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Unemployment rises slightly in August to 9.6%
The nation lost 54,000 net positions last month, the U.S. reports. Once-growing manufacturers shed jobs last month, as did budget-strapped state governments and the Census Bureau.
The nation's jobless rate worsened slightly last month, edging up to 9.6% from 9.5% in July, the government said Friday in a report that had little for workers to cheer about this Labor Day weekend.
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The man behind the Sherrod affair
Andrew Breitbart, whose posting of video clips got a Department of Agriculture official fired, was a liberal Westside child of privilege whose political epiphany transformed him into a conservative.
The command center of Andrew Breitbart's growing media empire is a suite of offices on Sawtelle Boulevard in West Los Angeles with the temporary feel of a campaign office. Only the computers seem firmly anchored.
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U.S. employers push increase in cost of healthcare onto workers
A new survey shows an average worker with a family plan pays nearly $4,000 a year, up 14% from 2009. Meanwhile, the average employer contribution to a family plan hasn't increased at all.
As employers struggle with rising healthcare costs and a sour economy, U.S. workers for the first time in at least a decade are being asked to shoulder the entire increase in the cost of health benefits on their own.
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Suicide bomb blast kills 42 in Pakistan
The attack on a Shiite procession in Quetta comes two days after a trio of similar assaults on Shiites in Lahore.
A suicide bomb blast targeting a Shiite procession in the southern city of Quetta on Friday killed at least 42 people and injured more than 80 others, police said. The explosion came two days after a coordinated series of suicide bomb attacks killed 35 people during a Shiite march in the eastern city of Lahore.
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Scientist detained after Miami airport evacuation
A metal canister in his luggage looked like a pipe bomb and prompted an evacuation. Concourses were emptied and roadways closed until just after 4 a.m., when the airport reopened ahead of holiday departures.
A scientist has been detained at the Miami International Airport after screeners spotted a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, prompting an evacuation, a government official said.
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It's a masterpiece, whatever that means
The inaugural exhibition at the new Centre Pompidou-Metz revives a long-standing debate about what, if anything, deserves the lofty label.
"Chefs-d'Oeuvre?"
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Value of California's properties falls 1.8% to $4.4 trillion
Forty-eight of California's 58 counties saw totals fall this year — nine by more than 5%, the state Board of Equalization reported. The total value fell 2.4% in 2009.
The Golden State's real estate market lost a bit more of its luster as the total value of California's properties fell for the second year in a row — and for the second time since records were first kept in 1933 at the depths of the Great Depression.
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West Bank city of Hebron could be powder keg as Mideast peace talks begin
Hebron, home to more than 150,000 Palestinians and 400 Jewish settlers, is often at the center of the storm, and it is once again. Residents are bracing themselves and warn violence could spread.
The fate of the U.S.-sponsored peace talks launched Thursday in Washington could hinge in part on how things play out in this hotly disputed West Bank city, where extremists on opposite sides suddenly find they share a common purpose: to sabotage the process.
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Middle East talks begin with work plan
Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet in Washington and agree on fortnightly talks to work toward a peace deal even as the issue of settlement construction in the West Bank threatens to derail the effort.
Israeli and Palestinian leaders formally reopened peace talks Thursday by setting a work plan for the next year, but adjourned without progress on their conflict over Israeli housing construction in disputed areas, an issue that threatens to quickly undermine the negotiations.
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California to use new type of nationwide school tests
Through a federal grant, California will join 43 other states in replacing oft-maligned standardized exams.
With a federal award of $330 million, California and 43 other states joined Thursday to replace the much-maligned year-end English and math standardized tests with new nationwide tests that could better measure student learning and teacher performance.
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