Politics

While US President Donald Trump is correct that mainstream media outlets are duplicitously dismissing revelations about Joe and Hunter Biden, what about his own Treasury and intelligence community going full...

Cat Osterman can only wonder what the delivery drivers think. She is not allowed to drop in or hit the drive-thru when she wants a coffee or latte, even though...

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for November delivery rose 38 cents to $40.31 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude oil for November delivery rose 17 cents to $41.94 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline...

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, many older Americans struggled with loneliness. Now, amid a global outbreak that has left many of these individuals largely confined to their homes, their need...

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, many older Americans struggled with loneliness. Now, amid a global outbreak that has left many of these individuals largely confined to their homes, their need...

A severe flu season this fall and winter could overwhelm California hospitals that are preparing for an uptick in COVID-19 cases as the economy further reopens, officials said Thursday. They...

Kentucky's horse racing industry suffered a potentially huge setback Thursday when the state's highest court ruled at least some historical racing games being offered in betting parlors aren't legal. Historical...

Iowa regulators have issued their first citation to a meatpacking plant with a large coronavirus outbreak that sickened its workforce — a $957 fine for a minor record-keeping violation. The...

Mississippi's capital city says it plans to work with the U.S. Department of Justice to help fight crime. Jackson City Council President Aaron Banks says U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst extended...

Evel Knievel's son is on a collision course with the Walt Disney Co. and Pixar over a movie daredevil character named Duke Caboom. A federal trademark infringement lawsuit filed in...

The South Carolina General Assembly wrapped up a most unusual 2020 session by passing a bill supporters said will help get high speed internet to hundreds of thousands of people...

When Dutch Instagrammer Famke Louise launched the hashtag #ikdoenietmeermee (I'm out) in protest over Covid-19 restrictions, she quickly drew lots of support. It seems many people are finally sick of...

Authorities pleaded for calm while activists vowed to fight on Thursday in Kentucky's largest city, where a gunman wounded two police officers during anguished protests following the decision not to...

Milan designers skirted the line between the virtual and the physical Thursday, taking lessons learned in lockdown to create new collections that are relevant in a reshaped world. The most...

The Latest on a grand jury's decision not to indict police officers on criminal charges directly related to Breonna Taylor's death: (all times EDT) 1:40 p.m. A newspaper publisher says...

The war of words between Democrats and the White House ramped up this week as Trump moved to defund cities that prevent police “from doing their jobs.” Will this partisan...

In normal times, food trends often started in restaurants, with top chefs. Maybe they got written up in food magazines or blogs. After some time, you could find the trending...

In normal times, food trends often started in restaurants, with top chefs. Maybe they got written up in food magazines or blogs. After some time, you could find the trending...

Florida prosecutors dropped a misdemeanor charge against New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft on Thursday, saying they couldn't go forward after courts blocked their use of video that allegedly shows...

Nursing homes make up nearly half of the places in Kansas linked to active coronavirus clusters of five or more cases and some of them still are struggling to find...

Melbourne residents are prisoners in their city, risking indefinite detention for ‘pre-crime' and even having their kids taken based on Covid statistics that are often inaccurate. How long before this...

Lawyers for the U.S. Postal Service were in court Thursday to defend accusations that service cuts are slowing down the mail and threatening the integrity of the presidential election. The...

Washington voters have elected a Republican secretary of state for more than five decades in a state mostly run by Democrats. Two-term Secretary of State Kim Wyman — the fifth...

Hospitals in Missouri's third-largest city are approaching capacity due to a surge in coronavirus cases. Officials at Springfield's two major hospital systems, CoxHealth and Mercy, told the city council on...

Union nurses at the University of Illinois Hospital have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract, they announced Thursday. The contract includes a promise to hire 160 more...

With bars and nightclubs limiting capacity and closing early in the St. Louis area due to the coronavirus pandemic, neighboring establishments in St. Charles are seeing so many large and...

Spotify and the makers of Fortnite and Tinder are taking on Apple and Google as part of a newly formed coalition calling for “fair treatment” in the way the tech...

Spotify and the makers of Fortnite and Tinder are taking on Apple and Google as part of a newly formed coalition calling for “fair treatment” in the way the tech...

The decision by Barbados to axe the British monarch as titular head of state has unleashed anti-China paranoia claiming malign influence from Beijing. This is the poverty of Cold War...

The slice of Michigan that covers Detroit, its suburbs and towns dependent on the auto industry is coveted political terrain in one of this year's most important presidential swing states....

Joshua Wong, the self-styled pro-democracy leader who is lionised in the west, was arrested today for taking part in an ‘illegal assembly'. Beijing says he's a threat to national security...

Britain's treasury chief announced a new income support program Thursday for workers hurt by the coronavirus pandemic as the government races to prevent widespread layoffs when earlier employer subsidies end...

Britain bungled its response to the coronavirus the first time around. Now many scientists fear it's about to do it again. The virus is on the rise once more in...

New applications for unemployment assistance in Florida dipped again, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Thursday. Claims for first-time benefits in Florida stood at 35,829 for the week ending Sept....

Rite Aid topped Wall Street expectations for the fiscal second quarter and gave a revised annual forecast, one quarter after withdrawing it due to COVID-19 uncertainty. The drugstore chain said...

The EU's latest plan on how it should manage migrants has been widely criticised by countries whose military efforts are contributing to the problem. Their hypocrisy is astounding. On Wednesday,...

Multi-millionaires LeBron James and Michael Bloomberg are paying off fines for felons so that they can vote Democrat in November. Why is it that rich Americans can try to influence...

The U.S. government will provide its latest snapshot Thursday of the pace of layoffs, which have remained elevated but have been declining as some sectors of the economy have rebounded...

Renovating and reopening a hotel in the middle of a pandemic may seem like a monumental risk, but for self-proclaimed “eternal optimist” Michael Liebowitz, hotel partner at Mondrian South Beach,...

Sir Harold Evans, the charismatic publisher, author and muckraker who was a bold-faced name for decades for exposing wrongdoing in 1960s London to publishing such 1990s best-sellers as “Primary Colors,"...