Politics

Idaho lawmakers started a special session Monday to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. The special session called by Republican Gov. Brad Little will look at changes to elections laws to...

Running an election by mail is a major undertaking, involving the U.S. Postal Service, armies of volunteers and even librarians. But for election officials and voters in Oregon — which...

More than 30 positive confirmed cases of the coronavirus have been reported from St. Michael Medical Center in Bremerton, located across Puget Sound from Seattle. The estimate was initially reported...

Zoom is experiencing partial outages during the first day of school for thousands of students who are relying on the video conferencing technology to connect with educators. The company said...

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, was a tough act to follow. But Tim Cook seems to be doing so well at it that his eventual successor may...

Maisie Brown of Jackson, Mississippi was sitting in her Algebra I class in 2016 when she was given an assignment to design a new Mississippi state flag. Brown did not understand...

The Mississippi Legislature is returning to the Capitol to try to set a spending plan for the state Department of Marine Resources, weeks after the budget year started. The House...

Police in Belarus on Monday detained several leading opposition activists who have helped spearhead a wave of protests challenging the reelection of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in balloting that his...

Ibram X. Kendi's most ambitious policy proposal – that Americans should “pass an anti-racist amendment to the US constitution” – illustrates the problem with treating all racial inequality as evidence...

Grain futures were higher on Monday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sept. advanced .088 cent at $5.2620 a bushel; Sept. corn rose .044 cent...

A six-story brick building in St. Louis' Lemp Brewery complex partially collapsed over the weekend, sending tons of bricks and debris into the sidewalk and street it fronted. No one...

Halloween candles should fill the room with a seasonal scent, not cause damage to persons and property. That's why Pier 1 Imports recalled 30,810 three-wick Halloween candles in Scary Black...

According to a new Canadian university project, physics is “a mirror of colonial patterns and social inequality,” particularly “in the context of light.” This is all not just baffling, but...

The Dallas Morning News. Aug. 21, 2020. Austin made a bad choice with its police, but Gov. Abbott shouldn't interfere Gov. Greg Abbott's frustrated response to the shortsighted plans of...

Wall Street is following overseas markets higher, adding to four straight weeks of gains for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. Big tech powerhouses including Apple and Facebook were the...

Facing a backlash over operational changes that have resulted in mail delays, the nation's new postmaster general is returning to Congress to testify before a House panel that has sharply...

I'm transgender myself but this film is misleadingly telling viewers as young as six that if they are unhappy with their sex then they can choose the other one, and...

When the U.S. government extended pandemic hardship loans to thousands of religious institutions, Jim Bakker and Morningside USA, his ministry in Blue Eye, Missouri, were among the most high-profile recipients....

Illinois and Missouri's partnership that replaced the 92-year-old Champ Clark Bridge over the Mississippi River has earned the two states a regional transportation award for the second year in a...

A Hialeah trucking and transport company got caught violating the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act part of the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the U.S. Department of Labor announced....

Despite concerns about COVID-19, many students have returned to University of Miami, where classes are already underway, and Florida International University, where they resume next week. For new student housing...

Employment strategies to sustainable development — it's all on this week's real estate calendar. Aug. 25 ▪ The Florida branch of America's Small Business District Center, a division of the...

Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or otherwise bypass rules intended to protect health and the environment...

With just one bidder still on board to redevelop the Byron Carlyle Theater in Miami Beach, the property development team involved in negotiations with the city has used the bargaining...

More bank customers discovered they like the convenience of mobile banking as branches temporarily closed during the pandemic, and evidence suggests the behavior stands to stick. A survey released in...

Millions of women – yes, it's mostly women – end up in midlife weighing a temporary work exit to care for ailing parents. The economic cost can be devastating. The...

One of the most valued employee benefits is the ability to save for retirement through a workplace plan, such as a 401(k) or 403(b). The majority of plans are a...

When North Carolina officials ordered restaurants to shut down indoor dining in March because of COVID-19, Justin Gallus feared the worst. The co-owner of Plates Neighborhood Kitchen, a hip Southern...

SeaWorld Orlando theme park and Aquatica water park are returning to a seven-days-per-week operating schedule. The attractions have been gradually increasing their hours since reopening from the coronavirus pandemic in...

If Vahap Sarac and his wife can't find affordable health insurance for their family soon, they're considering sending their young daughters to live with their grandparents in Estonia. Sarac was...

Zoom has slowed down. The video conferencing company experienced partial outages Monday in parts of the United States, presenting potential challenges for businesses working remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. "We...

One night a few summers ago, Cameo co-founder Steven Galanis and a few colleagues were working late in their office at Chicago tech hub 1871 when someone knocked on their...

TikTok said Monday it is suing the Trump administration, declaring the president's executive order against the popular video app and its Chinese parent company unconstitutional. President Donald Trump signed an...

U.S. inflation has slowed sharply since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and a new Federal Reserve study squarely pins the blame on a collapse in demand as consumers sheltered...

Officers deployed tear gas early Monday in an effort to disperse hundreds of people who took to the streets following a police shooting in Kenosha that also drew a harsh...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — New Zealand's prime minister says the lockdown of Auckland will last an extra four days as authorities try to stamp out an outbreak of the coronavirus....

Some Houston residents say they endured difficult, often hazardous living conditions while waiting months, even years for help from the city to fix flood-damaged homes after Hurricane Harvey. Sleeping in...

President Donald Trump is leveling unfounded attacks on his Food and Drug Administration and distorting the science on effective treatments for COVID-19. Heading this week into the Republican National Convention,...

A 63-day strike at Bath Iron Works — against the backdrop of a pandemic in an election year — came to an end Sunday with shipbuilders voting to return to...

Kiké Hernández hit a three-run drive, crossed the plate and motioned taking a 3-point jumper in a tribute to Kobe Bryant on what would have been the late NBA superstar's...