Applications for jobless aid for the week ending June 25 ticked down to 231,000, a decline of 2,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
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U.S. Sen. Leahy of Vermont in hospital for surgery on broken hip
The 82-year-old Democrat suffered the break Wednesday night in a fall at his home in McLean, Va.
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Justices limit 2020 ruling on tribal lands in Oklahoma
The Supreme Court says the state can prosecute non-Native Americans for crimes committed on tribal land when the victim is Native American.
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NATO deems Russia its ‘most significant and direct threat’
The declaration at a summit in Madrid was a sobering about-face for an alliance that a decade ago called Moscow a strategic partner.
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U.S. stocks slip, on track for fourth monthly loss this year
Trading has been volatile all week amid growing signs the economy could be in for a recession under the pressure of stubbornly high inflation and sharply higher interest rates.
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Powell: ‘No guarantee’ Fed can tame inflation and spare jobs
The head of the Federal Reserve made the remarks Wednesday at a European Central Bank forum in Sintra, Portugal.
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Elmo, 3, joins youngest Americans in getting vaccinated
In a public service announcement posted to YouTube, the beloved ‘Sesame Street’ star talked with his dad about what it was like to get the shot.
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Sale puts Ben & Jerry’s ice cream back in West Bank, kind of
Unilever says it has reached a new business arrangement in Israel that will effectively end Ben & Jerry’s policy of not selling ice cream in annexed east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
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U.S. economy slipped 1.6% to start year, but growth is expected to return
It was the first drop in gross domestic product – the broadest measure of economic output – since the second quarter of 2020, in the depths of the COVID-19 recession.
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Big majority of Americans say nation on wrong track, poll finds
A total of 79% describe the economy as poor, according to new survey from The Associated Press.