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As President Biden recovers from COVID, CBS News is learning that he could leave the 2024 presidential race in a matter of days, according to two senior House Democrats. CBS News' Willie James Inman and Nikole Killion have the latest on the push for Biden to drop out.

In-N-Out Burger will go ahead with plans to close its Oakland restaurant this weekend, the Irvine-based fast food chain confirmed in an email Thursday. The drive-thru’s last day will be Sunday, March 24, as the company announced in late January, citing crime in the area as endangering customers and employees. Statistics show the crime situation is starting to improve, city leaders have said recently. The announcement made national news In-N-Out’s “first time ever” permanent closure, as CNN put it. In-N-Out was founded in Baldwin Park in 1948 by Harry and Esther Snyder and in the following 75 years grew to...

Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, Jimmy Patronis, suggested that In-N-Out Burger should move to the Sunshine State after several In-N-Out locations were shut down by California officials.Patronis appealed to In-N-Out CEO Lynsi Snyder to move to the state, arguing that Florida has a superior business climate—noting the state has no personal income tax, low corporate taxes, and no mandates.“I’m writing you today not only as Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, but as a small business owner who grew up in a family-owned restaurant and worked there for more than 30 years,” his letter reads. “I know how hard it is to turn...

Teri Thomas was asleep in her Lucky John Drive home late Saturday night when her pet miniature poodle woke her up, barking and scratching at a window to try to get outside. Thomas figured she should try to protect the furniture from her pet. She leaned down and glanced out the window. Outside, just three or four inches from the window, sat a mountain lion staring inside, startling Thomas as she tried to calm her dog. "I leapt back and screamed," Thomas says of the encounter with the big cat. The mountain lion was sniffing a crack in the window...

A lot of things are going on in the space field right now: regime change, chaos, budgeting. You know, the usual. So even though it’s smack dab in the middle of the year, it seems like a perfectly good time for the first annual Space Review list of what’s hip, what’s hot, and what’s not this year compared to the last. We’d stick around and explain it all to you, but who has that kind of time?