For all California’s nation-leading attempts to regulate firearms, the state has not found a way to deter those happy to skirt the laws with stolen or homemade and increasingly prevalent “ghost” guns. In just two recent examples, police say the first weapon recovered after gunmen killed six people and wounded 12 …

After becoming the first of the online retailer’s U.S. workers to vote in favor of forming a union, Amazon employees in New York aren’t resting on their laurels.  “We already have interests in other buildings,” Christian Smalls, who spearheaded the fledgling Amazon Labor Union’s (ALU) battle against the $1.7 trillion …

Hilltown Township, Pa. — A Bucks County, Pa. pizza restaurant owner killed her longtime partner and shop co-owner and hid his body for weeks, police say. They accused Anna Maria Tolomello of shooting Giovanni Gallina in the head,  CBS Philly reports. A small makeshift memorial for Gallina filled with candles …

Washington — Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, she announced Wednesday, providing President Biden’s historic nominee with at least one GOP vote toward her likely confirmation. “After reviewing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s extensive record, watching much of her …

If you get a text message that looks to be from yourself, don’t click on it. That’s the sage advice of experts and of Verizon, which has received numerous complaints about customers getting spam text messages that seem to come from their own phone numbers.  Verizon’s community forum includes a …

Taylor Hawkins, for 25 years the drummer for Foo Fighters and best friend of frontman Dave Grohl, has died during a South American tour with the rock band. He was 50. There were no immediate details on how Hawkins died, although the band said in a statement Friday that his …

North Carolina’s attorney general and state bureau of investigations are looking into whether Mark Meadows, former President Trump’s chief of staff, committed voter fraud in the 2020 election. The allegation of voter fraud emerged after the New Yorker reported that Meadows had registered to vote in 2020 with the address …

A bus driver is being called a hero for barreling into the parking lot of the Fort Lauderdale police headquarters after a gunman opened fire on the bus, killing two passengers. The shooting broke out just after 2:30 p.m. Thursday as the Broward County Transit bus was traveling down a …

A judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the state from investigating parents who obtain gender-affirming medical care for their transgender children. Last month, Governor Greg Abbott signed an order directing the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and other state agencies to open the investigations, calling such treatments “child …

A woman with Russian and U.S. citizenships who founded what prosecutors called a “Russian propaganda center” in New York City was charged Tuesday with subverting laws for the last decade that require foreign agents to register with the U.S. The charges against Elena Branson were announced after the unsealing of …