Bath & Body Works pulled a candle from store shelves after getting complaints the label resembled hooded KKK figures.

The wintery candle, called “Snowed In,” was designed with a stylized paper snowflake theme. However, the partially obscured image also reminded some social media critics of the hoods and robes worn by the Ku Klux Klan during...Read more

A year and a half after technology executive Bob Lee was slain on a downtown San Francisco street, a lawyer for the acquaintance accused of stabbing him told a jury it was an act of self-defense while Lee was binging on illegal drugs.

After a prosecutor promised during the trial’s opening arguments Monday that video footage and DNA evidence ...Read more

AURORA, Colo. — More than two dozen friends, family members and activists rallied outside the Aurora Municipal Center on Monday night, decrying Arapahoe County District Attorney John Kellner’s decision to not press charges against the Aurora Police Department officer who fatally shot Kilyn Lewis.

Lewis’ family found out that Kellner had ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Sheriff’s deputies near Lake Lure and Chimney Rock have arrested a 44-year-old man for threatening FEMA officials working in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

In a Monday news release, officials in Rutherford County said initial reports described truckloads of militia in the area, as was reported in several national media ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The political committee behind Proposition 36, which has touted the anti-crime measure's support from top local Democratic leaders, donated $1 million to the California Republican Party in recent weeks.

The donation not only indicates the confidence that Proposition 36 proponents have about the measure passing in the Nov....Read more

LAS VEGAS — A conservative organization dropped legal challenges it had filed attempting to force four Nevada counties to address its claims that voter rolls in those counties may have included thousands who had moved out of the area.

Citizen Outreach Foundation filed lawsuits last month in Carson City, Clark, Storey and Washoe counties ...Read more

Jasmine Eleck, an early career fellow at the Field Museum who is indigenous to California, studied history in college because she had seen certain histories suppressed.

“I want to ensure that I include more perspectives and more voices in history,” said Eleck, a 2024 graduate of Centre College in Kentucky. Eleck, 22, helped organize the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — At a campaign rally in the Coachella Valley, former President Trump on Saturday called out California's cost of living and nation-leading gas prices as an example of Vice President Kamala Harris and other "radical Democrats" destroying the state.

"Today California has the highest inflation, the highest taxes, the highest...Read more

A 7-year-old girl and her family are living in fear after police said a 73-year-old man slashed her throat in a Detroit park last week, they said Monday.

"Now I feel scared and I don't want to go to school anymore (or go) outside alone," Saida Mashrah said. "I just like staying in my backyard."

With her neck still bandaged, Saida shared her ...Read more

Eighty-two new cannabis stores opened in Illinois in the past fiscal year, marking “explosive growth” in sales outlets for an industry that surpassed $2 billion in sales, the state reported.

State regulators boasted in the 2024 annual report that “social equity” marijuana business owners, those who come from poor areas or who were most ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to limit his country’s retaliation against Iran over the missile attack on Oct. 1 to military targets, according to a report in The Washington Post.

Netanyahu has told the Biden administration that he would strike those types of targets rather than Iran’s oil ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The suspect arrested with two loaded guns outside a Donald Trump rally in Coachella over the weekend said he planned to sue Riverside County after the sheriff claimed his deputies stopped the man from attempting to assassinate the former president.

Vem Miller, 49, of Los Angeles told the Los Angeles Times in a phone interview ...Read more

Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory remembers the doubts he had when the 2016 election results showed he had lost his reelection to Roy Cooper.

Cooper, a Democrat, won by just over 10,000 votes out of the more than 4.6 million cast that election cycle.

At the time, McCrory called for a recount and voiced “serious concerns about potential ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The screams started before dawn.

Desperate, bloodcurdling shrieks from a woman in distress — with yells so loud they woke the neighbors around 15th and Mifflin Streets in South Philadelphia.

Rachel Robbins was so disturbed that she went outside to see what was going on shortly after the wails began at 5:30 a.m.

But she didn...Read more

Surrounded by legislative backers, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a bill that he says will end gas price hikes and stop the oil industry from gouging people at the pump.

Newsom signed the bill during a press conference less than an hour after the State Assembly in a special session Monday approved the measure with a 42-16 vote.

“(The oil...Read more

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Monday morning carrying a NASA probe designed to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and search for the building blocks of life.

With the Europa Clipper now on its 1.8-billion mile, 5 1/2-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA has officially retired a �...Read more

BALTIMORE — Former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is asking a federal judge to replace her home detention with a nightly curfew, a move her attorneys say is necessary for a new job that requires “routine travel” within Maryland.

In a Friday motion, the federal public defenders representing Mosby sought a curfew allowing ...Read more