Philadelphia has reportedly become the first city in the United States to ban cashless stores and restaurants in an attempt to be more “inclusive” to Americans without bank accounts.

Critics of law enforcement are outraged by the second annual report of the California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board, which found very few incidents of racial profiling by police across the state.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), a habitual critic of Trump on Twitter, explained that he had not known the purpose of Trump’s Alabama trip.

Five New Jersey high school seniors shoveled out a neighbor’s driveway early on Monday morning to enable her to leave the house and make her dialysis appointment.

A 60-year-old single father who raised six adopted children over the past decade is about to adopt a seventh son and has no regrets about becoming a dad.

A North Carolina restaurant closed its doors last week after the owner promised to take the entire staff on a trip to Disney World.

Uber is reportedly “not criminally liable” for a self-driving car crash in 2018, which killed a pedestrian after the car’s transgender felon “back-up driver” was watching a television show on a phone instead of paying attention to the road.

Colorado has announced it is dropping litigation against Christian baker Jack Phillips for his refusal on religious grounds to make a cake celebrating gender transition.

Despite recently laying off 1,000 staff members, Tesla plans to cut nearly 100 additional jobs from its Fremont production facility shortly after announcing the production of a new Model Y SUV vehicle.

Republican members of the Arizona House of Representatives on Monday requested the state’s chief legal officer to investigate “possible free speech violations” at a high school in the city of Gilbert. 

A ten-year-old Florida boy raised more than $27,000 as of Monday for law enforcement by running one mile for each fallen police officer of 2018.

A fire destroyed nearly everything inside West Virginia church except for a cross and several bibles left untouched by the flames.

Rescue crews in Alabama and Georgia are searching for survivors Monday after deadly tornadoes tore through parts of the southeast, killing at least 23 people and wrecking wide-spread damage to homes and businesses. 

Oakland teachers have voted to end their strike an will return to work Monday after securing an 11% raise over four years — more than double what an arbitrator suggested, and that may plunge the school district into insolvency.

The rate of murders and rapes in New York City soared in 2019 despite Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYPD’s claims that the city’s overall crime rate declined, the NYPD said.

The father of a 19-year-old left critically injured in a hit-and-run car crash is telling the other driver to “man up” and come forward.

Firefighters are responding after a small plane crashed into a condo building in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Friday.

Downtown Los Angeles, California, failed to reach 70º Fahrenheit (21º Celsius) once in the entire month of February, the first time that has happened since temperature records began, 132 years ago.

New desalination and water recycling technology, combined with wise management and political cooperation, hold out new hope for California’s water.

A California fire department tweeted a photo on Tuesday of a car with its back windows broken, a warning to drivers not to park near fire hydrants.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An Amtrak train traveling from Seattle to Los Angeles with 183 passengers got stranded in the snowy mountains of Oregon for at least 36 hours, putting a strain on passengers as food, patience and even diapers ran short.

A man bought out a group of Girl Scouts selling cookies outside a South Carolina grocery store on Friday, spending $540 on Girl Scout cookies to get the girls out of the cold on a chilly night.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is frequently at odds with President Donald Trump, but told reporters Monday during a visit to Washington, DC, that he wanted to maintain a connection with the president in spite of it all.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Workers are trying to free an Amtrak train with 183 passengers aboard that has been stuck since Sunday after hitting a tree that fell on the tracks near Eugene, Oregon.

Los Angeles is officially experiencing the coldest February in nearly 60 years, according to the National Weather Service, as the city has endured a series of storms and is bracing for more later this week.

Michigan prosecutors allege Nikki Joly, a longtime LGBT activist, set fire to her home and killed her pets due to resentment from subsiding controversy over the enactment of nondiscrimination legislation she supported.

A California privacy advocate claims that he was held at gunpoint by a police officer after the officer’s license plate reader made an error.

Trump is bringing the rules of the private sector to California’s high-speed rail failure, and the state’s Democratic government may have no option but to pay up.

Los Angeles experienced a rare winter weather phenomenon on Thursday afternoon: snow. Several areas reported falling snowflakes — though without any real accumulation.

An Ohio music shop owner placed a sign in front of his shop turning away supporters of President Trump, saying he felt “unclean and dirty” from doing business with them.