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WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest unemployment report reflects a solid month of job growth last month. And it signals that stronger gains could be coming up. But the Labor Department report also shows how far the job market has to go. More than six years after the Great Recession began, private employment has only just now regained its pre-recession level. U.S. employers added 192,000 jobs in March -- a number that nearly matched last year's average monthly gain. The jobless rate remained at 6.7 percent.
NEW YORK (AP) — Technology stocks have finished sharply lower as traders dump big-name companies that had been posting huge gains. Facebook, Google and Netflix — all big winners over the past year — fell, contributing to a rout in the technology sector. Biotech companies, another recent favorite, also took a beating. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite plunged 110 points, or 2.6 percent, its biggest drop in two months. Other major indexes fell, but not nearly as much. The S&P 500 fell 23 points, and the Dow lost 159.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Gay marriages that are performed legally in other states will have to be recognized in Ohio, under a ruling that a federal judge says he will be issuing. But the judge isn't going to force Ohio to allow same-sex weddings to take place within the state. The judge says he'll rule later this month that a part of the state's ban on gay marriages is unconstitutional.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Police in Afghanistan say the police commander who opened fire on two Associated Press journalists today, killing one and wounding the other, has confessed to the shooting -- and says he was avenging the deaths of family members in a NATO bombing. The Taliban denied any responsibility for the attack, which came a day before Afghan national elections.
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The senior officer at Fort Hood says the mental condition of the man who fatally shot three fellow soldiers this week and injured 16 others was not the "direct precipitating factor" in the shooting. The comments by Lt. Gen. Mark Milley came a day after he said Ivan (ee-VAHN') Lopez's mental condition appeared to be an underlying factor. Milley said today Lopez had an "escalating argument."
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