Federal fishing regulators are allowing increased harvesting of a species of squid this year because of reports that the species can withstand it. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said...
August 11, 2020
Anson Carter filled his time in pandemic isolation walking 11 miles a day, sometimes with his dogs, around his Atlanta neighborhood. When video surfaced of another Black man, Ahmaud Arbery,...
August 11, 2020
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide topped 20 million on Tuesday, more than half of them from the U.S., India and Brazil. Health officials believe the actual number is...
August 11, 2020
A woman who's been blasted for racist videos and adamant support for the QAnon conspiracy theory faces a neurosurgeon who campaigned on his experience to improve the health care system...
August 11, 2020
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not about to blink. The Democratic leader has been here before, negotiating a deal with the White House to save the U.S. economy, and lessons from...
August 11, 2020
Riverdale Nursing Home in the Bronx appears, on paper, to have escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, with an official state count of just four deaths in its 146-bed...
August 11, 2020
Congress' failure so far to pass another round of coronavirus aid leaves state and local officials on their own to deal with the soaring costs of holding a presidential election...
August 11, 2020
Mississippi legislators returned to the Capitol on Monday to set the final parts of a state spending plan for the budget year that began July 1. They worked to resolve...
August 11, 2020
We don't even know his name yet, but a 20-year-old man who had already wracked up four arrests on his record was shot and wounded by Chicago police after shooting...
August 10, 2020
A judge on Monday ordered ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft to treat their California drivers as employees instead of independent contractors, a shift that would guarantee benefits like overtime, sick...
August 10, 2020
Governors across the nation were underwhelmed by President Donald Trump's controversial executive order extending unemployment benefits by $400 per week. But in Florida, Republican and Democratic lawmakers are encouraging Gov....
August 10, 2020
Declaring “we shouldn't want our kids to be the canaries in the coal mine," Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear urged schools in the state to delay reopening in-person classes until late...
August 10, 2020
A rare storm packing 100 mph winds and with power similar to an inland hurricane swept across the Midwest on Monday, blowing over trees, flipping vehicles, causing widespread property damage...
August 10, 2020
With air traffic nearing a five-month high, airport security is finding guns in passenger carry-on bags at three times the rate recorded before the pandemic. And 80% of the guns...
August 10, 2020
The news came as a shock: Brightline, Florida's most ambitious rail project since the Flagler era, said it planned to ditch the Virgin brand. It was an abrupt turnaround given...
August 10, 2020
Most Mississippi legislators wore masks and practiced social distancing Monday as they returned to the state Capitol for the first time since the start of the largest coronavirus outbreak in...
August 10, 2020
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not about to blink. The Democratic leader has been here before, negotiating a deal with the White House to save the U.S. economy, and lessons from...
August 10, 2020
A limited quantity of red and yellow onions sold at grocery chains Trader Joe's and Ralphs in the West are being recalled in relation to an ongoing salmonella outbreak, Progressive...
August 10, 2020
Kansas filed a lawsuit Monday against top officials at the U.S. Department of Interior in an effort to block the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma from building a casino on land...
August 10, 2020
Stocks closed mostly higher on Wall Street Monday, nudging the S&P 500 within striking distance of its all-time high set in February. The gains came on the first trading day...
August 10, 2020
State and local government officials across the U.S. have been on edge for months about how to keep basic services running while covering rising costs related to the coronavirus outbreak...
August 10, 2020
Kentucky's Democratic governor on Monday called President Donald Trump's action extending an expired unemployment benefit “not workable" in its current form, warning it would push some costs onto states already...
August 10, 2020
Mississippi legislators returned to the Capitol on Monday to finish the final parts of a state spending plan for the budget year that began July 1. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves...
August 10, 2020
Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose 72 cents to settle at $41.94 a barrel Monday. Brent crude oil for October delivery rose 59 cents to $44.99 a barrel....
August 10, 2020
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is evaluating President Donald Trump's proposal to offer an additional $400 a week in unemployment payments and has not decided if the state will sign on...
August 10, 2020
An English-language edition of “Le Consentement,” a French publisher's jarring memoir about her abusive relationship as a teenager with a prominent writer in his 50s, will come out next year....
August 10, 2020
On land and sea, the travel industry is hurting but holding out hope for a recovery. Marriott said Monday it has reopened most of its hotels around the world, helped...
August 10, 2020
The Social Democratic Party is looking to the fringes of national politics for support in creating a governing coalition next year. One surprising potential partner is the Left, borne out...
August 10, 2020
NEW YORK — Antonio Banderas says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is celebrating his 60th birthday in quarantine. The Spanish actor announced his positive test in an Instagram...
August 10, 2020
Pennsylvania has contacted the U.S. Department of Labor about a loan to prop up its unemployment compensation trust fund as President Donald Trump pushes states to help pay for an...
August 10, 2020
The Seattle City Council is expected to approve proposals Monday that would reduce the police department by as many as 100 officers through layoffs and attrition — an action supported...
August 10, 2020
Prosecutors asked a judge on Monday to give a former North Carolina congressman no prison time for lying to the FBI about his role in a plan to try to...
August 10, 2020
The world is in the grips of the worst pandemic in more than a century, the country is going through the kind of social upheaval unseen in decades, and the...
August 10, 2020
A Kentucky city commissioner and a TV station have filed open meeting complaints against Paducah officials, citing technical problems with a virtual meeting. The complaints say the the Paducah City...
August 10, 2020
For likely the first time in Royal Caribbean Group's 52-year history, the company has gone nearly four months without a passenger cruise. It's no surprise then, that the company's second...
August 10, 2020
Tony Petitti is leaving Major League Baseball after 12 years to become president of sports and entertainment for the video game and esports company Activision Blizzard Inc. on Aug. 17....
August 10, 2020
Amazon's Jeff Bezos – the richest man in the world – shed one million shares (worth over $3 billion) of his booming Amazon stock. With things looking as good as...
August 10, 2020
Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases burned out, dozens of state and local public health officials around the country have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus...
August 10, 2020
Back in April I said, “China's gonna be so surprised when it finds out it interfered in the November election.” Now three months ahead of schedule China is already getting...
August 10, 2020
Major League Baseball's eye-popping salaries took an astonishing dive during the coronavirus pandemic to their lowest level in nearly a quarter-century, according to a study by The Associated Press. Washington...
