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Home improvement retailer Lowe's Cos. became the latest big box retailer to report surging sales during the fiscal second quarter as Americans are finding more ways to improve their home...

Home improvement retailer Lowe's Cos. became the latest big box retailer to report surging sales during the fiscal second quarter as Americans are finding more ways to improve their home...

What is unfolding in Belarus is a grassroots movement – but there's a danger of it being co-opted by America's campaign of pressure on Russia. As long as it isn't,...

What is unfolding in Belarus is a grassroots movement – but there's a danger of it being co-opted by America's campaign of pressure on Russia. As long as it isn't,...

The best news about the fall season in books is that there will be a fall season in books. The coronavirus has shut down cineplexes, performance centers, museums and comedy...

A Florida appeals court ruled Wednesday that police violated the rights of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and others when they secretly video recorded them paying for massage parlor...

Apple is the first U.S. company to boast a market value of $2 trillion, just two years after it became the first to reach $1 trillion. Apple shares have gained...

Grain futures were mixed on Wednesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sept. was up 1.20 cents at $5.1060 a bushel; Sept. corn fell 3.40...

A former oil industry attorney will continue calling the shots for a government agency that oversees nearly a quarter-billion public acres in the U.S. West, despite the White House saying...

When ride-hailing heavyweights Uber and Lyft and delivery giants Grubhub and Instacart began making shared rides and meals available with a few taps on a smartphone, they transformed the way...

Belarusians have taken to the streets to protest what many claim was a rigged election. Yet the US election – with its hyper-partisan media, nonsense polls, and both parties determined...

A FedEx cargo jet made an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport before dawn Wednesday with sparks flying as the engine under its left wing appeared to drag along...

A Crystal Beach construction contractor paid $16,567 in back pay after it got caught violating the overtime part of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the U.S. Department of Labor announced....

Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from Idaho newspapers: Crapo, Risch should fight for the disabled Post Register Aug. 16 As the Idaho Council on Developmental Disabilities has sought...

A North Carolina county has passed a resolution opposing a casino being built by a South Carolina Native American tribe. The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners voted 6-1 on Monday...

When the bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived by rail in Richmond from Paris in 1890, it took 10,000 men, women and children to haul its pieces...

FIFA forecast the pandemic will cause a $120 million drop in its revenue plan through the 2022 World Cup in a revised four-year budget published Wednesday. Cost-cutting is also predicted...

Authorities in Belarus on Wednesday resumed detentions of protesters who keep taking to the streets to demand the resignation of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, as opposition leaders ratchet up pressure...

A large fire burned early Wednesday at a Texas factory where trash bags and other plastics are produced. There were no immediate reports of injuries from the fire that broke...

A far-right social media provocateur whose hate speech got her banned from social media won her Republican primary on Tuesday and will challenge Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel for Congress in...

Maria Alejandra Llamas, whose Spanish-language personal empowerment books have sold millions, has a new title: Empty nester. With their children gone, Llamas and her husband are starting a new chapter,...

Yet another new co-working company is expanding to Miami, the city with the largest concentration of flexible space in the country. Its new home? A dicey slice of Wynwood. Spring...

Mexican-American author Maria Alejandra Llamas listed her Coconut Grove home for $9.95 million in August. The home includes six bedrooms, seven bathrooms and a half bathroom. … Click to Continue...

The full economic toll from coronavirus is starting to come into view — but so is the recovery, assuming the pandemic abates. According to a new report from the University...

Here are the five biggest residential sales in Miami-Dade for the week of Aug 9-Aug. 15, 2020. The data was compiled by Condo.com and does not include off-market or new...

Aside from featuring a really weird music video, the opening night featuring Michelle Obama & Bernie Sanders showed that the Democrats have no real platform aside from Obama sentimentality and...

Pope Francis on Wednesday warned against any prospect that rich people would get priority for a coronavirus vaccine. "The pandemic is a crisis. You don't come out of it the...

A former Alabama school administrator accused of defrauding a district of more than $300,000 has pleaded guilty to a federal charge, according to an agreement made public Tuesday. Walter James...

North Carolina agencies within Gov. Roy Cooper's administration are changing hiring practices to help give people with criminal histories more job opportunities. Cooper issued an executive order this week that...

Former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and his family have made a gift of $40 million to the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, the school said. The...

Lukashenko has always admitted his style is authoritarian but notwithstanding this, media coverage of the crisis in Belarus has been slanted and the West's condemnation of the crackdown on protests...

Senior politicians want the Chinese video-sharing app banned from setting up camp in London, but it's more about keeping onside with the thin-skinned US president's ongoing trade war with Beijing...

Oracle Corp.'s preliminary interest in making a bid for TikTok, on first glance, looks like an awkward fit – the 43-year-old software giant best known for legacy corporate databases and...

Unemployment appears to be rising again in some states just as extra federal benefits expire with no clear replacement in sight. The most recent official state-by-state unemployment rates are from...

Amazon plans to add 2,000 new jobs in New York City, the erstwhile location of an additional headquarters, as part of continued hiring across its network of technology hubs. Amazon...

A new way to pay has arrived in Los Angeles: your face. As so-called contactless payments rise in popularity during the pandemic, a Pasadena company called PopID is rolling out...

Construction on a South Carolina coffee roasting and packaging facility that has been in the works for more than two years has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, according to...

A hedge fund investor and his wife have donated $10 million to a historically Black women's college in Atlanta. Spelman College announced the gift from Seth and Beth Klarman on...

Health authorities have finally admitted that they transferred patients back to nursing homes after they were found to have the virus. This almost certainly caused the deaths of others and...

BASEBALL ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Texas rookie pitcher Ian Gibaut was suspended for three games Tuesday, a day after he threw a fastball behind San Diego's Manny Machado following a...