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Kerry is the highest-ranking U.S. official ever to visit the site. He honored the 140,000 Japanese who died in the U.S. attack on the city, but did not apologize for the bombing there and in Nagasaki.

A day after recovering the plane's cockpit voice recorder, a ship has also found and retrieved the flight data recorder, Egypt's Civil Aviation Authority says.

From March 14 to May 2, more than 560,000 Louisiana residents applied for unemployment benefits.That's about 12 percent of the total population of…

Emergency units treated students and staff members after a Delta Airlines plane dumped fuel on its way to a safe emergency landing, fire and aviation authorities said.

The pain in the job market continues as an additional 1.5 million sought unemployment benefits last week. In the past 12 weeks, more than 44 million new claims have been filed.

Another 1.5 million people file for unemployment benefits for the first time, but the number who are continuing to seek the payments continues to decline as workers return to their jobs.

"That will be a real-life economic benefit," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. He also ordered that only 25 percent of workers could be in the office, except for essential services.

The Louisiana congressman, wounded when a gunman opened fire on a Republican baseball practice, is back in intensive care because of concerns about infection, according to MedStar Washington Center.

It would be the first time in the agency's history that it has sought to regulate the amount of nicotine in cigarettes.

NPR's Renee Montagne and puzzle master Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with Rick Peterson of East Windsor, N.J.