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The number of open jobs rose in October to the second-highest on record, evidence that U. S. employers remain determined to hire, despite ongoing trade disputes and rocky financial markets. The Labor Department says the number of job openings increased 1.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted 7.1 million.

The healthy baby girl was delivered to a woman who wasn't born with a uterus. The mother used the uterus of a 45-year-old woman who died of stroke.        

Wisconsin lawmakers on Tuesday debated whether to diminish the powers of the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general, sparking protests at the state Capitol this week.        

Craving a Whopper? You'll want to make a detour to McDonald's first to take advantage of Burger King's new promotion.        

A bus carrying a youth football team crashed in west of Benton, Arkansas, early Monday morning killing a third-grade student and injuring 45 children.        

If the Detroit-Hamtramck GM Assembly plant closes, the adverse impact will be felt by businesses not directly tied to the auto industry.        

Hundreds of visitors streamed into the George Bush Library and Museum one day after his death at age 94.        

Donald Trump for decades dreamed of building a Trump Tower in the heart of Moscow, a plan that flared and fizzled several times over the years, most recently when his presidential campaign was gaining momentum. That last plan led Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen to plead guilty Thursday to a charge brought by the special prosecutor looking into possible Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

With wages that leave little left over after fixed expenses, New Jersey leads the nation in people 26 to 34 years old living with their parents.        

MillerCoors and Pabst Brewing Co. have settled a lawsuit in which the hipster's brand of choice claimed the bigger brewer lied about its ability to continue brewing Pabst's beers to put that company out of business. The settlement came Wednesday as jurors were in deliberations. Chicago-based MillerCoors said in a statement the settlement was "amicable" and that all "outstanding issues with Pabst" were resolved.

A training program for the next generation of morticians and undertakers is testament to a change that is slowly remaking the funeral business. Sixty of the 75 students in the program at the State University of New York Canton are women, and those numbers are no fluke. In 2017, nearly 65 percent of graduates from funeral director programs in the United States were female, according to the American Board of Funeral Service Education.

With just a day to go, NASA's InSight spacecraft aimed for a bull's-eye touchdown on Mars, zooming in like an arrow with no turning back. InSight's journey of six months and 300 million miles (482 million kilometers) comes to a precarious grand finale Monday afternoon. The robotic geologist — designed to explore Mars' insides, surface to core — must go from 12,300 mph (19,800 kph) to zero in six minutes flat as it pierces the Martian atmosphere, pops out a parachute, fires its descent engines and, hopefully, lands on three legs. It is NASA's first attempt to land on Mars in six years, and all those involved are understandably anxious. NASA's top science mission official, Thomas Zurbuchen, confided Sunday that his stomach is already churning.

Hundreds of sea turtles have washed ashore on Cape Cod after being stunned by the cold, according to the conservation group Mass Audubon.        

An epic blaze that ravaged the Northern California countryside, killing dozens and wiping out thousands of homes, was 100% contained Sunday.        

A study outlines advances in research that could lead to a successful vaccine for Alzheimer's, a fatal brain disease. Trials in animals may pave the way for human trials, according to researchers.        

San Diego native Ray Chavez was celebrated as the oldest living veteran of the Pearl Harbor attack. He died Wednesday at the age of 106.