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The first House select committee hearing began to investigate who was behind the Jan. 6 insurrection and what role former President Trump may have played as his supporters stormed the Capitol.

U.S. employers added 431,000 jobs in March, as the unemployment rate fell to 3.6% from 3.8% in February. The tight job market is putting upward pressure on both wages and prices.

U.S. employers added 311,000 jobs in February, only a modest slowdown from the previous month, indicating the labor market remains hot. The unemployment rate rose to 3.6% from 3.4% in January.

The Labor Department says the U.S. economy lost more than a half-million jobs in November. It was the steepest drop in nearly a quarter-century. Figures show that 533,000 jobs were lost last month, pushing the unemployment rate to 6.7 percent. That's a 15-year high. It's proof that the recession, already a year old, is getting deeper.

U.S. employers added 128,000 jobs last month. The unemployment rate inched up to 3.6%. The drop in job creation reflects a slowing economy, but a strike at General Motors was also a factor.

When you consider 1.6 million Louisiana residents, or a third of the state population, are Medicaid recipients, it’s little wonder why the program is budgeted to grow by $258.4 million per year under the change.

Federal authorities have arrested a 29-year-old man for setting a fire in January that later turned into the Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,000 structures.

Frederick Forsyth, former MI6 agent and bestselling author of "The Day of the Jackal," has died at age 86. His thrillers, rooted in real-world reporting and espionage, reshaped the genre.

Some of the people who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 believed in the QAnon conspiracy theory. In the aftermath, social media platforms ramped up efforts to push QAnon content off their sites. Four years later, the QAnon movement has morphed into something else.

James Comey's actions, the report said, were "extraordinary and insubordinate," and none of his explanations amounted to a "persuasive basis for deviating from well-established department policies."