Camila Domonoske

The unemployment rate was little changed, ticking back down to 4.9 percent. Hourly earnings rose 10 cents over last month — in total, wages are up 2.8 percent year over year.

The explosion-laden minibus hit a city in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast, The Associated Press reports. The blast came hours after 12 pro-Kurdish lawmakers were taken into custody.

Every Cubs fan on Earth has been waiting ... and waiting ... to see their team win the World Series. The longer they lived, the more patience they needed. But on Wednesday night, all was rewarded.

The fire that largely gutted the century-old church in Greenville, Miss., has been ruled an arson. The mayor called the attack an attempt to scare voters days ahead of the presidential election.

U.S. military personnel came under fire while assisting Afghan partners battling the Taliban in Kunduz district, NATO says. Local officials are reportedly investigating claims of civilian casualties.

Earlier this year, the U.K. voted to leave the European Union. Now the country's prime minister is working to make that happen — but a court says she can't do it unilaterally.

The honorees also include the survivor of the Stanford sexual assault, the Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad and three female founders of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Police say both officers were sitting in their squad cars in the Des Moines area when they were shot in the early hours of Wednesday morning. A suspect was taken into custody hours later.

An employee with the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska took a video of undulating ice in the Chena River — and added a creepy soundtrack. Facebook users took care of the rest.

No children were on the yellow school bus at the time of the accident, police say. The school bus was traveling to pick up a student when the series of crashes occurred. The driver is among the dead.

Chinese media say 33 miners trapped in an explosion in a coal mine in southwestern China have been found dead. Only two miners escaped alive. Rescuers had worked around the clock to try to save them.

Around 4,700 transportation workers went on strike at midnight after their contract expired and negotiations failed. Affected buses, subways and trolleys usually handle more than 800,000 trips a day.

In rural Uganda, "radio is everything," as one journalist puts it. So the U.N., hoping to hear more rural voices, used a tiny amount of data to build speech recognition software for new languages.

New Delhi suffers from intense air pollution every winter. On Monday, the stifling smog was particularly acute — in part because of the countless firecrackers set off for Diwali this weekend.

Two miners escaped and 13 died after the gas explosion Monday morning, state media report. Crews were working to find and potentially rescue the miners who remain unaccounted for.

Adam Crapser was adopted by an American couple as a child. They never completed his citizenship papers and abandoned him into the foster system. Now, despite appeals for help, he is being deported.

The U.S. government alleges that a fraud scheme used operators at Indian call centers, impersonating IRS or immigration officials, to scam thousands of people out of more than $300 million.

A convoy of Russian warships is bound for the Mediterranean, and some were planning to stop for fuel at a Spanish enclave. NATO is concerned the ships are heading to support Russian strikes in Syria.

Rome is under attack — by fast food joints, cheap souvenir shops and pubs, an open letter says. The "barbarism" has led hopeless Romans to beg the U.N. agency for help preserving cultural landmarks.

U.S. troops are in place at several Philippine military camps under an agreement made before Duterte became president. "We will survive without the assistance of America," he said Wednesday in Japan.