Politics

A county worker was killed and three firefighters were injured after a sidewalk in a Florida suburb collapsed on Friday. The Seminole County Fire Department tweeted that firefighters responded to...

A widely circulated scientific study reported that Covid-19 causes long-term heart problems. Its authors have been forced to issue major corrections after they wildly miscalculated the risk, but the damage...

A chicken processing plant in central California has been ordered to shut down after it became the site of one of the largest and most severe COVID-19 outbreaks in the...

TikTok celebrities Bryce Hall and Blake Gray are facing criminal charges after they hosted recent parties in the Hollywood Hills despite the city's ban on large gatherings during the coronavirus...

The California Legislature has voted to ban the sale of most flavored tobacco products in the state. The California Senate voted 34-0 on Friday to send the bill to Gov....

A Lake Tahoe cottage with a private beach is on the market for nearly $20 million. The 1,688 square-foot (157 square-meter) cottage comes with 2 acres (0.8 hectares), including a...

Herbalife, a Los Angeles-based health and nutrition company, bribed Chinese government officials for a decade to grow its overseas business and falsified accounting records to cover up the payments, U.S....

The NBA playoffs will resume Saturday after the league and the National Basketball Players Association detailed the commitments that made players comfortable continuing. In a joint statement released Friday, the...

Idaho's unemployment claims are rising for the second week in a row, according to numbers from the Idaho Department of Labor. New first-time filings for unemployment totaled nearly 3,800 last...

With nearly 300 University of Missouri students infected with the coronavirus and cases spiking in the surrounding community, Columbia's city health director on Friday announced a new order that limits...

The card from California arrived at the Ellsworth Post Office, addressed only to “Grandma and Grandpa, Rural Route, Ellsworth, Kansas.” In rural Kansas, mail clerks are expected to have encyclopedic...

As the White House stakes pile up, both sides are playing the “Russian card” and claiming Moscow's interference. Yet at the same time, both sides are apt to deny their...

Mike Pompeo's address to the RNC while chasing weapons sales illustrates just how President Trump is keeping the neocons in his administration happy by enabling the business of war across...

Boeing has found manufacturing defects on some of its 787 long-range airliners in areas where parts of the fuselage are joined together, the latest setback for the aircraft maker whose...

Pennsylvania state utility regulators have effectively extended a moratorium preventing utilities from terminating service to non-paying customers for three more weeks while the state fights the spread of the coronavirus....

Officials are investigating after dozens of residents in a south Georgia town received racist letters. The Thomas County sheriff's office told local news outlets that the letters appear to have...

As Kyle Rittenhouse is charged with killing two people, and the father of a Seattle shooting victim sues for billions, the consequences of the US' lawless summer are becoming clear...

Popularized by gender activists, 'cis' has found widespread usage within the online-sphere. But where some see a word that simply designates a person as non-trans, others view it as an...

Coca-Cola is offering voluntary buyouts to about 4,000 people to reduce the number of layoffs it says will take place as it streamlines operations. Coca-Cola is reducing the number of...

U.S. consumers increased their spending by 1.9% last month, a dose of support for an economy struggling to emerge from the grip of a pandemic that has held back a...

Levee breaches from Hurricane Katrina dumped six feet of water into the New Orleans home of Mary Duplessis and her husband in 2005. The house was uninhabitable. Rebuilding meant piles...

I believe the Democrats will resort to cheating and creating chaos in order to stop Donald Trump winning another four years in the White House. If they do, the result...

The BBC has robustly defended a hugely offensive sketch on the Famalam show, which prompted a complaint from Jamaica's foreign minister. After months of apologising for its past comedy output,...

First it was Neymar. Then Cristiano Ronaldo. And now, very likely, it will be Lionel Messi. The Spanish league is about to see another top player leave one of its...

The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory. Japan's SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of “flying car” projects...

Japan's longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said Friday he intends to step down because a chronic health problem has resurfaced. He told reporters that it was “gut wrenching” to leave...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would likely pursue an aggressive antitrust policy to rein in dominant companies and crack down on mergers that have contributed to concentration in many markets,...

Five days a week, Ryan Hartson scours the picked-over aisles of Mariano's Fresh Market in Chicago to fill grocery delivery orders for Instacart. He clocks in for his shift exactly...

There's a surprising new contender for 2020's best and most advanced new car: The Polestar 2. The handsome four-door fastback from Volvo's performance and technology brand is loaded with useful...

2020 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport SEL Premium V-6 R-Line vs. 2020 Toyota 4Runner 4x4 Nightshade V6: A 50-grand trail competition This week: VW Atlas Cross Sport Price: $51,210. Red paint,...

A pair of self-driving car startups are offering a solution to commuters shunning shared transportation in the midst of a pandemic: ultraviolet rays. Voyage and May Mobility, two autonomous-vehicle companies...

Last year, 53 million vehicles, car seats, tires and equipment were recalled, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. But a portion of those defects, and those reported this...

An Alabama man has been indicted on charges he manufactured homemade and untested cancer drugs in his kitchen and marketed them to “alternative-medicine doctors" in the U.S., Mexico and elsewhere,...

NEW DELHI — India has recorded another high of 77,266 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, raising the country's total to more than 3.38 million reported cases. Nearly...

An XR film starring Keira Knightley that claimed human extinction is a real possibility has had to be re-edited before its launch this weekend. Unscientific nonsense like this makes a...

Asian markets were mostly higher Friday after the Federal Reserve said it might keep interest rates low even if inflation rises, in a major overhaul of its strategy. Shares retreated...

Ahmed Eissa, a father of two living in the Gaza Strip, was already struggling to make ends meet on $7 a day, dealing with frequent electricity cuts and worried that...

President Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden as a hapless career politician who will endanger Americans' safety as he accepted his party's renomination on the South Lawn of the White House....

Speaking at the finale of the Republican National Convention, President Donald Trump doubled down on American exceptionalism and once again painted himself as an outsider fighting the Democrats and the...

President Donald Trump claimed accomplishments he didn't earn on the pandemic, energy and veterans at a Republican convention finale that also heard Black Lives Matter baselessly accused of coordinating violent...