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San Diego Juvenile Hall's visitor's entrance is shown in this photo taken Sept. 11, 2021.

Hope and uncertainty linger as California turns the page on state-run youth prisons

California has moved responsibility for youth prisons to the county level, the final step toward local control in a yearslong reform effort aimed at keeping young offenders closer to home and prioritizing rehabilitation over punishment.

Pedestrians pass the Levi's store in in New York's Times Square. An immigrant and tailor named Jacob Davis teamed up with dry goods merchant Levi Strauss to patent the first riveted blue jeans in 1873.

Durable and enduring, blue jeans turn 150

It's hard to imagine a piece of clothing that's more wrapped up in American history and mythology than blue jeans. They were invented 150 years ago.

Bernadette Moordigian in front of the Fresno City College library on July 5, 2022.

Health care costs keep rising. A new California agency aims to fix that

For years, consumer advocates and some legislators have been battling to rein in escalating health care costs. Now the state has created a new agency to limit future growth in health care costs — and it will have the power to enforce that mandate.

A Chase Bank location in Warrington, Pa. Regulators seized First Republic Bank and sold all of its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase Bank.

Has JPMorgan Chase grown too large? A former White House economic adviser weighs in

What are the risks of JPMorgan Chase becoming even bigger since taking over First Republic Bank?

A home burns as the Dixie fire jumps Highway 395 south of Janesville, Calif., Aug. 16, 2021.

California insurance market rattled by withdrawal of major companies

Two insurance industry giants have stepped back from the California marketplace.

Journalists at two dozen Gannett Co.-owned newspapers across the country staged a walk-out Monday and Tuesday to protest pay and working conditions. The NewsGuild noted their ranks have been decimated by cuts required to finance a merger with another major newspaper company four years ago.

Journalists at Gannett newspapers walk out over deep cuts and low pay

Journalists at 24 Gannett newspapers decimated by financial cuts are protesting the failure of contract negotiations to resolve what they say is low pay and increasingly stressful working conditions.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, seen here on April 13, warned on Monday that the federal government could default on its debt as early as June 1 unless Congress raises or suspends the debt ceiling.

The U.S. could run out of cash to pay its bills by June 1, Yellen warns Congress

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned lawmakers that unless the debt ceiling is raised soon, the federal government may not have enough money to pay its bills as early as June 1.

D'Arcy Drollinger, the country's first drag laureate, poses with the Pride flag outside San Francisco City Hall on June 2, 2023.

Nation's first 'drag laureate' kicks off Pride in San Francisco

A nightclub owner, artist and newly elected government official is joining Pride festivities as other U.S. cities consider appointing drag laureates.

Thousands of communities on Reddit are "going dark" in response to changes the company announced that would charge third-party developers for access to its site data.

Thousands of Reddit communities 'go dark' in protest of new developer fees

More than 6,000 so-called subreddits are participating in a 48-hour boycott aimed at pressuring the company to reverse its new fees for accessing the company's internal data.

Bicycles burn during a protest outside the Paris City Hall on Friday, the day France's Constitutional Council approved an unpopular plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

French President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 was enacted into law Saturday. The authorized changes will start being implemented in September.

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