Keke Palmer comedy ‘One of Them Days’ and ‘Mufasa’ in close race for No. 1

WASHINGTON — The Keke Palmer buddy comedy “One of Them Days” opened in first place on the North American box office charts on a particularly slow Martin Luther King Jr.…

North Carolina home insurance premium base rates increasing about 15% by mid-2026

RALEIGH. N.C. — Base rates for North Carolina homeowners’ insurance premiums will increase on average by about 15% by mid-2026 as part of a settlement reached by the state Insurance…

Starbucks plans corporate layoffs as part of turnaround

Starbucks says it plans an unspecified number of layoffs as it restructures its corporate staff ByDEE-ANN DURBIN AP business writer January 17, 2025, 5:09 PM Starbucks said Friday it plans…

US accuses Walgreens of filling millions of illegitimate prescriptions

DEERFIELD, Ill. — The U.S. Justice Department is accusing Walgreens of filling millions of prescriptions in the last decade and more without a legitimate purpose, including for dangerous amounts of…

For TikTok users, mourning, frustration and clinging to hope as TikTok ban looms

NEW YORK — The U.S. is inching closer and closer to a potential TikTok ban — with the nation’s highest court upholding a law that’s set to halt new downloads…

TikTok refugees are pouring to Xiaohongshu. Here’s what you need to know about the RedNote app

WASHINGTON — As the fate of TikTok hangs in the balance, U.S. TikTok users are flocking to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, also called RedNote – making it the…

‘Fields were solitary’: Migration raids send chill across rural California

Los Angeles, California — Recent raids carried out by the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a rural California county have struck fear into immigrant communities as President-elect…

Yellen says Treasury will use ‘extraordinary measures’ on Jan. 21 to prevent hitting debt ceiling

WASHINGTON — In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen said her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation…

Israeli cabinet approves Gaza ceasefire deal with Hamas

Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet has approved a deal with Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza after more than 460 days of war in which Israeli forces have killed more than 46,788…

A battery plant fire in California started during a boom for energy storage

AUSTIN, Texas — A fire at one of the world’s largest battery plants in Northern California contained tens of thousands of lithium batteries that store power from renewable energy and…