President Joe Biden has signed off on giving federal wildland firefighters a hefty raise for the next two fiscal years, a move that affects more than 16,000 firefighters and comes as much of the West braces for a difficult wildfire season. Pay raises for the federal firefighters had been included …

On a recent Friday in Portland, Oregon, it looked for all the world like an actual sporting event was taking place. There were cheerleaders and news cameras; they even cut down a basketball net. But in fact, all of this was to celebrate the opening of a sports bar, and …

A North Carolina charter school violated female students’ constitutional rights by requiring them to wear skirts, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. A majority of the full U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the dress code at Charter Day School in Leland violated female students’ equal protection rights, …

A West Virginia man was charged with murdering three co-workers at a Maryland machine shop as well as attempted murder and other charges, authorities said late Friday. The name of the alleged shooter, Joe Louis Esquivel, 23, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was also released by the Washington County sheriff’s office …

Look no further than your car’s exterior to earn cash to help pay for the surging cost of filling up. New companies enabling drivers to swath their vehicles in advertisements say that drivers — especially those who log many miles on the road each month — are signing up in …

Katy Tur is known to millions as an anchor at MSNBC. Now, in a revealing interview with correspondent Tracy Smith for “CBS Sunday Morning,” Tur talks about her childhood, growing up in the media, and her new warts-and-all memoir, “Rough Draft.” The interview will be broadcast on “CBS Sunday Morning,” June 12 …

Thousands of workers at Salesforce are pressing the software company to cut ties with the National Rifle Association after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, left 21 people dead. At least 4,000 employees at the San Francisco-based company signed an open letter to co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret …

Four people were killed in a shooting Wednesday evening in a medical building on a hospital campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police said. The gunman is also dead, of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police. Tulsa Police Department Capt. Richard Meulenberg told CNN multiple people were wounded — he …

As gas prices remain near record highs, New York has become the latest state to suspend its gas tax in an effort to give drivers some relief at the pump. The suspension of the 16-cents-per-gallon tax runs from June 1 through the end of the year.  The national average for …

Washington — An Iraqi citizen living in the U.S. has been charged with aiding and abetting a plot to murder former President George W. Bush, the Justice Department announced Tuesday, unveiling an alleged scheme to smuggle four ISIS operatives into the country to kill the former president. Shihab Ahmed Shihab …