For decades‚ California’s behemoth economy has outpaced those of most nations‚ holding an outsize role in shaping global trends in tech‚ entertainment and agriculture. While that reputation remains‚ the state has a less enviable distinction: one of the nation’s highest unemployment rates. Nationwide‚ the rate is 3.7 percent‚ and in January‚ the country added 353‚000 jobs. California’s job growth has been slower than the nationwide average over the last year‚ and the unemployment rate...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is “sunsetting” its advice that people sick with Covid-19 isolate themselves for five days. The agency published new guidance Friday for Covid and other respiratory illnesses‚ suggesting people who are sick should stay at home until they are fever-free for 24 hours and their symptoms have been improving for the same period of time. The new guidance recommends that in the five days that follow‚ recovering people should take measures such as...

A New Jersey businessman charged with attempting to bribe Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) with a Mercedez-Benz for his political sway has pleaded guilty in the far-reaching corruption case.  Jose Uribe entered a guilty plea Friday in federal court in New York to charges that include conspiracy to commit bribery‚ obstruction of justice‚ and tax evasion‚ court filings show. 

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals‚ in a ruling Friday that a Jan. 6‚ 2021‚ defendant's sentence must be recalculated because of the improper use of a federal statute allowing more time to be added to the penalty. The decision could force district court judges to recalculate or even reduce punishments of more than 100 defendants convicted of felony obstruction.

The U.S. military is set to begin airdropping humanitarian supplies into Gaza in the coming days‚ President Joe Biden announced Friday‚ according to reports. Biden said the current flow of aid into Gaza is insufficient to remediate the worsening crisis as Palestinians struggle to access food‚ water and medical supplies while Israel fights against the Hamas terrorist organization embedded in Gaza‚ according to Axios. However‚ administration officials acknowledge that...

The Biden administration announced the U.S. will begin air-dropping aid to Gaza in the coming days to improve the conditions for Palestinians amid Hamas’ ongoing conflict with Israel—news that comes as a cease-fire agreement becomes seemingly less likely to occur soon. In addition to air-dropping food and supplies‚ Biden said his administration is going to “insist that Israel facilitate more trucks and more routes to get more and more people (in Gaza) the help they need.” Biden...