Politics

Regulators are taking a second look at large-scale energy projects proposed for both sides of New Jersey's shoreline that involve wind energy and liquefied natural gas. State Senate President Steve...

Senate Democrats scuttled a scaled-back GOP coronavirus rescue package on Thursday, saying the measure shortchanged too many pressing needs as the pandemic continues its assault on the country. The mostly...

Twitter said Thursday that starting next week it will label or remove misleading claims that try to undermine public confidence in elections. The policy will apply to tweets that attempt...

A 40-year-old medical worker at a southwestern Missouri clinic has died from COVID-19, the CEO of her company said. Marie Brumbaugh was a medical assistant at a clinic in Branson...

A bill allowing the use of marijuana is due to be voted into law later this month. Democrats hope the move – backed by VP candidate Kamala Harris – will...

As Hollywood searches for a response to the reckoning brought on by the death of George Floyd and the Academy Awards move to make Oscar nominees more inclusive, a new...

Florida had 36,541 new claims for unemployment benefits last week, a 25% drop from the previous week, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor. Florida officials...

Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from Idaho newspapers: What if all your polling places are destroyed? New Idaho law says, ‘Too bad' Idaho Statesman Sept. 10 One of...

A scaled-back GOP coronavirus rescue package appears certain to fail in a Senate test vote Thursday as the bipartisan spirit that powered earlier relief bills has given way to election-season...

A scaled-back GOP coronavirus rescue package appears certain to fail in a Senate test vote Thursday as the bipartisan spirit that powered earlier relief bills has given way to election-season...

Grain futures were higher on Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sept. advanced .122 cent at $5.4620 a bushel; Sept. corn gained .08 cent...

If you listen to the leaders of Black Lives Matter, you'd imagine that most black people across the US want to defund the police. But there are many who don't,...

One Florida school board is shelling out $343,000 to lease iPads after some 1,100 units were either damaged or not returned when school ended in the spring. Citrus County School...

Three Miami dialysis businesses will pay $110,819 in back pay after overtime pay violations, the U.S. Department of Labor announced. Olympus Healthcare, Apollo Renal Center and Americare Renal Center, all...

The English Premier League has contested Newcastle's assertion that a Saudi-led takeover of the club had been rejected, saying on Thursday it could still proceed if further information on the...

New applications for unemployment assistance in Florida fell for the fourth straight week, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Thursday. But new jobless claims for the rest of the country...

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week at 884,000, a sign that layoffs are stuck at a historically high level six months after the viral...

Reading the news, one might come to believe that US higher education has devolved into nothing more than a “social justice” indoctrination camp and that any deviation from the orthodoxy...

TV actresses. A well-known fashion designer. Business leaders. Entrepreneurs. One by one, they have admitted to using their wealth to bribe and cheat their kids' ways into top universities across...

When the pandemic struck in March, Kabbage, the Atlanta-based online lender, seemed to be just as imperiled as the small businesses that are the bread and butter of its company....

When the naive niece of the world's most famous terrorist aired her pro-Trump views this week, it was probably support the US president neither wanted nor needed. Doesn't she realise...

Boris Johnson is playing hardball with the EU, but by recklessly refusing to honour the terms of an already signed agreement, he has crossed a line. Who will be prepared...

After 15 years, a multifamily developer is trading Miami's Central Business District for Coconut Grove. The Miami-based American Land Ventures signed a 4,252-square-foot office lease at One CocoWalk in September,...

We no longer hold these truths to be self-evident: —A U.S. presidential election will be held every four years in November. —The armed forces will not be involved in those...

Little remained of Greece's notoriously overcrowded Moria refugee camp Thursday after a second fire overnight destroyed nearly everything that had been spared in the original Tuesday night blaze, leaving thousands...

North Carolina's state government is using federal COVID-19 relief dollars to purchase equipment so more public school students can access online classes and homework help. Gov. Roy Cooper announced that...

Gov. Andy Beshear has announced that five Kentucky river ports are receiving a combined $450,000 for critical repairs and equipment replacement. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet said the funding comes from...

A vendor for North Carolina-based Lowe's home improvement stores is planning to bring 144 jobs from Italy to its new U.S. headquarters in Mooresville, officials said. The town of Mooresville...

It was the height of the coronavirus outbreak, cost-cutting was rife across English soccer and beyond, and a top official at one of the world's richest clubs was delivering a...

An Alabama doctor and a pharmacist have been sentenced in a multi-million dollar health care fraud scheme to bill insurance companies for medically unnecessary drugs, among other charges. A federal...

A Taiwanese manufacturer of metal composite materials announced Thursday it is relocating a distribution facility to a booming New Mexico border town. New Mexico Economic Development Secretary Alicia J. Keyes...

New Mexico Health Connections' decision to close at year's end will leave just three of the 23 nonprofit health insurance co-ops that sprang from the Affordable Care Act. One co-op...

New research from the University of Washington offers some clues as to why, more than 50 years after the federal government banned housing discrimination, Seattle's neighborhoods remain segregated by race....

Touted as a boutique luxury apartment building in the nexus of a tony suburb just outside Philadelphia, the Delwyn in Bala Cynwyd planned to open in the spring and charge...

As many white-collar employers extend into next year the work-from-home policies they instituted in response to the coronavirus pandemic, a vast amount of vertical space in downtown Seattle is leased...

Does my employer have to say if a coworker has the virus? Employers are generally not required to tell workers when someone in the workplace has tested positive for the...

A second fire in Greece's notoriously overcrowded Moria refugee camp destroyed nearly everything that had been spared in the original blaze, Greece's migration ministry said Thursday, leaving thousands more people...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long cultivated a symbiotic relationship with the country's ultra-Orthodox parties, doling out generous subsidies and leaving their insular way of life unperturbed in exchange...

Asian stock markets advanced Thursday after Wall Street rebounded from a three-day slump for tech stocks. Benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul. Sydney was little-changed. Wall Street's S&P 500 index...

NEW DELHI — India has recorded another one day record increase in new coronavirus infections, logging 95,735 new cases. According to the Health Ministry, India's number of recorded infections since...