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Weekly US jobless claims highest since 2021, but companies avoid risk of being caught short-handed

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer
May 11, 2023 1:00 am - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits last week rose to its highest level in a year-and-a-half, though jobs remain plentiful by historical standards e...
Israel kills another militant commander in Gaza as Cairo presses on with efforts to mediate truce

By FARES AKRAM and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press
May 11, 2023 1:00 am - GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip killed a fourth militant commander on Thursday, raising the Palestinian death toll from the latest burs...
House Republicans point to increased migration as they advance asylum restrictions, border wall

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press
May 11, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans are seeking Thursday to pass a sweeping bill to build more U.S.-Mexico border wall and impose new restrictions on asylum seekers, cre...
UK gives cruise missiles to Ukraine; Kyiv delays counteroffensive as it waits for more weapons

By SUSIE BLANN and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
May 11, 2023 1:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - The British government said Thursday that it sent long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine to help drive out Russia's occupying forces, an announcement...
Why the arrest of Pakistan's ex-PM Imran Khan could push the country into chaos

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press
May 11, 2023 1:00 am - ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan is witnessing a wave of violence following the arrest of popular opposition leader and former Prime Minister Imran Khan on corruption charges. ...
Suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance faces extradition to US on fraud charges

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and FRANKLIN BRICENO Associated Press
May 11, 2023 1:00 am - LIMA, Peru (AP) - Peru's government will allow the extradition to the United States of the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee H...
Biden ramps up pressure on House GOP in debt limit battle

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press
May 10, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Fresh off a White House meeting with no serious breakthrough on the debt limit standoff, President Joe Biden is launching a new phase of his pressure c...
Pritzker signs law that gives benefits to Chicago first responders disabled by COVID

By JOHN O'CONNOR AP Political Writer
May 10, 2023 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday signed a law providing full disability benefits to Chicago police officers and firefighters struck by COVID-19 before vacci...
FDA panel backs over-the-counter birth control pill

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer
May 10, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal health advisers said Wednesday that a decades-old birth control pill should be sold without a prescription, paving the way for a likely U.S. ap...
Americans likely saw little relief from inflation in April

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer
May 10, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - After steadily declining for nearly a year, consumer price data to be released Wednesday will likely show that U.S. inflation remained stubbornly high ...

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