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US hiring slows amid uncertainty about economy

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. job market slowed in March as companies hit the brakes on hiring amid uncertainty about the economy's growth prospects. The unemployment rate dipped, but mostly because more Americans stopped looking for work....
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Fourth straight month of strong US hiring expected

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy probably generated more than 200,000 jobs in March, capping the best four months of hiring since before the recession....
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Military board says Marine should be dismissed

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A Marine who criticized President Barack Obama on his Facebook page has committed misconduct and should be dismissed, a military board recommended late Thursday....
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Ohio rabbi's books tied to Holocaust survivors

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- As Holocaust survivors languished in displacement camps around Europe at the close of World War II, the U.S. Army gave them some of their first tangible connections to their faith since before the war: passages from the Talmud....
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3 soldiers from Ohio killed in Afghan attack

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Sgt. 1st Class Shawn T. Hannon felt it was a privilege to serve his country and was proud to be a soldier, a job he did nearly 20 years while also working as a lawyer, his family said....
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Israeli chefs target every last crumb for Passover

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- The Jewish springtime holiday Passover is known as a festival of freedom, but its hallmark is a litany of dietary restrictions centered on not eating leavened bread for a week....

Israeli chefs target every last crumb for Passover

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- The Jewish springtime holiday Passover is known as a festival of freedom, but its hallmark is a litany of dietary restrictions centered on not eating leavened bread for a week....

Ex-Tyco CEO loses parole bid in New York

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski on Thursday lost a bid to get out of the prison where he's serving time in one of the corporate world's most notorious fraud cases, with parole officials calling his role in the $100-million-plus scheme a "glaring violation" of shareholders' trust....
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Ex-Tyco CEO loses parole bid in New York

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski on Thursday lost a bid to get out of the prison where he's serving time in one of the corporate world's most notorious fraud cases, with parole officials calling his role in the $100-million-plus scheme a "glaring violation" of shareholders' trust....
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NKorea leader visits unit known for anti-US feats

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has visited a naval unit credited with anti-U.S. feats....

Coast Guard cannon fire sinks Japanese ghost ship

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA (AP) -- The long, lonely voyage of the Japanese ghost ship is over....
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Bosnia marks 20 years of the beginning of its war

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Exactly 11,541 red chairs have been lined up in rows along Sarajevo's main street - one for every man, woman and child killed in the siege that ended up being the longest in modern history....

Bosnia marks 20 years of the beginning of its war

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Exactly 11,541 red chairs have been lined up in rows along Sarajevo's main street - one for every man, woman and child killed in the siege that ended up being the longest in modern history....

Co-worker: Steve Powell spoke of Utah camping trip

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A co-worker of Steve Powell says the father-in-law of Susan Powell planned to travel to Utah for a camping trip shortly before she disappeared in 2009, an attorney said Thursday....
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Co-worker: Steve Powell spoke of Utah camping trip

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A co-worker of Steve Powell says the father-in-law of Susan Powell planned to travel to Utah for a camping trip shortly before she disappeared in 2009, an attorney said Thursday....
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Israel's Barak: Weigh 'unilateral action'

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
JERUSALEM (AP) -- There are signs the Israeli government is considering taking unilateral action if peace talks with the Palestinians remain stalled, a move which could involve a withdrawal from parts of the West Bank along the lines of a 2005 pullout from the Gaza Strip....

A bold move in the small world of college chess

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- It was one of the most brazen moves in the chess world since the Najdorf Sicilian Defense, perhaps even the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit....
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A bold move in the small world of college chess

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- It was one of the most brazen moves in the chess world since the Najdorf Sicilian Defense, perhaps even the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit....
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Coast Guard cannon fire sinks Japanese ghost ship

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA (AP) -- The long, lonely voyage of the Japanese ghost ship is over....
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Flowers, confetti on first day of school in NKorea

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 09:38
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korean students in Pyongyang celebrated the first day of their new school year this week with flowers and confetti....
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