The U.S. economy ended last year on a solid footing despite the pressure of high interest rates and widespread fears of a looming recession. The Gross Domestic Product — the sum of all goods and services that make up the economy — expanded at a 2.9% annual pace from October …

A school board in Newport News, Virginia, has voted to remove district superintendent George Parker III following the shooting of a teacher by a 6-year-old student. An attorney for Abby Zwerner, the first-grade teacher who was shot and wounded, claimed earlier Wednesday that school administrators failed to heed multiple warnings …

3M, maker of Post-it notes, industrial coatings and ceramics, is cutting about 2,500 manufacturing jobs, or 10% of its workforce worldwide, according to Forbes. The company announced last month that it will exit per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance manufacturing by the end of 2025. The so-called forever chemicals are used in …

A former Walmart employee wounded one of his ex-co-workers Thursday night in a shooting at the Evansville, Indiana, store where he used to work, police said. The 25-year-old man entered a nightly team meeting with a gun and told a group of about a dozen people to line up against …

The Fight for $15, a national political movement calling for the minimum wage to be raised, began a decade ago with fast food workers walking off the job in New York City demanding $15 an hour. Starting this month, a handful of states actually hit that goal of a $15 …

Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students at a home near campus in November, appeared in an Idaho court Thursday for the second time. A preliminary hearing for his case was set for June 26. He waived his right to a speedy preliminary hearing, with …

Wall Street rallied on Friday amid hopes that inflation will recede and the Federal Reserve may ease up on its interest rate hikes, following a positive hiring report and mixed data on the U.S. economy. The S&P 500 closed 2.3% higher after a shaky start — marking its first winning …

The Federal Trade Commission is proposing a new rule that would prevent employers from imposing noncompete clauses for workers. These types of arrangements, long criticized by progressives and some free-market proponents, typically keep a workers from joining a competitor for some period of time after they leave the company. President …

A man who opened fire on a Brooklyn subway train last year, wounding 10 passengers in a rush-hour attack that shocked New York City, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal terrorism charges. Frank James, who had posted online that he was the “Prophet of Doom,” appeared in a Brooklyn federal court …

After spending over a decade in Congress, Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, will be retiring. She is one of 55 lawmakers who decided not to run for re-election.  But Speier’s road to Washington began in 1978 on a deserted airstrip in Guyana where she lay wounded after being shot …