Lawsuits accuse insurers of colluding to drop coverage in fire-prone parts of California
Two lawsuits filed in Los Angeles accuse the major home insurers of colluding to limit coverage in high-risk areas across California.
Day: April 21, 2025
Leaders and supporters around the globe react to death of Pope Francis
Leaders and worshippers around the world mourn and pay tribute to the late Pope Francis.
‘Alarmed’: Lawmakers reportedly flooded with calls demanding ‘marooned’ migrant’s return
Voters who used a particular phone app had one major request for their representatives: Return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to his family in the United States, new data from a San Francisco nonprofit revealed.Abrego Garcia has been held in El Salvador’s notor…
Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at Walmart store avoids death sentence
Patrick Crusius accepted a plea deal that resulted in a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
WA rule proposals on transgender athletes fail to pass, WIAA announces
Two proposed rule changes for transgender student-athletes in Washington that were advisory-only votes did not pass, the WIAA announced Monday.
A look back at Pope Francis’ life and legacy
Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pope Francis died Monday, the day after Easter, at the age of 88. As the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, he was the first Latin American pontiff, the first non-European pope in more than a millennium, and he left behind a legacy of service, unity, and compassion.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby.
What is a conclave? A guide to what happens after death of Pope Francis
Pope Francis has died, setting off a historical process that will see a new pontiff elected by more than 100 cardinals during a secretive conclave held in the Vatican.
News24 | Pope’s trusty ‘Camerlengo’ to run Vatican in wake of Francis’s death
With Pope Francis’s death, the immediate running of the Vatican is now in the hands of one cardinal, Dublin-born Cardinal Kevin Farrell.
Airbnb now shows the full cost of a stay, excluding taxes, in search results by default; a Biden-era FTC rule on “junk fees” is set to go into effect on May 12 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
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Airbnb now shows the full cost of a stay, excluding taxes, in search results by default; a Biden-era FTC rule on “junk fees” is set to go into effect on May 12 — Customers in the US and 200-plus…