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The price of diesel fuel hit an all-time high Friday as wars on two continents and a global refinery shortage combined with higher seasonal demand to push prices upward. The average nationwide price was $5.85 per gallon, up from $5.78 on Thursday, according to AAA’s…
Jodi Beggs’ résumé got dinged for being two pages long. She used her middle initial on one document but not another, which also cost her points. If she changed “percent” to the % sign, her score went up. Beggs, a data scientist and job seeker,…
A team of astronomers discovered a strange polygonal atmospheric structure on Saturn near the planet’s south pole. This 10-sided shape, known as a decagon, joins one of the gas giant’s most famous features: a hexagon near the north pole that was first observed 44 years…
Since the dawn of Silicon Valley, there’s been a widespread perception that San Francisco is, put gently, not exactly a dating mecca. The city famously has a skewed male-to-female ratio (per census data, there are about 105 men for every 100 women), and there’s a…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine President Javier Milei escalated his country’s dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands on Thursday, vowing new measures to halt an oil project near the British-controlled archipelago and praising U.S. President Donald Trump for saying Washington could reconsider its neutral…
The federal government’s August jobs report is widely expected to show a continuation of this summer’s soft hiring numbers, just one month after the labor market contracted by 23,000 jobs. Ahead of the report’s release Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET, economists surveyed by Dow Jones…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday named Adam Telle, a civilian leader in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as the acting Army secretary following the departure of Dan Driscoll amid widespread reports of tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Telle is currently the…
The FCC asked a federal court Thursday to dismiss the First Amendment lawsuit ABC filed against the agency, arguing that the Disney-owned broadcaster failed to establish that the FCC’s early license renewal review for ABC‘s TV stations represents “retaliation” for disfavored speech. ABC sued the…
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti — The U.S. government deported more than 100 people to Haiti on Thursday as it ramps up flights to the troubled Caribbean country. The flight departed from Louisiana and landed in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haitien. “This is the third consecutive Thursday…
POKHARA, Nepal — Two workers in Nepal were pulled out alive from a hydropower tunnel on Friday, some nine days after devastating floods swept the Himalayan region and left thousands of people dead or missing. In a rare glimmer of hope, emergency teams rescued two…