Politics

The Mets made a late addition to their starting rotation, agreeing to a $20 million, two-year contract with right-hander Taijuan Walker, a person familiar with the negotiations said. The person...

The Bremerton-Seattle state ferry crossing will be down to one-boat service “until further notice” because of a propulsion issue found on the ferry Cathlamet. Washington State Ferries estimates it will...

Many people created workspaces — at their own cost — in their homes last year if they were no longer going to an office to work, and some may be...

Roshni Kamta remembers that spring day two years ago when she left for work on her usual crowded New York City subway line, carrying precious cargo. Inside the light white...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is proposing changes that would transform the U.S. transportation and energy sectors — and, officials promise, they won't leave workers behind. In the U.S. auto...

Extreme winter weather is dealing the first major setback to the Biden administration's planned swift rollout of coronavirus vaccines just as the national vaccination campaign was hitting its stride. The...

The US' poor national infrastructure has been highlighted once more this week, with shocking blackouts in Texas – the inevitable consequence of Washington spending its money on bombs rather than...

It's apparently not enough for Britons to endure almost 120,000 COVID-19 deaths and face a new variant of the virus that scientists say is more contagious and more deadly. Not...

Millions of Spaniards still remember life under fascism. Now, with lockdown's limits on freedom compounded by the erosion of free speech under Franco-style laws, as seen by Pablo Hasél's jailing,...

The 1961 concrete-block house isn't fancy, but renter Fred Akers, a 63-year-old mailman who lives there, said it's got the “bare necessities” and he likes his neighborhood. It has something...

The Will Smith-hosted series aims to spotlight the history of rights in the US. But what transpires is a ludicrous exercise in politically correct performance art that is allergic to...

Uber drivers in Britain should be classed as “workers" and not self-employed, the U.K. Supreme Court ruled Friday, in a decision that threatens the company's business model and holds broader...

Uber drivers in Britain should be classed as “workers" and not self-employed, the U.K. Supreme Court ruled Friday, in a decision that threatens the company's business model and holds broader...

Miami residents will be able to rent, work, run to Target and possibly even go to school in the new 38-acre CentroCity being planned south of the Miami International Airport....

Seacor Holdings Inc. (CKH) on Friday reported fourth-quarter net income of $10.8 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis, the Fort...

CTO Realty Growth, Inc. (CTO) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter net income of $79.7 million. The Daytona Beach, Florida-based company said it had profit of $16.60 per share. The real estate...

Spirit Realty Capital Inc. (SRC) on Friday reported a key measure of profitability in its fourth quarter. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The real estate investment trust, based in...

Spirit Realty Capital Inc. (SRC) on Friday reported a key measure of profitability in its fourth quarter. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The real estate investment trust, based in...

Deere & Co. (DE) on Friday reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $1.22 billion. The Moline, Illinois-based company said it had net income of $3.87 per share. The results topped...

Joe Biden will make his first big appearance on the global stage as president on Friday, offering Group of Seven allies and other foreign leaders a glimpse into his plans...

BERLIN — The head of Germany's disease control agency warned Friday that the drop in new coronavirus cases has levelled off even as the share of more contagious variants is...

Kentucky is relaxing coronavirus-related restrictions at some of its long-term care facilities. Indoor visitation will resume at non-Medicare-certified facilities that have been through the COVID-19 vaccination process, Gov. Andy Beshear...

Kentucky is relaxing coronavirus-related restrictions at some of its long-term care facilities. Indoor visitation will resume at non-Medicare-certified facilities that have been through the COVID-19 vaccination process, Gov. Andy Beshear...

For years, Facebook has been in a defensive crouch amid a slew of privacy scandals, antitrust lawsuits and charges that it was letting hate speech and extremism destroy democracy. Early...

NBA NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA All-Star Game is taking shape with LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn's Kevin Durant as playing captains for the March...

The NBA had done a lot of things right during the pandemic. Not this time. For absolutely no justifiable reason other than boosting its bottom line, the NBA is going...

Jolted by a sweeping hack that may have revealed government and corporate secrets to Russia, U.S. officials are scrambling to reinforce the nation's cyber defenses and recognizing that an agency...

The pandemic's heavy toll on the restaurant industry can be seen in Jose Bonilla Jr.'s cavernous warehouse, which is packed with industrial ovens, grills, mixers, refrigerators, dining tables and chairs....

A group of health care workers hurried out of a Boston hospital on a recent weekday morning, clutching small red coolers filled with COVID-19 vaccines. Their challenge: Beat traffic, a...

The Latest on winter weather across the U.S. (all times local): JACKSON, Miss. — Almost all of Jackson, a city of around 150,000 people, is now without water, Mayor Chokwe...

Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower on Friday after disappointing U.S. jobs and economic data. Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Australia all declined. Overnight, Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500...

Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower on Friday after disappointing U.S. jobs and economic data. Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Australia all declined. Overnight, Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500...

Many of the millions of Texans who lost power for days after a deadly winter blast overwhelmed the electric grid now have it back, but the crisis was far from...

RENO, Nev. — Nevada health officials have confirmed the state's first known case of a coronavirus variant that was originally identified in South Africa. The Nevada State Public Health Laboratory...

The New York Police Department arrested a man Thursday in connection to an Asian woman being shoved and injured on a New York City street — a case that was...

Using a technology that streams data from an airplane via satellites, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is now monitoring every Boeing 737 MAX on every flight worldwide to check on...

Scientists have cloned the first U.S. endangered species, a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died over 30 years ago. The slinky predator named Elizabeth Ann,...

The voters have spoken: They wanted LeBron James of the reigning champion Los Angeles Lakers to be an All-Star captain, again. So, he is. And Brooklyn's Kevin Durant will be...

As frozen Texas reels under one of the worst electricity outages in U.S. history, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has blamed grid operators and iced-over wind turbines but gone easier on...

After decades of failed attempts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation, congressional Democrats and President Joe Biden are signaling openness to a piece-by-piece approach. They unveiled a broad bill Thursday that...