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U.S. Economy Added 162,000 Jobs in March, Most in 3 Years

By CATHERINE RAMPELL and JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ 22 minutes ago

Though the unemployment rate remained steady at 9.7 percent, the overall employment picture was greatly improved, with positive revisions to January and February.

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Security Check System for Flights to U.S. to Be Altered

By JEFF ZELENY

The new approach will replace a broader layer of extra scrutiny that had been imposed on passengers from 14 countries, most of which are Muslim.

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Tensions Easing, Obama Talks With Chinese Leader

By ANDREW JACOBS and MARK LANDLER 10:30 AM ET

President Obama and President Hu Jintao spoke for an hour by phone and expressed a desire for healthier ties.

Interactive Feature: A Flash Census in the Five Boroughs

The New York Times took a census that captures New Yorkers in their everyday glory.

In this photo distributed by Newsteam, a Russian news agency, and published in Kommersant, a Russian daily newspaper, Dzhennet Abdullayeva is identified posing with her husband Umalat Magomedov. Russian investigators have said that Ms. Abdurakhmanova, 17, was one of the suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the Moscow subway on March 29, and Mr. Magomedov was a militant Islamist who was killed in 2009. The agency did not give a date for the photo or explain the circumstances in which it was taken.
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Russia Says Bomber Was Militant’s Widow

By CLIFFORD J. LEVY 41 minutes ago

Officials said a bomber in the Moscow attacks was the 17-year-old widow of an insurgent. A Russian news agency says the couple is pictured in this undated photo.

Political Memo
Question Remains: What Makes Gillibrand Scary?
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ 6 minutes ago

After a lot of talk, many critics of Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand who said they could beat her will not be trying.

Israel Mounts Air Attacks in Gaza
By ETHAN BRONNER and FARES AKRAM 10:15 AM ET

The attacks on Friday, which Israel said were in response to rocket fire, caused no injuries but damaged buildings.

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The Vietnam Wars: ‘Matterhorn’
By SEBASTIAN JUNGER

In this tale of the Vietnam war, 30 years in the creation, bloody folly envelops a Marine company’s construction, abandonment and retaking of a remote hilltop outpost.

Letter From Vietnam
Reading Tim O’Brien in Hanoi
By MATT STEINGLASS

The Vietnamese seem largely uninterested in foreign accounts of what they call the “American War.”

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The Familiar Comforts of Conspiracies
By SAM TANENHAUS
Heated opposition to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act invites fears of a conspiracy.

Conspiracy movies, like conspiracy theories, are nothing new. Only the cabals change, as they have in the post-George W. Bush era.

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Now that health care reform is law, President Obama and Congress have to hire a strong chief to run the nation’s public insurance programs.

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Many of the drivers in a test program of the Mini E electric vehicle have become enthusiastic advocates.

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