people and retirees, Medicaid and Medicare, in a move aimed at tackling the US’s chronic obesity problem.

Such a plan was previously proposed by the Biden administration in its final months before Donald Trump re-entered the White House after winning a second term in office in the 2024 election.

Now the Trump administration intends a five-year experiment where the Medicaid program and Medicare drug coverage plans will have the option of covering the cost of drugs selling under the names Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound for “weight management” purposes,

Soraya Paladin (Canyon/SRAM zondacrypto) has decided to abandon today’s stage after a crash earlier.

93km to go: Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) attacks! She’s followed by Chloe Dygert (Canyon/SRAM zondacrypto). The peloton remain 2mins 45secs behind the group of riders out front. I’m not sure Kopecky and Dygert’s attack has stuck.

Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) who is eighth overall in the GC spoke to the Tour race centre before stage six on her ambitions:

I’m excited for what’s coming up. I still am in the top 10, it will be nice of course to keep that position, but we’ll just have to see the upcoming few days. I think there