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  • The scene at a job fair in Manhattan earlier this month.
    Pleasant Surprises: 236,000 Jobs Added; Jobless Rate Dips To 7.7 Percent
    February's jobs numbers were better than expected. The jobless rate is now the lowest it's been since President Obama took office. The rate's recent peak was 10 percent in October 2009.
  • Abigail Moscaritolo holds up a recent fashion find on a "haul video." The YouTube trend has become so popular that fashion retailers are approaching haulers to promote their products online.
    Showing Off Shopping Sprees, Fashion 'Haulers' Cash In Online
    So-called "haul videos" are the YouTube version of a time-honored tradition: showing off the spoils from a trip to the shopping mall. Some haulers have garnered thousands of followers, as well as relationships with retailers who compensate the young fashionistas for promoting their products.
  • People gather at the site of a car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday — one year to the date after an attack on the U.S. consulate in the city killed the ambassador and three other Americans.
    On Anniversary Of Benghazi Attack, Libya Still Struggles
    A year after the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, Libya is split along regional and tribal lines. The government has little control over either security or militia groups, and the economy has stalled.
  • <strong>Who's That Masked Marge?</strong> Jennifer R. Morris (left), with Sam Breslin Wright, Gibson Frazier, Colleen Werthmann and Susannah Flood, in the third act of <em>Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play,</em> a <em>Simpsons</em>-inspired fantasia of loss and remembrance by Anne Washburn.
    'Mr. Burns' And Friends, Surviving Long Past The End Times
    A smash hit in Washington, D.C., Anne Washburn's dark comedy looks forward nearly a century — past an apocalypse — to ask how we might remember, rebuild and renew our shared heritage.
  • Locals working for a UNDP cash-for-work program clear debris in one of the neighborhoods worst affected by the typhoon that hit Tacloban, Philippines, last November. Tim Walsh runs the program, which he hopes will help keep the local economy going.
    Turning A Million Cubic Yards Of Post-Typhoon Trash Into Jobs
    Some call Tim Walsh the disaster garbage man, but he prefers waste management specialist. After major natural disasters, the Briton comes to clean up and put people to work. Amid destruction he's seen from Indonesia to the Philippines, he's learned that there's opportunity, and hope, even in a dump.
  • A check of Medicare's new database of payments to physicians confirms that at least $6 million in 2012 went to doctors who had been indicted or otherwise sanctioned.
    Medicare Kept Paying Indicted, Sanctioned Doctors
    Among doctors who received payments from Medicare in 2012 are dozens who had been kicked out of Medicaid, or charged with fraud, or settled fraud cases out of court, a ProPublica investigation finds.
  • <p>Marie Howe is the author of three collections of poetry. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. </p>
    Poet Marie Howe On 'What The Living Do' After Loss
    "Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die," Howe says.
  • Waiting for work: Job seekers lined up last month at the 25th Annual CUNY big Apple Job and Internship Fair in Manhattan.
    165,000 Jobs Added In April, Jobless Rate Fell To 7.5 Percent
    The eagerly anticipated news was better than expected. And the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised upward its estimates of job growth in February and March.
  • Sept. 11: The U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was aflame after coming under attack.
    White House Releases Complete Benghazi Emails
    The White House releases all the emails related to the so-called talking points produced in the aftermath of the attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi.
  • Disney Rolls Characters Together In New Video Game
    Disney is about to release the video game Disney: Infinity. Each game comes with a collectible toy figurine that activates parts of the game when placed on a special base. In the game, different Disney characters will interact with each other. Captain Jack Sparrow can play or fight with Mr. Incredible in the world of The Nightmare Before Christmas. To understand the new Disney game, you first need to look at another game that's been a blockbuster for Activision, Skylanders.
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