U.S. unemployment falls to its lowest level in almost 50 years. Employers added a better-than-expected 263,000 jobs in April.
Catherine Pugh has resigned as mayor of Baltimore. She is being investigated for alleged "self-dealing" in connection to the sale of thousands of copies of a self-published children's book series.
U.S. border police have recovered the body of a 10-month-old and continue searching for two other children and an adult whose raft overturned in the Rio Grande as they were attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border Wednesday.
India has accelerated efforts to evacuate more than a million people along the northeast coastline as Cyclone Fani nears landfall.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday accused Attorney General William Barr of lying to Congress. During his appearance before Congress on April 9, Barr said he was not aware of reported dissatisfaction by some on Robert Mueller's team with the four-page memo Barr wrote to Congress describing the special counsel's findings.
The CEO of a major drug company has been convicted in a high-profile case linked to the opioid epidemic. John Kapoor, the former chairman and founder of Insys Therapeutics, was accused of bribing doctors to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray.
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Why making a “designer baby” is easier said than done.
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Leaders of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy are calling for a moratorium on engineering of human embryos that could grow into babies. But as scientists learn more about the complex way genes combine and work together to create human traits, the idea of "designer babies" becomes less and less likely. (Listening time, 4:10)
Teachers are seeing their unfair student loans disappear.
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Nearly 2,300 teachers have just had a mountain of student loan debt lifted off their backs. This follows NPR reporting that exposed a nightmare for public school teachers across the country who saw their grant money unfairly turned into loans they had to pay back. The Education Department is now giving millions of dollars of grant money back to the public school teachers working in the country's neediest schools.
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Facebook and Instagram crack down on extremist figures.
Controversial figures Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan and Milos Yiannopoulos — among several others — were kicked off both platforms on Thursday. Facebook is the latest tech company to officially declare them persona non grata. Many of them have already been banned from Twitter, YouTube and Apple's Podcasts app. Social media companies are facing withering criticism about their inability to root out extremist views and misinformation, and allowing hate to spread online. President Trump and other conservatives have accused various social media outlets for censoring right-wing opinions. Some of those banned from Facebook are simply moving to other platforms.
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The real star of the Broadway musical The Prom — acceptance.
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The show's creators started writing a musical eight years ago, before same-sex marriage was legalized in the U.S. They worried that the show might feel irrelevant by now — but they were wrong. The Prom just received seven Tony nominations, including Best Musical. (Listening time, 7:16)
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