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Officials responded Tuesday to a release from a well platform off the shore of Padre Island in Texas and the Coast Guard has a pollution response team on the beach...

Officials responded Tuesday to a release from a well platform off the shore of Padre Island in Texas and the Coast Guard has a pollution response team on the beach...

The U.S. Justice Department has entered into a sports dispute involving the company of a longtime friend of President Donald Trump, warning FIFA that a prohibition against staging league matches...

French President Emmanuel Macron issued a stern warning to Lebanon's political class Tuesday, urging them to commit to serious reforms within a few months or risk punitive action, including sanctions,...

A Miami-based law firm filed a billion-dollar lawsuit on behalf of more than 50 Black former franchise owners of McDonald's restaurants Tuesday, alleging the fast food giant denied them the...

A handful of the dozens of experimental COVID-19 vaccines in human testing have reached the last and biggest hurdle — looking for the needed proof that they really work. AstraZeneca...

The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same methodology...

A police officer in South Carolina's capital city was fired Monday, two days after videos were posted on social media showing him saying a racial slur during a confrontation outside...

The rural economy in Middle America showed improvement in August, despite the effects of a global pandemic and a rare devastating wind storm earlier in the month, according to a...

The North Carolina legislature will reconvene briefly starting Wednesday to propose spending leftover federal COVID-19 relief funds to reach the pockets of parents, the unemployed and poll workers. House and...

The board that oversees the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources has filed suit against Gov. Andy Beshear's administration in an effort to keep the agency's commissioner. The lawsuit...

Without warning last spring, millions of parents found themselves working from home while their kids attempted to do schoolwork under the same roof. The changes happened so quickly that families...

Grain futures were higher on Tuesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sept. gained .074 cent at $5.5060 a bushel; Sept. corn rose .054 cent...

The Army Corps of Engineers is recommending that the federal government negotiate a settlement with North Dakota for more than $38 million that the state spent policing protests against the...

Here are the biggest five residential sales in Miami-Dade for the week of Aug. 23-Aug. 29, 2020. The data was compiled by Condo.com and does not include off-market or new...

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and 10 of Pennsylvania's members of Congress on Tuesday asked President Donald Trump's postmaster general to immediately return sorting machines that were removed, while union officials...

Mask slackers will now have to provide photographic proof they're wearing a face covering before boarding an Uber. The San Francisco-based company unveiled a new policy Tuesday stipulating that if...

General Motors says it has finished making 30,000 medical breathing machines for the U.S. government to help treat coronavirus patients. The Department of Health and Human Services contracted with GM...

“Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It,” by Tom Philpott (Bloomsbury Publishing) Americans long have taken abundant and cheap food for granted, blessed...

Since the death of George Floyd, dozens of British universities have published “anti-racism” statements. This is yet another indication that disinterested truth-seeking is giving way to activism in UK higher...

In a landscape where the woke left and Black Lives Matter have come to prominence, Britain's right wingers are becoming more vocal again, as evidenced by a new poll where...

Kentucky officials are launching a new tourism campaign aimed at safe in-state travel. The "Stay Close, Go Far" marketing initiative reminds residents they don't have to travel far to experience...

Sexual libertinism is on the rise, including on British TV where Channel 4 was happy to show men's erections in all their glory. But at the same time, liberal freedoms...

A waterfront spec house on the Venetian Islands sold for $13.6 million — about 25% off the original asking price of $18.5 million. Douglas Elliman Realtor Associate Dina Goldentayer, the...

Many Indian states eased lockdown restrictions on Tuesday, allowing more businesses and public areas to reopen to reduce economic pain caused by the coronavirus, even as the country's new daily...

More than 50 Black former McDonald's franchise owners are suing the burger chain, saying the company steered them to less-profitable restaurants and didn't give them the same support and opportunities...

French President Emmanuel Macron planted a cedar tree in a forest north of Beirut, marking Lebanon's centenary on Tuesday, ahead of talks with officials on ways to help extract the...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is ready to make changes to his orders prohibiting certain retailers from opening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cooper plans to hold a Tuesday afternoon news...

Rappers Gucci Mane and Foogiano have been named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of a 23-year-old woman who was fatally shot during a concert at a South...

When two beefy men cornered Dwayne Stewart in a Wawa parking lot in Pennsauken, N.J. last year, he was worried. But he never dreamed it could be related to his...

One day after rioters destroyed the Sports Dome retail complex in St. Paul, a construction crew hired by the city knocked the building down because it was dangerously unstable. Then...

While the COVID-19 pandemic forces Americans to avoid each other and challenges the desirability of offices, museums and other shared institutions, the builders of a $1 billion project in downtown...

Breast cancer nonprofit Susan G. Komen took extreme measures to survive the pandemic: laying off over 20% of its staff, cutting pay across the board, giving up its Dallas office...

Hey boomers, it's not your imagination. Finding a job in today's COVID economy is harder than ever, especially for "older Americans," i.e. workers 55 and older. Let's start with the...

NFL The NFL has taken over the independent investigation into workplace conduct within the Washington Football Team, owner Dan Snyder confirmed Monday. Snyder said in a statement he and his...

Venice is reclaiming its place as a top cultural destination with the opening of the Venice Film Festival — the first major in-person cinema showcase of the coronavirus era after...

You've got to hand it to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Just when you think they can't go any lower, the Jags somehow manage to find a whole new level of teal-colored...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department was investigating a shooting of a Black man by a deputy Monday afternoon. In a statement, Deputy Juanita Navarro-Suarez said detectives responded at 3:16...

BEIJING — Chinese students on Tuesday began a full return to regular classes following two weeks without new cases of local transmission in the country. About 75% of students had...

In 1940, the brave fighter pilots of the RAF defied the odds to defend Britain against Nazi invasion. Today, we face another against-the-odds battle for freedom, which will also take...