Politics

While ‘protesters' pelt cops with balloons of sh*t and set fire to police stations, the Post is treating them like a hot new band clad in haute couture. It would...

For nearly a week, Mona Zahran had to sleep on a couch pulled across her apartment's front door. Beirut's massive explosion knocked her doors off their hinges and shattered her...

Gov. Ron DeSantis is considering borrowing money from the federal government to boost the state's paltry unemployment benefits, he said during a news conference Tuesday. DeSantis is considering taking a...

Mayors in Pennsylvania are challenging the state's members of Congress to help them get direct budget aid from the federal government, warning that cities of all sizes face steep deficits...

A federal utility's board plans to review its CEO pay amid ongoing criticism from President Donald Trump, the board's chairman said Monday. Tennessee Valley Authority interim board chairman John Ryder...

Some 300 dolphins were caught on camera Sunday stampeding across the ocean near Dana Point, the Orange County Register reported. The minutes-long video captured by Capt. Dave's Whale Watching Safari...

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says the state cannot afford $100 per recipient, per week, to bolster unemployment payments during the coronavirus pandemic. But, the Republican governor is praising President Donald...

The shattered city of Beirut on Tuesday marked a week since the catastrophic explosion that killed at least 171 people, injured thousands and plunged Lebanon into a deeper political crisis....

As Russia rolls out its new coronavirus inoculation ahead of complete clinical tests, the western media has suddenly come full circle on vaccines. Russia, it seems, could cure cancer and...

Mississippi legislators left the Capitol on Tuesday without setting a budget for the state Department of Marine Resources. The agency will continue to operate by using federal money, as it...

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival, Benny Gantz, agreed to form an “emergency” government in May after three bitter and deadlocked election campaigns, the goal was to stabilize...

Boeing sold no airline planes and customers canceled orders for 43 of its 737 Max jet last month as the aircraft maker continued to struggle with both the pandemic and...

Oregon lawmakers cut hundreds of millions of dollars from state agencies and tapped emergency reserves to help plug a $1 billion budget deficit due to COVID-19 shutdowns and also further...

The Utah Taxpayers Association and a former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission are urging cities that have signed on to a planned nuclear power plant in Idaho to...

Grain futures were mostly higher on Tuesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sept. was up 1.60 cents at $4.9620 a bushel; Sept. corn rose...

Hundreds of thousands across the Midwest remained without power on Tuesday after a powerful storm packing 100 mph winds battered the region a day earlier, causing damage linked to the...

Hundreds of thousands across the Midwest remained without power on Tuesday after a powerful wind storm packing 100 mph winds battered the region a day earlier, causing damage linked to...

While still trailing Joe Biden, President Trump is closing the gap as the race for the White House tightens. What's clear is that how the pandemic plays out over the...

Sara Buie lined up a summer lifeguard job to help pay for a new laptop, textbooks and a backpack for her freshman year at Virginia's James Madison University. But the...

Seattle's Waterfront Park has been closed and fenced off after officials discovered last Wednesday that a pier had shifted several inches, creating a gap between the pier and adjacent land....

Two people are now confirmed dead following a natural gas explosion that destroyed three row houses in Baltimore and sent seven people to the hospital, authorities said Tuesday. Baltimore Fire...

California's earthquake early warnings will be a standard feature on all Android phones, bypassing the need for users to download the state's MyShake app in order to receive alerts, the...

After two nights of protests following the presidential election in Belarus, it's clear that the formal winner, incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko, might have won tactically – but he definitely lost...

North Carolina's Attorney General will have his office investigate the sources behind so-called “forever chemicals” that have contaminated drinking water in the southeastern part of the state. The Fayetteville Observer...

The 36-year-old daughter of New York Giants co-owner and film producer Steve Tisch has died. Hilary Anne Tisch died on Monday, Steve Tisch said in a statement issued for the...

People in China are back to buying German luxury cars. Europe's assembly lines are accelerating. Now the global economy is waiting for the United States to get its coronavirus outbreak...

Hollywood won't choose between the totalitarian Sauron of China and the authoritarian Darth Vader of the US military, but instead will support both evils, and the people of the world...

Here are the biggest five residential sales in Miami-Dade for the week of Aug. 2-Aug. 8, 2020. The data was compiled by Condo.com and does not include off-market or new...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The confirmed number of coronavirus cases in the world has reached 20 million. That's according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. Health officials believe the...

WarnerMedia began slashing its workforce Monday, laying off at least 600 employees as movie theater shutdowns and streaming competition ravage its film and TV business. The bulk of the job...

Shares in a Seattle biotech firm shot up 80% Monday after a preliminary trial suggested a new drug could boost survival rates for patients with severe COVID-19 symptoms. Omeros, a...

As the coronavirus pandemic paralyzed most nonemergency medical practices this spring, the dialysis business, vital to the survival of patients with kidney disease, rolled ahead and in some cases grew....

Some of New York's largest employers say they plan to hire 100,000 "traditionally underserved" residents of the area within the next decade. The pledge, made by the chief executive officers...

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles pushed back Monday against General Motors' attempt to revive its racketeering lawsuit, two days after FCA's former lead labor negotiator, convicted in the UAW corruption scandal, compared...

By many measures, including impact on the economy, the pandemic has been devastating. But for job hunters, the prospects looked a lot worse during the Great Recession. In June, according...

XR is back in the headlines after a protest in central London. These middle-class eco-warriors are happy to fight for indigenous people in Brazil, but have no understanding of the...

A South Florida man has been accused of fraudulently obtaining $60,000 in federal coronavirus relief loans. Judlex Jean Louis, 32, of Lauderhill, was arrested and charged last week with bank...

Kentucky's revenue collections in July showed resilience amid the coronavirus, with General Fund receipts surpassing the amount collected in the same month last year, the state said. State General Fund...

Shares advanced in Asia on Tuesday, extending another rally that took the S&P 500 to within striking distance of its all-time high set in February. Japan's Nikkei 225 added 1.9%...

Seattle's police chief says she is stepping down, a move made public the same day the City Council approved reducing the department by as many as 100 officers through layoffs...