The Labor Department released the April data on hiring and unemployment on Friday morning, providing an up-to-the-minute snapshot of the economy. The Numbers Average hourly earnings rose by 0.2 percent, which follows an increase of 0.1 percent in March. Over the last 12 months, earnings have risen by a healthy 3.2 percent, a hair’s breadth […]
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption“It’s not life-threatening but it is life-changing” Clare Mount will always remember the evening of Christmas Day 2003 as “the night that stole my smile”. On Boxing Day she awoke with Bell’s palsy, a nerve condition that causes paralysis to part of the face. It affects up
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Image copyright PA Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca, the gentle giant with a distinctive growl, in Star Wars films for almost 40 years – but how did he find himself inside that huge, hairy costume? The London-born son of a policeman was diagnosed with gigantism, a condition that causes excessive growth, aged eight. Mayhew also had
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Image copyright Getty Images The US unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level for more than 49 years in April, according to official figures. The jobless rate fell from 3.8% to 3.6%, the US Labor Department said, the lowest rate since December 1969. The data also showed that the world’s largest economy added a stronger-than-expected
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It’s been a year since a Hawaii volcano rained lava and gases on a rural swath of the Big Island in one of its largest and most destructive eruptions in recorded history. Big Island Mayor Harry Kim says residents are just beginning to come to terms with the devastation. More than 700 homes were destroyed
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BBC Click’s Lara Lewington looks at some of the week’s best technology stories including: A drone delivers a human kidney for transplant in the United States The UK government is proposing that internet-connected gadgets will have to be made more secure under new laws A Singapore-based company aiming to make seafood by growing them from
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Haikal won’t run in the Kentucky Derby because of an infection in his left front foot, reducing the field to 19 horses. Haikal joins early favorite Omaha Beach on the sidelines for Saturday’s race. Trained by Kiaran McLaughlin, Haikal was being treated for an abscess and didn’t train Thursday or Friday. That left McLaughlin no
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Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. PAKENHAM, Ontario — By 9:30 a.m. the line for Fulton’s Pancake House and Sugarbush had snaked out the door and down the driveway toward the parking lot, like the day a new iPhone goes on sale. But the restaurant, roughly
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U.S. employers are expected to have delivered a solid month of job growth in April, buoyed by a resilient economy that has confounded concerns that 2019 would begin with a slowdown. Economists have forecast that employers added 181,000 jobs in April and that the unemployment rate stayed at a low 3.8%, according to data provider
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The Latest on the Trump administration’s “conscience rights” regulation (all times local): 6:15 p.m. The city of San Francisco is suing the Trump administration over its new regulation allowing health care professionals to opt out of providing treatments they oppose. City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for Northern California on
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