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CARSON CITY, Nev. — Nevada's unemployment rate dipped in October, but economists cautioned Friday that while the figures are encouraging, they're more a reflection of a shrinking job market than job creation. Read more

LONDON — Catherine Ashton: International woman of mystery.

Ashton is Europe's new foreign policy chief, the international Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — California's unemployment rate rose to 12.5 percent in October to set another modern record, even though more than 25,000 Californians found jobs, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday. Read more

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — More than 50 Steel of West Virginia Inc. workers will be out of work by the end of November. Read more

WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of new jobs in phantom congressional districts. Nearly 500 new teaching jobs in a Chicago school district that employs only 290. Read more

NEW YORK — AOL LLC, an Internet company struggling to adapt to an advertising-driven economy, is looking to shed as much as 36 percent of its work force as it prepares to spin off from Time Warner Inc. next month. Read more

NEW YORK — The Associated Press said Thursday it laid off 90 news employees worldwide this week to reach its goal of cutting annual payroll costs by 10 percent. Read more

WASHINGTON — The government watchdog overseeing economic stimulus spending said Thursday that, in its rush to take credit for saving hundreds of thousands of jobs, the Obama administration was overly confident in its job-counting and did not... Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania's latest jobless rate remains at 8.8 percent, exactly where it was a month earlier. Read more

BOSTON — New England recorded fewer work-related deaths last year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday, a trend that could be at least partly attributable to the economic downturn. Read more