Jobless rate rises but still moderate The city unemployment rate edged up in November but remains at a level signifying a healthy local job market. The city’s rate was 4.1%, up from 3.9% in October and 3.8% in November of last year, the U ... 01/3/2025 - 3:59 pm | View Link
Jobless claims fall to lowest level in 8 months to end 2024 The number of people filing new applications for unemployment insurance fell to the lowest level since last April as the job market showed signs of strength within a broader cooling off in ... 01/2/2025 - 12:50 am | View Link
FOX 35 Investigates: Unemployment claimants face long call waits, months of delays despite low jobless rate Florida’s Department of Commerce says the unemployment rate here is lower than the national average, a standard it has maintained for 49 consecutive months. In November, those numbers were 3.4% ... 12/31/2024 - 11:37 am | View Link
Gold Declines as US Jobs Data Offer Few Clues on Fed’s Rate Path Gold was steady in quiet, post-holiday trading, after mixed jobless claims data in the US did little to alter bets on the outlook for Federal Reserve interest rate cuts. 12/26/2024 - 11:41 am | View Link
US applications for unemployment benefits hold steady, but continuing claims rise to 3-year high WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits held steady last week, though continuing claims rose to the highest level in three years. Jobless claim applications ticked ... 12/26/2024 - 1:05 am | View Link
YNW Melly must make a decision about whether to keep his current legal team for his upcoming murder retrial, and he doesn’t have a lot of time to do it, a Broward judge said Tuesday.
The rapper, whose real name is Jamell Demons, was in court Tuesday for the second of a two-day “all pending motions” hearing, a proceeding in which lawyers are supposed to take care of any unfinished business stopping a trial from going forward.
Zoe Greenberg | (TNS) The Philadelphia Inquirer
On a brisk Saturday afternoon, A. crouched in a boxer’s stance, knees bent, one hip forward, raised her new Ruger Security-380 pistol aloft with both hands, and pulled the trigger. Spent gold casings clinked to the ground as a paper plate across the range filled with bullet holes.
Two years ago, with insurance costs skyrocketing, Florida legislators called a special session, vowing to provide relief.
Their plan was shady from the moment they announced it.
The Republican lawmakers who control the state had spent years ignoring warnings from industry experts who had begged them to spend serious time on this complicated issue, opting instead to wage culture wars with everyone from Disney to drag queens.
By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U. S. control of both to be vital to American national security.
Speaking to reporters less than two weeks before he takes office on Jan.
By JOHN ROGERS
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war, has died. He was 86.
Yarrow, who also co-wrote the group’s most enduring song, “Puff the Magic Dragon,” died Tuesday in New York, publicist Ken Sunshine said.
A recent study published in The Lancet, one of the world’s most respected academic journals, predicted that by 2050, more than 43 million adolescents and 213 million adults in the United States will be overweight or living with obesity. These projections, driven by factors ranging from lifestyle to economic instability and education, serve as a wake-up call: It’s time to prioritize our health and make meaningful changes — individually and collectively.
Obesity is more than a number on a scale.