Politics

South Carolina lawmakers are returning to Columbia to take up how the state spends its money, voting and whatever other loose ends remain in a session disrupted by COVID-19. The...

There's a new entrant into the Bowling Green food truck environment, and this one already has a following. Josh and Chelsey Poling, owners of Hickory & Oak restaurant in downtown...

Iranian state TV on Saturday reported that the country's authorities executed a wrestler for allegedly murdering a man, after President Donald Trump asked for the 27-year-old condemned man's life to...

Terence Conran, the British designer, retailer and restaurateur who built a furniture empire around the word, founded The Design Museum in London and modernized the everyday lives of British people,...

Terence Conran, the British designer, retailer and restaurateur who built a furniture empire around the word, founded The Design Museum in London and modernized the everyday lives of British people,...

Jeff Lello has never been rich, but the 42-year-old could pocket $100 cash most weekend nights at the steakhouse chain where he waited tables. He always had enough money for...

Jeff Lello has never been rich, but the 42-year-old could pocket $100 cash most weekend nights at the steakhouse chain where he waited tables. He always had enough money for...

The Illinois Environmental Agency has removed more than 220 tons of used tires from an abandoned auto salvage site in Tazewell County. Officials said the operation took more than six...

The Illinois Environmental Agency has removed more than 220 tons of used tires from an abandoned auto salvage site in Tazewell County. Officials said the operation took more than six...

Explaining his deceptive assurances about the pandemic, President Donald Trump suggested he was doing what Winston Churchill had done, soothing the public in a time of danger. That's not how...

The deviant, under-aged sexuality in ‘Cuties' doesn't make the middling movie an arthouse gem. It's incredible some critics are blind to its toxic depravity just to score political points. ‘Cuties'...

The deviant, under-aged sexuality in ‘Cuties' doesn't make the middling movie an arthouse gem. It's incredible some critics are blind to its toxic depravity just to score political points. ‘Cuties'...

ISTANBUL — Istanbul's governor has introduced new measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus, banning all boating companies from hosting weddings and similar gatherings. In a statement late Friday,...

Water, water everywhere, but no way to put in. That's often the case in Miami-Dade County, blessed and cursed with hundreds of miles of mostly publicly inaccessible waterways, from the...

Water, water everywhere, but no way to put in. That's often the case in Miami-Dade County, blessed and cursed with hundreds of miles of mostly publicly inaccessible waterways, from the...

The disrespect some Durham University students have for working-class females is shameful but comes as no surprise, because they are devalued across society and seen as ‘fair game'. This has...

India's confirmed coronavirus tally has crossed 4.6 million after a record surge of 97,570 new cases in 24 hours. India on Saturday also reported another 1,201 deaths, taking total fatalities...

The leaked recordings were hardly a political bombshell: The apparent conversations between Joe Biden and Ukraine's then-president largely confirm Biden's account of his dealings in Ukraine. But the choppy audio,...

Today in History Today is Saturday, Sept. 12, the 256th day of 2020. There are 110 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 12, 1962, in...

Illinois state Sen. Terry Link, who was hit last month with federal charge of filing a false income tax return for 2016, announced his resignation Friday after 24 years in...

Aviation regulators and pilots from several countries will begin next week reviewing Boeing's proposal for training pilots to fly the revamped 737 Max, a sign that the grounded plane is...

Federal regulators are proposing allowing airlines to hold on to their valuable takeoff and landing slots at several big U.S. airports, even if they are not fully using their rights...

The NBA is proceeding with tentative plans for a Nov. 18 draft, though has cautioned teams that the date could move yet again, a person with knowledge of the matter...

A panel of government health advisers said Friday there's no clear evidence that a harder-to-crush version of the painkiller OxyContin designed to discourage abuse actually resulted in fewer overdoses or...

The NFL's new stance encouraging players to take a stand against racial injustice got its first test as some fans of the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs booed during...

Kansas is forecast to harvest a record soybean crop this fall, but corn production in the state is expected to be down from last year, the National Agricultural Statistics Service...

A bankruptcy judge has approved a settlement agreement between the former NORPAC Foods processing company and some 100 member farms, which means they'll collectively receive $4.5 million. Continued litigation between...

South Carolina's public health director appeared to be on her way to a new job in Ohio before abruptly withdrawing, saying a day later she was concerned because the previous...

An NFL and players union-run fund that helps ailing retired players shut down its application process for nearly six months because of the coronavirus, irritating retirees who complained the league...

Stocks ended with meager gains on Wall Street Friday following another rocky day of sharp swings. The S&P 500 climbed 0.1% but still ended with its second weekly loss in...

A suspect in the rape and killing of a 14-year-old girl in 1984 in Rochester, New York, was arrested in Florida after a DNA search, officials said Friday. Timothy Williams,...

If Trump's words about his dislike for war and US troops fighting ‘forever wars' matched his actions, there would be no American soldiers in the Middle East and Afghanistan. Nor...

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery rose 3 cents to $37.33 a barrel Friday. Brent crude oil for November delivery dropped 23 cents to $39.83 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline...

A section of concrete on a parking deck under construction in Atlanta partially collapsed on Friday, officials said, injuring five workers. Video from news outlets showed an injured worker being...

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...

Hundreds of farmers continued to hold a remote dam in northern Mexico Friday as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador tried to explain to the country why water must be released...

The new casino being developed in Terre Haute will be smoke-free. Developer Spectacle Jack LLC cited Vigo County and Terre Haute's strict non-smoking ordinances and poor health metrics in making...

Connecticut's top public health official says an hourslong meeting Friday with the the organization overseeing high school sports in the state failed to convince her that a fall football season...

North Carolina will keep challenging the U.S. government's decision to advance seismic testing off the state's Atlantic coast although a potential testing company has pulled out, Attorney General Josh Stein's...

The U.S. budget deficit hit an all-time high of $3 trillion for the first 11 months of this budget year, the Treasury Department said Friday. The ocean of red ink...