US REGIONS

A New Jersey state treasury official said on Wednesday it is set to divest $182 million in Unilever Plc (ULVR.L) stock and bonds held by its pension funds over the restriction of sales by the consumer giant's Ben & Jerry's ice cream brand in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.

A Maryland seafood company and its owner entered guilty pleas Wednesday after being accused of employing at least 89 illegal immigrants and engaging in visa fraud, according to reports.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is asking Google for answers, suggesting in a Wednesday letter that the search engine giant showed ideological bias towards pro-life groups.

The Instagram account belonging to Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old woman reported missing on Sept. 11, appeared to be down temporarily on Wednesday morning before it reappeared.

Rapper Pitbull has thrown his hat into the ring alongside many others banding together in order to save the famed Palm Beach International Raceway (PBIR).

A University of California, San Diego student obtained the cell phone accounts of at least 40 people in an effort to milk their cryptocurrency information from his dorm room and blackmailed one victim by threatening to release compromising photos, federal prosecutors said Monday.

The effort to fight a recall of California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has far outraised his closest GOP rival, and Newsom has enjoyed a boost with help from some big names in business.

Gubernatorial candidates California State Assemblymember Kevin Kiley, Riverside County supervisor Jeff Hewitt and YouTuber Kevin Paffrath stated their platforms to replace Gavin Newsom on "Kennedy."

Salesforce, an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, is offering to help employees who have concerns about access to "reproductive healthcare" to move out of Texas in light of the state’s new law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected around six weeks.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Sunday he will not vote in favor of his party’s $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package, which needs the support of all 50 Democratic senators to pass.

Gov. Pete Ricketts threatens to sue President Biden over the vaccine mandate, arguing that there will be economic implications.

Dick Grasso remembers lives lost and reflects on the 20 years since the September 11 attacks.

California recall candidate Kevin Paffrath says the meme stock subreddit r/wallstreetbets banned him without warning this week after a profile on his candidacy compared his popular YouTube channel to the viral retail investment forum.

Al Fuentes commemorates the rescue efforts of the September 11 attacks 20 years later.

Arizona is divesting all public funds from Ben & Jerry’s over the company's boycott against Israel, state Treasurer Kimberly Yee announced Tuesday.

New York and California were ranked among some of the least hard-working states in the country, according to a recent study examining America’s hardest-working states.

Seven nursing homes in Louisiana have been ordered shuttered by the state Department of Health, according to a series of Twitter messages that the department posted Saturday night.

Cattle producers for 35 years have been bankrolling one of the nation's most iconic marketing campaigns, but now many want to end the program that created the “Beef. It's What's for Dinner” slogan.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Friday that she is "cautiously optimistic" about energy provider Entergy's plan to restore power to all of the city by next Wednesday.

President Joe Biden toured parts of Louisiana ravaged by Hurricane Ida on Friday, using the disaster to tout his Build Back Better spending plan as an effective way to mitigate hurricane damage in the future.