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A 'help wanted' sign is displayed in a window of a store in Manhattan, New York City, on Dec. 2, 2022. U.S. employers added an unexpectedly strong 517,000 jobs in January, showcasing the labor market is red-hot. The unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in more than half a century.

U.S. employers added 517,000 jobs last month. It's a surprisingly strong number

U.S. employers added 517,000 jobs in January, as the unemployment rate fell to 3.4% . The job market remains tight, despite signs of a slowing economy.

Japan is suffering a blistering heat wave and energy crunch

Japan is sweltering amid a heat wave not seen in decades. As the country deals with an energy crunch, businesses are trying to save energy by turning lights down and thermostats up.

Rick Singer departs federal court in Boston in March 2019 after pleading guilty to charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. Singer is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday afternoon in Boston.

Mastermind of the Varsity Blues college admission scandal is about to learn his fate

Rick Singer pleaded guilty in 2019 to selling what he called "a side door" into top universities. The scheme snared dozens of wealthy clients, from actors to business titans and big-shot lawyers.

A worker tells people that the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., is closed on March 10, 2023. Federal regulators took extraordinary measures on Sunday to backstop all deposits at SVB after the lender's spectacular collapse.

The U.S. takes emergency measures to protect all deposits at Silicon Valley Bank

Federal officials made the emergency announcement Sunday amid panic from depositors over the state of uninsured deposits.

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Homeless people stand in front of their make-shift shelters on 17th Street in San Diego's East Village, June 28, 2016.

El Cajon, county leaders square off over homeless motel voucher program

Elected leaders in El Cajon Wednesday called out county government for "dumping" homeless people in their community's motels, a claim county officials say is misinformed and harmful.

People help a driver who is experiencing a medical episode in Boynton Beach, Fla., on May 5.

Good Samaritans save a driver having a medical issue at a busy intersection

When a driver experienced a medical episode and was drifting into an intersection, people around her sprang into action and saved everyone on the road from a potentially life-threatening crash.

Participants in an interfaith memorial ceremony enter the New Mexico Islamic Center mosque to commemorate four murdered Muslim men, hours after police said they had arrested a prime suspect in the killings, in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday.

Fear turns to shock among Albuquerque Muslims as police say the shooter is a Muslim

Businesses were closed and people skipped prayer services after the shooting deaths of four Muslim men, three of them in the past two weeks. Now, the fear has given way to confusion over a motive.

Inside the workshop and showroom of Giovanna Alessandro, in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.

Ukraine's wedding dress industry is alive and well, despite the war

The town of Chernivtsi, once the wedding dress capital of the Soviet Union, is still churning out dresses — for the West. "We are staying in Ukraine," says a dressmaker. "We will build our economy."

Refugees from Ukraine wait to get on buses to other destinations in Poland, outside the train station in Przemysl, near the Ukrainian-Polish border in southeastern Poland, on Wednesday.

The U.S. will take in up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war

The United States will welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians and other displaced people fleeing the conflict in Ukraine, a senior administration official told reporters traveling with President Biden.

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