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WASHINGTON – Employers expanded their payrolls by 207,000 in July, the most in five months, while the unemployment rate held steady at 5 percent, the government reported Friday. The latest snapshot from the Labor Department (search) offered strong evidence that the job climate is improving considerably. Boosts in hiring came …

SPACE CENTER, Houston – With the most anxiety-ridden part of their flight still to come, shuttle Discovery (search) and its crew of seven set off for home Saturday after leaving the international space station. Monday’s planned predawn re-entry will be the first by a space shuttle since Columbia’s catastrophic descent …

John Bolton (search) is finally U.N. ambassador from the United States. The president got so much flak about Bolton — he’s the original blue meanie, evidently — that Bush had to use a recess appointment to get him in there. It’s an embarrassment to Bolton that the U.S. Senate wouldn’t …