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The labor market posted weak job growth for the third straight month, according to a government report Friday, although a jump in wages could keep the Federal Reserve on its course of raising interest rates.

There was a net gain of 121,000 jobs for the U.S. economy, according to the Labor Department report, up from the revised 92,000 gain posted in May.

Picture the scene: it's 2025, and you and your family are living in a beautiful, leafy-green village that seems more 19th century than 21st, even though it has only been in existence for ten years and is just 20 miles from a major American city.

In less than two years as the quirky, goofy-but-gorgeous host of a low-tech, three-minute fake newscast, Amanda Congdon, who left Rocketboom this week in a dispute with her partner, achieved a kind of fame unique to this Internet age.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that Israel made a promise to the Egyptian president to free Palestinian politicians and certain prisoners if Hamas were to release the soldier, who was abducted last month in a raid by militants.

The original is a thing of balletic grace, theatrical richness of character, and self-effacing economy of action when compared with the shapeless, weightless, endless "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." The sequel is a version 2.0 that, in its final minutes, portends a future 3.0 of such necessarily staggering, ostentatious extravagance as to bankrupt all but the most iron-walleted of Hollywood producers.