North Korea on Tuesday conducted its longest-ever weapons test, a nuclear-capable ballistic missile that flew over Japan and could reach the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam and beyond, forcing the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and halt trains.

The South Korean and U.S. militaries responded by launching fighter jets which fired weapons at a target off South Korea’s west coast in a show of strength against North Korea.

The number of available jobs in the U.S. plummeted in August compared with July as businesses grow less desperate for workers, a trend that could cool chronically high inflation. That is good news for the Federal Reserve in its efforts to bring down high prices without plunging the economy into a recession. The government jobs report released Tuesday also showed that layoffs remained historically low, even after a modest increase in August. And overall hiring was essentially unchanged that month.

There were 10.1 million advertised jobs on the last day of August, the government said Tuesday, down a huge 10% from 11.2 million openings in July. In March, job openings hit a record of nearly 11.9 million.

A student was briefly trapped in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library elevator after a power outage afflicted St. Thomas’s north campus Tuesday morning.

Senior Daniel Callahan was headed to the lower level of O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library in an elevator when the power outage occurred. 

Power outage strikes St. Thomas, trapping student in O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library elevator

Anya Capistrant-Kinney can be reached at capi2087@stthomas.edu.