Hiring jumped in April as U.S. employers added 263,000 jobs, a strong gain that suggests businesses have shrugged off any concerns the economy may slow this year.
The Labor Department says the unemployment rate fell to a new five-decade low of 3.6%, though that drop partly reflected an increase in the number of Americans who stopped looking for work.

Stephen Moore, a conservative commentator whom President Donald Trump had tapped for the Federal Reserve board, withdrew from consideration Thursday after losing Republican support in the Senate, largely over his past inflammatory writings about women.
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Baltimore’s mayor resigned under pressure Thursday amid a flurry of investigations into whether she arranged bulk sales of her self-published children’s books to disguise hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks.
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The Trump administration on Thursday moved to ease safety regulations adopted after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon blowout, the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history that killed nearly a dozen people.
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A fire broke out Thursday morning in an apartment on Giora Street in Kiryat Bialik, during which heavy damage was caused. B’chasdei Hashem, due to the rapid and professional response of firefighters from the Haifa district, there was no loss of human life.

The increasing challenges posed by the New York area’s aging rail infrastructure came into sharp focus Thursday as a congressional delegation prepared to get a firsthand look at the country’s busiest station on the same day commuters learned about summer schedule disruptions due to track repairs.

The largest ship to ever enter Israel arrived on Thursday morning towards dawn. The largest ship ever to arrive in Haifa entered the port, a container ship with a huge capacity of 15,300 containers, the Maersk Hamburg.
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After years of pressure to crack down on hate and bigotry, Facebook has banned Louis Farrakhan Alex Jones and other extremists, saying they violated its ban on “dangerous individuals.”
The company also removed right-wing personalities Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson and Laura Loomer, along with Jones’ site, Infowars, which often posts conspiracy theories.

Newark airport officials say a man had two loaded guns in his carry-on bag and now he faces several weapons charges.
Transportation Security Administration officials say agents at Newark Liberty International Airport found a .38-caliber revolver loaded with six bullets and a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun loaded with 12 bullets at the Terminal C checkpoint Wednesday.

Eyal Wurtzburger, a resident of Itamar in Shomron, sustained only light injuries B’chasdei Hashem when terrorists on Thursday morning ambushed his vehicle while driving through Chawarah, north of Tapuach Junction, trying to kill him and the passenger.