Three children were hospitalized Monday after being struck by a vehicle a few blocks away from an elementary school in Orange County, California, police said. Several “incendiary devices” were found in the vehicle, police said. The suspect drove a vehicle onto the sidewalk and struck three children a few blocks …

Twenty-eight-year-old Kera Cheney works for the government, lives in a basement apartment with her boyfriend in San Francisco, and stresses about her college loans. Her student debt now stands at around $280,000.   She followed the classic recipe for success, by graduating from Penn State. But now, she’s facing down …

Buffalo, New York — Shoppers out on a weekend afternoon and a retired police officer working as a security guard were among the 10 shot and killed at a Buffalo supermarket by a white teenager who authorities say was motivated by racial hatred. Police said Payton Gendron shot, in total, …

A new children’s online privacy bill is quickly making its way through the California state legislature and could lead to an overhaul of national safety standards for websites likely to be accessed by kids.  The California Age-Appropriate Design Code would require social media platforms to switch off geolocation for children, …

An initiative by a Massachusetts district attorney to clear a backlog of more than 1,100 untested rape kits from his jurisdiction has resulted in an indictment in a 2010 sexual assault, authorities said Friday. It is the first time someone has been indicted since Bristol District Attorney Thomas Quinn launched …

Spurred by fear of missing out on the next big thing, large corporations and institutional investors are gobbling up choice digital real estate, with virtual parcels being bought up almost faster than the environments can be created. Prices for space in the connected virtual- and augmented-reality environments known as the …

White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is replacing Jen Psaki as White House press secretary, President Biden announced Thursday.  Psaki will be leaving the White House on May 13, and her impending departure was expected. Longtime top Democratic adviser Anita Dunn is also returning to the White House …

The Justice Department is suing Trump’s one-time campaign chairman Paul Manafort for nearly $3 million for allegedly failing to report his financial interest in foreign bank accounts between 2013 and 2014. The lawsuit claims Manafort failed to fill out conventional “FBAR” reports required for all foreign bank balances over $10,000 …

Amazon reported its first quarterly loss since 2015 on Thursday, its money-making juggernaut stalled by a slowdown in pandemic-induced online shopping and a huge write-down of its investment in an electric-vehicle startup. The Seattle-based ecommerce giant’s stock almost 10% in after-hours trading. Amazon reported a loss of $3.84 billion, or …

The family of a woman killed when a 17-year-old driver crashed his father’s Lamborghini into her car in Los Angeles has reached an $18.85 million settlement in the case, attorneys announced Wednesday. Monique Munoz, 32, was on her way home from work at a hospital on Feb. 17, 2021, when …