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New surveys indicate consumers are feeling better. Consumer confidence is the highest in more than 5 years. The highest since the Great Recession. The…

Union leaders have voted to suspend their strike, which began last week. The full membership will vote on the deal on Sunday. The dispute has kept 53,000 students from starting their school year.

Leslie Allen Merritt, Jr., 21 was arrested at a Wal-Mart outside of Phoenix in connection with 11 recent highway vehicle shootings. Officials say the acts qualify as domestic terrorism.

The unmanned resupply mission had been intended to deliver much-needed supplies to the International Space Station.

Economists surveyed by Reuters are predicting that employers added about 230,000 jobs to their payrolls in June. That's less than the month before but still a pretty strong showing.

It is hoped that the new supercomputer, expected to go online by 2025, would be the first "exascale" machine — some 20 times faster than today's fastest machine, called Tianhe-2 (Milky Way-2).

U.S. retailers are looking to add more than 700,000 jobs this holiday season — about the same as last year. But retailers may have a harder time filling those jobs because of a shrinking labor pool.

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch calls the deal "the largest settlement with a single entity in American history."

Boris Nemtsov was murdered last February. Prosecutors indicted four men in the killing but they say the alleged mastermind is still at large. The opposition says the charges are part of a cover-up.

But Hispanics tend to punch below their weight in elections. They're fairly young, and often live in states where election outcomes are not heavily contested — both lead to less voting.