The unemployment rate for black workers has now dropped below 8 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says. Some of April's biggest job gains came in hospitality, health care and social assistance.
Read More »India’s Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentences Over 2012 Gang Rape
The court rejected the appeals of four men who committed the crime it described as "brutal, barbaric and diabolic," in which a 23-year-old woman was attacked and left to die.
Read More »Chinese-Made Passenger Jet Takes Off For Its First Test Flight
The C919 is the first large passenger jetliner made in China. The narrow-body plane will compete with single-aisle jets from Airbus and Boeing. The C919 was originally expected to fly in 2014.
Read More »Denmark Now Has A Wild Wolf Pack Again — For The First Time In 200 Years
Citing CCTV footage and DNA samples, two researchers say a female has migrated more than 340 miles from Germany to join a small group of wolves in the Jutland peninsula.
Read More »Pulse Nightclub Owner Announces Plans For Memorial
"This must and will be a healing initiative," said owner Barbara Poma. It will commemorate the victims, survivors and rescue workers at the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Read More »EU Drops Its Antitrust Probe Over Amazon E-Book Contracts
The European Union's executive arm closed the investigation after accepting Amazon's promise to strip its publisher contracts of clauses that the commission feared were "harmful to consumers."
Read More »Canadian Court Clears Activist Who Gave Water To Pigs
The case against Anita Krajnc, who founded the animal rights group Toronto Pig Save, has garnered international attention. She faced the possibility of jail time and thousands of dollars in fines.
Read More »America’s Protected Natural Areas Are Polluted, By Noise
A new survey shows that the sound of cars and planes and other forms of noise pollution are rampant across the American wilderness. In many cases, man-made noise is drowning out the background sounds.
Read More »North Korea Pens Singular, Scathing Criticism Of Its Singular Ally, China
The country's state-run news agency issued a rare broadside against Beijing, its most important trade partner and ally, for "its reckless act of chopping down the pillar of the DPRK-China relations."
Read More »‘Is That Your New Pink Leg?!’: A Girl Is Embraced As She Shows Off Her Prosthesis
Footage of a girl wearing a new sports blade at her school in Birmingham, England, goes viral, inducing effects that range from involuntary "Awwws" to spontaneous tears.
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