With the U.S. presidential election around the corner, many investors are understandably worried — and maybe even anxious — about how the election will affect the stock market and their...
October 30, 2020
Kentucky lawmakers preparing for an action-packed session next year will have some basic operational challenges to overcome because of the COVID-19 pandemic, top legislators said Friday. Passing another state budget...
October 30, 2020
Major League Baseball owners voted Friday to approve the sale of the New York Mets to billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen. The sale from the Wilpon and Katz families...
October 30, 2020
Russian interference has been minimal so far in the most tempestuous U.S. presidential election in decades. But that doesn't mean the Kremlin can't inflict serious damage. The vulnerability of state...
October 30, 2020
More than a million tons a year of America's plastic trash isn't ending up where it should. The equivalent of as many as 1,300 plastic grocery bags per person is...
October 30, 2020
BANKING Vania Laguerre has been named local market executive in Miami for Bank of America. Laguerre has been with the company since 1988; for the past eight years, she has...
October 30, 2020
BANKING Vania Laguerre has been named local market executive in Miami for Bank of America. Laguerre has been with the company since 1988; for the past eight years, she has...
October 30, 2020
The Orange County Register newspaper's former printing plant has been bought by Amazon with the intention of converting it into a distribution center. The 63-year-old building in Santa Ana is...
October 30, 2020
The Orange County Register newspaper's former printing plant has been bought by Amazon with the intention of converting it into a distribution center. The 63-year-old building in Santa Ana is...
October 30, 2020
Yes, I have been able to take vacations by car (Captiva) and air (Mexico). In both circumstances, I was happy with the measures taken by the airlines and the local...
October 30, 2020
Yes, I have been able to take vacations by car (Captiva) and air (Mexico). In both circumstances, I was happy with the measures taken by the airlines and the local...
October 30, 2020
McRib, the fast food sandwich that went viral before viral was a thing, is back. McDonald's announced Friday that for the first time in eight years it is bringing back...
October 30, 2020
McRib, the fast food sandwich that went viral before viral was a thing, is back. McDonald's announced Friday that for the first time in eight years it is bringing back...
October 30, 2020
An entire city in Mississippi that was under threat of losing electricity before the end of the year because of unpaid bills will have more time to find a new...
October 30, 2020
An entire city in Mississippi that was under threat of losing electricity before the end of the year because of unpaid bills will have more time to find a new...
October 30, 2020
President Macron's decision to return France to lockdown could have serious repercussions, particularly if he has to borrow heavily from the European Union to compensate struggling businesses. It's common for...
October 30, 2020
President Macron's decision to return France to lockdown could have serious repercussions, particularly if he has to borrow heavily from the European Union to compensate struggling businesses. It's common for...
October 30, 2020
Washington state has asked the Department of Social and Health Services to examine options for a 15% budget cut after a projected $9 billion shortfall is expected over the next...
October 30, 2020
Washington state has asked the Department of Social and Health Services to examine options for a 15% budget cut after a projected $9 billion shortfall is expected over the next...
October 30, 2020
Netflix is raising most of its U.S. prices by 8% to 13% as its video streaming service rides a wave of rising popularity spurred by government-imposed lockdowns that corralled people...
October 30, 2020
Netflix is raising most of its U.S. prices by 8% to 13% as its video streaming service rides a wave of rising popularity spurred by government-imposed lockdowns that corralled people...
October 30, 2020
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social...
October 30, 2020
A pipeline was installed at the Water Treatment Plant in the Washington state city of Anacortes, which is investing $13 million into upgrades at the facility to provide better backup...
October 30, 2020
Beijing remain's resolutely committed to increasing the nation's financial prowess in the face of growing anti-China sentiment on the world stage and a simmering ‘Cold War' with Washington. Today the...
October 30, 2020
Prominent Florida business leaders sought to rally support for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden Friday with a virtual town hall at swaying undecided Hispanic and Black voters. The event, organized...
October 30, 2020
Prominent Florida business leaders sought to rally support for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden Friday with a virtual town hall at swaying undecided Hispanic and Black voters. The event, organized...
October 30, 2020
A former high-ranking FIFA official was convicted Friday in a corruption case in Switzerland, while the Qatari president of Paris Saint-Germain was acquitted. Jérôme Valcke was found guilty of a...
October 30, 2020
A former high-ranking FIFA official was convicted Friday in a corruption case in Switzerland, while the Qatari president of Paris Saint-Germain was acquitted. Jérôme Valcke was found guilty of a...
October 30, 2020
Like battle-hardened veterans, New York City hospitals and nursing homes are bracing for a potential resurgence of coronavirus patients, drawing on lessons learned in the spring when the outbreak brought...
October 30, 2020
Glenn Greenwald is the latest big-name journalist to quit a title, leaving the Intercept in a censorship row. This trend is indicative of a media landscape that reflects a polarized...
October 30, 2020
Health department directors from across Missouri are walking away from their jobs after many of them were threatened and harassed over the actions they have taken to curb the coronavirus...
October 30, 2020
Republicans candidates for the Senate & the House are in dogfights in their campaign races across the country – it didn't have to be that way & they've only got...
October 30, 2020
Grain futures were mostly lower on Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Dec. lost .056 cent at $5.9960 a bushel; Dec. corn was off...
October 30, 2020
Grain futures were mostly lower on Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Dec. lost .056 cent at $5.9960 a bushel; Dec. corn was off...
October 30, 2020
Parisians fleeing for the countryside jammed the roads ahead of France's lockdown to slow the spread of the resurgent coronavirus, and there was only a sprinkling of people hurrying along...
October 30, 2020
When an old lady was beheaded in a church in Nice on 29 October while saying her prayers, and a sacristan and a third victim were murdered with a knife,...
October 30, 2020
By the time U.S. Senate candidate Mike Espy arrived at a restaurant near a highway that cuts through cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta, he had already received a celebrity's...
October 30, 2020
A fetishistic Guardian article seeks to rehabilitate the life and death of the former British soldier turned ‘humanitarian', but cannot explain away his lavish lifestyle, missing money, and all the...
October 30, 2020
It's been over two months since movie theaters started reopening in the U.S., but there is still a fair amount of consumer confusion about moviegoing in the COVID-19 era. Movie...
October 30, 2020
A truck hauling scrap metal dropped multiple shards along a north Alabama highway, flattening the tires of more than 50 vehicles. Emergency management officials began getting calls early Thursday about...
