Eight people were shot – one fatally – in Oakland Monday evening, police there say – the third mass shooting in as many days in California and second in the Bay Area on Monday alone. Police say officers were sent to investigate a ShotSpotter activation – gunfire picked up by …

The idea of a national wealth tax has been floated for years by the likes of President Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren, although without yet gaining traction in Congress. Now, a group of lawmakers from eight states say they’re stepping in to introduce their own wealth taxes, with the …

When President Biden delivers his State of the Union address on Feb. 7, he will do so to a different Congress, a different nation and a different world than he did in his last State of the Union address.  Inflation, although easing, is still eating away at the budgets of many …

Todd and Julie Chrisley reported to prison Tuesday as the husband and wife are set to begin their sentences after being convicted last year of bank fraud and tax evasion.  In December, the couple, who starred on the USA reality TV show “Chrisley Knows Best,” were each told they would …

Authorities will charge Brian Walshe with the murder of his wife Ana Walshe, who has been missing from her Cohasset home since Jan. 1, said Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey.  Police said that Ana Walshe’s phone sent a ping to the couple’s home on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2 …

Longtime Democratic lawyer Bob Bauer is serving as the personal attorney for President Biden in the classified documents matter now before a Justice Department special counsel, the White House confirmed Friday. Bauer has been the primary point of contact between the Biden camp and the Justice Department during the initial …

Microsoft will let workers take as much time off as they want beginning next week.  Under the company’s new “Discretionary Time off (DTO)” policy, U.S.-based salaried employees will no longer have a fixed number of vacation days per year.  “Beginning January 16, 2023, Microsoft is modernizing our vacation policy to …

American consumers, bruised by a grueling 2022, face another year of living dangerously. Optimists and pessimists alike can point to their preferred indicators to predict how the year ahead is likely to go. In one corner, a recession looks probable this year. The Federal Reserve is also virtually certain to …

A New York City man accused by police of striking his estranged wife with an SUV and then stabbing her as their three children watched was charged Wednesday with attempted murder and other crimes. Stephen Giraldo, 36, also was charged with assault, reckless endangerment and child endangerment in the incidents …

Just in time for Christmas, New York legislators returned to the state capital Thursday to give themselves a nice holiday gift: a pay raise that would make them the nation’s best-paid state lawmakers. Members of the state Assembly and Senate would make a base salary of $142,000 under a bill …