Politics

A meager return of sockeye salmon to central Idaho this year despite high hopes and a new fish hatchery intended to help save the species from extinction has fisheries managers...

President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden are chasing votes Thursday in Florida, a state all but essential to the Republican's pathway to another term, as both nominees turn...

Prosecutors secured a guilty plea Thursday from a Florida businessman who hired one of President Donald Trump's lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, to lend credibility to a supposedly fraud-busting company authorities say...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio deflected questions Thursday about whether he wants to block the sale of the New York Mets to hedge fund manager Steve Cohen. Asked...

Western media are suggesting Kim Yo-jong has been replaced in the North Korean hierarchy by a popular singer. But she hasn't been marginalised – this is all down to how...

Exxon Mobil is slashing 1,900 jobs from its U.S. workforce as the pandemic saps demand for fuel. The Irving, Texas, oil giant said the reductions will be both voluntary and...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a scolding assessment of COVID-19 relief talks on Thursday, blaming Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for failing to produce answers to her demands for Democratic priorities...

Before the pandemic, Señor Sisig food trucks were a common sight in downtown San Francisco, dishing out Filipino fusion tacos and burritos to long lines of workers who spilled out...

Fretting about the US' declining global power has long been a parlor game among its establishment thinkers. But there now seems to be nervous consensus in the Beltway that its...

Documents purportedly taken recently from the Florida Chamber of Commerce and the city of Key West are posted online but buried so deep on the Dark Web that a simple...

Hackers have stolen $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party's account that was being used to help reelect President Donald Trump in the key battleground state, the party's chairman told...

Washington despises Trump because he's an outsider – a third-party gatecrasher – who has upset the duopoly that has had a stranglehold on American politics, and they're doing everything they...

Social media were supposed to democratize speech, liberating the people of the world from the tyranny of gatekeepers. They failed. Seduced by vanity and ideology, they've become censors themselves, a...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has started a project to replace dozens of steel rods known as king piles in the Columbia River that warn boats and other vessels...

Georgia voters will decide whether to make it easier to sue the state and local governments as well as whether it should be harder for the state to spend fees...

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein says a company that he had accused of price gouging on personal protective equipment has been fined $150,000. The AG's office said in a...

Aminda Marqués González, who has led the newsrooms at the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald to multiple honors during challenging times in the news industry, told her staff Thursday...

Unemployment assistance applications in Florida declined for the second straight week, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Thursday. But rising COVID-19 case counts are already giving some economists pause that...

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 751,000, the lowest since March, but it's still historically high and indicates the viral pandemic is still forcing many...

A British judge on Thursday granted a request by the Duchess of Sussex to postpone the trial of her invasion of privacy lawsuit against the publisher of a British newspaper...

There's a limit on the lead allowed in products that involve food consumption. That's why Cape Canaveral company Porter World Trade recalled 9,700 Ron Jon Surf Shop sippy cups Wednesday....

Two restaurant owners in North Carolina have won a lawsuit they filed accusing their insurance company of not honoring its contract when they had to close their businesses due to...

Seniors seeking affordable housing near art, barbecue and the Health District can soon look to Miami's up-and-coming Allapattah neighborhood. The Downtown Miami-based Interurban, a branch of Integra Investments, and the...

The controversial French magazine has been slammed by Turkish strongman Erdogan, but isn't that what they wanted? Have they become conditioned to create outrage, no matter the consequences? They're back...

Calusa Country Club was a green oasis surrounded by the strip shopping centers and traffic-choked streets of West Kendall, poster community for all that went wrong in sprawling suburbia. Golfers...

Lina Goujjane, 30, and her business partner, David Foulquier, 30, teamed up to open a new pop up called Da Lida at Foulquier's French-Persian restaurant Fooq's in downtown Miami, Florida...

Public relations firms hired by the Department of Health and Human Services vetted the political views of hundreds of celebrities for a health education advertising campaign on the coronavirus outbreak,...

Chancellor Angela Merkel told Germans to expect a “difficult winter” as the number of newly reported coronavirus cases in the country hit a new high. Merkel spoke Thursday in Parliament...

French doctors expressed relief but business owners were in despair as France prepared Thursday to shut down again for a month to try to put the brakes on a fast-moving...

The Scottish government is planning a new law that allows people who use language deemed to be abusive or hateful in their homes to be prosecuted. This is dangerous &...

The Latest on Zeta (all times CDT): 1:30 a.m. Zeta has weakened into a tropical storm over central Alabama. The National Hurricane Center says strong are continuing over across portions...

The Latest on Zeta (all times CDT): 1:30 a.m. Zeta has weakened into a tropical storm over central Alabama. The National Hurricane Center says strong are continuing over across portions...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani authorities have ordered all businesses, including restaurants, wedding halls and markets, be closed after 10 p.m. to contain a coronavirus resurgence that began this month. Also, authorities...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani authorities have ordered all businesses, including restaurants, wedding halls and markets, be closed after 10 p.m. to contain a coronavirus resurgence that began this month. Also, authorities...

BASEBALL ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Justin Turner violated coronavirus protocols when he celebrated with his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates and he refused instructions from security to leave the field, behavior...

BASEBALL ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Justin Turner violated coronavirus protocols when he celebrated with his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates and he refused instructions from security to leave the field, behavior...

Asian shares declined Thursday and U.S. futures were higher after the S&P 500 slid 3.5% overnight for its biggest drop since June. The selling in U.S. markets followed broad declines...

Asian shares declined Thursday and U.S. futures were higher after the S&P 500 slid 3.5% overnight for its biggest drop since June. The selling in U.S. markets followed broad declines...

The suburbs wouldn't be the suburbs anymore, the economy would sink into its worst depression ever and police departments would cease to exist. Even America's older adults would be left...

Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. healthcare system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care...