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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends a press conference to announce government action to protect children online, at Downing Street in central London, Monday, June 15, 2026.

Britain will ban under-16s from social media apps, including TikTok and YouTube

The ban will apply to platforms including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X. The move makes the U.K. part of a growing global movement to tighten online safety for children.

Yolanda Alvarado, a fifth-generation cattle rancher in west Texas, stands with her sons at a press conference on Monday in Marfa, announcing a landowner lawsuit against a proposed border wall along the border with Mexico.

Texas landowners sue federal government over border wall plans

A lawsuit filed Monday takes aim at federal agencies' use of waivers to expedite construction of a wall along the border with Mexico and claims that landowner's constitutional rights are being violated.

Protesters gather outside the San Diego City Administration Building before an appeal hearing on Tuesday, July 7, 2026.

Neighbors lose half-century fight to save Emerald Hills green space for a park

The San Diego City Council rejected an appeal to stop a housing development from coming to the hilltop. The development relies on a now-repealed controversial footnote in city code.

Ramson Lomatewama, Idyllwild Arts Glass Studio, 2016. Photo: Idyllwild Arts Foundation.

Top 10 weekend arts events in San Diego: Hitchcock, grandma hobbies and fútbol

This weekend in the arts in San Diego: Glass art by Indigenous artists at the Mingei; Gustavo Romero plays Liszt; indie and new wave at Soda Bar; spinning, weaving and blacksmithing in Old Town; Hitchcock at The Old Globe; Street Level in Oceanside; and fútbol on Chicano Park Blvd.

Online prediction markets hosting bets on U.S. presidential election and regime change in Iran.

With boom in prediction markets, some lawmakers worry about how to police themselves

House and Senate ethics committees give no financial disclosure guidance on event contracts or prediction markets — unlike stock, cryptocurrency and bond trades.

A voter casts her ballot in Colorado's primary election at Denver's Central Library on June 30.

Democrats are focused on affordability. Some say they should focus on democracy too

Democratic candidates have focused on affordability. But some party figures say Democrats should also talk about democracy, especially if President Trump continues making unfounded election claims.

A poster calling on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to get out of the community hangs on a door in the Little Village neighborhood on January 22, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.

New report shows the economic toll of ICE raids

A new study shows the steep economic cost of 2025's ICE raids in Chicago. Fear kept many immigrants home, draining the area of more than $1.26 billion in lost retail, restaurant, and sales-tax revenue.

Although the government is refunding many tariffs, most of the money is going to businesses and importers — not consumers.

Businesses are getting tariff refunds. Why aren't consumers getting their cut?

A slew of American companies are getting billions of dollars back in tariff refunds after a Supreme Court ruling. Many consumers, though, may never get anything back.

Jonathan Dumke, a senior forensic chemist with the Drug Enforcement Administration, holds a container of fentanyl pills at a DEA research laboratory on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Northern Virginia.

Scripps Research scientists redesign fentanyl in search of safer pain relief

Scripps researchers say a molecular redesign of fentanyl may preserve pain relief while reducing the deadly breathing suppression that drives overdoses.

AI chatbots are offering financial advice. Should you trust them?

Experts say AI can get personal finance fundamentals right but may struggle with nuanced questions.

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