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The national unemployment rate nudged lower to 4.3 percent — the lowest it has been in 16 years.

The finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee are Thursday: the day when adults feel bad because they can't spell some of the words that kids can.

The new album's first single, "Call It Dreaming," strips Sam Beam's sound back down to its warm, relatively unadorned essence.

An appeals court says the government didn't prove that Countrywide intended to defraud investors.

While Yahoo will keep its most valuable assets, the $4.8-billion sale effectively disbands Yahoo as one of the longest-running Internet companies.

Judge Aaron Persky's controversial six-month jail sentence for a former Stanford student convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman continues to cast a shadow over his deliberations.

The saga of the swimmer and the robbery-that-wasn't continues. The charge against the 32-year-old U.S. Olympian carries a penalty of up to 18 months in prison in Brazil.

Police say the boy was on a cross-country trip, from his home in Kendall on the east coast to Perth on the opposite coast. He got about a third of the way before he was pulled over.

Sentient beings and mysteries await as the experimental hip-hop group announces a new album and tour dates.

Imprisoned Palestinians are staging a mass open-ended hunger strike to protest their conditions. It's being led by prominent Palestinian political figure Marwan Barghouti.