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• The unemployment rate is expected to remain at a four-year low of 7.7 percent.
• The Labor Department will release the report at 8:30 a.m. EDT Friday.
• Job gains have accelerated to an average of 205,000 per month from November through February. That's nearly double the monthly gains from last spring. The forecast figure for March would continue that trend.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- There's been plenty of star power already at the Women in the World summit in New York: Angelina Jolie and Meryl Streep both were part of the opening night program.
• But a different sort of star is sure to get a rapturous reception Friday at the annual two-day conference, which focuses on global women's issues: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
• It's her second high-profile speech this week, following one at the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards in Washington, and it coincides with the announcement Thursday of her new memoir about her years as secretary of state. She's addressed this forum before, but now there's the added excitement of all the speculation: What's next for her?
• The main focus of the women's conference, though, is the plight of women across the globe, and Jolie had the most emotional moment Thursday, introducing -- via video from Britain -- Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating for girls' education.
• "Today I'm going to announce the happiest moment of my life," the 15-year-old said in the brief video, wearing a bright red headscarf and at one point shyly covering her face with her hands. She said that thanks to the new "Malala's Fund," which she will administer, a new school in her homeland would be built for 40 girls. "Let us turn the education of 40 girls into 40 million girls," she said.
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• MUMBAI, India (AP) -- A half-finished building that was being constructed illegally in a suburb of India's financial capital has collapsed, killing 35 people and injuring more than 50 others, police said Friday.
• The building in the Mumbai suburb of Thane caved in at 6:08 p.m. Thursday, po

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