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A rolling strike of Starbucks baristas has grown since kicking off Friday to include about 300 of the coffee giant's shops across the U.S., according to the union organizing the work stoppage.

The strike, set to end after...Read more

Kimberly Williams took her three daughters to the mall for some last-minute Christmas shopping this week and ended up buying a week’s worth of showers and emergency food for a person living on the street, pots and pans ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri judge last week torpedoed parts of a state law that have required sweeping redactions to court records, preventing the public from accessing routine information.

Moniteau County ...Read more

U.S. lawmakers dropped a potential review of South Africa’s ties with Washington on the basis that they pose national-security risks.

President Joe Biden on Monday signed a version of a key annual defense-policy bill ...Read more

It’s that time of year, when families and friends come together to share their holiday cheer and a few circulating pathogens.

Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at UC San Francisco, said people should be ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Three orphans of a Sacramento couple brutally gunned down in Mexico earlier this month are raising money to help stay afloat and bring their parents’ remains home.

Authorities said Rafael Cardona ...Read more

Americans are more optimistic about 2025 than they were about 2024 — in large part because of President-elect Donald Trump, according to new polling.

In a December CBS News/YouGov poll, 57% of respondents said that, ...Read more

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s handpicked school board was blocked from modifying Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez’s duties by a Cook County Judge on Tuesday, giving the embattled schools chief a victory as he ...Read more

BALTIMORE — As Baltimore sunsets a decades-old committee probing police misconduct, the city’s three civilian-led law enforcement accountability boards are at odds with Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration over the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two San Fernando Valley men, who were sentenced to death over a decade ago for killing five people, had their sentences commuted to life in prison on Monday by President Joe Biden.

In 2007, Iouri Mikhel ...Read more

BOSTON — A local Massachusetts police officer “likely saved a Christmas headache” after he discovered roughly 80 Amazon packages left behind in the woods, days before the holiday.

Early Sunday morning, Lakeville ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A squadron of fighter jets that belong to the District of Columbia Air National Guard will transfer to the Maryland National Guard, Gov. Wes Moore and other Maryland leaders said Monday night.

Transferring ...Read more

Families often discover during the holidays that loved ones are struggling with dementia and memory loss, and these cognitive issues are becoming yearlong concerns for employers, too, as they encounter an aging U.S. ...Read more

CHICAGO — On quiet nights during the Christmas season, Ed O’Malley enjoys visiting the Nativity scene he helps set up every year in an Arlington Heights park.

He’ll check whether the wind has blown over a statue, or...Read more

Wendy Williams' family is "fighting" to get her back home from a facility where she's receiving treatment for her health issues, her son said.

The former daytime talk show host's son Kevin Hunter Jr. on Monday shared an ...Read more

A federal judge signed off last week on a consent decree between the Department of Justice and the Johns Hopkins Health System to resolve allegations that the medical system’s coronavirus-pandemic-era visitor ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mariah Carey, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Christmas,” just earned herself another gift this year in the form of two new Billboard records.

Carey’s upbeat holiday pop song, “All I Want for ...Read more

Last December, a farmer was burning dry grapevines in his vineyard in Deir Mar Moussa, a hill town a dozen miles east of Beirut known for its 18th century monastery and stands of pine forest. Usually this would be ...Read more

NEW YORK — An NYPD lieutenant suspended from the force following a Daily News report detailing the more than $200,000 in overtime pay she accrued last year is demanding she be reinstated, claiming she deserves special ...Read more

American Airlines Group Inc. said a technical vendor glitch was the cause of a brief groundstop on all U.S. flights on Christmas Eve, one of the busiest days of the holiday travel season.

The carrier said Tuesday the ...Read more