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The Labor Department announced Friday that 200,000 jobs were created in December, and the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent.

The new hiring came largely in transportation and warehousing. Tens of thousands of other people found jobs in retail and manufacturing.

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In many parts of America, people are waking up to very nasty weather — ice and snow. Thousand of airline flights have been canceled and tens of thousands of people are without power.

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It's hard to imagine spending tens of thousands of dollars a year to get trained in a collapsing industry that doesn't even require a degree -- but it happens all the time in journalism schools.

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With the unemployment rate nearing 10 percent, people are starting to wonder why the massive federal economic stimulus package hasn't put more people to work.

One of the programs that was supposed to produce tens of thousands of jobs quickly, is encountering some unexpected hangups.

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Over the past year or so, tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs on Wall Street. Many were highly paid analysts, traders and investment bankers.

And with the downturn in the financial services industry, it's been hard for them to find work. But some have found creative solutions.

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The government in Sri Lanka say its forces are conducting "mopping up" operations after a winning a civil war that's gone on for more than a quarter of a century and claimed tens of thousands of lives.

The Tamil Tigers finally admitted defeat. The Sri Lanka military said it had recovered the bodies of four senior rebels.