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Report: Middle-class gave more to charity in Great Recession

March 30, 2019 at 2:28 a.m.

Wealthy Americans contributed less of their incomes to charity while low and middle-income residents gave more in the years surrounding the Great Recession, according to a newly released report by...

A woman walks past the construction site at 42 Crosby Street, which is being developed into a luxury apartment building with 10 subterranean parking spaces priced at $1 million per parking space, on September 10, 2014 in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City.

Where $1 million will buy you a parking space

June 17, 2018 at 8:48 a.m.

A New York property developer is offering the uber-wealthy the opportunity to buy a condo parking spot for a cool $1 million - merely six times the value of a...

California senate advances bill to curb antibiotics in farm animals

May 14, 2019 at 12:59 a.m.

By Laila Kearney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The California State Senate advanced a bill on Thursday to restrict the use of antibiotics in farm animals for growth enhancement by requiring...

California girl found safe in field after reported abduction

August 24, 2021 at 11:26 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A 3-year-old California girl thought to have been abducted by a stranger from just outside her home on Sunday was found alive in a field not...

Muslims, Sikhs object to headscarf ban at California go-kart parks

August 24, 2021 at 11:26 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Three Muslim families have filed complaints against an amusement park chain in California that they say barred them from riding go-karts wearing headscarves, family advocates said...

Hundreds of U.S. inmates sentenced to death are innocent, researchers say

August 24, 2021 at 11:24 p.m.

(Reuters) - As many as 300 people who were sentenced to death in the United States over a three-decade period were likely innocent, according to a study published in a...

Pilot missing after vintage planes collide over San Francisco Bay

August 24, 2021 at 11:21 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Rescue crews were searching on Monday for the pilot of a vintage single-engine airplane that went missing after colliding with another plane over the San Francisco...

Utah sperm swap ‘unacceptable’ but still unexplained -university docs

August 24, 2021 at 11:17 p.m.

(Reuters) - A University of Utah committee investigating reports that a Salt Lake City fertility clinic worker artificially inseminated a patient with his own sperm called the action "unacceptable" on...

Utah sperm swap ‘unacceptable’ but still unexplained -university docs

May 14, 2019 at 12:56 a.m.

(Reuters) - A University of Utah committee investigating reports that a Salt Lake City fertility clinic worker artificially inseminated a patient with his own sperm called the action "unacceptable" on...

Ship that sank in 1888 found near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge

August 24, 2021 at 11:15 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The wreckage of a passenger steamship that sank in the 19th century after a collision in the San Francisco Bay has been found near the Golden...

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