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• Experts dismiss Mexico's account of apparent student massacre

  06-09-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's official account of the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 students last year does not add up, a team of international experts said on Sunday, citing deep flaws in the government's investigation and dismissing its claims that the victims were incinerated in a garbage dump. The case provoked a global outcry after the missing students were abducted in the city of Iguala in southwest Mexico on Sept. 26, 2014. The government's failure to capture th
  
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• Serena, Venus to meet in US Open quarters, Bouchard out

  06-09-2015 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Serena and Venus Williams advanced to a dramatic US Open quarter-final showdown with straight-set triumphs Sunday while Canada's Eugenie Bouchard withdrew from her fourth-round match due to a concussion. World number one Serena Williams served well in moving within three match victories of a rare calendar Grand Slam with a 6-3, 6-3 triumph over US 19th seed Madison Keys. Serena made only six unforced errors to 19 for Keys and hit 58 percent of her first serves.
  
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• Austria to revoke measures that let migrants cross from Hungary

  06-09-2015 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Michael Shields and Irene Preisinger VIENNA/MUNICH (Reuters) - Austria said on Sunday it planned to end emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded in Hungary into Austria and Germany since Saturday morning. Austria had suspended its random border checks after photographs of a Syrian toddler lying dead on a Turkish beach showed Europeans the horror faced by those desperate enough to travel illegally into the heart of Europe, which is deeply divided over how to cope. Af
  
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• After G7, Pope and World Cup, Munich takes on refugee crisis

  06-09-2015 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Georgina Prodhan and Irene Preisinger MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Munich has cranked up a formidable administrative machine to meet a tidal wave of refugees, taking in 18,000 exhausted human souls at its central station and getting most of them to shelter this weekend while still keeping the trains running on time. "It's getting tight," Christoph Hillenbrand, president of the government of Upper Bavaria, told reporters at the station, where almost 11,000 new migrants arrived on Sunday on top
  
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• Pablo Escobar's son: Why I gave up my vow of revenge and work to reform drug policy

  06-09-2015 23:24
  
  In 1994, the most powerful drug traffickers in Colombia gave Sebastian Marroquin, the 17-year-old son of Pablo Escobar, a choice: leave the country forever, or face certain death.
  
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• Serena Williams beats Keys to set up US Open QF vs. Venus

  06-09-2015 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — No need for any extra practice for Serena Williams after this performance.
  
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• Lowrie's grand slam helps Astros over Twins 8-5

  06-09-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Jed Lowrie hit a grand slam in a five-run seventh inning and Dallas Keuchel became the American League's first 17-game winner as the Houston Astros rallied for a 8-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Sunday.
  
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• Corruption-weary Guatemalans choose new president

  06-09-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Guatemalans voted Sunday in general elections amid widespread outrage with the government, just days after the country's president resigned and was jailed to face prosecution on corruption charges. The race has been rocked by the customs bribery scandal that felled president Otto Perez, sparked protests on a scale never before seen in the impoverished Central American nation and fueled indignation with the traditional political elite. Caretaker President Alejandro Maldonado, who was sworn in Thu
  
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• Ortiz hits career homer No. 497; Red Sox beat Phillies 6-2

  06-09-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — David Ortiz hit his 497th career home run to get Boston's offense started, and Eduardo Rodriguez pitched seven solid innings as the Red Sox completed a three-game sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies, 6-2 on Sunday.
  
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• The Latest on US Open: Serena beats Keys in straight sets

  06-09-2015 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the US Open (all times local):
  
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• Migrants flow west on Hungarian trains; 13,000 reach Austria

  06-09-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HEGYESHALOM, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian police stood by as thousands of migrants hopped cross-border trains Sunday into Austria, taking advantage of Hungary's surprise decision to stop screening international train travelers for travel visas, a get-tough measure that the country had launched only days before to block their path to asylum in Western Europe.
  
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• Kurdish militants claim deadly ambush, Turkish jets retaliate

  06-09-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Orhan Coskun and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - Kurdish militants said on Sunday they had killed 15 soldiers in an attack on an army convoy in southeast Turkey, and a security source said the military responded with air strikes. In a statement posted online, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said its guerrillas had ambushed the convoy of armored vehicles in Yuksekova district, in what could be the bloodiest assault since the collapse of a ceasefire in July. "An attack from several
  
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• Refugees get hero's welcome in Germany as UN raps Europe

  06-09-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of exhausted migrants received a hero's welcome as they streamed into Germany on Sunday as the UN criticised the huge disparity in European efforts to help them. As well-wishers turned out en masse at train stations in Munich, Frankfurt and other German cities, the UN's refugee chief said the crisis could be "manageable" if European countries all pulled their weight and agreed on a common approach. Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II has sparked a flurry of diplomatic wran
  
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• The Latest: Austria to resume border limits on migrants

  06-09-2015 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — The latest news as countries across Europe cope with the arrival of thousands of migrants and refugees. All times local (CET):
  
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• Tsipras vows battle to improve bailout after Greek election

  06-09-2015 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Angeliki Koutantou and Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras promised on Sunday to fight to improve the terms of Greece's latest bailout as he tried to shore up a rapidly collapsing lead in opinion polls, two weeks before a snap election. In a campaign speech in the northern town of Thessaloniki, Tsipras offered no new policy ideas but pledged thousands of new jobs and an attack on corruption. "The battle to improve it is far from over," Tsipras said, referrin
  
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• The Latest on US Open: Serena wins 1st set against Keys

  06-09-2015 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the US Open (all times local):
  
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• Saudi-led coalition jets kill 20 at a wake in Yemen: residents

  06-09-2015 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Jets belonging to a Saudi-led coalition killed at least 20 people at a wake in northern Yemen on Sunday, local tribesmen said, as warplanes pounded Houthis and other forces behind a missile strike that had killed dozens of Gulf Arab soldiers. The air strikes targeted troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, an ally of the Houthis, across the country and hit a Houthi base in what had been the al-Imam University, a religious school in northern Sana
  
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• The Latest: Munich migrant arrivals expected to reach 11,000

  06-09-2015 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — The latest news as countries across Europe cope with the arrival of thousands of migrants and refugees. All times local (CET):
  
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• Venus Williams back in US Open quarters; could face Serena

  06-09-2015 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — We've all seen this before from Venus Williams. It's just been a while.
  
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• Several Turkish soldiers killed in PKK attack

  06-09-2015 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Kurdish rebels attacked two military vehicles in southeast Turkey, the president said Sunday, indicating that several Turkish soldiers were killed. The prime minister was returning to the capital for a security meeting.
  
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• Brady wants to move on from 'Deflategate'

  06-09-2015 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Patriots quarterback Tom Brady just wants to move on.
  
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• PKK says it killed 15 Turkish soldiers in ambush

  06-09-2015 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kurdish militants said on Sunday they had killed 15 Turkish soldiers in an attack on a convoy of armoured vehicles in southeast Turkey, in what could be the bloodiest assault since the collapse of a ceasefire in July. The number of casualties could not be independently verified but in a televised statement President Tayyip Erdogan confirmed an attack had taken place in Hakkari province, close to Turkey's borders with Iran and Iraq. In a statement posted online, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Pa
  
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• Kentucky clerk who refused same-sex marriage licenses starts new appeal

  06-09-2015 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, 49, who refused to issue the licenses due to her Apostolic Christian belief that marriage can only be between a man and a woman, said she was prepared to remain in jail where she has been reading a Bible since her incarceration for contempt on Thursday, her lawyers said. Davis was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to follow the orders of U.S. District Judge David Bunning. Davis' stance has come to symbolize the cultural gap over gay marriage in the United St
  
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• Notre Dame loses RB Folston for season with torn MCL

  06-09-2015 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — No. 11 Notre Dame's big victory over Texas came with a big loss.
  
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• EU, U.S. clinch data-sharing deal for security, terrorism cases: document

  06-09-2015 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and the United States have clinched a deal protecting personal data shared for law enforcement purposes such as terrorism investigations, according to a document seen by Reuters. The two sides have been negotiating for four years over the so-called "umbrella agreement" that would protect personal data exchanged between police and judicial authorities in the course of investigations, as well as between companies and law enforcement authori
  
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• Aretha Franklin: Queen of Soul wins right to not have 1972 film Amazing Grace shown

  06-09-2015 21:38
  
  She has demanded respect throughout her career and now legendary singer Aretha Franklin has won it in a court of law – at the expense of a vintage concert film which has had its premiere cancelled.
  
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• Cilic, Tsonga to clash in US Open quarter-finals

  06-09-2015 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Defending champion Marin Cilic and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga set-up a US Open quarter-final clash on Sunday as world number one Novak Djokovic waited to take another step closer to a 10th Grand Slam title. Cilic made the last-eight for the fourth time with a 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (7/2) 6-1 win over France's Jeremy Chardy. Cilic, the Croatian ninth seed, took his record in New York to 11 successive wins after capturing his maiden Grand Slam title in the city last year.
  
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• Venus advances at Open, might face Serena next

  06-09-2015 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venus Williams advanced to the US Open quarter-finals, and a possible showdown with calendar Grand Slam-seeking sister Serena, by defeating 152nd-ranked Estonian teen qualifier Anett Kontaveit 6-2, 6-1 Sunday. Venus, matching her deepest Grand Slam run since making the 2010 US Open semi-finals, next faces the winner of a later match at Arthur Ashe Stadium between her younger sister and US 19th seed Madison Keys. Serena, who holds all four major tennis titles, is trying to complete the first cale
  
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• Refugee crisis: Europe must act humanely or face closed borders, says human rights official

  06-09-2015 21:31
  Europe faces the “dangerous scenario” of closed borders and rising nationalist sentiment without a united, and humane, response to the refugee crisis, the continent’s top human rights official has warned.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Europe must act humanely on refugees or face nationalism and closed borders, says continent's top human rights official

  06-09-2015 21:31
  Europe faces the “dangerous scenario” of closed borders and rising nationalist sentiment without a united, and humane, response to the refugee crisis, the continent’s top human rights official has warned.
  
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• Dragon Con brings host of alien, anime characters to Atlanta

  06-09-2015 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta's annual Dragon Con science fiction and fantasy convention filled the city's downtown streets with people dressed as zombies, steampunk time travelers, purple-haired anime heroes and aliens by the dozens.
  
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• Contradictions in Mexican government probe into missing 43

  06-09-2015 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The main points of a comprehensive report about the disappearance in Mexico of 43 college students released Sunday by an independent group of experts from the Inter-American Court on Human Rights:
  
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• International experts dismiss Mexico's account of apparent student massacre

  06-09-2015 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's account of the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 students last year does not add up, a team of international experts said on Sunday, citing deep flaws in the government's investigation and dismissing its claims that the victims were incinerated in a garbage dump. The case of the missing 43 students caused an international outcry after they were abducted in the city of Iguala in southwest Mexico on Sept. 26. The government's failure to capture
  
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• Shia LaBeouf says from now on he's only working with friends

  06-09-2015 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VENICE, Italy (AP) — Shia LaBeouf says his new film, "Man Down," helped him get back on track.
  
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• Al Shabaab militants retake Somali town from African Union

  06-09-2015 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar NAIROBI (Reuters) - The Islamist militant group Al Shabaab took control of a sizeable town in central Somalia on Sunday after African Union forces left the area, the third town the insurgents have seized since Friday, militants and local officials said. The African Union peacekeeping force, AMISOM, left Buqda on Saturday night, less than a month after taking control of the town, an economic center of the Hiran region, from al Shabaab. The town is now under our cont
  
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• Lean manufacturing transforms Wisconsin maker of U.S. Navy warships

  06-09-2015 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Big investments, lean manufacturing techniques borrowed from the automotive industry, and a more engaged workforce have revamped the Wisconsin shipyard where Italy's Fincantieri SpA builds the Freedom variant of the U.S. Navy's coastal warships for prime contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. Fincantieri invested $100 million in recent years to transform the 1940s era shipyard into a state-of-the-art facility, where seven LCS ships are now under construction, including three that have already been lau
  
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• Police: Boy, 7, dead, 3 hurt after North Carolina shooting

  06-09-2015 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte police officers are being called back in from days off and vacations after five people have been killed and five others hurt in shootings during a violent Labor Day holiday weekend in North Carolina's largest city.
  
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• Saudi-led coalition jets kill 20 at wake in Yemen: tribesmen

  06-09-2015 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Jets belonging to a Saudi-led coalition accidentally killed at least 20 people at a wake in northern Yemen on Sunday, local tribesmen said, as Arab warplanes pounded Houthi positions and allied forces behind a missile strike in which dozens of Gulf Arab soldiers died. The air strikes targeted troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, an ally of the Houthis, across the country and hit a Houthi base in what was the al-Imam University, a religious sc
  
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• 10,000 refugees reach Munich and are greeted with food, water and teddy bears

  06-09-2015 20:14
  
  Some recounted their horrors. Others silently clutched their children, deaf to the cheers and applause from German bystanders. The youngest of the refugees to arrive in Munich was a baby girl – part of her umbilical cord still attached – born in a Hungarian railway terminal.
  
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• 'Dirty Corner': Anish Kapoor 'vagina' sculpture in Versailles attacked by anti-Semitic vandals

  06-09-2015 20:07
  
  Anti-Semitic phrases have been spray-painted onto a provocative sculpture by British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
  
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• Anish Kapoor 'vagina' sculpture in Versailles attacked by anti-Semitic vandals for second time

  06-09-2015 20:07
  
  Anti-Semitic phrases have been spray-painted onto a provocative sculpture by British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
  
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• French far-right leader says Germany seeking 'slaves' in migrants

  06-09-2015 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS/MARSEILLE (Reuters) - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen accused Germany on Sunday of looking to lower wages and hire "slaves" by opening its doors to thousands of migrants and refugees. The European Union's largest economy has been dealing with a record influx of refugees in recent weeks, with thousands of them crossing its borders in the past days, many traveling through Austria from Hungary where they had been stranded against their will for days. "Germany probably thinks its populat
  
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• Austria to lift measures that let migrants cross from Hungary

  06-09-2015 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Michael Shields and Georgina Prodhan VIENNA/MUNICH (Reuters) - Austria said on Sunday it planned to phase out emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded against their will for days in Hungary to stream into Austria and Germany since Saturday morning. Many are fleeing war in the Middle East and hope to take refuge in Germany, Europe's richest country, but the EU is divided over how to cope with the influx which has provoked both huge sympathy and anti-Muslim resentment
  
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• IMF chief pleased with economic progress in Ukraine

  06-09-2015 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has told Ukraine's president that she was impressed with the progress his government has made toward stabilizing the Ukrainian economy.
  
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• Collins wants Harvey to focus on Tuesday start at Washington

  06-09-2015 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Mets manager Terry Collins wants Matt Harvey to focus on his next start Tuesday night at Washington and stay away from the swirling controversy over his innings.
  
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• Ohio couple calls out heroin in teen daughter's obituary

  06-09-2015 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) — Confronted with the sudden death of their 18-year-old daughter, Fred and Dorothy McIntosh Shuemake made a defiant decision: they would not worry about any finger-pointing, whispers or family stigma.
  
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• Medevac plane with seven on board disappears off Senegal

  06-09-2015 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The private Senegalair plane from Ouagadougou disappeared from radar screens at 7:08 p.m. (3:08 pm ET), 118 km (74 miles) west of Dakar, the Senegalese capital, it said in a statement. The plane, chartered by SOS Medicin Senegal, had left Ouagadougou at 4:30 p.m. (1630 GMT), Burkina Faso's Minister of Transport, Daouda Traore, told Reuters. Ouagadougou is around 1,700 km (1,100 miles) southeast of Dakar.
  
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• Independent probe doubts 43 Mexico students cremated

  06-09-2015 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Independent foreign investigators refuted Sunday the Mexican government's conclusion that 43 students abducted last year were incinerated in a landfill, tearing apart the official probe into a case that caused international outrage. Urging the authorities to keep looking for the students snatched by corrupt police a year ago, experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said there was no evidence that they were cremated in a bonfire. The document also calls for a probe into the act
  
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• Independent group rejects Mexican gov't case on 43 missing

  06-09-2015 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — An independent report released Sunday dismantles the Mexican government's investigation into last year's disappearance of 43 teachers' college students, starting with the assertion that the giant funeral pyre in which the attorney general said they were burned to ash beyond identification simply never happened.
  
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• Snapshot of US job market: Solid hiring but still-tepid pay

  06-09-2015 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — On Labor Day weekend 2015, the U.S. job market has found an old sweet spot: 5.1 percent unemployment — many miles from the 10 percent joblessness America endured back in 2009.
  
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