South Korea has confirmed 62 additional cases of the coronavirus over a 24-hour period, as the country continues to grapple with new clusters after easing social distancing rules. The additional...
June 27, 2020
Beachgoers packed Orange County's shoreline on Saturday and not everybody wore masks, worrying public health and elected officials who say people were letting their guard down even as the coronavirus...
June 27, 2020
Tyson Foods has announced that 371 employees at its chicken processing plant in the far southwestern corner of Missouri have tested positive for COVID-19. The company said in a news...
June 27, 2020
Whenever one sees a news headline ending in “US Intelligence Says”, one should always mentally replace everything that comes before it with “Blah blah blah we're probably lying.” “Russia Secretly...
June 27, 2020
A commercial real estate broker from Salina who ran for Congress 10 years ago and an eye surgeon from Finney County are trying to draw attention to themselves and distinctions...
June 27, 2020
Gov. Kate Brown on Saturday said she would call a second special legislative session this summer to fix a state budget wrecked by the economic fallout from the COVID-19 crisis...
June 27, 2020
A search is underway for suspects in the burglary of an Alabama pawn shop where more than a dozen weapons were stolen. The break-in happened June 2 at Quick Pawn...
June 27, 2020
A North Carolina racetrack has lost some partnerships after its owner advertised “Bubba Rope” for sale online days after NASCAR said a noose had been found in the garage stall...
June 27, 2020
Randy American Erik Estavillo is suing Twitch for injuries caused by excessive masturbation while watching sexy gamers. He's clearly pulling a fast one, but what does it say about the...
June 27, 2020
A former Idaho budget director has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and 10 years of supervised probation after he pleaded guilty to willfully possessing or accessing child sexually...
June 27, 2020
Fishers are now able to count their crew as part of their employee payroll to qualify for federal loans intended to help businesses following economic downturn caused by the coronavirus...
June 27, 2020
As Nevada prepared to start reopening parts of its economy last month, a team of medical experts recommended to Gov. Steve Sisolak that he require people wear masks in public...
June 27, 2020
Before George Floyd stopped pleading for air beneath a police officer's knee, 19-year-old Weidmayer Pierre was planning to work at Wal-Mart during his summer break from Palm Beach State College....
June 27, 2020
Makers of personal protective equipment in Georgia will get a $1,250-a-job tax break for the next five years, with lawmakers saying they want to aid the businesses during the COVID-19...
June 27, 2020
Plumbers in the Chicago area say they've had no shortage of work during the coronavirus pandemic because more people are staying at home, leading to plumbing problems for home toilets....
June 27, 2020
Visitation bans at nursing homes have renewed interest in legislation that would allow families to put remote cameras inside the facilities to help see how loved ones are doing. Before...
June 27, 2020
America is as authoritarian and intolerant of dissent as any tinpot dictatorship. It generally just goes about quashing it in a subtler, more sophisticated way, aided by a conformist, groupthink...
June 27, 2020
An explosion that rattled Iran's capital came from an area in its eastern mountains that analysts believe hides an underground tunnel system and missile production sites, satellite photographs showed Saturday....
June 27, 2020
How different did the Georgia General Assembly become when lawmakers returned in June amid the COVID-19 pandemic? Well, House lawmakers skipped the joyous tradition of tossing papers in the air...
June 27, 2020
Charles Webb, a lifelong non-conformist whose debut novel “The Graduate” was a deadpan satire of his college education and wealthy background adapted into the classic film of the same name,...
June 27, 2020
Federal officials say a Florida restaurant chain with six locations has been fined more than $314,500 for taking employee tips and wages. The U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday that...
June 27, 2020
Zachary Tabatchnikoff was looking forward to working with ninth- and 10th-graders at a Wisconsin summer leadership camp this summer. But when the pandemic led to the camp being canceled, Tabatchnikoff,...
June 27, 2020
More than a quarter of all American adults have reached traditional retirement age, according to the 2019 U.S. Census Bureau report released this week. The number of U.S. residents 65...
June 27, 2020
NBA NEW YORK (AP) — Acknowledging that no option would have been risk-free during a pandemic, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Friday that the concern shared by the league and...
June 27, 2020
Three decades after charting a radical new political course, Central and Eastern Europeans are now voicing skepticism about the ruling elites, media and liberal democracy. Will these states revert back...
June 27, 2020
The first time he arrived on her doorstep, the boy had a fever and a runny nose. Tears lined his blue eyes. Just 15 months old, he already had lived...
June 27, 2020
NEW DELHI — India's confirmed coronavirus cases crossed half a million on Saturday with another record 24-hour jump of 18,552 infections. The Health Ministry also reported 384 new deaths, raising...
June 27, 2020
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued his sharpest warning yet on the rising coronavirus threat, announcing for the first time the state wanted a county to shut down again, pleading with...
June 27, 2020
Arnetta Kelly-Lane threw her head back as a gentle breeze blew outside her nursing home. Her three children, sitting six feet apart from her across the sidewalk, smiled. Wrinkles formed...
June 27, 2020
It took a global pandemic to convince Missouri health officials to abandon a more than two-decade-old, homemade computer system used for tracking disease outbreaks. And, even as the coronavirus began...
June 27, 2020
Some things can't be taught online. As the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools statewide to shutter, hundreds of schools were forced to transition entirely to remote learning. But when the classroom...
June 27, 2020
Two of America's largest states have reversed course and clamped down on bars again in the nation's biggest retreat yet as the daily number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the...
June 27, 2020
President Donald Trump is entering the final four-month stretch before Election Day presiding over a country that faces a public health crisis, mass unemployment and a reckoning over racism. His...
June 27, 2020
For a moment, Congress had a chance to act on policing reform, mobilized by a national trauma and overwhelming public support. Now those efforts have stalled and seem unlikely to...
June 27, 2020
The decade-old health care law that has divided Americans even as it expanded coverage and protected people with preexisting conditions is being put to yet another test. Amid a pandemic,...
June 27, 2020
Democrats are intensifying their attacks on President Donald Trump and his Republican allies over health care, hoping that an issue that helped lift the party during the 2018 midterms will...
June 27, 2020
The din of conversation and music that normally fills The Cottonmouth Club in downtown Houston fell silent last Friday when the owners shut it down for a second time during...
June 27, 2020
Lawmakers in the Georgia General Assembly on Friday are concluding the regular 2020 session of the General Assembly after a months-long recess because of COVID-19. Besides their annual duty of...
June 27, 2020
A lucky Buddha figurine, a flight suit, several 3-cent stamps, a crumpled 1952 Mass schedule for St. Patrick's Church in Washington, D.C., and 480 bags containing individual human remains. Those...
June 27, 2020
Grant Dayton will notice one glaring absence this season after he reports to the Atlanta Braves: his twice-a-month salary. He is among 11 major leaguers whose prorated pay for the...
