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Soldiers deployed into the North Carolina mountains in recent days came from the 82nd Airborne Division and the 20th Engineer Brigade at Fort Liberty, N.C., and the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.

A better-than-expected 254,000 jobs were added to the economy in September, and the overall unemployment rate ticked down from 4.2% to 4.1%, said a bureau report released Friday. For veterans, the jobless rate fell from 3.5% in August to 2.7% in September, according to the report.

Balatro, a spiced-up version of virtual poker, has become the video game surprise hit of the year. It has sold 2 million copies since its February release, and on Sept. 26, localthunk finally arrived on smartphone platforms.

A former junior officer in the Navy who died a year ago hiking a California mountain was buried at sea this week from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, where he once served.

Tim Walz and JD Vance need to stop using their military service for political gain. They must to rise to the occasion and honor the sacrifices of our veterans by fighting for the care and support they deserve. The future of our veterans — and the strength of our country — depends on it. 

The Department of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday disclosed a plan to establish a grant program to fund legal organizations assisting veterans who are trying to access benefits after they did not receive an honorable discharge.

At 99 years old, former President Jimmy Carter is an early riser and likes to talk politics, the presidential race and the Atlanta Braves in the morning. His extraordinary life has largely settled into a quiet regimen. Carter turns 100 on Tuesday.

Kris Kristofferson, a singer-songwriter whose trove of country-pop hits such as “Me and Bobby McGee” and “Help Me Make It Through the Night” pushed him to the forefront of American popular composers and whose gritty-voiced, easygoing sex appeal propelled him to starring roles in Hollywood, died Sept. 28 at his home in Maui. He was 88.

Masamitsu Yoshioka, who was widely acknowledged as the last remaining witness to the Pearl Harbor attack from the side of the Imperial Japanese forces, died last month at the age of 106. As a bombardier, he launched a torpedo during the attack that hit the battleship USS Utah where 58 men lost their lives. “I think of the people who died because of me,” he said.