A multi-year‚ $750 million program aimed at doing away with homeless encampments has had mixed results throughout California. Local leaders say ongoing funding is needed.

It took Hisham Awartani some time to realize he'd been shot after falling to the ground during a walk near his grandmother's house with two friends‚ Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ali Ahmad. "I didn’t quite process the fact until I‚ like‚ looked at my phone and I saw my phone had blood on it‚" said Awartani‚ who along with Abdalhamid‚ spoke exclusively with NBC News about that night. "I was like‚ 'Oh‚ I’ve been shot.'" But having grown up in the Israeli-occupied West Bank‚...

President Donald Trump's policies generally were "right" for the country‚ JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said. During a CNBC interview conducted Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos‚ Switzerland‚ Dimon discussed the current U.S. economy and politics with the 2024 presidential election little more than nine months away. He said that many Trump supporters are backing the former president because of his policies‚ not necessarily his personality.

A Washington law firm that tries to help Democrats win elections around the country has asked the liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out the battleground state’s congressional maps‚ arguing that the court’s decision last month ordering new state legislative maps opens the door to the latest challenge. The redistricting lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Elias Law Group on behalf of Democratic voters comes less than a month after the court threw out the state legislative...

Vice President Kamala Harris stopped by on "The View" Wednesday to talk about the administration's message to voters and its goals as the 2024 presidential election kicks off. Harris said she was "scared as heck" when asked about her thoughts about former President Donald Trump being re-elected‚ and that many Americans that she has talked to in the last couple of weeks have that same feeling. The vice president said that she has been actively listening to those concerns and has worked to...

GOP rivals former President Trump and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley are tied in New Hampshire‚ new polling shows‚ as the primary race heads into the Granite State.  The survey from American Research Group Inc.‚ released Tuesday‚ puts Trump and Haley at 40 percent each among the state’s likely Republican primary voters.

If you opened Facebook‚ Twitter or Instagram about a decade ago‚ you'd likely see posts from friends and family‚ in chronological order. Nowadays‚ users are hit with a barrage of content curated by an algorithm. Passionate about plants? Sports? Cats? Politics? That's what you're going to see. "[There] are equations that measure what you're doing‚ surveille the data of all the users on these platforms‚ and then try to predict what each person is most likely to engage with‚" New Yorker...

Mixing new technology and new laws is always a fraught business‚ especially if the tech in question relates to communication. Lawmakers routinely propose bills that would sweep up all sorts of First Amendment-protected speech. We've seen a lot of this with social media‚ and we're starting to see it with artificial intelligence. Case in point: the No Artificial Intelligence Fake Replicas And Unauthorized Duplications (No AI FRAUD) Act. Under the auspices of protecting "Americans' individual...

Will people pay to watch CNN videos on their phones? New CNN boss Mark Thompson seems eager to test that idea. When he took over as the network’s chief executive in October‚ Thompson warned staff that CNN was nowhere near ready for the future and needed to step up its digital game. One hundred days later‚ he is laying the groundwork to do that. 

Engagements can be a whirlwind for everyone involved. Unless you've previously bought a ring for your partner you have little to no idea what size they wear and how exactly do you ask that question without tipping them off? This is exactly how buying the incorrect ring size happens but with all of the excitement and planning‚ you make do with what you have and hope it fits. For David and Nicolette Koske‚ their engagement got a little interesting in the most hilarious way when the ring David bought didn't fit. The couple was out with Nicolette's best friend‚ Isa Haiti and her partner for a totally normal not at all secret engagement outing in what appears to be the woods. At least that's what Nicolette likely thought until the diamond was whipped out and being ...not placed on her ring finger.The ring didn't fit. But the photographer was right there waiting to catch the shot of the newly engaged couple and it's a rule that you have to give the photographer the best shot possible. That's when Haiti steps in.Haiti slips the ring on to make sure the moment was captured for her bestie. How would anyone know it's not her hand when it's clearly only multiple shades darker than the rest of her body. Maybe that hand just really likes sunlight or she fell asleep with only that hand in the tanning bed. You don't know her life. At least those are some of the comments amused viewers are leaving."Not me thinking your hand was changing color because the ring was too small and cutting off circulation‚" one person admits. "Apparently your hand went on vacation to the beach!! Your friends are hilarious! Congratulations on your engagement‚" someone says."Not me thinking you borrowed a friend's ring before realizing you borrowed the whole hand‚" a commenter laughs. @nicive289 No one will know 🤫#fyp #bestie #engagement There was some confusion in the comments with people thinking she borrowed her friend's hand because the diamond was too small‚ not the ring. This misunderstanding even had people calling her materialistic so she came out with a follow up video to explain."I was not even close to talking about the diamond size. My boyfriend could've gotten me a Ring Pop with glitter on it and I would've been ecstatic‚" Nicolette retorts. She assures people she's not materialistic and has been laughing at some of the people's explanations on what they thought was happening in the picture. There was no real context to the video‚ just the still photo with Bruno Mars "Marry You" in the background‚ and a text overlay that said "when get engaged but the ring is too small so you're bestie comes in clutch." This allowed for people's imaginations to go wild in the most amusing way possible.