If you're looking for work–or looking for a better job–now would be a good time to start sending out those resumes. That's because the labor market, after steadily accelerating for several months, is finally on the verge of shifting into fifth gear.
AP - Iran's first target would be Israel in any response to a U.S. attack, a Revolutionary Guards commander said Tuesday, reinforcing the Iranian president's past call for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
AP - A top al-Qaida leader whose links stretch from Osama bin Laden's training camps to extremist networks in Europe has been captured in Pakistan, a U.S. law enforcement official confirms for the first time.
AP - A debate over whether to keep certain interrogation techniques secret is holding up the release of a long-awaited military manual on the treatment of detainees.
New Orleans leaders detailed a new disaster plan on Tuesday that focuses on evacuation by buses, trains and planes rather than public shelters. Pets also would be allowed space on evacuation transport, canceling out one of the reasons many people decided to stay in New Orleans last year as Katrina bore down on the city.
Relatives of coal miners killed in January's Sago Mine disaster spoke of heroes and heartbreak Tuesday as they asked an investigative panel to look for ways to ensure others don't endure similar pain.
Five Iraqis were killed Tuesday in Baghdad, including an ambulance driver shot by U.S. private security contractors, a Baghdad emergency police official said.