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U.S. employers added 431,000 jobs in March, as the unemployment rate fell to 3.6% from 3.8% in February. The tight job market is putting upward pressure on both wages and prices.

The first House select committee hearing began to investigate who was behind the Jan. 6 insurrection and what role former President Trump may have played as his supporters stormed the Capitol.

Some of Colbert's production staff were detained on Thursday while filming a puppet segment in a congressional building. He said it was a "simple story" that conservative media twisted.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jonah Goldberg, conservative columnist and editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, about Rep. Liz Cheney's future in the Republican party following her primary loss in Wyoming.

U.S. employers added 311,000 jobs in February, only a modest slowdown from the previous month, indicating the labor market remains hot. The unemployment rate rose to 3.6% from 3.4% in January.

Donald Trump's supporters on far-right social media platforms appear less enthusiastic about coming to the former president's aid. They're wary of ending in the same place of Jan. 6 rioters.

Retail sales dipped 0.4% in February after a surprise start-of-the-year surge that appeared at odds with the Federal Reserve's goal of cooling down the economy.

The Labor Department says the U.S. economy lost more than a half-million jobs in November. It was the steepest drop in nearly a quarter-century. Figures show that 533,000 jobs were lost last month, pushing the unemployment rate to 6.7 percent. That's a 15-year high. It's proof that the recession, already a year old, is getting deeper.

The 71-year-old man accused in the fatal stabbing of the 6-year-old boy in Illinois, which also seriously wounded his mother, was motivated by the Israel-Hamas war, officials say.

Meta agreed to pay President Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 federal lawsuit alleging First Amendment violations after his suspension from Facebook and Instagram in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack.