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  • In the day's other news: U.S. businesses managed to make slight job gains in September.

  • The Labor Department reports that employers added a net of 136,000 jobs last month.

  • That came as factories shed 2,000 jobs, amid concerns that the manufacturing sector is

  • now in a recession.

  • Overall, the unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent.

  • That is the lowest it has been in 50 years.

  • In Iraq, security forces in Baghdad shot and killed at least 17 more protesters, bringing

  • the week's death toll to 59.

  • The shooting sent people running for cover, after they defied a curfew.

  • Hospitals reported dozens hurt, despite the prime minister's televised appeal for calm.

  • ADIL ABDUL-MAHDI, ®MD-UL¯Iraqi Prime Minister (through translator): Your demands in countering

  • corruption, providing job opportunities, and comprehensive reforms are rightful demands.

  • First, we have to bring life back to normal in all the provinces.

  • We have to respect the authority of law under which we are all are living in peace and stability.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Iraqi troops have also killed protesters in other cities this week.

  • The country's leading Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called today for

  • an end to the violence, before, he said, it is too late.

  • Anger intensified in Hong Kong today after the government banned protesters from wearing

  • face masks.

  • Thousands of demonstrators turned out, wearing masks.

  • They protested into the night, vandalizing storefronts, setting fires at subway stations

  • and defying the city's chief executive.

  • CARRIE LAM, Hong Kong Chief Executive: If there's no violence, if there's no protests,

  • we do not need to have all these instruments with us in order to deal with this violence.

  • Of course, if the situation worsens -- I suppose that's your question -- then, as a responsible

  • government, we will continue to have to identify other means that we could tackle the situation.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: The protesters wear masks to avoid being identified and punished.

  • But, as of Saturday, violations could mean a year in jail.

  • Greece is demanding that Turkey reimpose controls on the outflow of migrants.

  • Turkey had agreed in 2016 to seal off the route to Greece.

  • But in the past two months, a new wave of migrants arrived at jam-packed refugee camps

  • on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Samos.

  • Greece says that Turkey is using the surge to ask for more financial help from the European

  • Union.

  • Microsoft says that hackers linked to Iran have targeted a 2020 U.S. presidential campaign,

  • plus government officials and journalists.

  • The company today reported that attempted hacks of more than 240 e-mail accounts, with

  • four actually compromised.

  • It didn't name the campaign that was targeted.

  • Top U.S. officials stepped up the pressure on Facebook today over its plans to encrypt

  • its messaging platform.

  • The company says that it would enhance user privacy.

  • But, in Washington, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that the platform could become

  • -- quote -- "a dream come true" for predators and child pornographers.

  • Attorney General William Barr said that the government is not asking for a backdoor into

  • any and all communications.

  • WILLIAM BARR, U.S. Attorney General: We would be happy if the companies providing the encryption

  • keep the keys.

  • What we are asking is some responsible party have the keys, so that when we can demonstrate

  • a lawful basis, probable cause that crimes are being committed, we can gain access to

  • that evidence.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Facebook says that it can still identify sexual predators, even in encrypted

  • systems.

  • The U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue of abortion again, in the midst of the 2020

  • presidential race.

  • Today's announcement involves a Louisiana law that says doctors who perform abortions

  • must have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.

  • The case is expected to be argued in the winter, with a decision expected by next June.

  • On Wall Street, the September jobs report fueled a Friday rally that erased most of

  • the week's losses.

  • The Dow Jones industrial average gained 372 points to close at 26573.

  • The Nasdaq rose 110 points, and the S&P 500 added 41.

  • And pioneering actress Diahann Carroll has died of complications from breast cancer.

  • In 1968, she broke through racial barriers in "Julia," the country's first TV series

  • portraying a black professional woman.

  • Carroll was also a singer, winning a Tony Award in "No Strings," and she was nominated

  • for an Oscar in the 1974 film "Claudine."

  • Diahann Carroll was 84 years old.

  • Still to come on the "NewsHour": separating fact from fiction in Ukraine, the country

  • caught in the middle of the impeachment inquiry; another whistle-blower comes out against the

  • White House, this time from the IRS; Mark Shields and Ramesh Ponnuru on the widening

  • investigation into President Trump; and much more.

In the day's other news: U.S. businesses managed to make slight job gains in September.

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