Politics

A conservative legal group has filed lawsuits challenging a new Virginia law that bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The lawsuits filed this week in state and...

Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from Pennsylvania's newspapers: The county Election Bureau needs fixing and quickly The Citizens' Voice Sept. 26 Luzerne County is taking an unfortunate turn...

Revelations of President Donald Trump's near-zero federal income tax payments have underscored the ability of wealthy individuals with high-priced lawyers to outmatch an IRS that has long been understaffed and...

Young Americans are being encouraged to lower their expectations and ditch their dreams of financial independence as the economy circles the drain. Is this just cushioning the blow of the...

Recent editorials from Florida newspapers: ___ Sept. 30 The Palm Beach Post on a proposed law that would make property damage or injury as a result of protests a felony:...

The Royal Mail has unveiled their new initiative to mark Black History Month, but questions now abound about what it's supposed to achieve, and about whether they realise how insulting...

Mississippi lawmakers are returning to the Capitol to reconsider how the state is spending some coronavirus relief money from the federal government. The House and Senate will convene at 10...

The co-founder of a suburban St. Louis public relations firm has admitted in federal court that she stole nearly $800,000 from the company. Federal prosecutors say 51-year-old Lynese M. Cargill...

Facing ridicule for even considering the idea of processing UK migrants on remote South Atlantic islands, at least Home Secretary Priti Patel has encouraged some original thinking about a problem...

The owners of the horse racing track in New Orleans have agreed to pay a $2.8 million penalty for letting horse manure and urine into the city's drainage system for...

Proof that the Upper East Side is hot: Televisa Studios President Patricio Wills and his wife Adriana Santos have bought a bayfront house for $7 million in Miami's MiMo District....

September 30 marks five years since Russia launched its first air strikes against terrorist targets in Syria. So, what are the political and strategic outcomes of the military campaign? According...

Recent editorials from South Carolina newspapers: ___ Sept. 28 The Times and Democrat on violence against women: For a society that professes to celebrate women, disturbing realities remain. A national...

Recent editorials from South Carolina newspapers: ___ Sept. 28 The Times and Democrat on violence against women: For a society that professes to celebrate women, disturbing realities remain. A national...

The NFL Players Association is asking that the 32 league teams change all field surfaces to natural grass because of injury concerns. Union president JC Tretter said in a statement...

Recent editorials from Alabama newspapers: ___ Sept. 30 The Times Daily on upcoming municipal runoff elections in Alabama: The one thing that would benefit the dozen candidates in next Tuesday's...

Recent editorials from Mississippi newspapers: ___ Sept. 29 The Dispatch on the coronavirus pandemic and an upcoming college football game in Mississippi: From a public health perspective, whether Mississippi State...

Caesars Entertainment said Wednesday it is buying the British bookmaker William Hill for $3.7 billion in a deal aimed at binding its casinos ever closer to the fast-growing legal sports...

A man has pleaded guilty in federal court in New Hampshire to using other people's identification to make bank withdrawals in six states totaling about $111,000. Court documents say Derrick...

The NFL is threatening teams with possible suspensions for sideline personnel, including coaches, who do not properly wear face coverings during the pandemic. Forfeiting draft picks also could be among...

Geechie Boy Mill, a South Carolina maker of heirloom grits and other products, is changing its name to Marsh Hen Mill after critics charged it with appropriating Black culture. “After...

Neymar owes 34.6 million euros ($40.5 million) in taxes from his time in Spain, local authorities said Wednesday. The Brazilian has the highest personal debt in a list released by...

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration is scheduled to test-fly Boeing's revamped 737 Max jetliner on Wednesday as his agency considers whether to allow the plane to return to...

His Holiness declining to meet the US secretary of state when he visited the Vatican on his European tour further proves that his misguided America-first chauvinism is alienating more nations...

Cardinal George Pell, who left the Vatican in 2017 to face child sexual abuse charges in Australia, returned to Rome on Wednesday to find a Holy See mired in the...

As a democratic country, the United States has the right to pick and choose the sort of social and cultural mores it wants to live by without any outside interference....

As a democratic country, the United States has the right to pick and choose the sort of social and cultural mores it wants to live by without any outside interference....

It makes much more sense to protect people who are most likely to die from the disease, rather than place draconian restrictions on the 80 percent of the population to...

It makes much more sense to protect people who are most likely to die from the disease, rather than place draconian restrictions on the 80 percent of the population to...

In the space of a few minutes, on a prerecorded video filmed thousands of miles from where it was shown, the tech-savvy president of El Salvador captured the two strikingly...

In the space of a few minutes, on a prerecorded video filmed thousands of miles from where it was shown, the tech-savvy president of El Salvador captured the two strikingly...

As much of Britain's economy emerged from the coronavirus lockdown, its theaters stayed dark, with performers and staff unwillingly idled. So they made a song and dance about it. Scores...

As much of Britain's economy emerged from the coronavirus lockdown, its theaters stayed dark, with performers and staff unwillingly idled. So they made a song and dance about it. Scores...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is endorsing Mike Espy in Mississippi's U.S. Senate race as the former agriculture secretary again tries to unseat Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican loyal to...

A Weston construction company owner reported less than 5% of his payroll to lessen the workers' compensation premiums his company would pay, state financial investigators allege. Everardo Borettini, 71, was...

Multiple members of a tribal community in Washington state have reported that they experienced burning throats and headaches after flaring at a nearby shell refinery released an intoxicating odor on...

Amanda Cachaldora and her family were sitting at a corner booth inside a Flanigan's restaurant in Hialeah Saturday afternoon when they noticed the indoor dining space started to fill up...

South Florida condo buyers remain in the driver's seat, despite a rise in the number of condo sales. The number of sales rose 20% between the second quarter — when...

Flames devoured swaths of brush and trees in Northern California on Wednesday amid unseasonably hot and dry weather. High winds that spread new fires this week in the Napa and...

America and the rest of the world tuned in to watch the first of three televised presidential debates last night. What they got was an embarrassing partisan wrestling match that...