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As Canadians, Britons and Americans begin getting immunized with a German-developed vaccine against coronavirus, pressure is building on the European Medicines Agency to approve the shot made by Pfizer Inc....

GE Appliances is starting a new dishwasher line in Kentucky and increasing production for other products, investing $80 million and adding more than 280 jobs, the company announced Monday. The...

GE Appliances is starting a new dishwasher line in Kentucky and increasing production for other products, investing $80 million and adding more than 280 jobs, the company announced Monday. The...

Tisha Coleman has lived in close-knit Linn County, Kansas, for 42 years and never felt so alone. As the public health administrator, she's struggled every day of the coronavirus pandemic...

Tisha Coleman has lived in close-knit Linn County, Kansas, for 42 years and never felt so alone. As the public health administrator, she's struggled every day of the coronavirus pandemic...

Uranium Energy Corp. (UEC) on Monday reported a loss of $5 million in its fiscal first quarter. On a per-share basis, the Corpus Christi, Texas-based company said it had a...

Uranium Energy Corp. (UEC) on Monday reported a loss of $5 million in its fiscal first quarter. On a per-share basis, the Corpus Christi, Texas-based company said it had a...

The Maldives president's office says it is discussing how to provide a “humane response” to a request from neighboring Sri Lanka to allow burials for Muslims who die of COVID-19....

The Maldives president's office says it is discussing how to provide a “humane response” to a request from neighboring Sri Lanka to allow burials for Muslims who die of COVID-19....

BERLIN — Germany's health minister has increased his pressure on the European Union's regulatory agency and demanded that a coronavirus vaccine will be approved before Christmas. The news agency dpa...

Germany's health minister further increased the pressure on the European Union's regulatory agency, demanding that it approve a coronavirus vaccine before Christmas, the dpa news agency reported Tuesday. “Our goal...

Asian shares sank on Tuesday after a lackluster day on Wall Street as investors wait to see if Congress can break a logjam on delivering more aid to people, businesses...

With Americans, Britons and Canadians rolling up their sleeves to receive coronavirus vaccines, the route out of the pandemic now seems clear to many in the West, even if the...

Hundreds more U.S. hospitals will begin vaccinating their workers Tuesday as federal health officials review a second COVID-19 shot needed to boost the nation's largest vaccination campaign. Packed in dry...

Top Washington negotiators continued to reach for a long-delayed agreement on COVID-19 relief on Monday, but rank-and-file Democrats appeared increasingly resigned to having to drop, for now, a scaled-back demand...

California small businesses will have more time to file their tax returns in 2021. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Monday giving small businesses until the end of July...

Jared Porter knows his new boss with the Mets is counting on a championship. Pretty soon, too. That doesn't bother him one bit. “Hearing comments like that motivates me,” Porter...

Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Norman Pearlstine has stepped down after 2 1/2 years heading a newspaper roiled by management shakeups, a drop in revenue and questions about its commitment...

Just how warm Earth stays this December will determine if 2020 goes down as the hottest year on record. And it's looking a lot like it will. The National Oceanic...

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly gave Kansas' top economic development official a second job as the state's next lieutenant governor, and the state Republican Party immediately previewed possible attacks against their...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper's commerce secretary will leave his job by the end of January, marking another Cabinet departure as the Democrat soon begins his second term. Tony Copeland...

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday released a budget proposal aimed at addressing equity and systemic racism, the first of several to be released as part of his overall state...

Federal regulators are ordering Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, TikTok's parent and five other social media companies to provide detailed information on how they collect and use consumers' personal data and how...

Ezcorp Inc. (EZPW) on Monday reported a loss of $23.3 million in its fiscal fourth quarter. On a per-share basis, the Rollingwood, Texas-based company said it had a loss of...

Mississippi's first shipment of coronavirus vaccine arrived Monday, doses that will be administered to the state's health care professionals working on the frontlines of the pandemic. Mississippi received an initial...

An Alabama man has been sentenced to serve 12 months in prison for hiding more than $435,000 from the Internal Revenue Service. The sentencing of John P. Cooney of Birmingham...

Pennsylvania will receive an initial shipment of more than 110,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, the state Department of Health announced Monday as UPMC began giving the shots to its...

Regulators have loosened rules to make it easier for out-of-state doctors to work in Alabama as the coronavirus pandemic both fills hospital beds and strains medical staff by sickening doctors...

Stocks closed mostly lower on Wall Street Monday after an early rally evaporated. The reversal left the S&P 500 index with its fourth straight decline, something that hasn't happened since...

The Los Angeles city attorney is seeking to shut down an underground nightclub that is allegedly operating despite coronavirus restrictions, officials said Monday. The LA Party Society has been operating...

The Los Angeles city attorney is seeking to shut down an underground nightclub that is allegedly operating despite coronavirus restrictions, officials said Monday. The LA Party Society has been operating...

RCI Hospitality Holdings Inc. (RICK) on Monday reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss of $2.8 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis,...

RCI Hospitality Holdings Inc. (RICK) on Monday reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss of $2.8 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis,...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Monday asked a judge to order Amazon to comply with subpoenas his office issued nearly four months ago as part of an investigation into...

The adult entertainment giant has radically reoriented its uploading procedures, blocking all content from non-verified users in a disturbing ‘first' likely to spill over to social media with chilling results...

San Francisco's iconic Cliff House restaurant that has served tourists and locals for more than a century from atop a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean is closing its doors at...

Joe Biden is ready to declare that “not even an abuse of power” can stop a peaceful transition of power in the U.S. after last month's election — a swipe...

New Jersey gamblers wagered more than $931 million on sports in November, the latest in a string of monthly records set by a rapidly growing market that's closing in on...

Having accused Russia of a ‘secret war' on the US, the Washington Post is apparently trying to make that a self-fulfilling prophecy, citing anonymous sources to blame the alleged hack...

Federal and state authorities say they are cracking down on a wave of illegal schemes that have proliferated during the pandemic and prey upon the desperation of people who have...