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WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers posted slightly more job openings in July but as the American labor market remained sturdy in the face of higher costs that are squeezing household budgets. U.S. job openings ticked up to 7.27 million in July from a revised 7.18 million in June, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. The department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) also showed that layoffs fell. But so did the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Walk into a corner of a newsroom somewhere and you can often find it affixed to a bulletin board, perhaps peeking out from behind the coffee pot: the Society of Professional Journalists’s Code of Ethics. It’s less than a thousand words, fitting neatly on a poster. But those words — organized around four key journalistic principles — are important enough, asserts Dan Axelrod, that they just […]

By Karen Brettell NEW YORK, Sept 1 (Reuters) – A selloff in U.S. government bonds is pushing up borrowing costs, which could squeeze households, companies, financial markets and the federal budget alike. WHY HAVE YIELDS BEEN RISING? Investors point to several forces behind the move, which has sent the 30-year yield to its highest mark in nearly two decades: mounting government borrowing that markets must absorb, resilient economic growth, inflation […]

Sept 1 (Reuters) – A Bank of America Vice President Erin Piacenti was killed in a stabbing at Times Square on Monday, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing the New York City Police Department. (Reporting by Manya Saini in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

THE HAGUE, Sept 1 (Reuters) – The small Pacific Island state of Vanuatu is trying to bring a decades-old dispute with France over two uninhabited islands before the International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ top court said on Tuesday. The ICJ, also known as the World Court, will not immediately accept the case because France has not agreed to so-called compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ over its disputes with […]

By Maria Cheng OTTAWA, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal party won three special elections on Tuesday, maintaining Carney’s slim majority in Parliament at a time when he has called for national unity to face a worsening trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump.  Liberal candidates won seats in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec after Carney’s government first secured a majority in April.  The seats in […]

WASHINGTON, Sept 1 (Reuters) – U.S. job openings increased in July amid a surge in manufacturing vacancies, but weak hiring suggested the labor market remained in a holding pattern. Job openings, a measure of labor demand, had risen by 89,000 to 7.271 million by the last day of July, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, on Tuesday. […]

Aaron Donald’s decision to come off the retirement couch and get back on the field after a two-year absence may be unusual but it’s far from unprecedented. Donald joins a list of athletes who had called it quits after putting together Hall of Fame-caliber careers only to get the itch and decide to come back to play. “Do I feel like I can play at a high level? Yes,” Donald […]

The Philadelphia Eagles are the first in a generation with back-to-back titles in the NFC East, a division that didn’t have another team with a winning record last season. The New York Giants, with just two playoff appearances since the franchise’s fourth Super Bowl championship 15 years ago, hired a perennial winner in John Harbaugh soon after the coach parted ways with Baltimore. The Dallas Cowboys spent the entire offseason […]