California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Monday signed a bill that could increase wages for fast food workers to up to $22 per hour in what labor advocates are touting as a "groundbreaking step" for low-wage workers.
Driving the news: Newsom signed theFast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act, or A.B. 257, on Labor Day, despite facing fierce opposition from business groups, who warned that the law could increase costs.
A federal judge on Monday acceptedformer President Trump's bid for a special master to review evidence seized by the FBI in the search at his Mar-a-Lago residence last month.
Driving the news: Judge Aileen Cannon ruled for a special master to be appointed "to review the seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney-client and/or executive privilege," per the filing.
Gas prices are expected to continue their downward trend after Labor Day and into the fall, with some states possibly seeing a dip below $3 per gallon, Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, told CNBC in an interview published Monday.
Driving the news: Gas prices last week fell for the eleventh week in a row ahead of the holiday weekend.
Nearly every baby named Tex born from 2000-2019 was born in Texas.
The big picture: Across more than 1,300 U.S. place names, 900 (67%) were more common in their home states than the rest of the country, based on Social Security records.
Two U.S. B-52 bombers flew a mission over the Middle East on Saturday in an apparent show of force in the region, the fourth of its kind this year, the U.S. Air Force announced Sunday.
Twenty-seven states have "right to work" laws in place that prevent private-sector unions from collecting fees from all members.
Why it matters: Unions have mostly adapted to these laws, and their popularity has died down since the 2010s. However, these laws remain a headwind as union organizing efforts pick up now, labor proponents say.
Two wildfires burning in Northern California's Siskiyou County, near the Oregon border, have destroyed more than 100 homes and affected thousands of people, as a dangerous heat wave roasts the U.S. West.
The latest: Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue said at a Sunday meeting in a school near the fire-ravaged Weed that two people had died in the Mill Fire that tore through the rural Northern California community, per AP.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said during an ABC News interview shared Sunday that Russia's occupying forces were using Europe's largest nuclear power plant as a "weapon."
What he's saying: Zelensky said in the interview airing Monday that the threat of Russian forces occupying the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in southeastern Ukraine and its six reactors was akin to "six Chernobyls" — a reference to the 1986 nuclear disaster in the northern region of Soviet Ukraine.
Georgia's governor declared a state of emergency in two counties as heavy rains lashed the state's northwest, flash flooding that inundated homes and roads on Sunday.
The big picture: The National Weather Service issued flood watches and warnings for parts of Georgia through Monday due to the storm.
Jackson, Mississippi, residents are still facing a water crisis nearly a week after flooding in the Pearl River damaged the city's water system, though water pressure has been restored to most of the city, the city said in a news release Sunday.
Why it matters: The crisis has upended life for the city of nearly 150,000 people, with schools shifting to remote learning and businesses being forced to shutter or install expensive fixes like portable toilets. People have had to wait in long lines for potable water.
Mass shootings in Norfolk, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina, early Sunday morning have left at least two people dead and 10 others injured.
Why it matters: A series of high-profile mass shootings this year — including in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas, and Highland Park, Illinois — have brought renewed attention on gun violence in the U.S.
The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, has left his post and will retire, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow announced on Sunday.
Why it matters: The news came as an abrupt surprise as Sullivan, who has served in the role since 2019, had given no prior public indication of planning to depart from his position.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) cited former President Trump's recent calls for a new election and his claims that, if re-elected, he would issue pardons to participants in the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot while discussing the "hallmarks of a fascist political party" on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
Driving the news: In a Truth Social post last week, Trump repeated baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election and called for the "rightful winner" to be declared or have the election declared "irreparably compromised and have a new Election, immediately!"
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Saturday doubled down on his suggestion from last week that there would be “riots in the streets” if former President Trump were prosecuted for mishandling classified information.
What he's saying: “Here’s what I said, the raid on [former] President Trump’s home, the likely nominee for 2024, better bear some fruit here,” Graham told CNBC's Steve Sedgwick during an interview. “If it’s just about mishandling classified information, we’ve had a standard set when it came to Hillary Clinton.”
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that while he personally would not take classified documents home with him, he insisted that a "different set of rules" applied to former President Trump.
Driving the news: The FBI's discovery of troves of classified documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home last month has landed the former president in legal hot water and prompted intelligence officials to launch a review of the natural security risks stemming from the top secret documents found there.
Former President Trump was required to return all documents marked as classified as part of a grand jury subpoena issued in May, regardless of whether the former president believed he'd declassified the documents, the Department of Justice wrote in an Aug. 29 court filing made public Friday.
The big picture: Trump has put forth a number of reasons to justify why troves of documents, including some with "top secret" and "confidential" markings, were at his Mar-a-Lago residence.
Police have arrested a suspect in connection to the kidnapping of a woman who went missing in Memphis, Tennessee, last week.
The latest: In confirming the news on Twitter early Sunday morning, Memphis police noted that the woman, Eliza Fletcher, has not been located and the investigation into her whereabouts is ongoing.
A record number of first-generation Americans are serving in state legislatures across the country, motivated in part by the anti-immigrant rhetoric and the policies of the Trump years.
Why it matters: First-generation Americans comprise 10% of the voting population in the U.S. They are among the fastest-growing portions of the electorate, yet are vastly underrepresented at all levels of elected office.
