Politics

Uber and Lyft drivers in Seattle are expected to make the same $16.39 an hour minimum wage as other workers in the city following a vote by city officials supporting...

The police chief in Missouri's largest city says his department would have to cut staff by 400 people, close divisions and eliminate services to meet proposed budget cuts due to...

A judge has temporarily blocked private attorneys from receiving $75 million from South Carolina for helping the state negotiate a settlement with the federal government over nuclear material left at...

An official from U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday the agency will detain shipments of palm oil and its products from FGV Holdings Berhad in Malaysia after a wide...

Democratic standards are facing “important challenges” in some European Union countries, particularly in Hungary and Poland, where the judicial systems are under threat, the EU's executive commission said Wednesday in...

The U.S. economy plunged at a record rate in the spring but is poised to swing to a record increase in the quarter that is just ending. The Commerce Department...

Californians are being asked decide if Uber, Lyft and other app-based drivers should remain independent contractors or be eligible for the benefits that come with being company employees. The battle...

The Atlantic has done another hatchet job on President Trump, suggesting he privately holds Christians in contempt. Even if he does, they'll still vote for him because of what he's...

Criminal charges filed Tuesday in federal court say former Fort Lauderdale attorney Andrew Ledbetter fraudulently raised $100 million in the $322 million fraud perpetrated by Hallandale Beach company 1 Global...

In RVs, rental homes and five-star resorts, families untethered by the constraints of physical classrooms for their kids have turned the new school year into an extended summer vacation, some...

The president needs another four years so he can end the left's costly welfare state agenda, rid Washington of all the corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, and end the monopolies of...

The Centers for Disease Control's No Sail order will expire Oct. 31 - over the objections of the CDC's director, according to a report Tuesday night by the news outlet...

A construction worker died after a lift carrying the laborer collapsed on a North Carolina university's campus. The lift was extended about 35 feet (11 meters) in the air when...

A North Carolina man accused of fraudulently applying for $6.1 million in coronavirus relief funds has been federally charged. Tristan Bishop Pan, 38, of Garner, submitted 14 Paycheck Protection Program...

Will pastelitos play in Peoria? Cafecitos in Colorado? CAO Bakery is about to find out. The Cuban-American bakery, co-founded in 2018 by the grandson of Vicky Bakery's founder, has started...

A company that manufactures metal compressed air sprayers plans to open a production plant in eastern Kentucky that will create up to 100 jobs, officials said. Chapin International Inc. plans...

Boris Johnson's effusive response to a tweet from Bill Gates, which the public couldn't comment on, and the draconian restrictions imposed on the UK without debate are indicative of the...

Boris Johnson's effusive response to a tweet from Bill Gates, which the public couldn't comment on, and the draconian restrictions imposed on the UK without debate are indicative of the...

Boris Johnson's effusive response to a tweet from Bill Gates, which the public couldn't comment on, and the draconian restrictions imposed on the UK without debate are indicative of the...

“Chaos, interruptions, personal attacks and insults," one outspoken Chinese newspaper editor said of the U.S. presidential debate. An Australian counterpart said it was “swamped" by the “rancor engulfing America." The...

If there is anything the Rev. Mario Carminati and the traumatized residents of Italy's Bergamo province remember about the worst days of the coronavirus outbreak, it's the wail of ambulance...

U.S. restaurants are moving warily into fall, hoping their slow recovery persists despite the new challenge of chilly weather and a pandemic that's expected to claim even more lives. New...

For the last four months, Ahmed al-Kurdi, his wife and three children have been stranded in Jordan, where they traveled from their home in the Gaza Strip for life-saving medical...

For the last four months, Ahmed al-Kurdi, his wife and three children have been stranded in Jordan, where they traveled from their home in the Gaza Strip for life-saving medical...

President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of fabrications and fear-mongering in a belligerent debate with Joe Biden, at one point claiming the U.S. death toll would have been 10 times...

Louisiana will get nearly $215 million in BP oil spill money for two projects planned to restore more than 4,600 acres of marsh and other habitat in the New Orleans...

The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden deteriorated into bitter taunts and near chaos Tuesday night as Trump repeatedly interrupted his opponent with angry —...

President Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden did not have a debate, but a shouting match filled with personal attacks, interruptions, hateful hoaxes asserted as facts, and emotional manipulation....

Stocks were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after the debate between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden, with little sign the clash did much to sway investors....

NEW DELHI — India recorded 80,472 new confirmed coronaviruses cases in the past 24 hours, showing a decline from a record high two weeks ago. The Health Ministry raised India's...

Milagros Sotelo was looking forward to traveling from South America to Tennessee to start a job at Ober Gatlinburg ski resort this winter. The 22-year-old student worked the last two...

A former Arizona resident has been sentenced to four years in prison for a fraudulent oil well scheme that cost investors nearly $2 million. Kenneth Thomas White, formerly of Cave...

The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded Amtrak a $5.6 million grant for track improvements and other work in New Mexico and Colorado along the Southwest Chief passenger train route...

The Las Cruces City Council is pushing ahead with efforts aimed at determining what it would take to reestablish commercial air service for the southern New Mexico community. Consultants told...

After more than a year of circling each other, Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden met on the debate stage Tuesday night in Ohio. The 74-year-old president...

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a bill widely restricting the use of certain highly potent rat poisons that are blamed for killing mountain lions, birds and endangered wildlife. Assembly...

President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden sparred Tuesday in their first of three debates, hoping to sway undecided voters planning to cast ballots by mail and in person...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have authorized California to give low-income immigrants $600 to buy groceries. The bill was aimed at helping people, including those living...

President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden began the first presidential debate with heated exchanges over health care, the coronavirus and the future of the Supreme Court. Fitting for...

A couple who ran a rent-to-own scheme that marketed itself as a Christian organization promising to create a “win-win” scenario for home buyers and sellers were sentenced to prison Tuesday...