Someone who bought a Powerball ticket in Southern California has won a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot after more than three months without anyone hitting the top prize. The winning numbers drawn Tuesday morning at the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee were: white balls 10, 33, 41, 47 and...
Pelosi Opens up About Attack on Husband: ‘I Was Very Scared’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held back tears speaking Monday for the first time about being awakened by pounding on the door as Capitol Police rushed to tell her about the assault on her husband at the family's home in San Francisco. “I was very scared,” Pelosi told CNN in an interview. "I'm...
Putin-Linked Businessman Admits to US Election Meddling
Kremlin-connected entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted Monday that he had interfered in U.S. elections and would continue to do so — confirming for the first time the accusations that he has rejected for years. “Gentlemen, we have interfered, are interfering and will interfere. Carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way,...
US Voters Fret About Democracy, Polarization Before Election
American voters are fractured politically and culturally ahead of Election Day, and they are anxious about where their country is heading — on inflation, abortion, immigration, crime, and much more. They also sense something more fundamental at stake at a time of rising mistrust of institutions and each other: the future of democracy. Some...
US Appeals Court: Beauty Pageant Can Bar Trans Contestants
A federal appellate court on Wednesday said a national beauty pageant has a First Amendment right to exclude a transgender woman from competing because including her could interfere with the message the pageant has said it wants to send about "what it means to be a woman.” The 9th U.S....
Man With Knife Killed in Confrontation With Kern Deputies
A man with a knife confronted Kern County deputies responding to a domestic disturbance and was fatally shot, the Sheriff's Office said in a brief statement Friday. The man died at the scene Thursday evening at a mobile home park in Tehachapi, about 40 miles southeast of Bakersfield, the statement...
US Employers Are Hiring Briskly Even in Face of Rate Hikes
America’s employers kept hiring vigorously in October, adding 261,000 positions, a sign that as Election Day nears, the economy remains a picture of solid job growth and painful inflation. Friday’s report from the government showed that hiring was brisk across industries last month, though the overall gain declined from 315,000 in September....
Widespread Twitter Layoffs Begin a Week After Musk Takeover
Twitter began widespread layoffs Friday as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the social platform. The company had told employees by email that they would find out this morning if they had been laid off. The email did not say how many of the roughly 7,500 employees would lose their jobs. Musk...
Around the Country, Schools Clash With Parents Over Student Cellphone Bans
Cellphones — the ultimate distraction — keep children from learning, educators say. But in attempts to keep the phones at bay, the most vocal pushback doesn't always come from students. In some cases, it's from parents. Bans on the devices were on the rise before the COVID-19 pandemic. Since schools...
‘Do Better’: Newsom Pauses $1B in Homelessness Spending
California’s plans to reduce the nation’s largest homeless population aren’t good enough, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday, prompting him to halt $1 billion in state spending for local governments as he seeks to reset the state’s strategy ahead of his expected second term in office. California’s homeless population —...