Politics

In a business driven by profit, vaccines have a problem. They're not very profitable – at least not without government subsidies. Pharma companies favor expensive medicines that must be taken...

Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday after a lackluster session on Wall Street following talks between the United States and China on the status of a deal meant to work...

Workers in bright yellow vests stand on the dock in Greece's main port of Piraeus, greeting hundreds of masked ferry passengers with fliers and the occasional temperature check. “Would you...

First lady Melania Trump portrayed her husband as an authentic, uncompromising leader in a Rose Garden address as President Donald Trump turned to family, farmers and the trappings of the...

Eric Trump echoed falsehoods of his father, Melania Trump credited her husband with a dubious religious first, and the president's economic adviser wholly distorted the conditions Donald Trump inherited as...

A Trump administration crackdown on nonessential travel coming from Mexico amid the coronavirus pandemic has created massive bottlenecks at the border, with drivers reporting waits of up to 10 hours...

At President Donald Trump's Republican convention, he is welcoming to immigrants, not the architect of some of the nation's harshest anti-immigration policies. At Trump's convention, the coronavirus pandemic has largely...

NEW DELHI — India has reported more than 67,000 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, raising the country's number of reported infections to 3.2 million with 1.5 million...

An advocate of “household voting” in which husbands get the final say. A woman who has argued that school sex-ed programs are “grooming” children to be sexualized by predators like...

Melania Trump is expressing sympathy for families affected by COVID-19, an “invisible enemy” she said has challenged America but brought its citizens together. In her prime-time Republican National Convention address...

The New York Islanders' playoff run is helping boost season ticket sales for their new arena, scheduled to open next year. The Islanders beat Florida in the qualifying round, then...

The people closest to President Donald Trump — his family — were starring on the second night of the Republican National Convention as the GOP worked to reintroduce the president...

A Kentucky teenager known for video of his interaction with a Native American man during dueling demonstrations at the Lincoln Memorial says the country must unite around a president “who...

Palantir Technologies Inc., a data-mining company with deep ties to U.S. intelligence and military agencies, has shed a good deal of its trademark secrecy about its business in filing for...

A Trump administration crackdown on nonessential travel coming from Mexico amid the coronavirus pandemic has created massive bottlenecks at the border, with drivers reporting waits of up to 10 hours...

The former head of a pharmaceutical company was arrested Tuesday in California on insider trading charges, accused of feeding secrets that enabled friends and family to earn over $700,000 illegally....

A developer's plan to build a 140-foot luxury condo tower across the street from a single-family neighborhood in Miami Beach suffered a bruising blow Tuesday when the city Planning Board...

Two farms in Washington state have agreed to pay $325,000 to settle accusations that they mistreated foreign guest workers. Green Acre Farms and Valley Fruit Orchards of Yakima County have...

Threatening fines and funding cut-offs, the Trump administration on Tuesday issued new COVID-19 requirements for nursing homes and hospitals, prompting immediate pushback from beleaguered industries. To check the spread of...

A Russian citizen has been arrested and charged with offering an employee of a Nevada company $1 million to sew malware for an attack to harvest company data for ransom,...

Sales of permits that California businesses need to emit pollution rebounded in recent months after a dip in May due to the pandemic, according to state figures released Tuesday. California...

Nordstrom Inc. on Tuesday reported a larger-than-expected loss and a 53% drop in sales for its fiscal second quarter, during which the pandemic forced the upscale department store chain to...

Gov. Andy Beshear's administration unveiled a statewide initiative to supply internet access to low-income homes as Kentucky schools open with digital learning because of the coronavirus. The $8 million investment...

The companies that operated and owned the helicopter in which Kobe Bryant and eight others were killed claim Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers were responsible for the crash in...

In this pandemic season, ABC's David Muir has emerged as broadcast television's star of the summer. The “World News Tonight” anchor's nightly summary averaged 8.2 million viewers last week, more...

A determined pack of woke scholars have supposedly proven Shakespeare, the English-speaking world's most famous playwright, was bisexual. It should be irrelevant to appreciating his work, but in the current...

Stock indexes closed mostly higher on Wall Street Tuesday, nudging the S&P 500 to another record high. Gains in technology, communication services and health care stocks outweighed losses in energy,...

North Carolinians will soon get some much-needed relief to help pay their rent and utility bills through three new programs. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper unveiled a new program Tuesday to...

A company planning a high-voltage power line carrying wind energy across the Midwest says it will distribute more of the electricity in Missouri and Kansas after running into regulatory delays...

A helicopter pilot who died late Monday while fighting a wildfire in Oregon's Mount Hood National Forest worked for a private company based in Bozeman, Montana that was under contract...

Usually this time of year, someone could get lost in the tightly packed sea of corn that surrounds farmer Rod Pierce's house in central Iowa. But two weeks after a...

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Reports from Hong Kong of the world's first documented Covid-19 reinfection have scuppered many countries' strategies for ending restrictions. Reinfection implies immunity is short-lived, which could spell ruin for vaccine...

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery rose 73 cents to $43.35 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude oil for October delivery rose 73 cents to $45.86 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline...

A former civilian employee of the U.S. Defense Department was sentenced to one year in prison for his role in a scheme to illegally sell government property from California military...

A bipartisan fix to glitches in Pennsylvania's new mail-in voting law remained just a glimmer Tuesday ahead of November's presidential election, as Republican state Senate leaders introduced legislation that Democrats...

Missouri's labor department will start handing out an extra $300 a week in unemployment benefits provided by the federal government as soon as this week. People out of work were...

Jerry Falwell Jr. announced his resignation Tuesday as head of evangelical Liberty University amid conflicting claims about a sexual relationship his wife had with a younger business partner. Falwell's exit...

More than half a million people were ordered to evacuate the Gulf Coast on Tuesday as Laura strengthened into a hurricane that forecasters said could slam Texas and Louisiana with...

New York's attorney general added Tuesday to the growing pile of lawsuits seeking to halt disruptions to the U.S. Postal Service, citing substantial delays in mail delivery ahead of November's...