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Firearms training unit Detective Barbara Mattson, of the Connecticut State Police, holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle on Jan. 28, 2013. It's the same make and model of gun used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook School shooting. Remington, the maker of the rifle used in the shooting, has reached a settlement with some of the victims' families.

Families of Sandy Hook victims reach $73 million settlement with Remington

Victims' relatives alleged the gun maker marketed and sold assault rifles to civilians, "prioritizing profit over public safety."

Workers plow wheat in Husakiv village in western Ukraine late last month. Russia and Ukraine account for a large percentage of global wheat exports.

Global food prices hit their highest recorded levels last month, driven up by the war

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says prices of food commodities like grains and vegetable oils soared in March following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

McDonald's arrived in Moscow when Russia was still part of the Soviet Union. Tens of thousands of customers stood in line when its first restaurant opened on Jan. 31, 1990, at Moscow's Pushkin Square.

McDonald's is leaving Russia, after more than 30 years

In 1990, the Big Mac's arrival in Moscow signaled a new era. Now McDonald's is tearing down the golden arches and writing off its investment in Russia.

A traditional Pakistani fishing boat, or kashti, laden with passengers, traverses a flooded lake in the southern district of Dado.

Fishermen offer a lifeline to Pakistan's flooded villages

In the south, the monsoon floods of summer have drastically altered the landscape, creating a lake that stretches for miles over villages and farmland. Fishermen are aiding the beleaguered residents.

Huntington, W.Va., Mayor Steve Williams, left, and lawyer Rusty Webb enter the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse in Charleston, W.Va., in May. A federal judge on Monday ruled in favor of three major U.S. drug distributors in a landmark lawsuit that accused them of causing a health crisis in a West Virginia county ravaged by opioid addiction.

A federal judge sides with 3 major drug distributors in a landmark opioid lawsuit

The lawsuit accused them of causing a health crisis by distributing 81 million pills over eight years in one West Virginia county ravaged by opioid addiction.

David Hernandez, 62, crawls into his bed made with cardboard boxes in Los Angeles last week. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has declared a state of emergency to grapple with the city's homeless crisis.

'It is the obvious thing.' The White House tries a new tack to combat homelessness

The Biden administration says to end the homelessness crisis, more must be done to keep people from losing housing in the first place. But identifying and reaching those most at risk is a challenge.

Illustration of a person standing in front of a life-sized chart showing different colors in waves and lines representing them balancing their stock portfolio.

5 tips to start investing in the stock market

Investing in a smart way can get you set up for whatever the future may bring. But where to begin? Here are a few tips for those who are just entering the world of investing.

Corvette's "electrified" model will come as early as next year, followed by a fully electric version, General Motors says.

Corvette is the next big name in cars to roll out an electric

An "electrified" Corvette is coming next year, with a fully electric model to follow, GM's president says. The automaker faces heavy competition in an electric vehicle market dominated by Tesla.

"Stolpersteine," or "stumbling stones," a decades-long project to remember Holocaust victims, are seen here in on the streets of Berlin.

What the U.S. can learn from Germany about grappling with dark parts of its history

The Atlantic writer Clint Smith explored how sites across the U.S. grapple with their relationship to chattel slavery, then visited Holocaust memorials in Germany. Here are three of his takeaways.

University of California research and student employees are on strike at all of the UC system campuses. At UC San Diego several hundred union members walked the picket line, San Diego, Nov. 14, 2022.

As UC strike enters second month, grad workers risk arrest pushing for raises

Teams of striking UC graduate student workers are willingly getting arrested in acts of civil disobedience.

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