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US adds 559K jobs as firms still struggle to fill positions

U.S. employers added a modest 559,000 jobs in May, an improvement from April’s sluggish gain but still evidence that many companies are struggling to find enough workers.

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Trump’s hold on GOP fuels fears about democratic process

“It’s impossible to sustain a democracy in a two-party system when one of the parties is not willing to play by the rules of the game,” said Steven Levitsky, co-author of “How Democracies Die.”

Most vaccinated California workers have to keep masks on

Conflicted California workplace regulators approved controversial rules Thursday night that allow workers to go maskless only if every employee in a room is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Celebrity attorney F. Lee Bailey dies at 87

F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in two states, has died, a former colleague said Thursday. He was 87.

Pence says he’ll likely never see ‘eye to eye’ with Trump about Jan. 6

Pence, speaking at a Republican dinner in the early voting state of New Hampshire, gave his most extensive comments to date on the events of Jan. 6, when angry Trump supporters broke into the Capitol building, some chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” after the vice president said he did not have the power to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory.

Fatal tour bus crash in Utah reveals safety shortcomings

A tour bus crash that threw more than a dozen people onto a remote Utah highway in 2019, killing four Chinese tourists, highlights a lack of safety standards for bus roofs and windows, U.S. investigators said Thursday.

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