More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week and while layoffs remain low, it was the fifth consecutive week that claims topped the 230,000 mark and the highest number in almost six months. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending July 2 rose to 235,000, up 4,000 from the …

The group accused of attacking a man in Boston during a white supremacist march on Saturday should be prosecuted “within the fullest extent of the law,” the city’s mayor said Tuesday. Mayor Michelle Wu said there’s an ongoing investigation into the alleged assault.  Wu’s comments come after dozens of masked …

Jeff Bezos is sparring with the White House over the cause of high gas prices, with the world’s second-richest person expressing opposition to a tweet from President Joe Biden that called on fuel companies to cut prices. Bezos took issue with a July 2 tweet from Mr. Biden that told …

Orange County authorities have cleared a backlog of untested sexual assault kits going back decades and the results led to the filing of charges in six cold cases, the district attorney’s office announced Tuesday. After a survey of backlogged kits, some 1,700 were tested by the county’s crime lab and …

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday ordered Juul Labs Inc.’s e-cigarettes off the market, saying the products play an outsized role in the rise in youth vaping. The sales ban follows nearly two years of back and forth between the regulator and the San Francisco-based company, which had …

Rapper Nipsey Hussle was gunned down outside his clothing shop in a calculated, premeditated fashion by a man upset over a discussion about snitching, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday at the outset of a long-delayed murder trial. Deputy District Attorney John McKinney said during his opening statement that there’s “no …

Stocks are sliding on Wall Street Tuesday a day after dropping into a bear market. The S&P 500 was down 14 points, or 0.4%, as of 11:30 Eastern Time on Tuesday, while the Dow dropped 0.5%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq edged up 0.1%. In the early going, Treasury yields slowed their …

Raphael Warnock might have two job titles, but spend enough time with him, and you’ll see a lot of overlap between the preacher and the politician. At an appearance at his campaign office, he said, “You elected me, you joined my congregation!” CBS News’ John Dickerson asked Warnock, “What’s the …

Negotiations on Capitol Hill are reaching a critical point, as top Republican and Democratic senators stake out common ground on legislation that could reduce future mass shootings.  One of the negotiators, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, told reporters Tuesday discussions are “entering a pretty critical stage,” and his “goal is to …

Elon Musk is threatening to pull his $44 billion Twitter buyout offer, accusing the company of hiding information about the number of bot and spam accounts on the platform. In a letter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Monday, lawyers for Musk said that Twitter has refused to hand …