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US Added 213,000 Jobs In June; Unemployment Rose To 4 Pct.
WASHINGTON - U.S. employers kept up a brisk hiring pace in June by adding 213,000 jobs in a sign of confidence despite the start of a trade war with China. The Labor Department said Friday that...
Syndicated Author Jul 06, 2018

Newlyweds Barely Escape as a Tree Branch Falls While Recording Wedding Video
(CNN) — Shortly after saying “I do,” a Wisconsin couple narrowly escaped being injured when a large tree branch fell on the picnic table where they were recording their wedding video...
Syndicated Author Jul 05, 2018

Virginia Beach Police: 6 People Shot, Wounded At Oceanfront
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Police say six people were wounded when someone fired into a crowd near the oceanfront in Virginia Beach.Police spokeswoman Tonya Pierce tells news outlets that it happened ...
Syndicated Author Jul 05, 2018

Man Pleads Not Guilty to Hate Crimes in Attack on Protesters
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - An Ohio man pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges Thursday in a deadly car attack on a crowd of protesters opposing a white nationalist rally in Virginia.James A...
Syndicated Author Jul 05, 2018

Trump Loses Effort To Block 2 California Sanctuary Laws
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A U.S. judge on Thursday rejected a request by the Trump administration to block two California laws that protect immigrants in the country illegally, but put key parts of a ...
Syndicated Author Jul 05, 2018

Fed Officials Discuss Rate Hikes That Could Slow Growth
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal Reserve officials last month said they expect to keep raising interest rates and suggested that by the next year, they could be high enough that they could start slowing grow...
Syndicated Author Jul 05, 2018

Trump Says EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Resigns
(CNN) — President Donald Trump said he has accepted the resignation of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. “I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the A...
Syndicated Author Jul 05, 2018

Possible Tuberculosis Exposure Causes Hazmat Situation At Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, MD (WJZ) — Baltimore City Fire crews are on scene at Johns Hopkins Hospital where there's a hazmat situation after people may have been exposed to tuberculosis after vials were possib...
Syndicated Author Jul 05, 2018

Fireworks Explosion Kills 17, Injures 31 Near Mexico City
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Seventeen people were killed and at least 31 were injured Thursday when two explosions ripped through fireworks workshops in a town just north of Mexico City. The dead included four...
Syndicated Author Jul 05, 2018

LISTEN: MoCo Board of Elections Starts Reviewing Provisional Ballots
Heather Curtis WMAL.com https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2018/07/05134919/THU-PM-MoCo-Ballots-Wrap-2.mp3 WASHINGTON (WMAL) -The Montgomery County Board of Elections likely won’t have the fin...
Syndicated Author Jul 05, 2018
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