Rivet Daily

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News Espresso: Hiring jumped in November, Trump tweets on impeachment, Harvey Weinstein to appear in court

December 06, 2019

Hiring jumped last month to the highest level since January as U.S. employers ignored global trade tensions and added 266,000 jobs. The Labor Department says the unemployment rate declined to 3.5% from 3.6% in October. President Trump's taking a new approach on impeachment with him and his allies accepting the reality he'll likely be impeached by the House. The president tweeted telling Democrats that if they're going to impeach him, to 'do it now, fast, so we can have a fair.... trial in the Senate.' A Kenyan official says a six-story building has collapsed in the capital, Nairobi. Some people are feared to be trapped in the debris. Police say 10 people have been rescued by residents using their bare hands. Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to appear in a New York City courtroom today for a pretrial hearing in his rape and sexual assault case. He's currently free on one million dollars bail. Tennessee has put a 53-year-old blind inmate to death in the electric chair for his conviction in the 1991 killing of his estranged girlfriend. Thursday's execution was only the second of a blind inmate in the U.S. since the nation's reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976.