Politics

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations chief says the tourist industry has been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with $320 billion lost in exports in the first five months of...

City and law enforcement leaders in Kenosha, Wisconsin, unanimously endorsed the use of body cameras in 2017 as a way to increase police accountability and collect evidence at scenes of...

Jesús Aguilar drove in three runs and the Miami Marlins defeated the Washington Nationals 11-8 on Monday night, taking three of the five games in the series. Miami entered the...

A group of current and former employees of the Illinois Department of Transportation are accusing the agency of a history of systemic racism, particularly in its operations in southern Illinois....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sent a cable to all U.S. diplomatic missions last month warning American diplomats that under federal law they should not take overt sides in the...

Fifteen years after a California woman disappeared and 13 years after a man was convicted of her murder, authorities said Monday that they have found her body. Christie Wilson, 27,...

Florida officials are refusing to say how much Deloitte Consulting bid on a potential $135 million contract to handle the state's Medicaid data, claiming the company believes the information is...

While California faces multiple crises, there are encouraging signs in the coronavirus fight, with infection rates falling enough that Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that soon he will announce plans...

President Donald Trump made a dizzying array of misleading claims about voting fraud and falsely asserted that he was the one who ensured that people with preexisting medical problems will...

Keeping a 64-year-old oil pipeline in operation by running one portion through a proposed Great Lakes tunnel would safeguard the economy and energy supplies, supporters said Monday, while opponents described...

California is on track to ban the sale of most flavored tobacco products, joining states like New York and Massachusetts in an effort to slow the spread of the harmful...

Changes at the U.S. Postal Service resulted in the delayed delivery in July of 5,000 prescriptions filled by Cook County Health's mail-order pharmacy, an official said Monday. Cook County Health...

The bodies of the remaining two crew members of a dredging boat who were missing after an explosion last week in the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas were found...

A Kansas man has been accused of growing thousands of poppies at his north-central Kansas home in order to manufacture heroin, authorities said Monday. A federal indictment charged Matthew Pfeiffer,...

Washington was approved Monday for a federal coronavirus grant that will allow for an additional $300 in unemployment benefits on top of the state's regular unemployment benefit for a limited...

Kenny Stills is glad NFL commissioner Roger Goodell regrets the way he initially reacted when Colin Kaepernick and a handful of other players began kneeling during the national anthem to...

The hundreds of thousands of bikers who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have departed western South Dakota, but public health departments in multiple states are trying to measure how...

In two-plus weeks, the NFL kicks off its season. That doesn't leave the league much time to resolve significant issues about its COVID-19 testing procedures. BioReference Laboratories, which is conducting...

The board in South Carolina that predicts how much the state will collect in taxes and fees so lawmakers can know how much they can spend wants to be as...

A Northwest Indiana school district has laid off 90 employees because of a reduction in state funding after a move to virtual learning. The School City of East Chicago school...

The neverending obsession of the Democrats and their media allies with Russiagate, as evidenced by the latest miniseries based on the memoir of disgraced FBI director Jim Comey, shows they...

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Iowa's athletic department is working to secure a $75 million loan to cushion the blow...

The world is settling into a new normal for everyday life amid the coronavirus pandemic: online school classes, intermittent Zoom outages, museums that will only allow about a quarter of...

The opening of the Republican National Convention on Monday offered quick proof that how it is covered by the news media will be an ongoing sore spot. President Donald Trump...

U.S. stocks closed broadly higher Monday, sending the S&P 500 to another all-time high. The latest gains followed a strong showing in markets across much of Europe and Asia, reflecting...

The coronavirus is shaking up America's liquor laws. At least 33 states and the District of Columbia are temporarily allowing cocktails to-go during the pandemic. Only two — Florida and...

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery rose 28 cents to $42.62 a barrel Monday. Brent crude oil for October delivery rose 78 cents to $45.13 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline...

Victoria's Dan Andrews has brought in some of the most draconian Covid-19 lockdown restrictions on the planet and now wants the right to keep them in place for a further...

Suze Orman has more things to worry about than COVID-19 and the elections. The finance whiz is struggling to recover after a grueling 12-hour surgery over the summer. In late...

Democrats are sharpening attacks on a former congressman who was quietly elected to the Miami GOP's executive committee despite a federal investigation into a $50 million lobbying contract with a...

The coronavirus outbreak sent Atlantic City's casinos plunging to a $112 million second quarter gross operating loss as the gambling houses remained closed for the entire three-month period, according to...

The Berlin Film Festival is combining their male and female acting categories in the name of being more ‘gender sensitive', but this empty wokism has nothing to do with film...

Police in Belarus on Monday detained several leading opposition activists as well as a handful of protesters taking part in a wave of demonstrations challenging the reelection of authoritarian President...

Mainstream media are up in arms over what they insist is Russian support for pro-Trump conspiracy theory QAnon. But it's their own obsession that spawned RT's coverage – and their...

A NASA researcher and Texas A&M University professor has been charged with accepting federal grant money while hiding work he was doing for an university established by the Chinese government...

New York's Democratic attorney general asked a court Monday to enforce subpoenas into an investigation into whether President Donald Trump and his businesses inflated assets on financial statements. Attorney General...

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin said he was “not happy” that Manchester City's two-year ban from European competitions was overturned, but the governing body does not plan to appeal against the...

Criminal gangs are now organising their own illegal events where they peddle drugs to music fans, making money while the rest of the economy tanks. And new penalties introduced by...

The Latest on this week's Republican National Convention (all times local): 12:20 p.m. Vice President Mike Pence says reelecting President Donald Trump means four more years of support for troops...

MEXICO CITY — Millions of Mexican school children returned to classes, but not schools, on Monday as the government attempted to start a new school year despite the challenges of...