Politics

President Donald Trump on Friday gave the Chinese company ByteDance 90 days to divest itself of any assets used to support the popular TikTok app in the United States. Trump's...

PARIS — Paris is expanding the areas of the city where pedestrians will be obliged to wear masks starting Saturday morning, with health officials saying the coronavirus is “active” in...

Miami Heat forward Derrick Jones Jr. was carted off the court and fitted for a neck brace after colliding with Indiana Pacers center Goga Bitadze late in the third quarter...

The younger brother of Ponzi king Bernard Madoff has been released from home confinement and has been released from federal custody, the Bureau of Prisons said Friday. Peter Madoff, who...

With millions of California children already back in the virtual classroom, families, teachers and districts are still scrambling to figure out some of the basics: How and when they can...

Gov. Tom Wolf's top election official said Friday that the administration had to take action after receiving a blunt warning from the U.S. Postal Service that it may be unable...

Vlade Divac has stepped down as general manager of the Sacramento Kings and will be replaced on an interim basis by Joe Dumars. The Kings announced the move Friday, a...

A long-term care facility in southwest Washington has recorded 40 COVID-19 cases. The outbreak at Avamere Rehabilitation of Cascade Park in east Vancouver is Clark County's largest at a long-term...

A Pennsylvania county that has tangled with Gov. Tom Wolf over his pandemic restrictions agreed Friday to spend $2.8 million on a universal masking-wearing campaign. Lebanon County said it will...

King's College London's Geography Department has learnt what all schools must know in 2020: it's not what you study, but how tolerant you look while studying it that gets you...

Wall Street ended Friday more or less where it started after a day of drifting between small gains and losses for major stock indexes. The market was nearly evenly split...

The U.S. Postal Service has sent letters to 46 states and the District of Columbia, warning it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail for the November election will arrive...

Pennsylvania school districts that plan to start the year off virtually are facing a potentially thorny issue: What to do about bus transportation for students of private and charter schools...

First, the state's prospective lawyers had health concerns about taking the Florida Bar exam in the time of coronavirus. Now that the test has been moved on-line, they're voicing worries...

The U.S. government on Friday released a draft environmental report on the potential effects of three open-pit gold mines in salmon habitat in central Idaho proposed by a Canadian company....

Kentucky's Supreme Court delved into a high-stakes case over the legality of “historical horse racing" machines that are lucrative moneymakers for racetracks and the thoroughbred industry. Attorneys for racing interests...

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery fell 23 cents to settle at $42.01 a barrel Friday. Brent crude oil for October delivery fell 16 cents to $44.80 a barrel....

Mayo Clinic researchers reported a strong hint that blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors helps other patients recover, but it's not proof and some experts worry if, amid clamor for the...

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. This week the Not Real News focuses on false news that spread about...

Streaming service HBO Max has slapped an embarrassing disclaimer on the classic Mel Brooks comedy ‘Blazing Saddles' to give it “proper social context,” in another sign of the death of...

Harvey Weinstein's lawyers and Los Angeles prosecutors have agreed to postpone extradition proceedings that would send the imprisoned former film producer from New York to California to face sexual assault...

A judge ordered a McDonald's restaurant in Oakland that was hit by a coronavirus outbreak that workers said infected 35 people to follow increased health and safety protocols to help...

Cleveland Browns starting center JC Tretter underwent a surgical procedure on his knee Thursday and could be out for an extended period. First-year coach Kevin Stefanski revealed Tretter's unexpected surgery...

A U.S. Postal Service official is warning Missourians who are using mail-in voting this year to return their ballots at least a week before the Nov. 3 general election to...

Within moments of Joe Biden announcing Kamala Harris as his running mate, the Trump campaign and the American right-wing propaganda machine began portraying the California senator as a “far-left radical”...

The Western establishment narrative managers always follow the same patterns. Just like they fixated on Hong Kong protests, while ignoring those in US-aligned France or Israel, now they're cheering on...

A major union representing U.S. postal workers has endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president, a move that comes as President Donald Trump has acknowledged starving the postal service of money...

Miami-Dade hotels are turning to an oft-overlooked demographic to help fill empty rooms: locals. The sell: “Daycation” getaways, designed for Florida residents who may be tired of being stuck at...

An investment firm announced Friday it's resuming satellite TV transmissions for Venezuelans whose service was cut abruptly due to U.S. sanctions aimed at driving President Nicolás Maduro from power. The...

New flareups of COVID-19 are disrupting the peak summer vacation season across much of Europe, where authorities in some countries are reimposing restrictions on travelers, closing nightclubs again, banning fireworks...

A central Idaho sheriff's office says an off-duty police chief from northern Idaho was involved in a shooting that left a Boise man dead after an apparent campground dispute. No...

Bubba Wallace is adding to his NASCAR portfolio. NASCAR's only Black full-time driver announced a multiyear partnership with technology company DoorDash on Friday. It will sponsor Wallace's No. 43 Chevrolet...

The men behind Cardi B simply use her to shout obscenities so everyone will take note and pretend she's a feminist touting a hypersexualized empowerment agenda. But it's really all...

A fire that swept through an old southern Indiana lumber mill that's slated for demolition produced towering plumes of smoke visible for miles around an Ohio River city, officials said....

A fire that swept through an old southern Indiana lumber mill that's slated for demolition produced towering plumes of smoke visible for miles around an Ohio River city, officials said....

Victim culture is pervasive. From gaming to politics, an endless cycle of hurt feelings has tainted all it touches. But in a society where depression is skyrocketing, it's time to...

Victim culture is pervasive. From gaming to politics, an endless cycle of hurt feelings has tainted all it touches. But in a society where depression is skyrocketing, it's time to...

The “historic” agreement for normalization of ties between the United Arab Emirates and Israel is being presented as a noble effort by the Gulf Arab states to fend off further...

The “historic” agreement for normalization of ties between the United Arab Emirates and Israel is being presented as a noble effort by the Gulf Arab states to fend off further...

Authorities in North Carolina's Union County are conducting an animal-cruelty investigation involving the deaths of four pregnant Black Angus cows on a Charlotte radio host's farm, the Union County Sheriff's...