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A $3,300 self-driving stroller presented at this year's CES

01/04/2023 10:28pm
(cnn) -- Hang onto your baby bonnets: Self-driving technology is coming to strollers. Canadian-based baby gear startup

Salesforce to cut 10% of workforce after hiring 'too many people'

01/04/2023 9:44pm
Salesforce Inc said it plans to cut jobs by 10% and close some offices, after rapid pandemic hiring left it with a bloated workforce amid an economic slowdown.

Fed wants 'flexibility' on rates as inflation remains key focus, meeting minutes show

01/04/2023 8:08pm
All officials at the Federal Reserve's Dec. 13-14 policy meeting agreed the U.S. central bank should slow the pace of its aggressive interest rate increases, allowing them to continue increasing the cost of credit to control inflation but in a gradual way meant to limit the risks to economic growth.

Biden to visit border with Mexico, speak on immigration

01/04/2023 7:29pm
U.S. President Joe Biden plans to give a speech on immigration on Thursday and intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border next week, addressing an issue that has challenged the Democratic president during his first two years in office.

Sotomayor felt 'shell-shocked' after US Supreme Court's abortion decision

01/04/2023 6:32pm
Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday told legal educators she felt a "sense of despair" at the direction taken by the U.S. Supreme Court during its previous term, during which its conservative majority overturned the constitutional right to abortion.

83-year-old South LA man survives mauling by neighbor's dogs in own front yard

01/04/2023 6:08pm
Los Angeles ( Kabc ) — Jimmy Lindsey is lucky to be alive after being mauled by his neighbor's two massive dogs.

'Embarrassing': Where Utah congressmen stand on US House speaker vote

01/04/2023 5:36pm
Rep. John Curtis calls Republicans' inability to choose a speaker "embarrassing" with more rounds of voting expected Wednesday as 20 far-right lawmakers continue to block Rep. Kevin McCarthy's path to the job.

Report shares new details about death possibly linked to experimental Alzheimer's drug

01/04/2023 5:06pm
The death of a participant in a clinical trial of an antibody treatment for Alzheimer's disease, which is now under consideration by the FDA, may be linked to the experimental drug, a new report shows.

As legal pot grows, more kids sickened by edibles at home

01/04/2023 1:37pm
A new U.S. study finds that reports of young children accidentally eating marijuana-laced treats rose sharply as pot became legal in more places. More than 7,000 confirmed cases of kids younger than 6 eating pot edibles were reported to the nation's poison control centers over a recent five-year period.

California man arrested after police say he intentionally drove off cliff with woman, 2 children in car

01/04/2023 12:42pm
(cnn) -- A 41-year-old California man was placed under arrest Tuesday on multiple charges after he allegedly intended

Former Colorado funeral home owner sentenced to 20 years for selling body parts

01/04/2023 11:16am
A former Colorado funeral home owner was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Tuesday for defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without permission.

CES 2023: Tech world to gather and show off gadgets

01/04/2023 10:39am
The annual tech industry event formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show is returning to Las Vegas this week with the hope that it looks more like it did before the coronavirus pandemic.

Police: Idaho slaying suspect's DNA found at crime scene

01/04/2023 9:40am
Idaho police pieced together DNA evidence, cellphone data and surveillance video to charge a criminology graduate student with the November slaying of four University of Idaho undergraduates, according to an affidavit unsealed Thursday.

Mastermind of US college admissions fraud scheme gets 3½ years in prison

01/04/2023 9:22am
The architect of the U.S. college admissions fraud scheme was sentenced to 3½ years in prison for helping wealthy parents secure the admission of their children to elite universities through cheating and bribery.

House adjourns as Kevin McCarthy rejected again for speaker with GOP in disarray

01/04/2023 8:43am
House Republicans are plowing through the second day of the new Congress, with no clear off-ramp from their political chaos over electing a new speaker.

FDA to allow pharmacies to dispense abortion pills to patients

01/04/2023 8:21am
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is allowing certified pharmacies to dispense the abortion medication mifepristone to people who have a prescription.