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Customers are waiting up to eight weeks to get replacement credit cards because of ongoing chip shortages.

Need a new credit card? It can take almost two months to get a replacement

The ongoing chip shortage is causing card manufacturing delays that could last through the end of the year.

Ahmad Jumaa, Fathi Jumaa's son, holds parrots from their zoo in Rafah.

Some animals from a Gaza zoo are now displaced along with their owner

The Rafah zoo owner drove caged animals with him as he fled the city. He left three lions behind.

Student volunteers from Hoover High School work at the at school's food pantry, an initiative of the community schools program, July 18, 2023.

San Diego Unified wants to help students beyond the classroom. Is it working?

San Diego Unified wants more community schools, but how it will fund them in the long run is still unclear.

Biofire founder Kai Kloepfer says his goal in creating this 9mm smart gun is to "have an incremental positive impact on sort of the uniquely American challenge of gun deaths."

The first smart gun with facial and fingerprint recognition is now for sale

Smart guns have mainly been the stuff of movies. In the real world, technological and political challenges have meant the high-tech devices haven't become a reality. That may be about to change.

Waves crash against Ocean Beach Pier. San Diego, Calif. Jan. 2, 2024.

'Pineapple Expresses' and rising seas are battering California's piers, threatening iconic landmarks

The city is exploring replacing the Ocean Beach Pier after spending more than $1.7 million in fixes over the past five years.

An electric Ford-150 vehicle is seen on an assembly line at the Ford River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan, U.S., on Tuesday, April 4, 2023.

Californians bought record numbers of electric cars as industry eyes slowdown

Some automakers are reducing production of electric cars and Tesla sales have dropped. Can California sustain its record pace and meet the state mandate?

Power lines at an SDG&E facility in North Park are seen here on Sept. 26, 2017.

California's future with income-based flat-fee utility bills is getting closer

California utility regulators are moving the state closer to an unprecedented way to pay for electricity.

FILE - In this March 18, 2020, file photo, the state Assembly Chambers sits empty at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. New political maps have upended the Legislature in 2022 and many new faces will be seen in both houses when it reconvenes after the November election.

California is testing new generative AI tools. Here's what to know

The state is partnering with five companies to develop tools to help deliver public services.

Physician's assistant Brett Feldman does a checkup on his patient Gary Dela Cruz on the side of the road near his encampment in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 18, 2022. Feldman is the director and co-founder of Street Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.

More street medicine teams tackle the homeless health care crisis

Homeless people often have sporadic or no access to health care, resulting in costly, chronic conditions. A new statewide effort encourages Medi-Cal insurers to partner with street teams to improve care.

A sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen, May 4, 2021, in Washington. The amount of tax money owed but not paid to the IRS is set to keep growing, according to projections published by the federal tax collection agency.

Gap between U.S. income taxes owed and paid is set to keep growing, the IRS says

For tax years 2021 and 2020, the latest to receive such IRS estimates, the projected gross "tax gap" soared to $688 billion and $601 billion, respectively. That is a significant jump from the past.

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