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Rod Colwell, CEO of Controlled Thermal Resources, is among many hoping to transform the area around California's Salton Sea into a domestic source of lithium for electric car batteries.

California's 'White Gold' Rush: Lithium In Demand Amid Surge In Electric Vehicles

Automakers worry about a shortage of key minerals just as production of electric vehicles is set to spike. The Biden administration has called for boosting domestic production of them.

JaShyah Moore, 14, of East Orange, N.J., was last seen on Oct. 14 at Poppies Deli. Authorities from various law enforcement agencies in New Jersey are working together to try to find her.

A New Jersey teen vanishes after a trip to a local deli. She's been missing 3 weeks

JaShyah Moore, 14, was last seen in East Orange, N.J., on Oct. 14. Authorities from various law enforcement agencies in New Jersey are working together to try to find her.

Pianist Brendan Nguyen is pictured from above, playing a grand piano, in an undated photo

San Diego weekend arts events: Brendan Nguyen, San Diego Symphony, Andrés Hernández and more

This weekend in the arts: solo piano works by visionary women composers; the San Diego Symphony performs Rachmaninoff, Berlioz and Still; a Hill Street Country Club virtual art and poetry conversation, photojournalism at OMA and Sundance Satellite.

An artist's rendering shows the proposed affordable housing complex adjacent to the Palm Avenue trolley station.

MTS approves 390 affordable apartments on trolley parking lot

Palm City Village in the South Bay would replace an underutilized 4-acre parking lot with affordable housing.

The richest people in the world got even richer during the pandemic and more people fell into poverty, says an Oxfam report. The charity claims that this growing economic gap leads to "economic violence."

Oxfam says the rich got richer in the pandemic, and the wealth gap is killing the poor

The poverty-fighting charity points to unprecedented new wealth accrued by the ultra-rich — and asserts that the result of the world's growing inequality is "economic violence" for the impoverished.

Fuel tanks are seen at a Colonial Pipeline delivery point in Baltimore, Md., on Monday. The company's pipeline was hit with a major ransomware attack on Friday.

What We Know About The Ransomware Attack On A Critical U.S. Pipeline

The massive pipeline, which supplies 45% of the East Coast's gasoline and jet fuel, was forced to shut down over the weekend.

Samantha Mohn substitute teaching at Montgomery Middle Magnet School, Linda Vista, CA November 3, 2021

Substitute teachers in high demand as COVID-19 continues

Many school districts are actively recruiting substitute teachers with higher pay incentives.

Russia's current war tactics are strikingly similar to its 2008 invasion of Georgia

Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, and many of the war tactics are chillingly similar to what we're seeing in Ukraine now. Did Russia develop its "playbook" 14 years ago?

A sign marks the main entrance to the campus of Grove City College in Grove City, Pa.

PERSPECTIVE: At conservative schools, anti-critical race theory still looms large

On conservative campuses, anti-critical race theory hovers.

The memory of aging mice improved when they received a substance found in the spinal fluid of young animals.

A substance found in young spinal fluid helps old mice remember

A team at Stanford University has reversed memory loss in old mice by flooding their brains with spinal fluid taken from young animals. The finding may hold promise for Alzheimer's research.

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