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The U.S. economy contracted in the first three months of the year as falling exports and a decrease in government spending took a toll. The gross domestic product shrank at annualized rate of 1.4%, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. It’s the first contraction since the coronavirus-driven recession of the second …

Help wanted. The job: putting one of the nation’s most far-reaching salary disclosure laws into practice. Location: New York City. Just four months ago, city lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to require many ads for jobs in the nation’s most populous city to include salary ranges, in the name of giving job …

Prosecutors said Wednesday that the 14-year-old suspect in the death of 10-year-old Iliana “Lily” Peters told investigators he punched, strangled and sexually assaulted her, according to CBS Minnesota. Peters was found dead in Wisconsin on Monday after her family had reported her missing the day before.  Prosecutors said the boy …