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Employers added 128,000 jobs to their payrolls in August, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.7 percent. The Labor Department's monthly employment report presents a picture of an economy that is still expanding, but at a more moderate pace.

The zoo announced the death of Sapo Thursday on social media, though he died on Oct. 7.

But rising oil prices could dampen growth this year.

The "best rapper alive" dropped the presumptive first single from his forthcoming album on Thursday night.

A grenade-shaped trailer hitch, a replica exploding vest, and dead seahorses in a bottle are a few of the strangest items that Transportation Security Administration officers encountered this year.

Steve Beshear is credited with lowering Kentucky's uninsured rate. Immigration activist Astrid Silva is also scheduled to respond to the president's remarks Tuesday night.

Also: How Medicaid affects millions of Americans; a federal judge expands a temporary ban nationally on Iraqi deportations; and a U.S. firm stops selling siding implicated in a deadly London fire.

Also: Russia blames Syrian rebels for a deadly chemical attack; Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley talks all night to oppose Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch; and what kind of gift do you give the Pope?

Also: Weekend storms have now left at least 14 people dead; a new Japanese law allows a Japanese warship to escort a U.S. military supply ship; and a 5-year-old Cleveland girl is missing.

What a wonderful world this would be if you knew a lot about geography.