Employers added 187,000 jobs in August, while the unemployemnt rate rose to 3.8%. The data indicates a steady labor market heading into the Labor Day weekend.
In a statement accompanying Thursday's disclosure, a lawyer for Thomas said there had been "no willful ethics transgressions" and called prior reporting errors "strictly inadvertent."
The Federal Emergency Management Agency needs $16 billion in emergency funding, the White House says. That's up $4 billion from a request it made last month, due to recent disasters.
Federal student loan borrowers are expected to resume payments this fall. But more than 800,000 borrowers are finding out that their loans have suddenly been forgiven.
There is only one public bank in the United States, and a group in Rochester, N.Y., is trying to change that. The Indicator from Planet Money explores the challenges of public banking in the U.S.
This Labor Day weekend will be one of the busiest for travel. Settlement talks falter in the 9/11 terrorism case. These are the best video games of the summer.
The country's Global Affairs department did not specify which states, but is advising Canadian travelers to check the local laws for their destination before traveling.
The multistory, below-ground structures in Diyarbakir — ID'ed by using ground-penetrating radar — may have sheltered some 10,000 people during wartime many centuries ago, archaeologists believe.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman on Thursday found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act and the Endangered Species Act.
Federal student loan borrowers are expected to resume payments this fall. But more than 800,000 borrowers are finding out that their loans have suddenly been forgiven.
Swift's tour has bolstered economies and crashed the Ticketmaster website. AMC said it has increased its online ticket server by more than five times its normal capacity to accommodate for the demand.
