A farming region on California's border with Mexico is closing many stores for a second time during the coronavirus pandemic, while further limiting religious services and shutting parks, authorities said...
July 2, 2020
Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a law Wednesday that bans abortion based on the race, sex or genetic anomalies of a fetus, adding new limits in a state that...
July 2, 2020
When President Donald Trump speaks at the Mount Rushmore national memorial before the first fireworks show there in years, he'll stand before a crowd of thousands of people who won't...
July 2, 2020
City leaders voted Wednesday to slash the Los Angeles Police Department budget by $150 million, reducing the number of officers to a level not seen for more than a decade...
July 2, 2020
An Australian court on Thursday rejected a newspaper publisher's appeal against Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush's $2.9 billion Australian dollars ($2 million) payout for defamation. Three Federal Court judges ruled that...
July 2, 2020
California is creating “strike teams” from 10 state agencies to enforce guidelines designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday. He said the teams would...
July 1, 2020
Carnival UK has laid off one-third of its shore workers due to the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, Carnival UK President Simon Palethorpe announced that about a...
July 1, 2020
On Wednesday, more than 500 companies officially kicked off an advertising boycott intended to pressure Facebook into taking a stronger stand against hate speech. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to...
July 1, 2020
Historic numbers of background checks to purchase or possess a firearm were done in June, a trend in a year marked by uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic, a subsequent economic...
July 1, 2020
With the New Mexico State Fair being called off, the horse races that usually coincide with the annual event are being cancelled too. State regulators during a special meeting Wednesday...
July 1, 2020
The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a makeover of its widely criticized marijuana licensing program to enlist more operators who endured the consequences of the nation's war on...
July 1, 2020
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Wednesday the state is pausing its efforts to reopen the economy after a recent surge in new reported coronavirus cases. “Things are getting worse, not...
July 1, 2020
Police on Wednesday forcibly cleared out Seattle's “occupied” protest zone after about two weeks in a situation that had attracted the complaints of local business owners and the ire of...
July 1, 2020
The Seattle City Council has taken a key step toward adopting a new tax on big businesses just two years after the council buckled under pressure from corporations such as...
July 1, 2020
Longtime North Carolina state Rep. Jean Farmer-Butterfield has been nominated by Gov. Roy Cooper to join a state panel that reviews unemployment benefit appeals. Farmer-Butterfield, a Wilson County Democrat who...
July 1, 2020
Some Tesla workers and labor activists say the company is threatening to fire employees who haven't returned to the company's California factory since it reopened because they're afraid of catching...
July 1, 2020
Investigators say inspections of a fan blade that broke off during a United Airlines flight in 2018, triggering an engine failure and emergency landing, had failed to spot signs that...
July 1, 2020
The Democratic-controlled House approved a $1.5 trillion plan Wednesday to rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure, pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into projects to fix roads and bridges, upgrade transit...
July 1, 2020
Two Idaho cities are making face coverings mandatory as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases keeps surging. The requirement in Moscow starts Thursday and is set to last seven days....
July 1, 2020
Carolina Hurricanes president and general manager Don Waddell said Wednesday that executive Rick Dudley won't return and that the team is still in talks with longtime TV play-by-play announcer John...
July 1, 2020
Boarding a flight at Miami International Airport was a breeze March through June, with waiting times at security checkpoints as low as two minutes, mostly empty hallways and half a...
July 1, 2020
Major U.S. stock indexes ended mostly higher Wednesday, extending the S&P 500's winning streak to a third day and pushing the Nasdaq to another record close. Gains in communication services...
July 1, 2020
California regulators have sued Cisco Systems, saying an engineer faced discrimination at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters because he is a Dalit Indian. India's caste system long placed Dalits at...
July 1, 2020
CHAZ got CHOPPED. America's shortest-lived revolutionary government has folded. What else could you expect from rebels shaped in safe spaces, tutored in social media and trained in street theater. Che...
July 1, 2020
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July 1, 2020
A Michigan judge Wednesday allowed Enbridge to resume pumping oil through a Midwestern pipeline, nearly a week after shutting it down because of damage to a structure that anchors a...
July 1, 2020
When American Airlines resumes service to Haiti on Tuesday, nearly four months after the borders were shut due to the coronavirus, there will be only one daily flight into Port-au-Prince's...
July 1, 2020
Kansas will hold its annual State Fair in September despite opposition from the state's top public health official and a recent surge in new coronavirus cases. The state Department of...
July 1, 2020
A judge has ruled that Washington Gov. Jay Inslee overstepped his authority with a series of one-sentence vetoes in last year's transportation budget. The Herald of Everett reported Tuesday that...
July 1, 2020
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey told a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday there needs to be a uniform federal law to regulate the compensation of college athletes instead of a series...
July 1, 2020
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis grabbed a lot of attention this week by approving the state budget, creating new restrictions on girls seeking abortions, signing environmental legislation and new requirements for...
July 1, 2020
The Washington state Supreme Court heard arguments about whether a voter-approved car-tab tax cut was legal or if its ballot title misled voters. The state Legislature and Democratic Gov. Jay...
July 1, 2020
Federal Reserve officials last month expressed concerns about the severity of the economic downturn triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, saying the drop in economic activity in the spring would likely...
July 1, 2020
The Fontainebleau Miami Beach Resort wants to stop paying for laid off workers' health insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a lawsuit filed against the hotel workers' union in federal...
July 1, 2020
Some NFL players are raising concerns about playing football amid the coronavirus pandemic while others are ignoring advice of medical experts by working out with teammates. JC Tretter, a center...
July 1, 2020
Utah defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley will remain on staff but will take a pay cut and must undergo diversity training after being suspended for using a racial slur in a...
July 1, 2020
Recent editorials from Kentucky newspapers: ___ June 28 The Bowling Green Daily News on an industrial park project in Kentucky: When it was first proposed decades ago, the Kentucky Transpark...
July 1, 2020
Recent editorials from North Carolina newspapers: ___ June 30 The Fayetteville Observer on the city's decision to distance itself from a symbol with ties to slavery: The same day artists...
July 1, 2020
When Florida Gov. Ron De Santis announced he was extending the state's moratorium on evictions and mortgage foreclosures for another month at 8:40 p.m. Tuesday night — only three and...
July 1, 2020
Some of the nation's leading property management companies deliberately excluded older people from seeing Facebook advertisements for dozens of apartment complexes in the Washington, D.C., area, a housing watchdog alleged...
