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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department is about to report September employment data and economists say it was likely a pretty good month. A FactSet survey finds that economists think employers added 215,000 jobs last month and that there's been no change in the 6.1 percent unemployment rate.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Manufacturing is President Barack Obama's key word today. Obama is calling attention to industrial gains that have helped restore some higher-wage jobs during the recovery from the Great Recession. Obama plans to visit a steel manufacturer in Princeton, Indiana, today as part of a new fall political campaign push to promote pocketbook policies and to claim credit for economic improvement.
HONG KONG (AP) — Police have been hard-pressed to keep order today as residents of Hong Kong and supporters of the Beijing government try to rid the city of pro-democracy demonstrators. The clashes that broke out today have revived the possibility that the weeklong standoff could turn violent despite an attempt by the city's leader to defuse the situation by offering talks with the demonstrators.
BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian Kurdish town along the border with Turkey is under assault from the Islamist State group today. Activists and Kurdish fighters say fierce clashes are underway near Kobani. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports intense fighting to the east and southeast of Kobani. A defense official in Syria's Kurdish region says Kurdish militiamen repelled the latest attack.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — There are new doubts circulating about the security of consumer data kept by lenders, retailers and others. JPMorgan Chase says its computer servers were milked for names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses by hackers who might have been in the system as early as June. JPMorgan says there's no evidence that actual account information was stolen.
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