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Governor Kathy Hochul announces she's reached a conceptual agreement on the state budget on April 27, 2023

Hochul announces conceptual agreement on the four-week late state budget

The governor says there is sufficient agreement with the legislature on major items to announce the preliminary accord.

Demonstrators gather outside the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh, N.C., with a "FLUSH GERRYMANDER" inflatable on the day the state's highest court held a rehearing for the redistricting case known nationally as <em>Moore v. Harper</em>.

A North Carolina court overrules itself in a case tied to a disputed election theory

North Carolina's highest court has overruled one of its own rulings, throwing into question if the U.S. Supreme Court will issue a decision on the major elections case known as Moore v. Harper.

A security guard at Silicon Valley Bank monitors a line of people outside the office in Santa Clara, Calif., on March 13, 2023. The Fed admitted it was partly to blame for the collapse of the lender in a scathing report on Friday.

The Fed admits some of the blame for Silicon Valley Bank's failure in scathing report

The Federal Reserve says its own light-touch approach to bank regulation is partly to blame for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last month, and it promised more vigorous oversight in the future.

Josh Ritter flexes his creative muscles on 'Spectral Lines'

His latest record sees Ritter experiment with field recordings and seamless transitions between songs.

The most recent jobs report shows the U.S. economy added 236,000 jobs in March.

Despite mass layoffs, there are still lots of jobs out there. Here's where

Mass layoffs have dominated the headlines as huge companies shed hundreds and thousands of workers. But the economy is still adding jobs — 236,000 last month alone.

Carrie Kissell spent nearly three months on a sailboat after Airbnb told her she could live and work anywhere. "When the work day was over, I'd close my laptop and you know, go snorkeling," she says.

Airbnb let its workers live and work anywhere. Spoiler: They're loving it

Airbnb says its Live and Work Anywhere policy is all about winning the global war for talent. A year in, the company and its workers are reaping all sorts of added benefits.

E. Jean Carroll arrives at federal court in New York, on Thursday. The writer told a jury that Donald Trump raped her at a department store in 1990s.

As E. Jean Carroll testifies for a second day, the judge has a warning for Trump

Lawyer Joseph Tacopina irritated Carroll by using the word "supposedly" to cast doubt on her rape claim, drawing an immediate and stern rebuke from the writer. "Not supposedly. I was raped," she said.

Michael Schumacher, pictured at a press conference in Brazil in 2006, hasn't spoken publicly since suffering a near-fatal head injury in 2013.

A magazine touted Michael Schumacher's first interview in years. It was actually AI

F1 champion Michael Schumacher hasn't spoken publicly since suffering a near-fatal head injury in 2013. Die Aktuelle fired its editor over the AI-generated piece, and Schumacher's family plans to sue.

Hochul announces conceptual agreement on the four-week late state budget

The governor says there is sufficient agreement with the Legislature on major items to announce the preliminary accord.

Singer Ed Sheeran leaves federal court after testifying against allegations that his hit song "Thinking Out Loud," ripped off Marvin Gaye's soul classic "Let's Get It On," Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in New York.

Ed Sheeran sang and played his guitar while on the stand at copyright trial

Ed Sheeran was an hour into testimony in Manhattan federal court when his lawyer, Ilene Farkas, pressed him to tell how he came to write "Thinking Out Loud" a decade ago.

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