The biological mother of two small California boys who died while in the state foster care system has filed a federal lawsuit alleging her sons were unlawfully taken from her and placed with foster parents who are now charged with killing them. Four-year-old Classic Pettus and 3-year-old Cinsere Pettus were …

The Internal Revenue Service announced on Tuesday it will have completed processing all original individual tax returns received in 2021 by the end of the week. The update marks a major milestone for the agency, which has been hampered by a massive backlog since the coronavirus pandemic began more than …

Airlines cancelled nearly 1,200 U.S. flights on Sunday and Monday, leaving passengers stranded and luggage piled up at airports across the the country. Thousands more trips were scrapped across the globe as the summer travel season kicks off.  Now for the bad news: Airline analysts say delays and cancellations are …

A retired truck driver from Texas has been charged with killing a woman whose body was found along a freeway onramp in a Southern California desert nearly 30 years ago, prosecutors said. Cold-case investigators used advances in DNA technology to link Douglas Thomas to the 1993 killing of Sherri Herrera, …

Stocks dived on Friday after new government data showed that inflation in May jumped 8.6% from a year ago, the steepest increase in consumer prices since 1981. The S&P 500 dropped 117 points, or 2.9%, to 3,901. The Dow Jones industrial Average dropped 2.7%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq sank 3.5%. …

The following is a transcript of an interview with economist Betsey Stevenson, a professor at the University of Michigan, that aired Sunday, June 5, 2022, on “Face the Nation.” MARGARET BRENNAN: We’re joined now by University of Michigan Professor Betsey Stevenson. She previously served as Department of Labor’s chief economist …

Motorists across the U.S. are grappling with gasoline prices that are reaching new records almost daily. But the pain isn’t evenly distributed across the nation. Take the handful of locations where a gallon of regular fuel now costs as much as or more than the federal minimum wage of $7.25. …

An international manhunt is underway for the suspected killer of professional cyclist Moriah Wilson.  Authorities say Kaitlyn Armstrong, a 34-year-old yoga teacher, shot and killed Wilson, 25, in a fit of jealous rage, allegedly for having an affair with Armstrong’s boyfriend, Colin Strickland, who is also a top-rated professional cyclist. …

Bank of America is giving its lowest-paid employees a bump in wages to $22 an hour, equivalent to nearly $46,000 a year for full-time workers. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based company’s pay increase bolsters the earnings of a large portion of its 174,000 U.S. employees, and follows wage hikes that started …

Jeff Bezos is bashing Joe Biden over inflation, taking to Twitter to blame the president for the sharpest spike in prices in 40 years and saying that the soaring costs facing Americans amount to “regressive tax that most hurts the least affluent.” The post from Bezos — whose estimated $137 …