A natural gas explosion destroyed three row houses in Baltimore on Monday, killing a woman and trapping other people in the wreckage. At least two people were hospitalized with serious...
August 10, 2020
U.S. employers advertised more jobs in June compared with the previous month, but overall hiring fell, painting a mixed picture of the job market. The number of jobs posted on...
August 10, 2020
New York's mass transit agency wants Apple to come up with a better way for iPhone users to unlock their phones without taking off their masks, as it seeks to...
August 10, 2020
This year's Washington state apple crop is expected to be slightly larger than the 2019 crop. The Washington State Tree Fruit Association estimates the 2020 crop will total 134 million...
August 10, 2020
The partnership between Richard Branson's Virgin Group and the private Florida passenger train service Brightline has ended with a whimper, less than two years after it was celebrated with Branson's...
August 10, 2020
Oregon lawmakers return to the Capitol for the second special session of 2020. But the question remains if the session, which begins Monday, will be solely dedicated to rebalancing the...
August 10, 2020
Former ‘Charmed' actress Alyssa Milano has been posting a series of increasingly bizarre outbursts online, most recently about how much hair she is “losing” due to the virus. Alyssa Milano...
August 10, 2020
South Miami-based multifamily developer The Estate Companies has purchased the Ramada Hotel in Hialeah for $15.25 million. “The distressed hotel sector has created investment opportunities that firms like ours are...
August 10, 2020
A Georgia man falsely claimed that a drug his company was selling would lower the risk of becoming infected with COVID-19, federal prosecutors said. Matthew Ryncarz and his company Fusion...
August 10, 2020
Grain futures were mixed on Monday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sept. was up .40 cent at $4.9460 a bushel; Sept. corn rose 1.60...
August 10, 2020
La Tropicana Cafe has been a cornerstone of Tampa's historic Latin-influenced Ybor City neighborhood since the 1960s, well known as a gathering spot where movers and shakers and even mobsters...
August 10, 2020
McDonald's says it's suing Stephen Easterbrook, the CEO it ousted last year over an inappropriate relationship with an employee, alleging Monday that he covered up relationships with other employees and...
August 10, 2020
McDonald's says it's suing Stephen Easterbrook, the CEO it ousted last year over an inappropriate relationship with an employee, alleging Monday that he covered up relationships with other employees and...
August 10, 2020
The Florida Panthers will have a new general manager next season, making the announcement early Monday that Dale Tallon is leaving the franchise after 10 years. Tallon's contract as president...
August 10, 2020
Black bourgeois misleaders like James Clyburn, Barack Obama, Al Sharpton and Joy Reid should be ashamed of themselves for promoting the racist corporate and imperial clown Joe Biden as the...
August 10, 2020
A southeastern Indiana couple has won a rural preservation award for their efforts to preserve a farm founded in 1821 by a man who lived on the site for a...
August 10, 2020
The number of wild boars in Denmark has fallen since a 70-kilometer (43.4-mile) fence was erected along the German border to protect the valuable Danish pork industry. The fence was...
August 10, 2020
Some of Miami Beach's pricIest real estate is now a relative bargain — even in the billionaire enclave of Fisher Island. Palazzo Del Sol and Palazzo Della Luna, completed in...
August 10, 2020
Real estate webinars this week focus on sustainable housing, the local tourism industry and Broward's commercial real estate market. Aug. 10 ▪ The global venture FinTech4Good will host the free...
August 10, 2020
British fashion school graduate Phoebe St. Leger's dream of landing a job at a design label is on hold. Like many others in the global Class of 2020, the pandemic...
August 10, 2020
The alert went out to Johann Baqueiro: A customer was sipping her Starbucks coffee inside the Ralphs supermarket and she wasn't wearing a face mask. As a meat department manager,...
August 10, 2020
The pandemic-induced downturn initially had hints of being the sharpest but shortest U.S. recession on record. Now there are increasing signs of economic scarring that resemble past slumps. Beneath a...
August 10, 2020
It was the moment this Hollywood startup had long been waiting for. When the future of TikTok was imperiled by President Trump's executive order on Thursday, a previously obscure Century...
August 10, 2020
Less than 80% of U.S. apartment residents had made their August rent payments as of last week. That's a decline from a year ago but about the same as this...
August 10, 2020
McDonald's Corp. filed suit against its ousted leader Steve Easterbrook, alleging his termination last fall over a relationship with an employee shouldn't have included severance pay because he "concealed evidence...
August 10, 2020
J.C. Penney's lenders extended a key deadline over the weekend as negotiations continue about the fate of the Plano, Texas-based retailer. The lenders filed a notice to extend the deadline...
August 10, 2020
Let's be blunt. It makes no sense for Microsoft Corp. to buy TikTok. Sure, a cohort of bankers and lawyers can make the case for how it would help the...
August 10, 2020
Bourbon fans will be doing virtual toasts at this year's Kentucky Bourbon Festival. The festival's board has shifted the event to a virtual experience because of the coronavirus. This was...
August 10, 2020
NEW DELHI — India has registered a record 1,007 fatalities in the past 24 hours as fresh coronavirus infections surged by another 62,064 cases. The Health Ministry says the total...
August 10, 2020
On a sweltering afternoon near the Texas-Mexico border, Ximena Colecio donned a powder blue face-mask before walking to a chain-link fence to hang the hand-made sign clutched in her tiny...
August 10, 2020
Kiara Riser started losing friends in high school when it became clear she wanted to be a cop. Nobody told her why she wasn't being invited to any gatherings anymore....
August 10, 2020
President Donald Trump's end run around Congress on coronavirus relief is raising questions about whether it would give Americans the economic lifeline he claims and appears certain to face legal...
August 10, 2020
Whether President Donald Trump has the constitutional authority to extend federal unemployment benefits by executive order remains unclear. Equally up in the air is whether states, which are necessary partners...
August 10, 2020
President Donald Trump isn't telling the full story when it comes to executive orders on coronavirus relief payments and health care. Over the weekend, the president suggested that his move...
August 10, 2020
Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Monday after President Donald Trump issued executive orders to provide tax relief and stopgap unemployment benefits for Americans hit by the fallout from...
August 10, 2020
President Donald Trump's new executive orders to help Americans struggling under the economic recession are far less sweeping than any pandemic relief bill Congress would pass. Trump acted Saturday after...
August 10, 2020
The number of COVID-19 cases in California stood at 554,160 cases Sunday, according to state health department officials. The California Department of Public Health said in a release that there...
August 9, 2020
Demonstrators have started gathering in Seattle ahead of upcoming votes by city officials on reduced funding for police. Hundreds of people including pro-police supporters and counter-protesters assembled opposite city hall...
August 9, 2020
Mississippi legislators are returning to the Capitol to wrap up unfinished parts of the state budget as leaders are clashing with Republican Gov. Tate Reeves. The legislative website shows that...
August 9, 2020
Mississippi Republican legislative leaders helped defeat a 2015 education initiative by arguing that if someone sued the state over school funding, one judge in Hinds County would make budget decisions...
