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The number of available jobs jumped sharply in July to the highest level in 15 years, evidence that confident employers sought to step up hiring to meet greater demand for their goods and services.

U.S. stocks are opening solidly higher as investors take their cue from big gains in Asia and Europe.

A newly released federal study shows a record number of sharks swimming off the coast from Florida to North Carolina.

The Cherokee tribe in North Carolina is betting it can boost its income and solidify its hold on gamblers in the Southeast by opening a second casino in the state, this one just across the Georgia line.

How many kids are vaccinated at your child's school? Federal health officials think you should be able to easily find out.

U.S. Rep, Doug Collins, R-Ga., said he can't support the nuclear deal that was struck with Iran, and he hopes Congress will have enough votes against the deal to sustain a possible presidential veto.

Baltimore TV station WMAR reports that a mother saw her son on television taking part in protests and went to confront him, slapping him.

The most expensive oil of 2015 triggered increases at the gas pump, and prices could continue to climb this week.

An interactive tracing U.S.-Cuban relations includes the annoucement that Cuba will be removed from the U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list.

A third man has been charged with participating in a spring-break sexual assault on a woman on a Florida Panhandle beach that was captured on a cellphone video, authorities said Tuesday.