Community to clean up Balsitis Park in Cal City
A community cleanup at Balsitis Park is planned for Saturday morning; more improvements are expected with a grant for just more than $400,000 coming.
Recommended Stories
Yahoo Personal FinanceNew Chase Sapphire bonus: Earn over $1,000 in travel rewards
You can earn 75,000 bonus points when you open a new Chase Sapphire card today. Here’s how much they're worth.
- Yahoo Life Shopping
'Saved our battered backs': This portable seat wants to be your bleacher bestie, and it's on sale for $38
Take it from 4,800 five-star fans: It's in a different league than most stadium cushions.
- Yahoo Personal Finance
What is the average savings by age?
Ever wonder how your savings stacks up against others? Here’s a breakdown of the average American’s savings balance by age.
- Yahoo Life Shopping
This bestselling clear stadium bag will help you breeze through security, and it's on sale for $8
Throw it over your shoulder, use it as a cross-body — either way, it'll be your ticket to a hassle-free entrance at major venues.
- Engadget
Audible is testing a cheaper plan in Australia
Audible is testing a cheaper subscription tier in Australia that sounds like an answer to Spotify’s audiobook push. The service’s new Standard plan gives you one free title per month, but your credits don’t roll over.
- TechCrunch
Rivian wins $827M incentive package to expand Illinois factory for R2 production
Rivian is getting $827 million in incentives from the state of Illinois to support building its next-generation electric vehicle, known as the R2. Rivian announced Thursday that the State of Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity will dole out the funds, which will be used to expand the automaker's existing factory in Normal, Illinois, build out supporting infrastructure and boost job training programs for its workforce. The funding announcement comes just two months after Rivian unveiled the mid-size R2 SUV, which is supposed to start at around $45,000 when it goes on sale in 2026.
- TechCrunch
EU plan to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM risks millions of false positives, experts warn
A controversial push by European Union lawmakers to legally require messaging platforms to scan citizens' private communications for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) could lead to millions of false positives per day, hundreds of security and privacy experts warned in an open letter Thursday. Concern over the EU proposal has been building since the Commission proposed the CSAM-scanning plan two years ago -- with independent experts, lawmakers across the European Parliament and even the bloc's own Data Protection Supervisor among those sounding the alarm.
- Yahoo Finance
Stock market today: Stocks climb as Fed rate-hike fears fade, with Apple on deck
Investors are accentuating the positive in Jerome Powell's policy comments and looking ahead to Apple earnings.
- Yahoo Life Shopping
Cheers to Mother's Day! This elegant glass mug set — down to $13 at Amazon — arrives just in time
Clearly better than that 'No. 1 Mom' mug you gifted her last year — she'll even get two pretty gold spoons to stir in her sugar!
- Yahoo Sports
Fantasy Baseball Weekend Preview: It's the perfect time to stream starters for the action ahead
Fantasy baseball analyst Fred Zinkie offers up some key pieces of strategy to help wrap up Week 5 on the right note.
- Engadget
Apple discounts MLS Season Pass to $69 for the rest of the season
Apple is now selling the pass, which typically costs $99, for $69 for the remainder of the 2024 season
- Yahoo Personal Finance
CD rates today, May 2, 2024 (top APY reaches 5.15%)
If you’re on the hunt for today’s best CD rates, we’ve narrowed down some of the top offers. Learn more about CD rates today and how to open an account.
- Engadget
Over 200 militia groups and users are using Facebook to organize nationwide, new report states
Extremist militia groups are using Facebook to spread conspiracy theories and organize.
- Yahoo Sports
Miami Heat 2024 NBA offseason preview: Don't expect major changes
Heat Culture may mean a more cautious approach to retool around Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo.
- Yahoo Sports
Former Dodgers P Julio Urías placed on probation, ordered to counseling after pleading no contest to domestic battery charge
Urías has been on administrative leave from MLB since his September arrest.
- Yahoo Sports
How to watch the 2024 Kentucky Derby: Post positions, odds, where to stream and more
It's almost time for the 150th annual Run for the Roses!
- Yahoo News
Biden says Americans have 'right to protest but not the right to cause chaos' on college campuses after another night of mass arrests. Here are the latest updates.
Police in cities and towns across the country have been deployed in recent days to clear pro-Palestinian demonstrators from a growing number of encampments and occupied buildings on college and university campuses.
- Yahoo Finance
Jay Powell won't give in to the market's biggest fear: Morning Brief
As interest rate cuts get pushed into the future, investors fear potential rate hikes. Fed Chair Jerome Powell, however, appears not to share these worries.
- Yahoo News
'It's a very uncertain time': Columbia students share their perspectives on the campus protests
Amid final exams and upcoming graduations, Columbia students are grappling with fluctuating tensions on campus and the national attention these protests have received.
- TechCrunch
Anthropic launches new iPhone app and premium plan for businesses
Anthropic, one of the world's best-funded generative AI startups with $7.6 billion in the bank, is launching a new paid plan aimed at enterprises, including those in highly regulated industries like healthcare, finance and legal, as well as a new iOS app. Team, the enterprise plan, gives customers higher-priority access to Anthropic's Claude 3 family of generative AI models plus additional admin and user management controls. "Anthropic introduced the Team plan now in response to growing demand from enterprise customers who want to deploy Claude's advanced AI capabilities across their organizations," Scott White, product lead at Anthropic, told TechCrunch.