Star-Spangled Manor SCOTT LINNETT / Union-Tribune Steve Pfeiffer decorated his home and property in the Eastlake area of Chula Vista with about 1,000 American flags to prepare for his annual salute to Independence Day. Pfeiffer, 54, spent 16 years in the Navy and retired as a supply corps officer.

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U.S. employers eliminated tens of thousands of jobs in June for the sixth consecutive month in a steady chipping away of the work force that seems likely to leave the economy weak through Election Day.

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TIJUANA – The search for diesel led Daniel Rojas and his 18-wheel Freightliner from Pemex station to Pemex station one afternoon this week, but each time he heard the same stories: It hasn't arrived. We're still waiting. We've run out.

BOGOTA, Colombia – A meal was rice and beans. Bed was the ground under a patched plastic tarp. They bathed in rivers, and when they weren't chained by the neck to trees, they were forced on long marches to new hide-outs under the jungle canopy.