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Kwanchai Lerttanapunyaporn/EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW  YORK) -- The U.S. hiring spree slowed in recent months as employers took on fewer workers and provided smaller wage increases, government data released on Friday showed. Hiring held steady in August as the U.S. economy added 187,000 jobs, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While the unemployment rate remains historically low, it ticked up to 3.8% last month. A sharp downward revision of job growth estimates in June and J...

Patrick Harbron/HuluSelena Gomezs currently focusing on her music career, having just released the new track "Single Soon." But shes also an actor and actors are currently on strike — which is why some people were taken aback at one of her social media posts. The Instagram Reel — captured by a Reddit user — was a black-and-white video of Selena, captioned "Missing and wanting." She tagged the official Instagram account for her Hulu show Only Murders In the Building ...

Jmsilva/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Low water levels at the Panama Canal are causing a traffic jam at the historic trading route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, threatening to ensnarl the holiday shipping season and raising alarm among canal officials. The 109-year-old canal works through a water lock system that move ships up or down as they make it to the other side. Each ship that goes through the canal uses millions of gallons of water that gets sucked in from nearby lakes. With...

MICHELE SPATARI/AFP via Getty Images(JOHANNESBURG) -- Dozens of people were killed in a fire that engulfed a five-story building in central Johannesburg early Thursday, authorities said. The blaze broke out in the downtown area of South Africas largest city at around 1:30 a.m. local time. Firefighters were dispatched to the scene and began evacuating people from the building while trying to extinguish the flames, according to Robert Mulaudzi, spokesperson for the City of Johannesburg Emergency M...

Kali9/Getty Images(PEORIA, Ill.) -- Six people have been hospitalized and two are currently in critical condition after a shooting on the south side of Peoria, Illinois, on Wednesday night, according to the Peoria Police Department. Officers responded to the scene at about 9 p.m. Wednesday evening after two shot spotter alerts indicated almost 30 shots fired on W. Marquette Avenue in Peoria. At the scene, authorities found multiple people injured, with most sustaining gunshot wounds. According t...

Mint Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Every month, Dawn LaGuerre has to decide which bills shes going to pay or if she needs to cut back on groceries to be able to afford her monthly medications. The 63-year-old from Utica, New York -- 90 miles northwest of Albany -- takes multiple drugs including Januvia and Novalog to manage her type 2 diabetes. Her husband, David, 61, also takes Januvia. But her prescriptions have increased from $100 monthly to between $350 and $450 a month, leaving the coupl...

Allison Dinner/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- COVID hospitalizations are continuing to increase in the United States, according to data updated Monday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalizations rose for the sixth consecutive week, this time by 18.8% during the week ending Aug.19 to 15,067 -- similar to levels seen in April of this year. However, COVID metrics remain at historic lows, public health experts have said. Hospitalization numbers this week are about...

Getty ImagesA day after news of Bachelorette contestant Josh Seiters apparent suicide spread on his Instagram page, the reality show veteran told fans in a video on Tuesday, August 29, that hes actually "alive and well." Seiter, who appeared on Kaitlyn Bristowes season of The Bachelorette, blamed the death hoax on a "cruel" hack of his account. "Somebody was playing a cruel joke and mocking my mental illness and the struggles I’ve gone through with depression and suici...

Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(CHINO, Calif.) -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit to try to halt a school districts enforcement of what his office calls a "forced outing policy" involving transgender students. The Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education, which serves about 26,000 students, recently adopted a mandatory gender identity disclosure policy that requires schools to tell parents if a student asks to use a name or pron...

Artem Priakhin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(ST. PETERSBURG, Russia) -- Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was buried in a private funeral on Tuesday, his press service said, nearly a week after he and nine others died in a plane crash in Russia. Prigozhin, 62, was buried at the Prokhorov Cemetery of St. Petersburg in a closed funeral, his press service said on Telegram. About 20 to 30 people attended the 40-minute "VIP" funeral, according to a cemetery employee. The att...