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The Department of Veterans Affairs will soon offer abortions in certain cases and abortion counseling to veterans, regardless of state laws.

The August jobs report from the Labor Department is due out Friday morning, and economists estimate that about 300,000 jobs will be added in August, a considerable drop from July and the lowest monthly gain since April 2021.

The US has a jobs problem: There are too many of them.

What residents of Jackson, Mississippi long viewed as a looming crisis came to a head this week when torrential rains battered the city, causing the Pearl River to flood and its main water supply treatment facility to fail.

House Republicans want Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to hand over a vast array of additional records pertaining to the company's handling of a 2020 New York Post article containing allegations about Hunter Biden, after Zuckerberg indicated last week that an FBI warning about Russian propaganda contributed to the article's temporary suppression on Facebook at the time.

China is suffering one of its worst earnings recessions on record as Beijing's zero-Covid policy and a real estate crisis take their toll on the country's listed companies.

The 22-year-old man accused of shooting three Dutch soldiers outside an Indianapolis hotel on Saturday has been charged in the death of one of the victims and the injury of the two others, according to prosecutors.

The Biden administration is pivoting to a long-term strategy to assist Afghans who worked with or on behalf of the US government, according to a senior administration official.

• Louisville corrections officer terminated after mocking the city police department's 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor

Friday morning, economists and investors everywhere will be focused on one document, the US August jobs report, for a read on how the world's biggest economy is faring.