KLH49/iStock(WASHINGTON) — U.S. employers added 224,000 jobs to their payrolls in June, the Labor Department reported Friday morning, exceeding economists’ expectations. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said most of the job gains last month were in professional and business services (51,000), health care (35,000) and transportation and warehousing (24,000). The unemployment rate, meanwhile, increased slightly …
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Jul 05
Severe storms stretch from Plains into Northeast over holiday weekend
ABC News(NEW YORK) — The threat of storms will increase from the Plains into the Northeast heading into the holiday weekend. There were five reported tornadoes in Wyoming and Colorado on Thursday, as well as flash flooding in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and serious wind damage in Maryland and the Carolinas. A storm system moving out …
Jul 05
Amazon at 25: How it’s changed our lives
Amazon(NEW YORK) — In an earlier era, Walmart sold America on one-stop shopping. Amazon, which just reached its 25th anniversary, took that idea and expanded it beyond anyone’s imagination. Twenty-five years after its launch as an online bookseller in Bellevue, Washington, Amazon has surpassed Walmart to become America’s largest retailer and transformed its founder, Jeff …
Jul 05
Billionaire coal executive dies in apparent helicopter crash in the Bahamas
bauhaus1000/iStock(NEW YORK) — Billionaire coal executive Chris Cline was killed in a helicopter crash in the Bahamas on Thursday. Cline, who founded the Cline Group and later Foresight Energy and built himself into one of the preeminent coal producers in the country, was one of seven people on a helicopter that crashed near Grand Cay …
Jul 05
Bright orange bikes help women break barriers in Iran
ABC News(TEHRAN, Iran) — Sara Alirezaei was riding a bright orange bike along one of Tehran’s main, tree-lined boulevards when a male flower seller noticed her labored breathing and offered a word of encouragement: “Don’t be scared. Biking is easy,” he called out. The image of a woman on a bicycle along a busy road …
Jul 05
Fire forces London-bound flight to make emergency landing in Boston
Jevgenij Kulikov/iStock(BOSTON) — A London-bound flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Boston on Thursday night when a fire broke out on board, authorities said. Flames and smoke appeared to be coming from a passenger seat on Virgin Atlantic Flight 138, after it took off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. …
Jul 05
Nashville police officer killed when unlicensed teen driver crashes into car
Nashville Metro Police Department(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — The Metro Nashville Police Department is mourning one of their own after an unlicensed teen driver slammed into an officer’s police car in an intersection, killing him instantly. John Anderson, 28, was en route to the scene of a person standing in the middle of traffic at 3 a.m. …
Jul 05
Family finds relative is alive after taking wrong man off life support: Lawsuit
WLS-TV(CHICAGO) — A family that was making funeral plans for a beloved relative who authorities said had died in hospice care was shocked when the man showed up at a friend’s barbecue, exposing what the family says is a fatal case of mistaken identity on the part of Chicago police and hospital officials. Alfonso Bennett …
Jul 05
Black couple turns away repairman carrying large Confederate flag in truck
Courtesy Brown Family(ATLANTA) — A black couple in Georgia said they were in “disbelief” when a man responding to their Facebook post looking for someone to repair the brakes on a golf cart pulled up in a truck carrying a large Confederate flag. Zeke Brown, who lives with his family in the Atlanta area, told …
Jul 04
Firefighters get premature 4th of July show after containers at fireworks store explode
MSteck101/Twitter(FORT MILL, S.C.) — Fourth of July got started a little early for one South Carolina town. Containers outside a fireworks store in Fort Mill, South Carolina, caught fire early Thursday morning, according to the York County Sheriff’s Office. The result was a spectacular, if premature, fireworks show. Authorities tweeted a taste of the unintentional …