North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper sought again Monday the state Supreme Court's help to try to rein in the General Assembly's powers, this time over how federal block grants are...
August 31, 2020
Adult film star Ron Jeremy was charged Monday with 20 new counts of rape or sexual assault involving 12 women and a teenage girl, authorities said. The charges come two...
August 31, 2020
A cautious group of economists decided Monday to cut the amount of taxes, fees and other revenues South Carolina expects to collect this budget year by about $52 million in...
August 31, 2020
Gov. Tom Wolf's administration reiterated that he will not extend his executive order halting evictions and foreclosures in Pennsylvania because of legal limits that prevent him from taking further action....
August 31, 2020
It's time to stop fetishizing scientific methods. We have to accept that there are many elements of Covid-19 that science may never understand and if we wait for it to...
August 31, 2020
A Lake Tahoe-area veterinarian and former professor at the University of California, Davis who oversaw treatment of horses at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing has pleaded guilty to federal tax...
August 31, 2020
NFL end zones will be inscribed this season with two slogans: “It Takes All Of Us” on one end line, “End Racism” on the other. As part of its social...
August 31, 2020
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August 31, 2020
Southern California-based Rocket Lab said it successfully returned to flight following a launch failure in early July. An Electron rocket blasted off Monday from a launch pad on New Zealand's...
August 31, 2020
Getting an Amazon packaged delivered from the sky is closer to becoming a reality. The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it had granted Amazon approval to deliver packages by drones....
August 31, 2020
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ NFL Players Association President J.C. Tretter is pushing for daily COVID-19 testing during the regular...
August 31, 2020
One reason for the extraordinary hostility of the foreign policy insiders' brigade toward President Trump is that he has not wasted his time conjuring up new missions to justify NATO's...
August 31, 2020
Florida's director of economic opportunity resigned Monday, months after being stripped of his oversight of the state's glitch-ridden unemployment system, which left hundreds of thousands of people waiting weeks —...
August 31, 2020
Exactly one year ago, a man killed himself because of ‘feminist' gaming activist Zoe Quinn. Two years ago, 2,450 backers of her Kickstarter project got the last update on its...
August 31, 2020
A May 2021 trial date was set Monday for Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, on charges that he cheated donors to a group seeking to fund a...
August 31, 2020
New York police, feeling the hate amid a nationwide movement to defund cops, were criticized for releasing video of an attempted rape at a subway station. Trying to create an...
August 31, 2020
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made an enthusiastic pitch Monday for Republican candidates on the ballot nationally, pointing to the pre-coronavirus economy and the appointment of conservative judges while saying...
August 31, 2020
A medical sterilization company is suing a suburban Atlanta county, saying the county unlawfully lowered the property values of thousands of homes because of concerns about releases of a poisonous...
August 31, 2020
Do not judge Shinzo Abe's Japan by those shiny new structures of the Tokyo Osaka maglev project that will be soon connecting the industrial heartland of Nagoya with the capital...
August 31, 2020
Comedian John Oliver upped the stakes in a tongue-in-cheek spat with a Connecticut city, offering to donate $55,000 to charity if officials follow through on a joke to name its...
August 31, 2020
The yellow school buses are on reserve. Jack Knowlton and his merry band from Sackatoga Stable are back at the Kentucky Derby for the first time in 17 years. This...
August 31, 2020
The federal government will begin offering low-interest loans to homeowners and small business owners who were impacted by North Carolina's earthquake. The Winston-Salem Journal reports that the U.S. Small Business...
August 31, 2020
President Donald Trump wants to dramatically expand aquaculture production in the United States, but a coalition of environmentalists believes his plan would be bad for the oceans, unnecessary for food...
August 31, 2020
Walgreens has added the former leader of a rival it once tried to buy, as the drugstore chain works through a COVID sales slump, a major push into primary care...
August 31, 2020
The Chinese government is complicating the U.S.-government-ordered sale of U.S. TikTok assets. China on Friday introduced export restrictions on artificial intelligence technology, seemingly including the type that TikTok uses to...
August 31, 2020
The trailer for HBO Max's Unpregnant appears to ignore the moral complexity of abortion in favor of promoting an insidious amorality on the issue. This is a poor message to...
August 31, 2020
About 635,000 duck toys given to insurance company Aflac customers over 15 years have been recalled for a lead issue. The problem, stated by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission...
August 31, 2020
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has concluded that a Tennessee Valley Authority executive retaliated against a safety whistleblower. Vice President Joseph Shea “played a significant role” in the 2018 firing...
August 31, 2020
The Dallas Morning News. August 28, 2020 As people fled Hurricane Laura, Team Rubicon raced in to help Hurricane Laura made landfall early Thursday morning with sustained winds of 150...
August 31, 2020
Walgreens is adding the former leader of rival drugstore chain Rite Aid to its executive team. The company said that John Standley will join Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. as president,...
August 31, 2020
Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street Monday as declines in banks and health care stocks offset more gains for big technology companies. The S&P 500 was off 0.1% in...
August 31, 2020
Rolling Loud, the popular hip-hop festival that had already been moved from its scheduled May 2020 Hard Rock Stadium date to February 2021 thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, will bring...
August 31, 2020
An Orlando company that builds screens around pools and porches will pay $32,703 after not properly paying the employees doing the building, the U.S. Department of Labor said. Labor says...
August 31, 2020
Belarus' authorities on Monday detained the organizer of a strike at a top industrial plant, part of a methodical effort to stifle weeks of protests demanding the resignation of the...
August 31, 2020
Some Illinois road construction projects scheduled to be completed this year could be delayed until next year because of lower-than-anticipated gas tax revenues during the coronavirus pandemic. State Transportation Department...
August 31, 2020
The 2004 Belmont Stakes winner, Birdstone, is retiring to Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Center in Kentucky, the farm said. Birdstone, who also won the Travers Stakes in 2004, retired from...
August 31, 2020
A state grant of more than $400,000 will help support survivors of a school shooting in western Kentucky, officials said. Two 15-year-old students, Bailey Holt and Preston Cope, were killed...
August 31, 2020
A Star of David-adorned El Al plane took off Monday from Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport, carrying a high-ranking American and Israeli delegation to Abu Dhabi in the first-ever direct commercial passenger...
