Stock market today: Asian shares advance after inflation data drives a rally on Wall Street
Asian shares mostly rose Thursday, following a rally on Wall Street driven by encouraging update on U.S. inflation. Japan’s ...
He left his LA-area home to cover the wildfires. But the flames were barreling toward his front door
The warnings began on Saturday, Jan. 4. Our neighbor, a volunteer at the local sheriff’s station, texted that we should “batten down the hatches” for a “big ...
Italy’s Meloni to leverage strong ties with Trump — but as president whisperer or Trojan horse?
After forging unexpectedly fond ties with U.S. President Joe Biden, Italy’s right-wing Premier Giorgia Meloni is poised to leverage a more natural alliance with U.S. President-elect ...
Trump’s pick to oversee US public lands faces Senate hearing
Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is due before a Senate committee Thursday as lawmakers consider the Republican’s nomination to be chief steward of U.S. public lands and waters.
UK’s Starmer arrives in Ukraine for security talks with Zelenskyy days before Trump is sworn in
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Ukraine Thursday, pledging to help guarantee the country’s security for a century days before Donald Trump is sworn in as U.S. president.
As flames linger, talk turns to rebuilding Los Angeles neighborhoods leveled by wildfires
Staggered after one of the most destructive natural disasters in Southern California history, thousands of heartbroken ...
Democrats’ crisis of the future: the biggest states that back them are shrinking
Texas and Florida are growing rapidly. California, Illinois and New York are shrinking. With America’s population shifting to the South, political influence is seeping from ...
Founder of muckraking market information group Hindenburg Research calls it quits
Nate Anderson, the founder of the muckraking financial information firm Hindenburg Research, says he is disbanding the organization after it finished the pipeline of work it set out ...
200 vases stolen from Lafayette cemetery
About 200 bronze vases were stolen from a cemetery in the East Bay, the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. The vases were stolen from Oakland Memorial Park ...
Response time for Oakland Hills fire delayed due to recent budget cuts, station closures
A fire broke out in Oakland Hills Wednesday off of Lochard Street. Fire crews were delayed in their response time due to ...
Treasury nominee plans to say at confirmation hearing that Trump will unleash ‘economic golden age’
U.S. Treasury nominee Scott Bessent plans to say Thursday during his confirmation hearing that President-elect Donald Trump has an opportunity to unleash “a new economic golden ...