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The U.S. job market isn’t sizzling hot anymore. Companies aren’t hiring the way they were a year or two ago. But they aren’t slashing jobs either. This is just what the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve want to see: a gradual slowdown in hiring that eases pressure on companies to raise wages – but avoids the pain of widespread layoffs. The Labor Department is expected to report Friday that employers added 175,000 jobs last month, decent but down from 206,000 in June. Unemployment is forecast to stay at a low 4.1%... Читать дальше...

The Biden administration announced Thursday it will pay farmers across the Western United States to conserve water.

The results are in, and everyone is *obsessed* with this Instagram-worthy scalloped dress.

Choco taco gang for life.

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Newsweek has provided some clues and tips to help "Connections" fans end the working week on a winning note.

Why is it not possible to not take a train from Los Angeles (or San Diego) to Las Vegas?

Over two years since its release, "Wordle" is still hugely popular. Newsweek has a few clues to help you solve today's puzzle.

Photographer: Stu Witmer Summary Author: Stu Witmer For about 2 million years, the Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field (YPVF) has been home to extensive volcanic activity. Yellowstone National Park sits on top of a supervolcano's gigantic pool of magma that last...

Only one candidate has promised to address America’s fundamental problems.

Israel determined that it killed Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif in a July airstrike, the country’s military said, eliminating a planner of the Oct. 7 attacks.

A Russian hit man convicted of murdering an enemy of Moscow in a Berlin park in 2019 was released by German authorities as part of the exchange.

Russia freed wrongly convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as part of the largest and most complex East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War, in which he and more than a dozen others jailed by the Kremlin were exchanged for Russians held in the U.S. and Europe.

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a bomb in his heavily guarded room at an official guesthouse in Tehran, people familiar with the circumstances said.

A bipartisan tax bill that sailed through the House six months ago reached a dead end as the Senate killed the once-promising deal and turned it into fodder for campaign-trail finger-pointing.

A catastrophic gearbox failure caused an Osprey aircraft to crash off the coast of Japan last year, killing all eight personnel aboard, though crew actions also contributed to the accident, the U.S. Air Force said.

Most of the money Harris secured for California householder relief after the financial crisis didn’t wind up in owners’ pockets or stop them from losing their homes, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.

U.S. stocks swooned in a broad selloff prompted by weakening jobs, manufacturing and construction data, with the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow shedding 1.4%, 2.3% and 1.2%, respectively. The 10-year Treasury yield fell below 4% for the first time since February.

Apple’s iPhone revenue fell for a second consecutive quarter, a soft-demand signal investors hope will turn around once the company releases new AI features in the fall.

Airlines would have to allow parents to book seats next to young children without paying extra fees under a Biden administration proposal that seeks to address a major travel headache for families.

An antitrust verdict against the NFL that resulted in an award of $4.7 billion in damages to customers of the league’s “Sunday Ticket” TV package was overturned.

AB InBev said it sold less beer in the second quarter, hurt by weaker demand in China and the continuing fallout from a Bud Light boycott.

Intel plans to lay off thousands of employees this year and pause dividend payments in the fourth quarter as part of a broad cost-saving drive more than three years into a turnaround effort.

The Bank of England cut its key interest rate for the first time in over four years, bringing the benchmark to 5%.

Amazon projected weaker-than-expected revenue growth and said it would continue to ratchet up spending to meet expected demand for AI services.