The nation's unemployment rate dropped slightly to 4.7 percent in August as the economy added 128,000 new jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning.
Lockheed Martin edged out aerospace industry rivals Boeing and Northrop Grumman late Thursday to win a $3.9 billion contract to build NASA's next generation of manned spacecraft.
Smokers today inhale more nicotine per cigarette than they did six years ago. That's the finding issued this week by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, which requires manufacturers selling cigarettes in the state to report on nicotine content annually. (Utah and Texas are the only other states to collect such data each year.)
AP - President Vicente Fox called on Mexicans to overcome their deep political divisions in a state-of-the-nation speech he was forced to deliver over television after protests by leftist lawmakers kept him from addressing Congress in person.
AP - Hurricane John roared over the sparsely populated eastern tip of the Baja California peninsula late Friday but appeared to spare the glistening resorts of Los Cabos and impoverished local residents huddled in shelters.
Tony Blair's decision to rule out naming a departure date has quickened calls for him to go and could provoke a challenge to his leadership, rebel MPs warn.
At least 50 Italian military personnel pulled up on the Lebanese shore in small motor boats Saturday prior to the departure of approximately 800 Italian troops from their destroyer ship poised vigilantly nearby, video of the scene showed.
Death squads and terrorists have ramped up attacks on civilians in Iraq, killing more than 1,600 people in cold-blooded "execution-style" slayings in July alone, a Pentagon report said today. The report concludes the "current violence is not a civil war."