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The government's delayed report on hiring shows employers added 64,000 jobs in November.

The Labor Department says 105,000 jobs were cut in October, pushing the unemployment rate to 4.6 percent.

NPR's Scott Horsley has more.

Scott Horsley reporting.

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Evacuation orders remain in effect for three areas south of Seattle where two levees have failed.

Persistent storms in the region are blamed for widespread flooding and at least one death.

Multiple storms known as atmospheric rivers have dumped over a foot of rain across Washington state since late November.

The weather system is now moving east, threatening to dump heavy rain and snow on areas from the northern plains to the Great Lakes region.

Roughly 700 million people around the world are living on less than $2.15 a day.

As NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports, lifting most of them out of extreme poverty may be less expensive than researchers had previously thought.

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futures are flat and after-hours trading on Wall Street.

On Asia Pacific, market shares are mostly higher, up 1% in Hong Kong and in Shanghai.

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Residents around Brown University are being asked to check their home security systems for images of a possible mass shooter.

Police are still trying to find a suspect in the attack that killed two Brown University students and injured nine others last weekend.

Meanwhile, Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez says the FBI has released a clearer surveillance video of a person of interest in the case.

The FBI has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to a suspect.