Oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico was slowed Sunday by the approach of two storms that led companies to remove workers from more than 100 offshore platforms....
August 23, 2020
Attorneys are feuding in federal court filings over coronavirus testing and safety protocols at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Entertainment mogul Jay-Z and rapper Yo Gotti are funding a...
August 23, 2020
Anglers and biologists believe California is likely to experience an increase of chinook salmon during the fall run resulting from the coronavirus and fewer fish caught over the summer. The...
August 23, 2020
A Connecticut town's officials are showing comedian John Oliver what they think about his expletive-filled rant about their city — they're naming the local sewage treatment plant after him. Danbury...
August 23, 2020
Augusta University may finally get to build a 100-bed hospital in the rapidly growing suburb of Columbia County after the Georgia Court of Appeals rejected a protest from the competing...
August 23, 2020
The Mississippi Public Service Commission has created a new committee that will help identify internet connectivity challenges in the state amid the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic has highlighted the need...
August 23, 2020
The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline held steady over the past two weeks at $2.25 per gallon. That's 41 cents below the average pump price from a year ago....
August 23, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that he has accepted a proposal to extend budget negotiations, preventing the government from collapsing and plunging the country into a new election....
August 23, 2020
Flooding caused by heavy rains has killed six people along Turkey's Black Sea coast and left 10 others missing, including some rescue workers, officials said Sunday. Television footage showed vehicles...
August 23, 2020
Pushing for breakthroughs in treatments for the coronavirus, White House officials suggested Sunday there were politically motivated delays by the Food and Drug Administration in approving a vaccine and therapeutics...
August 23, 2020
A six-story brick building that was part of a brewery complex built more than 150 years ago collapsed Sunday in St. Louis but no one was injured. Caution tape had...
August 23, 2020
Bankruptcies in the U.S. oil patch are on the rise after the global pandemic decimated demand. But shale companies were struggling before COVID hit, loading up on debt before prices...
August 23, 2020
Attorney General Xavier Becerra wants the power to block hospital mergers that he says would limit competition and drive up prices, setting up a fight in the state Legislature this...
August 23, 2020
Diane Blair is still waiting. Furloughed from her job of six years at the National Corvette Museum on March 17, Blair filed for unemployment April 3. She received a letter...
August 23, 2020
A renewed focus on social justice in the wake of police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd has seen sales soar at Black-owned bookstores around the country as customers...
August 23, 2020
Opera legend Plácido Domingo denied ever abusing his power during his management tenure at two U.S. opera houses in an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, as he embarks...
August 23, 2020
Brian Stelter knows critics accuse Fox News of bending the truth in order to maintain its staunch support of and closeness to President Donald Trump. As CNN media reporter and...
August 23, 2020
The search for two crew members of a dredging boat who went missing following an explosion last week in the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas has been ended, the...
August 23, 2020
As South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster prepared to announce the end of a coronavirus stay-at-home order, his top staff received an email from the state health department. The message, highlighted...
August 23, 2020
On a sweltering July morning, Rose Wilson struggled to breathe as she sat in her bed, the light from her computer illuminating her face and the oxygen tubes in her...
August 23, 2020
After a nearly two-month long delay because of COVID-19, South Carolina lawmakers are preparing to write a budget without a lot of certainty on how much they can spend. The...
August 23, 2020
As pretty much everywhere else, the coronavirus pandemic has meant more time at home for Spaniards. For many of those furloughed or out of business it has also meant less...
August 23, 2020
For small retailers across the country, the coronavirus outbreak has turned an already challenging business environment into never-ending uncertainty. Amy Witt might have 20 customers on a good day in...
August 23, 2020
DC Comics have once again succumbed to agenda-driven identity politics and made a female superhero an overweight, badly-dressed frump. One can only hope we are scraping the bottom of the...
August 23, 2020
He's broken his pledge never to take a vacation or play golf for pleasure. His plan to update the nation's infrastructure has become a running punchline and he's dropped his...
August 23, 2020
Alexi Navalny's wife and a top aide visited him Sunday in a Berlin hospital where the comatose Russian dissident is being treated by German doctors after a suspected poisoning. Navalny...
August 23, 2020
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani authorities on Sunday reported only four new COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, the country's fewest number of fatalities since March. The announcement raises hopes that...
August 23, 2020
A former Soviet republic on the fault line between Russia and Europe is boiling with revolt this summer. Sounds familiar — but Belarus 2020 isn't Ukraine 2014, and that's why...
August 23, 2020
Censorship is democracy, fake news is truth, submission is freedom. Western propaganda requires acceptance of contradictory dogmas alongside an impressive array of mental gymnastics to reconcile logical fallacies. George Orwell's...
August 23, 2020
The 10 firefighters who received the call shortly before 6 p.m. — about a big fire at the nearby port of Beirut — could not know what awaited them. The...
August 23, 2020
With heated debate over mail delays, the House approved legislation in a rare Saturday session that would reverse recent changes in U.S. Postal Service operations and send $25 billion to...
August 23, 2020
Jalen Elrod believes many people don't understand the injustice of gentrification. He learned about it in a Waffle House. “They know it's a problem, but I don't think too many...
August 23, 2020
When Hearts for Homeless sees a need in a community, the local organization works to fill the need, whether it be food and water, or heating and cooling. Founders and...
August 23, 2020
Kyle Lingafelt remembers the first time he tasted a great craft beer. He was stationed in Langenfeld, Germany, for a training deployment with the U.S. Marines and was given a...
August 23, 2020
Habersham County native John Bouasy said when his brother died in a car accident in 2009, he realized life is just too short to not take chances on his endeavors....
August 23, 2020
South Korea has added 397 new cases to its coronavirus caseload in a 10th day of triple-digit increases, as the speed of viral spread nears the levels last seen during...
August 23, 2020
Republicans will aim to recast the story of Donald Trump's presidency when they hold their national convention, featuring speakers drawn from everyday life as well as cable news and the...
August 22, 2020
A high-ranking Georgia state lawmaker says she is working to file two years of missing campaign finance records after the state ethics commission decided earlier this month that there is...
August 22, 2020
A Pennsylvania congressman has announced that he is postponing public events after testing positive for the coronavirus. Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., said he is following guidelines of the Centers for...
August 22, 2020
An Élysée Palace lunch a decade ago deepened the sports business bonds between Qatar and France ahead of the takeover of Paris Saint-Germain. Now the $1 billion-plus invested in the...
