Chipotle Mexican Grill is launching a spinoff restaurant, Farmesa, that will serve up customizable bowls focusing on healthier foods, the fast-casual chain announced Wednesday. Farmesa won’t have a dining room and instead will take orders for takeout or delivery. Chipotle is testing the spinoff in Santa Monica, California, in partnership …

Longtime Biden aide Kate Bedingfield is leaving the White House and her role as communications director — for real this time — and will be replaced by another longtime Biden ally, Ben LaBolt.  The White House had previously announced that Bedingfield would be departing last summer, but she made a last-minute …

Seven more officers with the Memphis Police Department may be disciplined in the aftermath of Tyre Nichols’ death last month, officials said on Tuesday, bringing to 13 the number whose actions are in focus. During a city council meeting, which focused on officers’ conduct during the violent arrest that left Nichols …

The high-flying tech industry is facing a reckoning as the economy slows and customers pull back on spending. In the past month alone, tech companies have cut nearly 60,000 jobs, reversing a hiring spree that surged during the pandemic as millions of Americans moved their lives online. IBM was one of …

The body of a 96-year-old woman was found in a freezer in a garage in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago Monday night, CBS Chicago’s Chris Tye reports. Police took the freezer from the detached rear garage of a two-family home. Police also stood outside to secure the scene and …

New day, new tunnel. President Biden on Tuesday traveled to New York to showcase a $292 million grant that will be used to help build a critical new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between Manhattan and New Jersey, part of a broader effort to draw a contrast between his …

Four people have been charged in the alleged rape of a Louisiana State University student who authorities say was assaulted, then left in an Baton Rouge subdivision near where she was then struck and killed by a motor vehicle. The school’s president identified the victim as sophomore Madison Brooks. Kaivon …

Washington — As House Speaker Kevin McCarthy looks to follow through on his pledge to keep Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from serving on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, it’s unclear whether he will be successful given opposition from some of his fellow GOP members. McCarthy has long threatened to hold …

Law enforcement officials seized dark clothing, medical gloves, a flashlight and other items from a Pennsylvania home where they arrested a graduate student charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death, according to newly unsealed court documents. Pennsylvania State Police swabbed Bryan Kohberger’s DNA and seized a silver flashlight, …

Washington — The Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee is calling for the White House to provide a log of all visitors to President Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, house since the start of his presidency after documents bearing classification markings were discovered there. Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, …