The coronavirus pandemic is roiling the seas at Port Miami. The Miami Herald reports that while some terminal construction has continued amid the pandemic, much of the $7 billion passenger...
July 6, 2020
During April's pandemic low point, passengers posted selfies on empty planes and airlines put unoccupied employees to work making face masks for co-workers. Executives talked about "survival" and the thousands...
July 6, 2020
Tom Ivory, the founder of the Baker Street Bread Co. in Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill section, fought a valiant effort for years to rein in bank fees by imposing a minimum...
July 6, 2020
Amazon is preparing to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in a Seattle suburb and is hiring managers for a third store in the nation's capitol. The commerce giant's grocery...
July 6, 2020
Australian authorities were preparing to close the border between the country's two largest states, as the country's second-largest city, Melbourne, recorded two deaths and its highest-ever daily increase in infections...
July 6, 2020
As COVID-19 cases surged in many parts of the world, the island nation of the Seychelles was looking good: 70-plus straight days without a single infection. Then the planes arrived....
July 6, 2020
A doctor arrested after writing an article about Egypt's fragile health system. A pharmacist picked up from work after posting online about a shortage of protective gear. An editor taken...
July 6, 2020
Tokyo's governor and her political rival, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, agreed Monday to cooperate on handling the coronavirus outbreak to safely hold the Olympics next year. Gov. Yuriko Koike...
July 6, 2020
Landry Haugen's debut at the recent South Dakota High School Rodeo Finals was one she might have envisioned. The 15-year-old, who just finished her ninth-grade year at Sturgis Brown High...
July 6, 2020
NEW DELHI — India has overtaken Russia to become the third worst-affected nation by the coronavirus after reporting 24,248 new cases Monday. India has now confirmed 697,413 cases, including 19,693...
July 6, 2020
President Donald Trump is understating the danger of the coronavirus to people who get it, as more and more become infected in the U.S. In his latest of many statements...
July 6, 2020
The hard-hit Australian state of Victoria recorded a death and its highest-ever daily increase in coronavirus cases on Monday as authorities prepare to close its border with New South Wales....
July 6, 2020
The Spanish-language ads for Joe Biden used the same slogan to contrast him with President Donald Trump — “los cuentos no pagan las cuentas,” a play on words that roughly...
July 6, 2020
The number of high school seniors applying for U.S. federal college aid plunged in the weeks following the sudden closure of school buildings this spring — a time when students...
July 6, 2020
If Hollywood is where dreams are made, Bangkok's Scala theater for the past 51 years was where Thais immersed themselves in the old-fashioned blockbusters of war, the heart-felt romances and...
July 6, 2020
Lebanon on Sunday hosted its annual music festival in the ancient northeastern city of Baalbek without an audience for the first time, a move organizers dubbed “an act of cultural...
July 6, 2020
A Kansas county Republican Party chairman who owns a weekly newspaper apologized Sunday for a cartoon posted on the paper's Facebook page that equated the Democratic governor's coronavirus-inspired order for...
July 6, 2020
The Florida Department of Health issued a warning Friday on the dangers of a rare, brain-destroying amoeba as it confirmed a Hillsborough County resident had been infected. The single-celled organism...
July 6, 2020
Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press on Sunday that the NHL and NHL Players' Association have agreed on protocols to resume the season. Daly said the sides are...
July 5, 2020
A shooting at a nightclub early Sunday left two people dead and eight wounded in South Carolina, a sheriff's official said. Two Greenville County sheriff's deputies noticed a disturbance at...
July 5, 2020
A quick-moving but powerful storm knocked out power for at least 257 in Broward County Sunday evening, according to FPL. The storm passed over the Miami-Dade / Broward county line,...
July 5, 2020
More than one in seven South Florida households now say they sometimes or often do not have enough to eat, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released this week. It's...
July 5, 2020
Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich acknowledges he benefited from fortunate timing in his contract negotiations. The Brewers held a March 6 news conference to announce that the 2018 NL MVP...
July 5, 2020
The developers of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline announced Sunday that they are canceling the multi-state natural gas project, citing delays and “increasing cost uncertainty." Despite a victory last month at...
July 5, 2020
Valtteri Bottas insisted before the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday that he has what it takes to win the Formula One world championship. That's a tall order with six-time...
July 5, 2020
Valtteri Bottas won a chaotic season-opening Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday while Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton finished fourth after getting a late time penalty. Bottas took a knee as...
July 5, 2020
Doctors have known it for a long time, well before the resounding cries of “Black Lives Matter”: Black people suffer disproportionately. They face countless challenges to good health, among them...
July 5, 2020
There were the two-hour, unpaid waits outside supermarkets when San Francisco first started to lock down, on top of the heavy shopping bags that had to be lugged up countless...
July 5, 2020
The recent events at the India-China border have moved into the global media spotlight, with the two countries' militaries becoming increasingly engaged in skirmishes and face-offs. Attempts to capture chunks...
July 5, 2020
The University of Illinois at Chicago's business school is opening a real estate department, according to university officials. It's called the Stuart Handler Department of Real Estate is the College...
July 5, 2020
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue tromped through a strawberry festival in central Florida, detailing the government's new trade pact. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked about foreign policy at a...
July 5, 2020
Western media's misleading claim that Russia is glorifying Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin serves an obvious purpose: to prompt urgent calls from its readers for foreign intervention. Russia is not rehabilitating...
July 5, 2020
Germany's finance minister says he wants to revamp the oversight system for the country's financial industry in the wake of the accounting scandal at payment systems provider Wirecard. The Munich-based...
July 5, 2020
It seems to have been more like a typical Saturday night than a drunken New Year's Eve. The reopening of pubs in England does not seem to have overwhelmed emergency...
July 5, 2020
Just last November, PortMiami was bustling with construction workers bringing to life five new cruise terminals and two cruise company headquarters. Future cruise business was all but guaranteed: Fiscal year...
July 5, 2020
Boris Johnson's ‘Build Build Build' plan won't help the UK's working class survive the impending financial Armageddon. A revolutionary New Deal is required to help right the wrongs of 40...
July 5, 2020
A debilitating disease forced Capt. Robert “Bob” Cameron to retire from his position as a BP oil executive in 2006. In recent years, he works less with oil and more...
July 5, 2020
The English establishment is trying to gaslight Scotland into believing its First Minister is a conniving separatist out to break the Union, but the facts speak for themselves. Right now,...
July 5, 2020
About 50 people marched the streets of Cairo the evening of June 19 calling for an end to racism and discrimination in a city where Black people, in the face...
July 5, 2020
MELBOURNE, Australia — The hard-hit Australian state of Victoria has recorded 74 new coronavirus cases after announcing a record 108 new infections on Saturday. The Saturday increase resulted in state...
