The unemployment rate held steady as 62,000 jobs disappeared in June, the Labor Department reported.

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A photographer navigates the Afghan capital with his camera.

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In passing the New York City budget this year, the city’s politicians chose to protect themselves rather than New York’s most vulnerable. That was the wrong choice.

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A majority of lawmakers favored the idea but not by a big enough margin, and President Bush has promised a veto.

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However, prospects for the plan to provide an extra 13 weeks of benefits to Americans out of work are uncertain in the Senate.

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Sales of retail goods and services rose 1 percent in May, double what economists had expected, the Commerce Department said.

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Fadela Amara, one of the highest-ranking Muslim women in France, is responsible for bringing hope to the poor, angry suburbs that burst into flames three years ago.

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain and Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, have both warned about the dangers of a new oil shock.

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House leaders struck a bipartisan deal that would provide money for the war in Iraq through the end of the Bush administration and establish a significant new education benefit for veterans.

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The job market in the New York City region is starting to show the effects of layoffs on Wall Street, and rents on stabilized apartments are set to get their biggest increases in years.

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