Politics

U.S. Army officials announced changes in the leadership at Fort Hood on Tuesday amid what they said was a widening investigation into the slaying of a soldier at the Texas...

Kentucky has again extended its contract with an outside company hired to help work through a backlog of unemployment claims amid the coronavirus outbreak, Gov. Andy Beshear said Tuesday. The...

Miami-Dade is looking to borrow from Wall Street to fund its cruise terminal projects at PortMiami. On Monday the county commission authorized the issuance of up to $500 million in...

Growing numbers of Louisiana residents are turning to the state to find a place to stay after Hurricane Laura ravaged the state's southwestern region, wrecking homes, ripping away roofs and...

A Zoom call has become an integral part of daily life during the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, Wall Street acknowledged as much by boosting the videoconferencing company's market value above...

Pressed by Democrats to quickly negotiate a new coronavirus relief package, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday the administration remains willing to work on a bipartisan agreement to help small...

Starting Friday, North Carolina will reopen more businesses under a so-called Phase 2.5. The directive announced Tuesday by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper will allow gyms, bowling alleys and other indoor...

A special airing of “Black Panther" in the wake of the death of star Chadwick Boseman was a bright spot for the broadcast networks in a ratings week otherwise utterly...

A day after its 5-for-1 stock split took effect, Tesla announced plans Tuesday to sell up to $5 billion worth of common shares. The electric car and solar panel maker...

As 67 players opted out of the NFL season because of the coronavirus pandemic, corporate partners, sponsors and advertisers did the opposite. They stood pat. The league even added two...

The economic blow of the coronavirus pandemic is hitting the biggest, richest schools of college sports, whether they are planning to play football this fall or not. Michigan and Texas...

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Tuesday, a day after wrapping up their fifth monthly gain in a row. The latest gains added to a string of milestones for the...

Let's get this straight from the outset: If the NFL has no fans at any games this season — or doesn't have much of a season at all — it...

Nine days after the scuba boat Conception went down in flames with 34 people trapped below deck in one of the deadliest disasters in California maritime history, a federal grand...

A federal official said Tuesday the government plans to ship rapid coronavirus tests to assisted living facilities, moving to fill a testing gap for older adults who don't need the...

As many as 40 million Americans – including 357,000 Kansans – face the risk of eviction in the next several months. An enhanced federal unemployment benefit of $600 a week...

Four of five people who died of COVID-19 in recent days in Greene County were residents of long-term care facilities, health officials said Tuesday. A woman in her 60s, a...

The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday it is investigating reports from airline pilots that someone was flying in a jetpack as they approached Los Angeles International Airport to land last...

Those unemployed due to the coronavirus pandemic will start receiving an additional $300 in unemployment benefits later this month. The Employment Security Department announced Tuesday the the payments would be...

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery rose 15 cents to $42.76 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude oil for November delivery rose 30 cents to $45.58 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline...

Facebook said Tuesday that it removed a small network of accounts and pages linked to Russia's Internet Research Agency, the “troll factory” that has used social media accounts to sow...

This month's campaign of ‘No simping' ostensibly encourages men to stop spending money on lewd pictures of female strangers online. But opponents say it is also about re-asserting male dominance....

The state utility board on Tuesday upheld Alabama Power's fees charged to customers who use solar panels to produce part of their home electricity, fees that environmental groups argue are...

Authorities in Belarus detained scores of university students who took to the streets Tuesday to demand that authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko resign after an election the opposition has denounced as...

After nearly six months of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, people can visit relatives and friends in South Carolina nursing homes and residential care facilities, but there will be no...

The torrid coronavirus summer across the Sun Belt is easing after two disastrous months that brought more than 35,000 deaths. Whether the outbreak will heat up again after Labor Day...

For Florida businesses struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic, here's a bit of good news: Workers' compensation insurance costs could go down in 2021. State insurance regulators have received a rate...

Under the supervision of a bankruptcy judge, the Boy Scouts of America has launched a nationwide advertising campaign to notify victims of decades-old sex abuse by Scout leaders that they...

Missouri has paid a consulting firm more than $500,000 in emergency federal funding for pandemic-related costs, despite Gov. Mike Parson saying in early May that an independent foundation was paying...

Idaho will start making $300-a-week unemployment payments this week under President Donald Trump's supplemental plan, Gov. Brad Little said Tuesday. The retroactive payments will cover five weeks beginning in late...

Neuralink, which would see humans receive brain implants readable by a computer, is Elon Musk's latest big idea. But digital control of our thinking would be a step in the...

These divas deliver. Drag queens don their colorful wigs, elaborate makeup and knee-high stiletto boots, but instead of stepping on a stage, they're putting on a face covering, grabbing a...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked a New York prosecutor from obtaining Donald Trump's tax returns while the president's lawyers continue to fight a subpoena seeking the records. The...

British pop icon Adele has been both attacked and defended for dressing in a Jamaican flag bikini and having her hair in Bantu knots. Is it cultural appropriation or cultural...

Sasha Johnson, a BLM leader, has set up a new party that will exclude white people from leadership roles and tweeted about ‘enslaving whites'. She's just a young, female, black...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that he will lift the state's ban on visiting nursing homes that has cut off vulnerable seniors from family since mid-March over fears of...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that he will lift the state's ban on visiting nursing homes that has cut off vulnerable seniors from family since mid-March over fears of...

Europe's actual last dictator, the autocrat of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic, just had his grip on power slip when his Democratic Party of Socialists lost the general election. There are indications...

Apple and Google are trying to get more U.S. states to adopt their phone-based approach for tracing and curbing the spread of the coronavirus by building more of the necessary...

Apple and Google are trying to get more U.S. states to adopt their phone-based approach for tracing and curbing the spread of the coronavirus by building more of the necessary...