The Labor Department issues its Employment Report for March this morning, with new numbers for job growth and unemployment rate. In other headlines: President Obama signs the JOBS bill into law; Russia’s government condemns a prison sentence that’s been handed to convicted arms smuggler Viktor Bout; after drifting aimlessly since the tsunami last year, a Japanese freighter ship finally sinks in the Gulf of Alaska; and a U.S. Marine Sergeant is in trouble after criticizing President Obama on Facebook.
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