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WASHINGTON (AP) — With flagging global growth and shaky financial markets, experts are looking to today's employment data from the Labor Department for clues as to whether the U.S. continues to buck the trend. Economists surveyed by data firm FactSet forecast that employers added a healthy 200,000 jobs and that the unemployment rate remained at a low 5 percent for a third straight month in December.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents reviewed by The Associated Press suggest an explosion of sexual assault and harassment complaints at the nation's three military academies. The reports point to a 50 percent spike in sexual assault complaints in the 2014-15 school year. A senior defense official says the sharp increases are due largely to students' growing confidence in the reporting system and expanded awareness.
BURNS, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon sheriff who was one of three to meet with leaders of an armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge says he'll meet again today with Ammon Bundy in hopes of making progress toward a peaceful ending. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown calls the occupation of the wildlife refuge "unlawful," instigated by outsiders, and she says it has to end.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Coast Guard list provided to The Associated Press suggests there are other locations ripe for a repeat of a beach explosion in Rhode Island that injured a woman. That blast was probably caused by hydrogen that built up around a corroded cable once used to power a lighthouse. The list shows 48 sites in 12 states where U.S. Coast Guard lights were converted to solar power but sub-cables remain.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — An arraignment is scheduled in Texas today for the mother of so-called "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch. Tonya Couch is charged with hindering the apprehension of a felon. The pair was captured in Mexico, where Ethan Couch is still being held. Authorities believe the two fled Texas in November as prosecutors investigated whether Ethan Couch had violated his probation in a fatal vehicle crash.
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