US Unemployment Rate Drops To 4.9%

The final US employment report before the presidential election was released on Friday.

US employers added 161,000 non-farm payrolls in October, which was a bit lighter than the 173,000 expected by economists.

This was driven by the addition of 142,000 private payrolls. Notably, manufacturing payrolls fell by 9,000 during the period.

The unemployment rate fell to 4.9% from 5.0% a month ago. This was largely attributable to the 195,000 Americans that dropped out of the labor force, which brought the labor force participation rate down to 62.8% from 62.9%.

Woman In 'Good Spirits,' After 2 Months Chained Up In Container

Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said that Kala Brown, the woman rescued after spending two months chained up inside a metal container, was in good spirits and looked good considering her ordeal.

Wright spoke to reporters as investigators scoured the suspect's 100-acre property in Woodruff, South Carolina in the hopes of finding Brown's boyfriend, Charile Carver, who went missing with Brown back on August 31.

Pentagon Walks Back Promise To Attack ISIS Capital ASAP

When the defense secretary promised an assault on ISIS’s capital in ‘weeks,’ the Pentagon reacted with a collective WTF. Defense officials say an attack is more like six months off.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s claim last week that the assault on Raqqa, the capital of the so-called Islamic State, was “within weeks” was a surprise to the commanders planning the war, who believe local troops will not enter the city for months, three defense officials told The Daily Beast.

One official told The Daily Beast the attack on the ISIS capital could be six months away.

Trump’s Teen Rape Accuser Disappears Again

With six days to go before the election, attorney Lisa Bloom announced a woman was going to come forward to accuse Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of rape. In a press conference from Bloom’s office, to be broadcast on Facebook Live, Katie Johnson (which may or may not be a pseudonym) would appear in public for the first time to allege that Trump had raped her in 1994 when she was 13 years old, and sexually assaulted her on other occasions while attending sex parties at the New York City mansion of pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.  

And then she didn’t.

“Jane Doe has received numerous threats today… She has decided she is too afraid to show her face,” Bloom said, according to MSNBC reporter Irin Carmon. “We’re going to have to reschedule. I apologize to all of you who came. I have nothing further.”

Prince Harry’s Storybook Romance

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

She’s gorgeous, she’s talented, she’s philanthropic.

And now, LA-born and Toronto-based TV star Meghan Markle may have found her happily-ever-after with an actual prince.

Markle’s storybook romance with Britain’s Prince Harry, the most eligible bachelor in the world, has been simmering for at least two months on at least two continents.

The actress — who plays the sultry paralegal Rachel Zane in the USA Network legal drama “Suits” — has repeatedly jetted to London, and Kensington Palace, to see her beau.

The secretive duo are believed to have met in May at a charity event in Toronto. Harry, 32, barraged the hesitant Markle, 35, with text messages until she relented.

“They had gotten on when they first met, but it was just as friends,” a source told Us Magazine. “Before you knew it, they were texting every day.”

Mariah Begged Nick Cannon For Divorce, Then Something Else Happened....

Nick Cannon, Mariah Carey and James Packer

Mariah Carey settled her divorce with ex-husband Nick Cannon by calling him directly and begging him to let her marry Australian billionaire James Packer — only to split with her fiancé days later, sources tell Page Six. Carey and Cannon separated in August 2014, but their divorce dragged on because of legal wrangling over custody of their twins. They finally settled their divorce in September, when Carey called Cannon personally and said, “I want you to sign the divorce papers. I really want to get married to James Packer.”

The Latest Outrageous Way The GOP Plans To Stick It To Hillary (and Democracy)

On Monday evening, CNN posted a secretly recorded audiotape of North Carolina Senator Richard Burr speaking at a private meeting this past weekend. In the tape, Burr, who’s in the midst of a tough reelection campaign, can be heard telling the crowd that he’d recently walked into a gun shop and spotted a rifle magazine with a picture of Hillary Clinton on the cover. “I was a little bit shocked at that—it didn’t have a bullseye on it,” Burr said to laughter.

Burr’s gun remark was the big news from the tape—“In private, Burr quips about gun owners shooting Clinton,” read the headline on the CNN story—and the Senator quickly apologized for it. But that's only the second-most troubling thing Burr said. The real shocker was what he said he’d do if Hillary Clinton became president: “I am going to do everything I can do to make sure four years from now, we still got an opening on the Supreme Court.” And this time, Burr wasn’t joking. He was deadly serious.

Prison Counselor Turned Inmate To 'S*x Slave'

Susan Clingerman

 (Photo: Michigan Department of Corrections)

LANSING — A former state prison inmate who fathered a child with a prison counselor while serving time in a Jackson-area prison is suing the Michigan Department of Corrections and state officials, saying he was forced into sex and officials should have known what was happening.

Steven Moerman of Grand Rapids alleges prison counselor Susan Lee Clingerman used him as "a virtual sex slave, demanding sexual gratification at her whim," while he was imprisoned at Parnall Correctional Facility on a drug charge in 2014 and receiving counseling for mental illness.

Hillary's Emails Sagga

The political world convulsed on Friday. Seemingly out of nowhere, the FBI lurched into the 2016 presidential election, a truly historic development that dragged Hillary Clinton’s emails - not to mention Anthony Weiner - firmly into the spotlight with less than two weeks to go until Election Day. So what does it all mean? Here’s what you need to know.

So what exactly happened on Friday?

James Comey, the director of the FBI, sent a vaguely worded letter to Congress, saying the bureau had discovered information related to its previous investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. The information, according to Comey’s letter, came from a separate investigation.

In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigation team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.

Professor And Racist Note!

Tiffany Martínez is a first-generation college student majoring in sociology at Suffolk University in Boston. She is a McNair Fellow, a Dean’s List recipient, and has presented at national conferences all over the U.S.

On the morning of Oct. 27, her professor handed her back a paper she’d written wrote and announced, in front of the entire class, "This is not your language." At the top of the paper were the words, “Please go back and indicate where you cut and paste,” presumably meaning the professor believed Martínez had plagiarized passages. On the second page, the word "hence" was circled, next to the note, "This is not your word." The word "not" was underlined twice.

Christ's Tomb Uncovered: This Is What Experts Discovered

This Wednesday Oct. 26, 2016 shows the moment workers remove the top marble layer of the tomb in Jerusalem's Church of Holy Sepulchre. (Dusan Vranic/National Geographic via AP)

After uncovering the stone slab venerated as Jesus Christ's burial place, archaeologists have now examined the interior of the tomb in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

The tomb is a limestone shelf or burial bed hewn from the wall of a cave, National Geographic reports. Covered by marble cladding since at least 1555 A.D., it was exposed Oct. 26 as part of a major restoration project at the church.

Woman Badly Burned After Farting During Surgery

A patient who passed gas during an operation was badly burned when the fart ignited a laser being used in the surgery, a hospital report states.

The unnamed woman, in her 30s, was undergoing surgery at Tokyo Medical University Hospital which involved a laser being applied to her cervix.

As the surgery was being carried out in the Shinjuku Ward, she broke wind — sparking the fire, Japanese newspaper the Asahi Shimbun reports.

The One Food She Eats Every Day World's Oldest Woman, 116, Reveals

The world’s oldest person, who turns 117 in November, has given us a clue as to how she’s achieved such longevity. 

Emma Morano, 116, of Verbania, Italy, was born in 1899 and will turn 117 on Nov. 29. The supercentenarian claimed the title of world’s oldest person in May after the death of the former titleholder, Susannah Mushatt Jones. 

Speaking to Agence France-Presse in her home, Morano revealed what she eats in a typical day.

“I eat two eggs a day and that’s it,” she said. “I eat cookies.”

New Earthquake Rocks Italy, Flattens Historic Basilica

Italy’s most powerful earthquake in 36 years struck the country’s mountainous center Sunday, panicking shell-shocked residents for the third time in two months and flattening a world-famous, 600-year-old basilica.

Remarkably, there were no reports of anyone dying as a result of the 6.6 magnitude quake, the head of Italy's civil protection agency said.

“As far as people are concerned, the situation is positive, but many buildings are in a critical state in historic centers, and there are problems with electricity and water supplies,” Fabrizio Curcio told reporters.

The quake struck at 7:40 a.m. (0640 GMT) near the small mountain town of Norcia, unleashing a shock felt in Rome and even in Venice, 200 miles away.

It was Italy’s biggest tremor since a 6.9-magnitude quake struck the south of the country in 1980, leaving 3,000 people dead. (AFP)

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Childcare Under Clinton Or Trump

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

We already know that there are differences in proposals for childcare costs and paid leave from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. In the broadest terms, Trump says he plans to address these issues through tax credits and special savings accounts for children that parents can contribute to tax-free, and six weeks of paid maternity leave for a child’s biological mother. In contrast, Clinton’s focus is on ensuring that childcare expenses are capped at 10 percent of a family’s total income through tax credits, helping more student-parents have access to childcare, and offering 12 weeks of paid family leave to anyone who needs to care for an immediate family member, whether a mother or a father wishing to care for a child, or an adult needing to care for an ailing parent.

Podesta Told Clinton Team To ‘Dump’ Emails After Use Of Private Server Emerged

Hillary Clinton and John Podesta

WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman directed her former chief of staff to “dump all those emails” the same day a bombshell report revealed Clinton’s use of a private computer server while US secretary of state, WikiLeaks revealed on Tuesday.

John Podesta sent the message to Cheryl Mills the evening of March 2, 2015, hours after the New York Times reported that Clinton may have violated federal records requirements by using the server, according to the latest batch of Podesta’s hacked emails.

“Not to sound like Lanny, but we are going to have to dump all those emails so better to do so sooner than later,” Podesta told Mills.

Bride Rejects Husband‎ At Wedding Reception

There was confusion in Delta State on Saturday as a wedding reception ended half-way, following the bride’s pronouncement that she was no longer interested in the few-hours-old marriage.

DAILY POST reports that the bride, who ran away from the reception venue, was given hot chase by the husband.

The incident, which occurred at ‎Udu Local Government Area of Delta State, created serious scene in the area.

Justice Dept. Vows Quick Review Of Clinton Related Emails

Attorney General Loretta Lynch

WASHINGTON — The FBI will have to sort through thousands of newly discovered emails in its renewed examination of the practices of Hillary Clinton and her aides, a U.S. official said Monday, raising questions about whether any findings might be released before Election Day.

The Justice Department, moving to address concerns over the timing of the revelation of the emails and a potential post-election spillover, said Monday it would “dedicate all necessary resources” to concluding the review promptly.

The timing matters because Donald Trump has been assailing Clinton ever more vigorously since FBI Director James Comey revealed the existence of the emails in a remarkable and ambiguous letter to Congress last Friday. He said agents would take steps to review the messages, which were found on a computer seized during an unrelated investigation involving the estranged husband of a Clinton aide.

CNN Drops Brazile For Feeding Debate Questions To Clinton

WASHINGTON — CNN said Monday it’s “completely uncomfortable” with new leaked emails that Donna Brazile fed debate questions to Hillary Clinton and announced it has accepted her resignation as contributor.

“CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate,” said CNN spokeswoman Lauren Pratapas in an email to The Post.

“We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor.”

Brazile’s contract had been suspended in July when she was named interim head of the Democratic National Committee following the ouster of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose hacked emails also incidentally showed bias toward Clinton over Bernie Sanders.