California
In a move to combat retail theft, a Compton Rite Aid put a majority of its products behind lock and key. The community is divided on the decision.
Sept. 19, 2024
The department confirmed the move was linked to a probe ‘involving the U.S. Attorney’s Office’ but declined to provide information about the number of deputies.
Business
Americans spent a bit more at retailers last month, providing a small boost to the economy just as the Federal Reserve considers how much to cut its key interest rate.
Sept. 17, 2024
World & Nation
Congressional leaders have a deal on a short-term spending bill that will fund federal agencies for about three months.
Sept. 22, 2024
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Tennessee from enforcing a law banning adults from helping minors get an abortion without parental permission.
Sept. 21, 2024
As millions of Chinese college graduates have started looking for work, youth unemployment is on the rise again.
Trump wants the right to fire civil servants he sees as disloyal: Cue IRS audits for Trump enemies, anti-vaxxers in the FDA, revenge prosecutions.
Sept. 23, 2024
A judge tossed ex-Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s lawsuit over a ‘do not rehire’ designation, but his lawyers say they plan to refile.
After a 10-year-old Japanese boy was stabbed to death by a man in China, tensions between the two countries are rising.
Sept. 24, 2024
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is warning that impunity, inequality and uncertainty are creating an “unsustainable world.”