The U.S. service sector, the nation's predominant job generator, expanded for the eighth straight month in August although the pace of growth slowed, according to a trade group survey.


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It was a glass-half-full day for economic data on Thursday ... sort of.  The upbeat news was tempered by worries about what Friday's unemployment report will say about the state of the labor market.


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Private employers hired more workers than expected in August, lifting hopes for the weak U.S. economy, but the nation’s unemployment rate rose for the first time in four months.


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With the job market stuck in neutral, the Obama administration is moving toward using revenue from expiring tax cuts for the wealthy to finance $35 billion in tax cuts for small businesses and workers, officials say.

Experts gathered in Italy Friday offered a generally gloomy outlook — especially for the United States and much of the industrialized world.

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Analysis:  Growing demand for temporary help in the U.S. suggests stronger full-time hiring ahead, and executives say they are seeing a need for staffing greater than reflected in official figures.


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Detectives are investigating the discovery of two "mummified" babies found wrapped in 1930s newspaper in the basement of a Los Angeles apartment building.

Six job recruiters have been indicted in federal court in what the FBI has called the largest human-trafficking operation ever to result in charges in the United States.

Eastern Canada is waiting for the worst of Tropical Storm Earl as New Englanders say goodbye to a heavy dose of wind and rain.

Mexican judge orders U.S.-born suspected drug lord, known as 'La Barbie' for his pale complexion, held for 40 days pending an investigation while authorities try to decide whether to try him in Mexico or deport him to the United States

Earl, downgraded to a tropical storm, heads for Canada after a brush with the Northeast that was far less intense than feared | |

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Police made a "small number" of arrests in Dublin where former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was due to sign copies of his autobiography Saturday, a spokesman for Ireland's national police service said.

An American's cartoon showing the eagle in the Mexican flag dead in a pool of blood is drawing criticism.

Officials declared a state of emergency Saturday after a powerful predawn earthquake struck near Christchurch, New Zealand, sending people into the streets as windows exploded, water mains broke and buildings crumbled.

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The sham marriage trial of actress Fernanda Romero, which the judge has likened to a soap opera, appeared threatened with a mistrial Friday after a dramatic turn a day earlier.

A Florida judge sentenced Rachel Wade, the 20-year-old woman convicted of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing her romantic rival in a fight last year, to 27 years in prison Friday.

Stocks ended a three-week losing streak after an encouraging employment report lifted hopes about the pace of economic growth.

More than a quarter of employed U.S. workers suffered a bout of unemployment during the Great Recession that took many of them on an emotional roller coaster ride.



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A United Nations representative on Saturday pleaded for more international aid to help the millions of Pakistanis displaced from flooding that has ravaged the country for more than a month.

Embattled online classified service Craigslist apparently made a change to its website early Saturday, censoring its adult services section.

State of emergency declared after 7.1 earthquake crumbles homes, cracks roads in half and cuts power to region, but left only two people seriously hurt, in what the prime minister calls 'an absolute miracle' | VIDEO

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