Politics

Major Asian share indexes meandered between modest gains and losses Tuesday after a retreat on Wall Street. Australia's benchmark led the declines, falling more than 1% Tuesday ahead of a...

As eight Navy midshipmen file into their economics class, instructor Kurtis Swope points to the antibacterial wipes on the desk. “Did you grab wipes?” he asks, then tells each one...

Texas Tech will eliminate 40 positions from its athletic department and reduce the salary of many remaining employees in the face of an expected $25 million reduction in revenue over...

Walmart is launching a new membership service for shoppers this month that it hopes can compete with Amazon Prime. Called Walmart+, it will cost $98 a year, or $12.95 a...

Hong Kong began a voluntary mass-testing program for coronavirus Tuesday as part of a strategy to break the chain of transmission in the city's third outbreak of the disease. The...

The coronavirus pandemic has brought hard times for many farmers and has imperiled food security for many millions both in the cities and the countryside. United Nations experts are holding...

An Illinois accountant who pleaded guilty to embezzling millions of dollars from a trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago and others to finance a luxurious lifestyle was sentenced Monday...

If you have been struggling to pay rent or a mortgage because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Ron DeSantis is giving you a little more time. Only hours before an...

The NFL has taken over the independent investigation into workplace conduct within the Washington Football Team, a person familiar with the situation said Monday. The person spoke to The Associated...

A federal judge on Monday ordered Georgia to extend its deadline for accepting mail-in ballots for November's general election from the close of polls on Election Day until three days...

A high-ranking official at the California agency that regulates utility companies has been fired over several allegedly unethical hiring decisions discussed in a recent personnel audit, according to a newspaper...

The Los Angeles Dodgers traded right-hander Ross Stripling to the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday for two players to be named, making their only move on a quiet deadline day...

California lawmakers on Monday were preparing to exempt about two-dozen more professions from a landmark labor law designed to treat more people like employees instead of contractors. Among other things,...

California State University, Chico canceled its limited number of in-person classes Monday and told students in an urgently toned message to vacate campus housing by the weekend after nearly 30...

An American consultant pleaded guilty Monday in an illicit lobbying effort to get the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund,...

The House Oversight Committee intends to subpoena Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for documents about disruptions in mail delivery operations that are now central to questions over the ability to handle...

The California Senate advanced legislation Monday to ban evictions through January for people who can't pay their rent because of the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Under the measure,...

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday urged local officials to consider using part of federal coronavirus assistance to pay for more drop-off boxes for mail-in ballots. Kelly said during a...

The judge overseeing the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy is mulling a request to address what attorneys for the BSA claim are misleading and confusing advertisements from law firms trying...

A Mississippi school district said it will fire 21 bus drivers who walked off the job last week protesting a reduction in work hours and pay. Fifteen of the drivers...

Federal regulators said Monday they would not designate critical habitat for the first bee species in the continental U.S. to be listed as endangered, a move that environmentalists said would...

Bud Dupree didn't get offended last summer when the Pittsburgh Steelers declined to negotiate a contract extension. It was fine, the outside linebacker said repeatedly, pointing out it simply gave...

North Carolina's governor is extending an executive order that limits the hours that restaurants can serve alcohol to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Roy Cooper announced Monday that he's extending...

The Trump administration on Monday finalized its weakening of an Obama-era rule aimed at reducing pollution from coal-burning power plants that has contaminated streams, lakes and underground aquifers The change...

Tropical Depression 15 formed off North Carolina's coast Monday but was not expected to approach land, the U.S National Hurricane Center said. The depression had maximum sustained winds of 35...

Zoom's videoconferencing service is deepening its integral role in life during the pandemic as tens of thousands more businesses and other users pay for subscriptions to get more control over...

Stocks closed mostly lower on Wall Street Monday as the market gave back some of its recent gains following a five-week winning streak. Declines in banks and industrial stocks offset...

South Carolina's state-owned utility has reached a settlement with the now bankrupt company hired to build two nuclear plants that were never completed to sell leftover equipment and supplies, three...

The man who presided over Florida's unemployment system during the first tumultuous month of the pandemic resigned Monday. Ken Lawson, executive director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, did...

Ohio State defensive tackle Haskell Garrett was released from the hospital Monday after being shot in the face over the weekend, a spokesman for the football program said. Garrett was...

Family members of two of the deceased Odessa mass shooting victims are suing the person who supplied the AR-style firearm to the mass shooter and the gun parts manufacturer for...

Liberty University is opening an independent investigation into Jerry Falwell Jr.'s tenure as president, a wide-ranging inquiry that will include financial, real estate and legal matters, the evangelical school's board...

California lawmakers on Monday moved to use the most populous state's market power to lower the cost and increase the availability of prescription drugs for its nearly 40 million residents,...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot predicted a $1.2 billion hole in the 2021 budget on Monday, calling the coronavirus pandemic the “single largest driver” of the city's economic challenges. In her...

This could be the final boarding call for the $200 ticket-change fee that has enraged so many U.S. airline travelers over the past decade. Delta Air Lines said Monday that...

Two former soccer club executives are hoping to help fund a planned $330 million redevelopment of the shuttered Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, Kansas, with sales tax funds. Robb...

After years of legal disputes, officials with the U.S. Department of Energy and South Carolina have inked a $600 million settlement over the storage of plutonium at a former nuclear...

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery fell 36 cents to $42.61 a barrel Monday. Brent crude oil for November delivery fell 53 cents to $45.28 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline...

Looking to halt doping scandals and horse deaths marring their sport, thoroughbred racing leaders Monday announced the launch of an integrity and safety authority to create national standards replacing the...

Publix has discontinued its one-way aisles in stores where they are not required under local ordinance because of COVID-19. A Publix spokeswoman on Monday confirmed that the one-way aisles, designed...