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Unemployment slipped to 8.1 percent last month, in part because fewer job seekers were applying for positions. "I've been feeling very dejected and depressed," says one woman who has stopped looking for work. The share of adults working or seeking jobs is down to the lowest level since the 1981 recession.

Lawyers for Jerry Sandusky have filed papers that suggest there may be even more people claiming he sexually abused them.

It wasn't a wild scene in the Guantanamo Bay courtroom where the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four others were being arraigned on Saturday, but it was certainly in disarray.

The case of Chinese dissident Chen Guancheng has shined a light on China's human rights policy and the dissidents trying to change it from inside and out. A friend says that even if Chen comes to the U.S., he can still play a role in China's fight for human rights. A man who helped another dissident escape, however, says it might be more difficult to have an impact from afar.

It was no surprise when outside groups started launching attack ads in the high stakes U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts between Republican incumbent Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren. But an unlikely pact between the candidates to halt those attack ads is working — at least for now.

The state votes Tuesday whether to add an amendment to the state's Constitution that would ban same-sex marriage and civil unions, as well as domestic partnerships. One pollster says a majority of voters support the amendment — but many don't understand its scope.

The greatest predators that ever roamed Earth suffered just as we mammals did: Large, flealike bloodsucking insects liked to dine on the dinos and even may have carried diseases.

African-American voters could be crucial in Tuesday's vote over North Carolina's proposed constitutional amendment, which would ban same-sex marriage and civil unions. Even within families, there's a conflict over what's the "Christian thing to do" for Tuesday's vote.

Wed. 5/9 10a: Santa Fe's women's chorus, the Zia Singers, presents a program of music from Broadway in a dessert concert on Mother's Day afternoon at the…