Politics

More than 3,978 new cases were reported Friday of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, as well as 123 new COVID-19 deaths, according to Texas health officials. Hospitalizations from COVID-19 also...

California will give tax breaks to more immigrants — including those living in the country illegally — under a new law that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Friday. The earned income...

The young man slouched against the inside of the subway doors as the No. 3 train headed south along Broadway. Across the aisle, another young man lay asleep, sprawled across...

A person with knowledge of the deal says receiver Robert Woods has agreed to a four-year contract extension worth up to $68 million with the Los Angeles Rams. The person...

Florida's incoming House speaker warned members of the South Florida Business Council this week that in order to weather the “massive financial hit” the state sustained from the pandemic, there...

Joe Biden's tough rhetoric on Russia, fueled by politically motivated FBI testimony alleging continued Russian electoral interference, may play well to his base. But if US allies act on it,...

A solidly blue state for the past half century, Minnesota became an unquestioned presidential battleground on Friday as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden fought for working-class voters...

Idaho will remain under restrictions in the fourth and final stage of reopening the economy during the coronavirus pandemic for at least another two weeks, Gov. Brad Little said Friday....

Uber-rich British brothers/ David and Simon Reuben have acquired a quarter of ownership of the JW Marriott Miami Turnberry Resort & Spa. Reuben Brothers, a Geneva-based firm owned by David...

Mississippi officials say a Louisiana-based shipbuilder will improve its Mississippi shipyard and add more than 200 jobs to build tugboats for the offshore oil industry. The jobs will be at...

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery rose 14 cents to $41.11 a barrel Friday. Brent crude oil for November delivery fell 15 cents to $43.15 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline...

Joe Rogan's partnership with Spotify has already led to attacks from media outlets, political pundits, and even employees of the streaming company itself, proving that ‘mainstream' success is not for...

The outpouring of rage over the inclusion of Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse in a Dallas teacher's assignment on historical figures that also included victim Joseph Rosenbaum proves the real problem...

Pennsylvania's highest court has put a stop to a local policy that allowed streaming of Philadelphia criminal trials over the internet. The state Supreme Court in an order dated Thursday...

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...

Mohammed Sufian did not dream of much: a job, food on the table, the chance to buy his 2½-year-old son the little things a toddler wants. So when he heard...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has resurrected the idea of an EU-wide ID system. What form it takes is unclear, but history suggests it will struggle to get...

South Carolina's unemployment picture has improved overall, with 20,000 people finding work and businesses reopening as they adjust to the COVID-19 pandemic. But restaurants, hotels and other tourism businesses continue...

Amy Dorris has been widely believed and praised this week for alleging the president forcibly kissed her in 1997. While the ex-Biden staffer who alleged she was sexually assaulted by...

The federal government said Friday that it will give farmers an additional $14 billion to compensate them for the difficulties they have experienced selling their crops, milk and meat because...

Some Russians have taken offence at Anastasia Romanov's cartoonish depiction in a low-budget movie released earlier this year. They shouldn't waste their energy on a criminally stupid piece of film...

A raft of temporary government jobs for the U.S. Census boosted California's economic picture in August as the state added 101,900 jobs and saw its unemployment rate — now at...

A Pennsylvania hospital wants a judge to seal all records and issue a gag order in a long-running wrongful death suit that alleges hospital officials altered the medical records of...

The U.S. Postal Service on Friday agreed to destroy any mailers with misleading information about Colorado mail voting that it had not already sent, settling a lawsuit filed by the...

With few people dying, or even being hospitalised, from Covid-19, why are the UK's governments seemingly so desperate to slap ever more restrictions on our most basic liberties? On Monday,...

Two weeks after a federal judge prohibited the U.S. Census Bureau from winding down the 2020 census, a manager in Illinois instructed employees to get started with layoffs, according to...

Nursing homes that don't have the machines and kits need to send their samples to private labs, but some say the prices are impossible to afford long-term. Phillips County Retirement...

Two years before a deadly fire leveled Berry Creek, the community was selected to receive an $836,000 state grant for pruning vegetation and clearing fuel from potential fire spots. But...

Ibrahim Al-Rashid — the son of Saudi billionaire Nasser Ibrahim Al-Rashid and Lebanese-French socialite Mouna Ayoub — bought his neighbor's Hibiscus Island home for about $6.3 million on Friday. His...

Florida's unemployment rate dropped to 7.4% in August, a sharp decline from July, when it was 11.4%, according to state statistics released Friday. Jobless claims are still high, however, as...

The Federal Aviation Administration hasn't updated standards for emergency airliner evacuations in nearly two decades, a period when travelers have increasingly had to deal with tighter aircraft seats, more carry-on...

The Massachusetts unemployment rate that soared during the early months of the coronavius pandemic fell 4.9 percentage points in August to 11.3%, according to numbers released Friday by state and...

The Death Star comes alive for the first time Monday night in a prime-time debut that just a few years ago would have been unimaginable. The NFL in Sin City....

Multinational tech conglomerate SoftBank is selling Miami-based wireless group Brightstar to a private equity firm. The firm, Brightstar Capital Partners, founded by former Brightstar executive Andrew Weinberg and based in...

The fact that critics of US President Donald Trump think his push for patriotic education will result in a new ‘Hitler Youth' is proof enough that stuff like the 1619...

Grain futures were higher on Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Dec. gained .176 cent at $5.59 a bushel; Dec. corn rose .046 cent...

In front of baskets of tomatoes and peppers, near a sizzling burrito grill, the “promotoras” stop masked shoppers at a busy Latino farmers market: Want to test a COVID-19 vaccine?...

Britain on Friday stripped disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of an honor recognizing his contribution to the U.K. film industry. Weinstein, 68, was given the honor in 2004. The 68-year-old...

Florida's unemployment rate plummeted from 11.4% in July to 7.4% in August, reflecting statewide reopenings following the pandemic shutdown. The decrease also may have been impacted by the expiration of...

Watching a movie or play in the theater. Bowling. Playing in the arcade. Yes, fun is returning to Miami-Dade after months of COVID-19 closures. Miami-Dade and Broward County have finally...