Part-time work is on the rise as more workers choose to step back from the grind, according to new data from the Labor Department.  In December and January, 1.2 million more Americans said they were working part-time compared with previous months, the data shows.  More than 850,000 of those workers …

After her dog walker was shot and two of her dogs stolen, Lady Gaga offered a $500,000 reward for their return. Jennifer McBride returned two of the French bulldogs Koji and Gustav — but she also pleaded no contest to her involvement in the robbery. Now, she is suing the …

Google workers, already rattled by the largest layoff in the search giant’s history, now face another indignity as the company ends some of its leases on unused office space: desk-sharing.  The move affects employees who work for Google Cloud, the Alphabet-owned unit’s data storage product, at the company’s five largest …

After a chance encounter with a dog in need of a home while on her “Denim and Rhinestones Tour,” country superstar Carrie Underwood adopted the shelter puppy, adding a new furry member to her family. “Meet Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Nilla Fisher,” Underwood wrote in an Instagram post earlier this week, sharing …

A Massachusetts driver has been indicted on a federal hate crime charge for allegedly hitting and seriously injuring a man with his car in a racist attack last December, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday. The indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in Boston, accuses the driver, 77-year-old John …

More than half of people with student loans say their future financial stability hinges on erasing that debt, even as a Biden administration program that promised to forgive up to $20,000 remains in legal limbo. About 1 in 5 Americans has an outstanding federal student loan, according to a recent study …

Several thousand workers at CSX will soon get one of the things that pushed the U.S. railroad industry to the brink of a strike last fall: paid sick time. CSX announced a deal Tuesday with two of its 12 unions, becoming the first major railroad to offer that benefit that …

A 24-year-old man now linked to an unusual string of crimes that kept the Dallas Zoo on the lookout for missing animals told police that after he swiped two monkeys from their enclosure, he took them onto the city’s light rail system to make his getaway, court records show. Davion …

State Farm said it has temporarily stopped providing new auto insurance policies for some model years and trim levels of Hyundai and Kia vehicles in some states because of an increase in thefts for those cars.  “This is a serious problem impacting our customers and the entire auto insurance industry,” …

A skull found almost four decades ago on the banks of the Delaware River was recently identified as the remains of a man who has been missing for about as much time, authorities said this week. Advanced forensic testing shed new light on the cold case when a genealogy database …