If you’ve been looking for a new job for a while and getting nowhere, cheer up. You’re not alone. The average search now takes five months, according to a new survey by recruiters Randstad USA of 2,000 people across the U.S. who have recently changed jobs.

That’s about the same length of time as before the unemployment rate fell to its current 49-year low of 3.7%.

Read more at Fortune.

Today, the La Grange Business Association announced the Small Business Saturday "Flash Sale" shopping promotion for 2018, an opportunity for consumers to receive extraordinary deals for a limited time at participating stores and restaurants of La Grange.

In response to increased competition from online retailers, the village-wide Flash Sale is one of several unique ways that the independent businesses in La Grange are working to drive foot traffic through their doors throughout the holiday season.

Read more at Patch.

Harvard economist Larry Summers believes there’s an almost 50% chance the U.S. will fall into recession by 2020.

The former U.S. treasury secretary told CNBC Thursday that an economic retraction was a “near certainty” because of jitters within global finance, heightened political tensions worldwide and the actions of the Federal Reserve.

Read more at Fortune.

For many folks, retirement is an opportunity to pursue hobbies, travel, and enjoy spending time with family and friends. But apparently, it's also the right time to own a second home. In fact, 41% of Americans would like to own a vacation home in retirement, according to data from GOBankingRates. And while that's a neat objective to strive for in theory, it could be a risky one in practice.

Read more at Fool.

A federal judge in Washington is ordering the Trump administration to immediately return the White House press credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta.

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly announced his decision Friday morning.

Read more at PBS News.

Investors are pouring their money into electric scooter companies like Bird, one of the fastest growing startups in history.

Marketed as eco-friendly alternatives to cars, scooters can help urban consumers bridge the “first and last mile,” the short distance between commuters’ homes and workplaces and larger transportation hubs, such as bus terminals or subway stations.

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President Trump and the news media have long shared a strained relationship. On Friday, a federal court ordered the White House to reinstate a CNN reporter's revoked press pass. Yamiche Alcindor reports, and Judy Woodruff speaks with Marc Lotter, former communications adviser to the vice president, and the Washington Post's Margaret Sullivan for more on the ruling and this precarious dynamic.

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One protester was killed and 106 others were injured at roadblocks set up around France on Saturday as citizens angry at rising fuel taxes rose up in a grassroots movement and posed a new challenge to President Emmanuel Macron.

Police officers lobbed tear gas canisters at demonstrators on the famed Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris as groups tried to make their way to the presidential Elysee Palace.

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Shawn Smith has heard the promises before. When new hotels sprang up near the public housing complex in Queens where he’s lived for 17 years, residents were told they would bring jobs and economic opportunity.

He hasn’t seen any of it. So he’s cynical about the announcement this week that Amazon will build a headquarters for 25,000 workers on the Long Island City waterfront, a half mile from his home. Elected officials gleefully promised that Amazon’s presence will buoy all of western Queens. Smith is not so sure.

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With an election looming, courts earlier this year declared congressional districts in two states to be unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. One map was redrawn. The other was not.