Target Corp. has agreed to pay $2.8 million to settle a hiring discrimination claim filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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Hundreds of mountain homes remained threatened early Monday as crews increased containment of a wildfire burning through timber near a popular Southern California ski resort.

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State and county officials are expected to announce Monday whether the world’s largest outdoor retail show will stay in Salt Lake City or bolt for another city.

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Lawsuits against the NCAA are asking a core question with multibillion-dollar implications: Can college athletes be paid like the pros? For years, the NCAA has been accused of illegally blocking the sort of competition expected in a free market.

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A Los Angeles judge says free speech rights should allow an anti-abortion group to release secretly recorded videos of discussions with a California company that provides fetal tissue for research.

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California’s jobless rate dropped to 6.2 percent in July, a slight decrease from a month earlier, as the state added 80,600 nonfarm payroll jobs, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday.

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Tens of thousands of people are expected to descend upon downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, for what organizers say has become the world’s largest juried show of indigenous artwork.

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A federal appeals court has reinstated Obama administration regulations that guarantee overtime and minimum wage protections to nearly 2 million home health care workers.

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An electric equipment explosion shook a 19-story office building in downtown Los Angeles, sending two people to the hospital and leaving a dozen surrounding buildings without power Friday.

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Netflix is getting jeered for excluding the employees in its DVD-by-rental service from a recently introduced benefit that gives up to a year of unpaid leave to most of its workers after the birth or adoption of a baby.

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