America’s employers added 428,000 jobs in April, extending a streak of solid hiring that has defied punishing inflation, chronic supply shortages, the Russian war against Ukraine and much higher borrowing costs. Friday’s jobs report from the Labor Department showed that last month’s hiring kept the unemployment rate at 3.6%,...
President of Belarus, a Russian Ally, Calls for End of Ukraine War
MINSK, Belarus — Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko defended Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, but he said he didn’t expect the 10-week-old conflict to “drag on this way.” Lukashenko said he and his country stand for peace and repeatedly called for the end of the...
California Moves to Embrace Cryptocurrency and Regulate It
California, which has a economy larger than all but four countries and where much of the world's technological innovation is born, on Wednesday became the first state to formally begin examining how to broadly adapt to cryptocurrency and related innovations. Following a path laid out by President Joe Biden...
As US Poised to Restrict Abortion, Other Nations Ease Access
As women in the United States find themselves on the verge of possibly losing the constitutional right to abortion, courts in many other parts of the world have been moving in the opposite direction. That includes in a number of traditionally conservative societies — such as recently in Colombia,...
Thousands of Smartphones Purchased by Veterans Agency Went Unused
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs wasted nearly $2 million when most of the smartphones bought during the pandemic for homeless veterans went unused, according to an inspector general's report. The report, released Wednesday, found that the Veterans Health Administration spent nearly $7 million to purchase 10,000 phones with...
US Mortgage Rates Rise; 30-Year Interest Highest Since 2009
Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates resumed their ascent this week, as the key 30-year loan reached its highest point since 2009. The increases came in the week preceding the widely anticipated action by the Federal Reserve, announced Wednesday, to intensify its fight against the worst inflation in 40 years...
Prosecutors Charge 3 With Murder in Sacramento Mass Shooting
Three alleged gang members were charged with murder Tuesday in the slayings of three women fatally shot in a gunbattle that rocked California’s capital city a month ago. Prosecutors say the mass shooting that ultimately killed six people and erupted before dawn on April 3 in downtown Sacramento was...
Has the Streaming Kingdom Collapsed? Netflix Suffers Another Blow
Streaming services are having a bad week. Exactly one month after launching, CNN+ shut down. The streaming service aspired to fall in the footsteps of heavy hitters like HBO Max, Disney+, Paramount+, and the one that started it all: Netflix. CNN+ may live on in notoriety, a symbol of...
Dave Chappelle Tackled During Hollywood Bowl Comedy Show
Comedian Dave Chappelle was tackled during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night. Security guards chased and overpowered the attacker, and Chappelle was able to continue his performance while the man was taken away in an ambulance. The assailant was carrying a replica handgun with a knife blade inside, authorities...
Election 2022: JD Vance Wins Ohio’s GOP Senate Primary
“Hillbilly Elegy” author JD Vance won Ohio’s contentious and hyper-competitive GOP Senate primary on Tuesday, buoyed by Donald Trump’s endorsement in a race that was an early test of the former president’s hold on his party as the midterm season kicks into high gear. A onetime staunch critic of Trump whose 2016 memoir about his...