A white Florida man has been charged after he pointed a gun at a Black homeowner and accused the other man of stealing a flyer from his own mailbox, authorities...
June 30, 2020
With coronavirus cases surging, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday that he plans to “tighten things up" when it comes to the state's stay-at-home order ahead of a busy Fourth...
June 30, 2020
Occidental Petroleum has extended by one week a Wednesday deadline for Wyoming to bid on a swath of land and mineral rights bigger than Connecticut, a spokesman for Gov. Mark...
June 30, 2020
A worker at a North Carolina hotel has been fired after she called police on a Black woman and her child who were guests there and swimming in the pool....
June 30, 2020
The head of global human resources at sports apparel and shoe company Adidas resigned Tuesday following criticism from employees of what they see as the company's failure to diversify its...
June 30, 2020
Trying to find out the status of a baseball player coming back from an ankle injury will definitely be easier than learning whether someone tested positive for the coronavirus. New...
June 30, 2020
A southern Thurston County location is being considered for construction of another large airport in Washington state to meet the increasing need for aviation capacity statewide. The Washington state Commercial...
June 30, 2020
As the Texas GOP presses ahead with plans for a July convention amid a surge in coronavirus cases, the state's largest medical group Tuesday urged the party to reconsider before...
June 30, 2020
Before there was Frank Gehry there was Paul Revere Williams, who shaped the face of Los Angeles throughout much of the 20th century, a time in which he also became...
June 30, 2020
For the first time in a decade, Florida legislators left funds earmarked for affordable housing intact rather than diverting them into a general-purpose slush fund. But $225 million of the...
June 30, 2020
The former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks can be free on bond while his case is pending, a judge ruled Tuesday. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jane...
June 30, 2020
When it comes to sunscreen, skin cancer and coral reefs, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has taken the side of sun worshipers who have gotten tacit approval to slather away. The...
June 30, 2020
SpaceX launched the military's newest, most accurate GPS satellite Tuesday after a two-month delay due to the pandemic. A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force...
June 30, 2020
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Idaho officials to accept online signatures for an effort aimed at putting a $170 million education funding initiative on the November ballot. U.S. District...
June 30, 2020
Stocks rose Tuesday as Wall Street closed out its best quarter since 1998. The S&P 500 gained 1.5%, bringing its gain for the quarter to nearly 20%. That rebound followed...
June 30, 2020
St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson knows the trauma of violence — she and her children were present when her first husband was shot to death 25 ago during an attempted...
June 30, 2020
House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a plan to address climate change that would set a goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, while pushing renewable energy such as wind...
June 30, 2020
A small northern New Mexico Native American tribe has opened a movie studio in a former casino that it hopes will lure big productions. The Tesuque Pueblo recently converted the...
June 30, 2020
Texas oil and gas company Sable Permian Resources has recently filed for bankruptcy. Sable Permian Resources filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week in federal bankruptcy court in Houston,...
June 30, 2020
Faced with climbing virus numbers, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday extended a state health order that limits the number of people in restaurants and stores but didn't follow other...
June 30, 2020
A Mississippi shipyard has a $936 million Navy contract modification to build another destroyer equipped to launch guided missiles. This comes in addition to a $5.1 billion contract signed in...
June 30, 2020
A company wants to use an advanced balloon to fly customers from Earth's surface in Alaska to the highest reaches of the planet's atmosphere. Florida-based startup firm Space Perspective plans...
June 30, 2020
A judge on Tuesday ruled that the former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks can be free on bond while his case is pending. Fulton County Superior Court...
June 30, 2020
The government's top experts in infectious diseases on Tuesday criticized American Airlines' decision to pack flights full while the coronavirus outbreak continues to grow across much of the United States....
June 30, 2020
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that lawmakers violated the state Constitution when they tried to end all government funding of Planned Parenthood. The judges' 6-1 ruling scraps a...
June 30, 2020
The stakes are growing in a strike against Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works during a global pandemic as company-provided health insurance is running out for 4,300 shipbuilders who've left their...
June 30, 2020
US women soccer players who stood for their national anthem as their league got underway again have been labelled ‘dumb white bitches' for not kneeling. How has patriotism now become...
June 30, 2020
A tell-all book by President Donald Trump's niece cannot be published until a judge decides the merits of claims by the president's brother that its publication would violate a pact...
June 30, 2020
An Orlando restaurant paid workers $30,878 in back pay after violating minimum wage and overtime pay standards, the U.S. Department of Labor announced. Guavate Restaurant's catch-up payout went to 42...
June 30, 2020
The internet is aflutter with reports of yet another possible viral pandemic coming out of China. It's a new strain of swine flu, but there's not much to fear. Except,...
June 30, 2020
The reopening of Tucson's historic Hotel Congress lasted less than a month. General manager Todd Hanley on June 4 ended a two-month coronavirus lockdown and reopened the 39-room hotel at...
June 30, 2020
The archive of the late African American architect Paul Revere Williams has been acquired by the University of Southern California School of Architecture and the Getty Research Institute. The joint...
June 30, 2020
As Florida enters the height of summer tourist season, the state's largest cities and counties are closing beaches, mandating masks and halting business reopenings, hoping the measures will slow a...
June 30, 2020
The reopening of Tucson's historic Hotel Congress lasted less than a month. General manager Todd Hanley on June 4 ended a two-month coronavirus lockdown and reopened the 39-room hotel at...
June 30, 2020
Florida appellate judges on Tuesday questioned the legality of search warrants that let police secretly video record New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and others paying for massage parlor sex,...
June 30, 2020
For two months, the Malta-flagged oil tanker Alkimos has been quietly floating off the Gulf Coast of Texas, undisturbed by the high-stakes legal fight playing out in a federal courtroom...
June 30, 2020
Having survived a Covid-19 brush with death, overweight PM Boris Johnson now understands how obesity amplifies the effects of poor health. It costs lives and the NHS billions each year,...
June 30, 2020
Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the former Saudi oil minister who was the public face of OPEC during the 1970s and ‘80s, turns 90 today. His life story is a biography...
June 30, 2020
New York is urging travelers from eight additional states to self-quarantine for 14 days as it awaits a decision on the reopening of indoor dining in New York City. Gov....
June 30, 2020
FIFA banned its former finance director Markus Kattner for 10 years on Tuesday for helping former president Sepp Blatter and other top managers award themselves salary raises and bonuses totaling...
