Yoshinori Sakai was born in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, the day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Just over 19 years later, he ran with...
August 5, 2020
A group of 16 Republican senators has endorsed giving more money to airlines to avoid layoffs right before the November election, giving a boost to a lobbying effort by airlines...
August 5, 2020
The first cruise in an already decimated southeast Alaska cruise season came to a devastating end Wednesday when a small ship carrying 36 passengers had to return to Juneau because...
August 5, 2020
Bass Pro Shops announced that the buyer of the abandoned Dogpatch theme park in Newton County is its founder. Though the identity of the buyer was kept a secret, the...
August 5, 2020
A 5-year-old autistic girl who disappeared from a Philadelphia-area home during the height of Tuesday's storm was found dead Wednesday and was believed to have been swept away by floodwaters...
August 5, 2020
According to disingenuous race hustlers the simple act of eating outdoors is evocative of lynching and Ryan Reynolds getting married at a old plantation glamorises slavery. How is anyone taking...
August 5, 2020
Recent editorials from South Carolina newspapers: ___ Aug. 2 The Times and Democrat on the sales tax holiday: South Carolina's sales tax holiday from Aug. 7-9 takes on a different...
August 5, 2020
A new book by a leading sceptic of climate policy demonstrates that humans have a bright future. We need to stop terrifying children about the climate and concentrate much more...
August 5, 2020
Energy utility ComEd pleaded not guilty to bribery at an arraignment Wednesday despite previously admitting wrongdoing in an influence-peddling scheme that threatens to ensnare Illinois' most powerful Democrat, state House...
August 5, 2020
Idaho Gov. Brad Little said Wednesday that he'll call a special session in late August due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Republican governor in a statement said the special session...
August 5, 2020
Stark evidence of the damage the resurgent viral outbreak has caused the U.S. economy could come Friday when the government is expected to report that the pace of hiring has...
August 5, 2020
The toxic ideology of the BLM movement is promoted by its race campaigners at the expense of any other idea. Unless you agree with its false claims and the underlying...
August 5, 2020
Recent editorials from North Carolina newspapers: ___ Aug. 5 The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer on improving elder care in North Carolina: North Carolina knows about hurricanes and...
August 5, 2020
Relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan remain tense after a recent escalation of border hostilities. Is there a solution to the decades-long conflict or will it lead to another bloody war...
August 5, 2020
When Sharon Taylor died of coronavirus, her family — standing apart, wearing masks — sang her favorite hymns at her graveside, next to a tiny headstone for her stillborn daughter,...
August 5, 2020
A federal judge has upheld the convictions of two men found to be trying to bribe North Carolina's top insurance regulator with large political contributions so that scrutiny of a...
August 5, 2020
Cruise companies are canceling U.S. cruises until at least Oct. 31. The industry lobbying group Cruise Lines International Association announced Wednesday that its member lines won't be coming back until...
August 5, 2020
The House Judiciary chairman was closing in on his Perry Mason moment with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Fortified with “hot” internal company documents, Rep. Jerrold Nadler was building his case...
August 5, 2020
MMA fighter and ‘Deadpool' star Gina Carano has been accused by social justice warriors on Twitter of being “racist” for not showing enough support to Back Lives Matter and daring...
August 5, 2020
U.S. testing for the coronavirus is dropping even as infections remain high and the death toll rises by more than 1,000 a day, a worrisome trend that officials attribute largely...
August 5, 2020
Warren Buffett's company has bought $2.1 billion of Bank of America stock over the past three weeks after the latest purchases of $340 million of shares. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said...
August 5, 2020
SpaceX launched a prototype of its Mars rocketship hundreds of feet into the air, then landed it upright in a successful test flight. The flight lasted barely 45 seconds and...
August 5, 2020
Grain futures were lowerd on Wednesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sept. delivery lost 8.60 cents at $5.06600 a bushel; Sept. corn was down...
August 5, 2020
Arsenal is cutting 55 jobs due to the financial damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, which has seen fans shut out of stadiums. In a statement issued Wednesday, head of...
August 5, 2020
We have got to find better ways to vet our local, state and national leaders before we vote them into office. We just don't know where they stand on many...
August 5, 2020
Joe Biden's Democratic presidential campaign is reserving $280 million in digital and television ads through the fall, nearly twice the amount President Donald Trump's team has reserved. The Biden campaign...
August 5, 2020
The chairman of Mississippi's public service commission has approved $80 million solar facilities for two counties, according to statements from the official's office. Public Service Commission Chairman Dane Maxwell drafted...
August 5, 2020
At least seven people were killed as Tropical Storm Isaias battered the U.S. East Coast with rain and fierce winds after making landfall as a hurricane in North Carolina. Millions...
August 5, 2020
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed,...
August 5, 2020
Washington state auditors have issued a critical report on the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport, saying bookkeepers used outdated accounting templates and misreported some figures by millions of dollars in recent years....
August 5, 2020
One of the nation's biggest telemedicine providers will spend more than $18 billion to stoke an approach to care that grew explosively during the pandemic and recently received an endorsement...
August 5, 2020
As Lebanon reeled in shock a day after the massive blast in Beirut and counted the dead, nations around the world promised it would not be alone. French President Emmanuel...
August 5, 2020
Fiona Hill, a key witness in President Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry, is going to be sharing her views about the future of a polarized America. The New York-based Houghton Mifflin...
August 5, 2020
School districts nationwide puzzling over how to safely educate children during a pandemic have a more immediate challenge — getting 26 million bus-riding students there in the first place. Few...
August 5, 2020
New research confirms what we already suspected: that opinions on the political right, and those holding them, aren't welcome in UK universities, where curriculum cancel culture is rife and deplatforming's...
August 5, 2020
Regional rail service was suspended Wednesday in Philadelphia after Tropical Storm Isaias raised the Schuylkill River and sent an unsecured construction barge into a bridge. The barge came to a...
August 5, 2020
Joe Biden's Democratic presidential campaign is reserving $280 million in digital and television ads through the fall, nearly twice the amount President Donald Trump's team has reserved. The Biden campaign...
August 5, 2020
Grocery chain Trader Joe's has built a devoted following that other brands might only dream of. It has a podcast. It prints an old-timey newsletter called the Fearless Flyer that...
August 5, 2020
The pandemic has upended American life, left millions without work and is claiming roughly 1,000 U.S. lives a day. But if Dallas-based Match Group's second quarter results are any indication,...
August 5, 2020
Federal prosecutors fighting Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's request for access to grand jury records invoked the case of a woman accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at a New York...
