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Those with a watchful eye and a social media presence may notice there’s been a consistent yet unassuming character in their feeds: Costco.

A Costco waffle-cone cake, for example, is turning heads across digital ...Read more

If you see a Starbucks barista filming while making your drink, don’t assume they’re goofing off. Starbucks could be paying them to make a TikTok.

Starbucks baristas have posted content on social media for years, ...Read more

Amazon’s global carbon dioxide emissions spiked last year, as the tech giant scales up its ambitious artificial intelligence plans.

The Seattle-based company's emissions jumped 16% to almost 81 million metric tons of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Crews in Boyle Heights continued working Thursday to haul away millions of pounds of rotting food in hopes of returning the fire-stricken cold-storage facility and the surrounding neighborhood to normal.

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Hundreds of firefighters battling five wildfires across Colorado may see extreme fire behavior in the coming days, with state leaders bracing for a weather forecast of near-zero humidity, triple digit temperatures and ...Read more

Government attempts to address the global memory chip shortage by influencing prices or production capacity would worsen a historic squeeze on supply driven by the artificial intelligence boom, a semiconductor industry ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he sees the need for some standards on artificial intelligence technology, but wants to avoid burdensome restrictions that may hamper American companies competing with China.

”Well, you need ...Read more

NEW YORK — They say they did it all for love — but prosecutors say they recklessly put themselves and others in extreme danger.

Angelina Nikolau, 33, and Ivan “Vanya” Kuznetsov, 32, were arraigned Thursday morning...Read more

NEW YORK — Temperatures in Central Park reached 100 degrees for the first time in nearly 14 years.

The National Weather Service New York reported at 1:51 p.m. that the mercury hit triple digits for the first time since ...Read more

TUMWATER, Wash. — Opponents of Washington’s new high-earners income tax submitted more than 500,000 signatures for an initiative to kill the tax Thursday, setting up an epic brawl for November over the state’s tax ...Read more

No matter who works the grill this July 4 weekend, you or your Uncle Gus, check your grill brushes so no one winds up with metal in their meat.

On Thursday, Conair recalled 1,719,995 brushes sold under the Cuisinart brand...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Hawthorne man on Thursday pleaded guilty to federal charges of sending a fake ransom note to the family of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie, whose mother, Nancy, was abducted in a mystery that ...Read more

A huge swath of public land in California, including portions of the San Joaquin Valley, may one day be dotted with oil and gas equipment under a plan by the federal government to expand production.

The U.S. Bureau of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — While police and fire agencies across Southern California continue to gear up for what likely will be a busy Fourth of July holiday with heightened calls for service, law enforcement has been working for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is requesting that administration officials disclose records of any federal agency coordination on a settlement agreement with the IRS that shields President ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — Even before Yosemite entered into its peak summer season, the national park was seeing a massive increase in visitors; as much as 45% in March, according to data from the National Park Service.

By the ...Read more

An electric Tesla Semi truck crashed into two vehicles in Dayton, Nev., over the weekend, killing two people and raising questions about the truck's safety features.

The Lyon County Sheriff's Office responded to a major ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Decades of Hollywood empire-building ended with a quake in 2017 when Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch decided to sell much of his Fox entertainment holdings amid the rise of Netflix and other tech ...Read more

Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday said he’s working to ensure Illinois has help from top experts to defend its assault weapons ban, after the U.S. Supreme Court indicated this week it would hear arguments over similar bans in...Read more

DENVER — A federal appeals court in Denver has directed the Trump administration to provide bail hearings for many immigrant detainees in a ruling that will have major implications for hundreds of people held ...Read more