WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci said coronavirus cases could grow to 100,000 a day in the U.S. if Americans don't start following public health recommendations. The nation's leading infectious disease...
June 30, 2020
Construction workers are expected to begin work on the West Seattle Bridge this week, adding carbon strips and steel cables for support after engineers discovered growing cracks in March, transportation...
June 30, 2020
As South Carolina approaches a holiday weekend often an anchor for its typically booming tourism industry, and the state's numbers of positive coronavirus tests continue to rise, public health officials...
June 30, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden plans Tuesday to blister President Donald Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic as he tries to demonstrate to voters how he'd handle the...
June 30, 2020
The Baltic nation of Latvia says it has banned the state-controlled Russian television channel RT for as long as network head Dmitry Kiselyov remains on the European Union's sanctioned persons...
June 30, 2020
Netflix on Tuesday announced a $10 million investment in a Mississippi-based credit union to build economic opportunities in Black communities across the Deep South. The Netflix deposit is one of...
June 30, 2020
The mayor of Savannah said Tuesday he's ordering people to wear masks inside retail shops, grocery stores and other public places — and those who refuse could face $500 fines....
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...
June 30, 2020
Further acknowledging that climate change is a growing concern in his state, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law a measure requiring public coastal construction projects to first be...
June 30, 2020
Facebook has announced it will build an $800 million data center in DeKalb that will create about 100 permanent jobs and depend on 100 percent renewable energy. The 907,000 square-foot...
June 30, 2020
The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for religious schools to obtain public funds, upholding a Montana scholarship program that allows state tax credits for private schooling. The court's...
June 30, 2020
The Manhattan Mercury, June 28 K-State's football team is on strike, and the university administration is in an extremely difficult spot, all thanks to a manipulative and self-serving sophomore. We...
June 30, 2020
Allegheny County, where officials ordered a halt to drinking alcohol in bars and restaurants due to what they call an “alarming” spike in COVID-19 cases, recorded another single-day record high...
June 30, 2020
The Jefferson City News-Tribune, June 28 An exchange this past week between Gov. Mike Parson and a reporter over the coronavirus has highlighted the divide between liberals and conservatives over...
June 30, 2020
Atlantic City tried Prohibition once before. It worked so well that Nucky Johnson, the legendary politician and racketeer, built a Boardwalk empire immortalized on HBO nearly a century later. It...
June 30, 2020
Four organizations have been awarded a total of $1.37 million by the NFL to support the creation of their helmet prototypes. As part of the NFL Helmet Challenge, a contest...
June 30, 2020
Something still bothers Barry Larkin about his Most Valuable Player award. The other name engraved on the trophy: Kenesaw Mountain Landis. “Why is it on there?” said Larkin, the Black...
June 30, 2020
The Travelers Championship is giving some of the money raised by last week's golf tournament in Connecticut to help create a program to train police in how to deal with...
June 30, 2020
The European continent on Tuesday reopened to visitors from 14 countries, but not the U.S., where some of the states that pushed hardest and earliest to reopen their economies are...
June 30, 2020
Schalke chairman Clemens Tönnies stepped down Tuesday following unrest among fans because of the German soccer club's lengthy winless run and an outbreak of coronavirus at a slaughterhouse owned by...
June 30, 2020
The United States has strongly backed New Delhi as tension rises between India and China amid stalled border talks. But Washington has its own motives for encouraging aggressive action from...
June 30, 2020
Nearing his 80th birthday, Sir Patrick Stewart is finally ready for the project he once feared taking on — his memoir. The award-winning actor best known as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard...
June 30, 2020
The stabbing of six people by an asylum seeker in Glasgow has shed light on the dreadful conditions migrants are being forced to live in. Their desperate situation reflects very...
June 30, 2020
Golf courses are closing across the country amid low interest by millennials. But a South Florida duo are betting millions that living on Hollywood's top-rated greens will win the prize....
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
In 2011, the industrial city of Nizhny Tagil was dubbed “Putingrad” for its residents' fervent support for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nine years later, it appears the city 1,400 kilometers...
June 30, 2020
Scottish Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf reeled off a list of positions in Scottish public life, all held by white people. But he conspicuously failed to mention that Scotland is 96...
June 30, 2020
Highway signs showing honorary road names designated by Kentucky lawmakers have been installed in Knox County. The signs are on U.S. 25E and Kentucky 217. Home of Byron Woolum Professional...
June 30, 2020
Lisa Bryant has a master's degree in communications and a resume full of experience. But after getting laid off during the 2008 recession, she struggled to land a full-time job...
June 30, 2020
A liquor store was one of the first buildings touched by the rage of a crowd that had watched a white police officer press his knee into George Floyd's neck...
June 30, 2020
MENLO PARK, Calif. – In the late 1960s and early 1970s, young Danes took to the streets like their counterparts across the globe – protesting a political and societal system...
June 30, 2020
Starting Wednesday, many Chicago employers will be required to give employees advance notice of their schedules and pay a premium for last-minute changes. The city's "fair workweek" law is a...
June 30, 2020
Before the pandemic shut down much of the economy, Logan Madangure had come to see Seattle as a city of opportunity. Although the 24-year-old Zimbabwean native arrived in Seattle three...
June 30, 2020
The four-year-old Amazon fulfillment center in Kent, Wash., has played an outsized role in the company's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Employees there began sounding alarms to management in the...
June 30, 2020
How risky is flying during the coronavirus pandemic? Flying can increase your risk of exposure to infection, but airlines are taking some precautions and you can too. Air travel means...
June 30, 2020
After telling Arizonans that many public places were again being closed amid a surge of coronavirus cases, Gov. Doug Ducey ended a somewhat contentious news conference by imploring people to...
June 30, 2020
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's professional baseball league says it will require fans to wear masks, sit at least a seat apart and prohibit them from eating food in...
June 30, 2020
Asian shares rose Tuesday, cheered by a rally on Wally Street reflecting some optimism over stronger than expected economic data, despite widening coronavirus outbreaks. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 1.3%...
June 30, 2020
The U.N. nuclear agency says slightly elevated levels of radioactivity that have been detected in northern Europe pose no risk to human health or to the environment but it's still...
June 30, 2020
In 2011, the industrial city of Nizhny Tagil was dubbed “Putingrad” for its residents' fervent support for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nine years later, it appears the city 1,400 kilometers...
