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U.S. employers created a surprising 165,000 new jobs last month and the unemployment rate dipped to 4.1%.The hiring was far stronger than the 65,000 new jobs that economists had expected.The jobs report comes three days after voters handed a stunning defeat to President Donald Trump and his Republican Party in midterm elections. Frustrated with the state of the economy — and especially the high cost of living – Americans handed full control of the U.S. Congress to the Democrats.Labor Department revisions added 84,000 new jobs in August and September.The unemployment rate fell even though 421,000 people entered the labor force.Average hourly wages rose 0.4% from September, the biggest month-over-month gain since January.“This was a blowout jobs report,” said Angelo Kourkafas, senior global strategist at Edward Jones. “Payroll growth exceeded expectations, revisions were positive, the unemployment rate fell, participation improved, and wage growth strengthened.”The strong job gains will likely be seen at the Federal Reserve as further confirmation that with hiring healthy, policymakers can continue to focus on combatting inflation. The central bank typically seeks to bring down inflation by lifting its key interest rate to cool borrowing and spending.Wall Street investors now see the chance of a rate hike at 77% at the Fed's next meeting in December, up about 10 points from Thursday, according to CME's Fedwatch.Solid hiring also underscores a concern among many Fed officials that their key rate isn't high enough to slow inflation.At the same time, wage growth was modest, with hourly earnings trailing annual inflation for the seventh straight month. Hourly wages were up a meager 3.1% from October 2025.That is a sign that hiring, while solid, is not strong enough to fuel big wage increases that could perpetuate inflation.Professional and business services – a broad category of administrative and managerial workers – added 70,000 jobs. Healthcare companies hired nearly 42,000. Factories added 19,000 jobs. But hotels, restaurants and bars cut 10,600.The American economy and job market have proven resilient in the face of a series of shocks — Trump's double-digit taxes on imports and the war with Iran, which has driven U.S. gasoline prices above $4 a gallon and pinched family budgets.Gross domestic product — the nation's output of goods and services — advanced at a sprightly 3.4% annual pace from July through September, lifted by strong consumer spending and booming investment in artificial intelligence.The job market has been solid but unspectacular.So far this year, employers — companies, government agencies and nonprofits — have added an average of 86,000 jobs a month. That is modest by historic standards but an improvement over 2025 when monthly job creation averaged 9,700. That was the weakest performance outside of a recession since 2002. Last year, high interest rates and Trump's unpredictable trade policies discouraged hiring.Despite recovering this year, hiring remains well below the average of 166,000 monthly jobs created in 2023 and 2024, let alone the 491,000 a month recorded during the 2021-2022 hiring boom that followed COVID-19 lockdowns.Economists see a "low-fire, low-hire'' environment in which employers are reluctant to let go of existing workers but aren't in any hurry to hire new ones. Young people entering the workforce, or those who've lost their jobs, can struggle to find work.The United States doesn't need as many new jobs as it once did to keep the unemployment rate from rising. That is because baby boomer retirements and Trump's immigration crackdown mean fewer people are competing for work.In late 2023, the so-called break-even point was around 166,000 new jobs a month. It's now just over 5,000, according to an estimate by Yale University's Budget Lab, which drew on an earlier Federal Reserve report.This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.

Further bomb threats disrupt at least another 18 flights across Europe

Media organisations in Ireland and UK also affected as apparently coordinated effort to cause chaos continuesA fresh wave of bomb threats has disrupted air traffic across Europe but the affected planes landed safely and searches revealed no explosive devices.The latest alerts affected at least 18 flights to or from Bulgaria, Czechia, France, Italy, Hungary, Cyprus, Romania, the UK and Portugal. Danish police investigated a threat against Copenhagen airport but the airport said it was operating normally. Continue reading...

OBC creamy layer row: SC protects past jobs, promotions but leaves pending cases open

The Supreme Court has clarified that its March ruling will not impact completed appointments or promotions. Cases still pending will be examined individually by the courts based on merit and eligibility. The government expressed concerns that retrospective application could unsettle established positions and admissions. It sought two years to establish a uniform creamy layer mechanism across various sectors.

Democrat-led House to launch 4 investigations into Trump administration, Rep. Garcia says

Awkwafina was feeling under the weather recently and decided she was going to make soup. And that startled her because she hasn’t always been the kind of person who made soup."If I had told myself like a year or so ago that I would be looking at ingredients to make a soup, that would be like insane," she says, laughing. "Like, a soup? 'Hell, no, it's just a hot liquid.'"The actor-comedian-rapper’s 180-degree shift is largely thanks to her latest project: Putting together a menu and finding a location and staff to open her own restaurant.The eight-episode Apple TV series "Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook" premiering Friday follows her journey, from learning to make stir-fry at the Culinary Institute of America to waitressing in downtown L.A. Along the way, she turned herself into a pretty good cook."I have these friends that are cooking up all kinds of stuff all the time. And I always felt like I was never going to be really a member of that club," she says."But it's so accessible. It really is a world that you can step into anytime. No one's going to tell you that you can't do it or you're not good enough."Awkwafina comes from restaurant royaltyIt turns out that the Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning Awkwafina, born Nora Lum, comes from restaurant royalty.Her family ran Lum's, an iconic Cantonese restaurant in the New York borough of Queens that closed in the 1990s after four decades.Awkwafina’s plan to reopen the restaurant — as a pop-up for one night — sent her across America to find dishes to honor her past: To Texas to do her own twist on Lum’s barbecue spare ribs, and to Hawaii for a pupu platter.Martin Yan, the first breakthrough Chinese TV chef, teaches her how to make chicken chow mein, and she learns to make Peking duck in San Francisco, first carefully plucking out the feathers by hand. "I love giving ducks Brazilians," she jokes on the show.The mission was to do something that would make her family proud, especially for her father and grandmother, who helped raise her when her mother died young."I feel connected to my ancestors because I'm repeating dishes in a process that they did," she says. Making food, she adds, "is an act of love in every way."Executive producer David Brindley says Awkwafina and the filmmakers didn’t intend to end with a pop-up. The series was initially pitched as an exploration of Asian American food but, things grew more personal and meaningful."It sets it apart, I think, from lots of other food travel shows because it's got an authenticity at the heart of it," he says.Awkwafina learned the business, all of itAwkwafina waitressed at the Golden Dragon banquet hall in Los Angeles, learnt to make Korean-style dumplings from chef Roy Choi and collaborated on a logo and font for the menu. She chose a pizzeria in Manhattan as the site for the pop-up, which fed 50 guests.Awkwafina leaned on a lot of Asian American food specialists during the series and was struck by how many are reentering an industry their parents didn’t want them to work in."Their parents came here and worked in kitchens, started restaurants and takeout places so that their kids could become lawyers and doctors," she says. "And so to see people go back to their roots, it's almost like rebellious."Pulling it all together was stressful — especially nailing the show-stopping duck dish with pineapple salsa cooked in a pizza oven at the end — and Awkwafina saw a new side of herself."I had never seen myself ever be flustered, be serious, rushing around," she says. "That was really weird to see. It was a version of myself that I'd never noticed before."Viewers watch a woman who started the series struggle to make ramen with Spam be able to master complex meals by the end, even suggesting a dish be more tangy or that a sauce should be added to the shrimp.So complete is the transformation that Awkwafina is in the process of reopening Lum’s for the long-term, not just as a pop-up."Without the show, I don't think I would have been able to do that confidently," she says. "I would not have been able to just dive into that."Brindley says viewers will delight in seeing the host go from zero to hero — starting with knowing very little about food and ending up in command, opening a restaurant."What the show does is say to the viewers that it's never too late to try something new, try something different, and you, too, can master that. That might be food, it might well be something else," he says. "That is, I think, really inspiring."

Friday briefing: After a week of disruption, is living with threats our new normal?

In today's newsletter: From diverted airliners to hacked fridges, a string of disruptive incidents has exposed the vulnerabilities of modern life. There is now an increasingly blurred space between peace and conflict, the grey zone.Good morning. A multiplicity of hoax bomb threats divert passenger flights across Europe. A malign cyber-attack targets supermarket fridges in Belgium, Sweden, the UK and – in a sickening escalation – the cold storage facilities of France's national blood service.The actors behind this week of chaos and disruption, be they hostile states or criminal gangs – or even enterprising teenagers – are yet to be identified. But what is certain is that they operate in a context of deepening global conflicts, building national threat and an accompanying, pervasive sense of vulnerability.UK news | Russell Brand has been found guilty of raping a woman and sexually assaulting three others over the course of five years of his show business career.US politics | Donald Trump signed a proclamation that he says will prevent future administrations from changing his design of the Oval Office and Cabinet Room, spaces he declared as national monuments that should be preserved.UK politics | Andy Burnham has said he wants to "recast" the UK's deal to cede control of the Chagos Islands after resistance from Washington.Health | Cancer diagnoses in England have hit record highs, with more than 1,000 people a day diagnosed, NHS figures show.World news | The UN-recognised government of Yemen has shaken up its political and military leadership in an attempt to regain territory lost to the Houthis in September. Continue reading...

Edmonton Oilers dodge McDavid injury but not Anaheim Ducks Power Play: Cult of Hockey Player Grades

The Edmonton Oilers suffered a 5-2 home defeat Thursday, on a night when a greasy play on Connor McDavid resulted in fisticuffs and a generally chippy evening against Anaheim. It was 1-1 after one, but a Ducks goal late made it 4-2 heading to the room after two. Anaheim extended it to 5-2 in the […]

US midterm elections 2026 live: all eyes on last two razor-thin Senate races as Democrats vie to expand blue wave

Tight races in Mississippi and Alaska could further tip scale for Democrats; blue wave has already given the party more than 40 new House seatsLive results: see results from races in all 50 statesSign up for Breaking News US emailDonald Trump will begin the day in Washington today. He has closed door meetings for much of the day, and will take part in a Diwali celebration at the White House at 1:30pm ET. While that's currently not open to the press we'll let you know if that opens up. Continue reading...

Champagne, Carney travelling across country to sell federal budget to Canadians - CityNews Kitchener

Champagne, Carney travelling across country to sell federal budget to Canadians CityNews Kitchener

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U.S. employers created a surprising 165,000 new jobs last month and the unemployment rate dipped to 4.1%.The hiring was far stronger than the 65,000 new jobs that economists had expected.The jobs report comes three days after voters handed a stunning defeat to President Donald Trump and his Republican Party in midterm elections. Frustrated with the state of the economy — and especially the high cost of living – Americans handed full control of the U.S. Congress to the Democrats.Labor Department revisions added 84,000 new jobs in August and September.The unemployment rate fell even though 421,000 people entered the labor force.Average hourly wages rose 0.4% from September, the biggest month-over-month gain since January.“This was a blowout jobs report,” said Angelo Kourkafas, senior global strategist at Edward Jones. “Payroll growth exceeded expectations, revisions were positive, the unemployment rate fell, participation improved, and wage growth strengthened.”The strong job gains will likely be seen at the Federal Reserve as further confirmation that with hiring healthy, policymakers can continue to focus on combatting inflation. The central bank typically seeks to bring down inflation by lifting its key interest rate to cool borrowing and spending.Wall Street investors now see the chance of a rate hike at 77% at the Fed's next meeting in December, up about 10 points from Thursday, according to CME's Fedwatch.Solid hiring also underscores a concern among many Fed officials that their key rate isn't high enough to slow inflation.At the same time, wage growth was modest, with hourly earnings trailing annual inflation for the seventh straight month. Hourly wages were up a meager 3.1% from October 2025.That is a sign that hiring, while solid, is not strong enough to fuel big wage increases that could perpetuate inflation.Professional and business services – a broad category of administrative and managerial workers – added 70,000 jobs. Healthcare companies hired nearly 42,000. Factories added 19,000 jobs. But hotels, restaurants and bars cut 10,600.The American economy and job market have proven resilient in the face of a series of shocks — Trump's double-digit taxes on imports and the war with Iran, which has driven U.S. gasoline prices above $4 a gallon and pinched family budgets.Gross domestic product — the nation's output of goods and services — advanced at a sprightly 3.4% annual pace from July through September, lifted by strong consumer spending and booming investment in artificial intelligence.The job market has been solid but unspectacular.So far this year, employers — companies, government agencies and nonprofits — have added an average of 86,000 jobs a month. That is modest by historic standards but an improvement over 2025 when monthly job creation averaged 9,700. That was the weakest performance outside of a recession since 2002. Last year, high interest rates and Trump's unpredictable trade policies discouraged hiring.Despite recovering this year, hiring remains well below the average of 166,000 monthly jobs created in 2023 and 2024, let alone the 491,000 a month recorded during the 2021-2022 hiring boom that followed COVID-19 lockdowns.Economists see a "low-fire, low-hire'' environment in which employers are reluctant to let go of existing workers but aren't in any hurry to hire new ones. Young people entering the workforce, or those who've lost their jobs, can struggle to find work.The United States doesn't need as many new jobs as it once did to keep the unemployment rate from rising. That is because baby boomer retirements and Trump's immigration crackdown mean fewer people are competing for work.In late 2023, the so-called break-even point was around 166,000 new jobs a month. It's now just over 5,000, according to an estimate by Yale University's Budget Lab, which drew on an earlier Federal Reserve report.This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.

Kenyan doomsday sect leader jailed for 200 years for murder of 190 children

Paul Mackenzie convicted over deaths of children and one adult after followers were ordered to starve themselves and their familiesThe leader of a Kenyan doomsday sect has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murders of 190 children and one adult in one of the world's worst cult disasters in recent history.The sentence, comprising 100 years for murder by starvation and 100 years by direct homicide, came two weeks after the court in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa found the cult leader guilty of the crimes. Continue reading...

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