Stocks are being dragged lower early Tuesday after a warning from corporate giant Walmart that inflation was negatively impacting American consumers' spending power. The S&P 500 index was down 0.9% as of 11:15 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.4% and the Nasdaq Composite was down noticeably...
Officials Say Stanislaus County Pair Killed Fellow Prison Inmate
SACRAMENTO — Two inmates at separate California prisons were killed in weekend attacks by other inmates, corrections officials said Monday. One victim was previously suspected in his cellmate's death, and two of the four attackers were also suspected in prior slayings, authorities confirmed. The first happened Friday night at...
‘Best of Nextdoor’ Reveals Strange Underbelly of Popular Neighborhood App
For anyone looking for a taste of Nextdoor’s weirdest, silliest posts — from fireworks complaints to paranoid neighbors spying on each other — Jenn Takahashi’s @BestofNextdoor Twitter account has everything. Best of Nextdoor shows the quirky underbelly of the neighborhood-centric social media app, which went public last November. Takahashi,...
Poll Shows 2 in 3 Favor Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices
About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices, according to a new poll that finds a sharp increase in the percentage of Americans saying they have “hardly any” confidence in the court. The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public...
Turkey’s Erdogan Rails at Greece Over Muslim Minority Rights
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday criticized Greece for allegedly violating a settlement that has governed relations between the rivals for nearly a century. In a statement released on the 99th anniversary of the Lausanne Treaty, Erdogan accused Athens of undermining the rights of the Muslim minority in...
Jan. 6 Panel Deepens Probe to Trump Cabinet, Awaits Thomas
The House Jan. 6 committee said Sunday it will interview more former Cabinet secretaries and is prepared to subpoena conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, who's married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as part of its investigation of the Capitol riot and Donald Trump's role. Lawmakers said they are deepening their...
Firefighters Battle 50 Foot Flames as Oak Fire Reaches 17,000 Acres with 10% Containment
Firefighters significantly slowed the spread of a smoky wildfire churning through forest near Yosemite National Park that has thousands of residents of communities near Mariposa still under evacuation orders on Monday. Crews “made good headway” against the Oak Fire, according to a Sunday night incident report by Cal Fire....
Feds Fast-Track Efforts to Save Sequoias From Wildfires
LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Forest Service announced Friday it's taking emergency action to save giant sequoias by speeding up projects that could start within weeks to clear underbrush to protect the world’s largest trees from the increasing threat of wildfires. The move to bypass some environmental review could...
Lavrov Says Russian Goal to Oust Ukraine’s President
Russia’s top diplomat said Moscow’s overarching goal in Ukraine is to free its people from its “unacceptable regime,” expressing the Kremlin’s war aims in some of the bluntest terms yet as its forces pummel the country with artillery barrages and airstrikes. The remark from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...
Is $790 Million Worth a $2 Mega Millions Ticket? It Depends
Is $790 million worth $2? That’s a good question, given it costs $2 to buy a Mega Millions lottery ticket that could pay off with an estimated $790 million prize, the nation's fourth-largest jackpot, after the game’s next drawing Tuesday night. ISN'T IT AN OBVIOUS QUESTION? Not really. To start...