Tag: Nation

This handout photo provided by the Washington University School of Medicine shows Dr. Jeffrey Gordon and graduate student Vanessa Ridaura of Washington University in St. Louis example samples of gut bacteria taken from fat or lean people. Their research transplanted human intestinal microbes into germ-free mice and found certain bugs may help fight obesity, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, at the university in St. Louis. Call it a hidden ally: The right germs just might be able to help fight fat. Different kinds of bacteria that live inside the gut can help spur obesity or protect against it, say scientists at Washington University in St. Louis who transplanted intestinal germs from fat or lean people into mice and watched the rodents change. And what they ate determined whether the good germs could move in and do the job. (AP Photo/Elizabethe Holland, Washington University School of Medicine)

Study: The right bacteria might help fight obesity

Lauran Neergaard · September 5, 2013 6:07 pm

John Kerry to go to Europe to discuss Syria, Mideast

Deb Riechmann · September 5, 2013 5:51 pm

In this Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013 photo, job seekers check out companies at a job fair in Miami Lakes, Fla. The Labor Department reports the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits for the first week of September on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Applications for US jobless aid near a 5-year low

Christopher Rugaber · September 5, 2013 5:19 pm

Madame Tussauds to unveil William and Kate in wax

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2013 5:13 pm

National Security

Navy chief calls US ships ready for any Syria plan

The Associated Press · September 5, 2013 3:24 pm

In this Monday, Sept. 2, 2013 photo, a sold sign is posted outside a house in Long Beach, Calif. Freddie Mac reports on mortgage rates for the first week of September on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Average US 30-year mortgage rate up to 4.57 pct.

Marcy Gordon · September 5, 2013 3:19 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, file photo, server Taryn Yanez holds a cheeseburger order at The Nook in St. Paul, Minn. The Institute for Supply Management issues its U.S. non-manufacturing (service-sector) index for August on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

US service firms expand at fastest pace in 8 years

Christopher Rugaber · September 5, 2013 2:52 pm

FILE - In this July 1, 2013, file photo, bottles of Brooklyn Local 2 are loaded on to a conveyor for labeling, at the Brooklyn Brewery, in the Williamsburg section of the Brooklyn borough of New York. The Commerce Department reports on orders placed with U.S. factories in July on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

US factory orders drop 2.4 percent in July

Martin Crutsinger · September 5, 2013 2:23 pm

US service sector expands at fastest pace in nearly 8 years as companies step up hiring

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2013 2:06 pm

US factory orders drop 2.4 percent in July, reflecting fall in aircraft and machinery

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2013 2:02 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 17, 2013, file photo, Ford's Flat Rock Assembly Plant employees cheer as the millionth Ford Mustang is driven off the assembly line in Flat Rock, Mich. The government issues its second estimate of worker productivity and labor costs for the April-June quarter on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

US worker productivity up at 2.3 percent rate

Martin Crutsinger · September 5, 2013 2:00 pm

ADP: Businesses added 176,000 jobs in August

Paul Wiseman · September 5, 2013 1:24 pm