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The twin-engine Cessna 441 had taken off from Anchorage and was headed for the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport about 450 miles west when it crashed around midday Thursday.
PBS NewsHour2 sources
Job hunting in 2026 can mean chatting with a robot, getting rejected by AI, encountering ghost jobs and competing with a flood of applicants. Why it matters: This isn't just candidates venting on LinkedIn or TikTok . The hiring process is increasingly taking longer and application apathy could be eroding trust in America's job market . What they're saying: "I think burnout is absolutely happening," Gorick Ng, a Harvard career advisor and UC Berkeley faculty member, tells Axios. "We've moved…
Axios
With more young Canadians considering self-employment amid a high youth unemployment rate, entrepreneurship programs are facing growing demand. Applications to Futurpreneur, the national organization that finances young Canadian entrepreneurs, rose 50% last quarter, compared with 15% growth a year earlier.
Phys.org
An alternative measure of unemployment that accounts for wages suggests the U.S. labor market is weaker than it looks.
CBS News
A pair of Russian drone strikes that hit a shopping centre in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih Friday killed at least 15 people and wounded scores more, authorities said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of targeting emergency workers in what's known as a "double-tap" strike, with the second drone reportedly striking the mall half an hour after the first.
France 242 sources
New York City now has the most tech jobs of any market in the country, edging the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time in an annual survey. Commercial real estate firm CBRE ranked New York at the top with 394,300 tech jobs, compared with the Bay Area’s 375,730. It’s the first time New […]
Deadline
Zelenskyy described the attack as a double-tap strike, in which an initial wave of drones hit the area, followed by a second wave as rescue workers responded.
CBS News
Apple has admitted that some roles are being impacted as it shifts its focus away from certain initiatives.
TechCrunch
Premier Ben Carroll says $230m would be earmarked for 10 public dental clinics to operate on a walk-in basis Victorians would be able to walk into a dental clinic and receive free checkups and treatment under an Australian-first proposal the Labor government will take to the November state election. The premier, Ben Carroll, will announce the plan – Labor’s first major election commitment – at a rally on Saturday to mark fewer than 100 days until Victorians go to the polls.
The Guardian
Gary Southgate of North Battleford, Sask., spent 13 years buying and restoring old trains. He launched a new rail tour in the province's southwest this summer and has visions for something bigger.
CBC News
Aeroplane maker said to have watered down plans to restrict working from home to one day a week Airbus has bowed to employee demands on remote working, after a series of strikes over its chief executive’s return-to-the office orders. The world’s largest aeroplane maker is said to have watered down plans to restrict remote working to one day a week from September. At present, staff are able to work remotely for two.
The Guardian
Gavin Williams struck out 11 over 5 2/3 innings, José Ramírez had an RBI single in the three-run first and the Cleveland Guardians beat the San Francisco Giants 5-2 for their first home series victory in seven weeks
ABC News
Four people working on a railway track in Japan died after an express train hit them
ABC News
Joseph Naugle, a 22-year-old employee of Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln, has been arrested and booked by the Placer County Sheriff's Department in the non-fatal stabbing of five people at the Northern California resort on Wednesday night.
Los Angeles Times
