A county in North Carolina incorrectly told nearly 7,000 residents they had tested positive for the coronavirus due what officials say was a technical glitch. The messages were sent by...
September 15, 2020
Today, according to the Palestinian PM, ‘the Arab Peace Initiative dies' in Washington with the signing of deals between the UAE, Bahrain and Israel. This comes at a time when...
September 15, 2020
A look at what's happening around the majors today: ___ PLAYOFF PURSUIT Second place in the AL East is up for grabs when Toronto opens a critical three-game series at...
September 15, 2020
Asian stock markets were mostly higher Tuesday after Wall Street rose on a flurry of corporate deals and China's economic activity improved. Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul gained, while Tokyo...
September 15, 2020
Killjoys at an Oxford museum have decided to remove from view its popular exhibit of shrunken human heads. The woke arbiters of British culture have decided that this exhibit reinforces...
September 15, 2020
India confirmed more than 83,000 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, bringing its total caseload to nearly 5 million. The Health Ministry also reported 1,054 new deaths, driving total fatalities up...
September 15, 2020
A growing number of states are facing pressure to ban race-based discrimination against hair texture and hairstyles in schools and in the workplace. Advocates this week presented a proposal to...
September 15, 2020
NEW DELHI — India has reported its lowest daily jump in new coronavirus infections in a week, logging another 83,809 infections in the past 24 hours. The Health Ministry on...
September 15, 2020
A look at what's happening around the majors Tuesday: ___ PLAYOFF PURSUIT Second place in the AL East is up for grabs when Toronto opens a critical three-game series at...
September 15, 2020
Today in History Today is Tuesday, Sept. 15, the 259th day of 2020. There are 107 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On September 15, 1963, four...
September 15, 2020
Two workers who were hurt when a pier along Seattle's waterfront partially collapsed as crews were demolishing portions of it have left the hospital as investigations into the incident have...
September 14, 2020
Billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen has agreed to buy the New York Mets from the Wilpon and Katz families. The team announced the agreement on Monday. The deal is...
September 14, 2020
A suburban Detroit jewelry buyer, auctioneer and appraiser who twice auctioned an engagement ring presented by Donald Trump to second wife Marla Maples has pleaded guilty to wire fraud in...
September 14, 2020
The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times local): 7:15 p.m. President Donald Trump is speaking to Hispanic supporters at what was labeled as a “roundtable” meeting in Phoenix,...
September 14, 2020
The Los Angeles County sheriff on Monday criticized elected officials, sports figures and civic leaders for “fanning the flames of hatred” as America grapples with racism and police brutality, saying...
September 14, 2020
Always a wine connoisseur, CJ McCollum is now a wine maker, too. The Portland Trail Blazers guard has a signature wine coming out Tuesday, and apropos of Oregon, it's a...
September 14, 2020
A judge on Monday dismissed two of the charges a chemical manufacturer and one of its former executives were facing during an ongoing trial over a fire at the company's...
September 14, 2020
Rapper and actor T.I. has settled civil charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he helped promote a fraudulent cryptocurrency. T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, agreed...
September 14, 2020
Billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen has agreed to buy the New York Mets from the Wilpon family. The team announced the agreement on Monday. The deal is subject to...
September 14, 2020
An arts reporter at Minnesota Public Radio News announced her resignation Monday, accusing management of dragging their feet on a potential story about a male employee at a sister station...
September 14, 2020
You can belly up to the bar again in the Keys. As part of a statewide reopening order, Monroe County bars are back in business. And bar owners are raising...
September 14, 2020
Deadly West Coast wildfires are dividing President Donald Trump and the states' Democratic leaders over how to prevent blazes from becoming more frequent and destructive, but scientists and others on...
September 14, 2020
Florence Howe, an activist, educator and major contributor to American literature and culture who as co-founder of the Feminist Press helped revive such acclaimed and influential works as Charlotte Perkins...
September 14, 2020
Longtime benefactor of the arts and culture in San Francisco Ann Getty died Monday. She was 79. She died of a heart attack, her husband Gordon Getty said. A native...
September 14, 2020
A federal appeals court panel has struck down a policy of Philadelphia's main transit agency that forbids advertising regarding issues it considers political or of public debate. In a ruling...
September 14, 2020
Key West bars were among the ones in Florida that were allowed to reopen Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Some hadn't reopened since Florida banned alcohol consumption at bars on June...
September 14, 2020
Legal advocates are lining up on both sides of actor Bill Cosby's appeal as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court prepares to review his 2018 sex assault conviction. Cosby was the first...
September 14, 2020
Wall Street ended solidly higher Monday following a burst of big corporate deals. The S&P 500 rose 1.3%, erasing much of its loss from last week. Technology companies led the...
September 14, 2020
The fires consuming the forests of California and Oregon and darkening the skies over San Francisco and Portland are also damaging a regional economy already singed by the coronavirus outbreak....
September 14, 2020
Facebook will buy REI's new and unused Bellevue campus for nearly $368 million, the social media giant said on Monday. The move further consolidates Facebook's domain in the upscale Spring...
September 14, 2020
New Jersey gamblers set a nationwide record for the most money bet on sports in a singe month, plunking down almost $668 million in August on events including resurgent baseball,...
September 14, 2020
Some 1,700 employees of a bankrupt coal mining company would get up to $17.3 million in back pay under a proposed class-action settlement. The former employees of Milton, West Virginia-based...
September 14, 2020
Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery fell 7 cents to $37.26 a barrel Monday. Brent crude oil for November delivery dropped 22 cents to $39.61 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline...
September 14, 2020
A Miami-Dade circuit judge has dismissed a principal piece of a lawsuit that briefly froze a major redevelopment project aiming to bring a Target, other big retail stores and new...
September 14, 2020
Automaker Daimler AG and subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA have agreed to pay $1.5 billion to the U.S. government and California state regulators to resolve emissions cheating allegations, officials said Monday. The...
September 14, 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is the latest US city hit by mass unrest following a police shooting. Bodycam footage shows the cops were entirely justified, but the protesters don't care about facts...
September 14, 2020
Chick-fil-A said Monday that it no longer plans to open a restaurant in the San Antonio airport, even though the Texas city relented and agreed to let it do so...
September 14, 2020
Here are the biggest five residential sales in Miami-Dade for the week of Sept. 6-Sept. 12, 2020. The data was compiled by Condo.com and does not include off-market or new...
September 14, 2020
A US cop justifiably shoots a threatening black man dead, but still the ‘woke' brigade blame the police and BLM activists take to the streets. If this continues, officers will...
September 14, 2020
The fires consuming the forests of California and Oregon and darkening the skies over San Francisco and Portland are also damaging a regional economy already singed by the coronavirus outbreak....
