Some political leaders in Washington's second-largest city are criticizing armed people who showed up and silently watched protesters during Spokane's Black Lives Matter demonstrations over the last two weekends. The...
June 12, 2020
Starbucks is creating its own Black Lives Matter shirt for employees to wear if they choose. The move comes after the coffee chain reportedly banned employees from wearing Black Lives...
June 12, 2020
Range Resources Corp., Pennsylvania's most active shale gas driller, has pleaded no contest to environmental crimes over its handling of contamination at a pair of well sites, the state attorney...
June 12, 2020
For months, Kamal Nasser, a successful plumbing contractor in Lebanon, has seen his business base erode. There are almost no new construction projects as people save for gloomier days, and...
June 12, 2020
In the wake of the Black Lives Matters protests, there are plans to loosen the rules around making political statements at the Olympics. But doesn't pure sport already make the...
June 12, 2020
They sat anxiously by their phones, computers and TVs, hoping to hear their names called by big league teams. Instead, the waiting continues for hundreds of young baseball players. Major...
June 12, 2020
Progessive thinkers of the recent past are starting to appear reactionary, as the emergent radical “liberals” use university campuses and social media to intolerantly shout down any dissent. If we...
June 12, 2020
TOP OF THE HOUR: — Australian PM Scott Morrison apologizes for slavery comment. — Richmond temporarily removes vandalized statue honoring police. — Statues boarded up in London ahead of anti-racism...
June 12, 2020
The Federal Reserve has promised to use its “full range of tools” to pull the country out of a deep recession caused by a global pandemic, signaling that it would...
June 12, 2020
Emily Brown was stretched thin. As director of the Rio Grande County Public Health Department in rural Colorado, she was working 14-hour days, struggling to respond to the coronavirus pandemic...
June 12, 2020
The president of a Fraternal Order of Police chapter along Florida's Space Coast has resigned after being told he would be fired following an internal investigation over a social media...
June 12, 2020
Bowling alleys can now reopen in South Carolina after being closed for nearly three months to reduce the risk of coronavirus infections, even though the state's COVID-19 caseload is seeing...
June 12, 2020
The U.S. ambassador to Iran mistakenly told the shah in 1953 that Britain's newly enthroned Queen Elizabeth II backed a plan to overthrow the country's elected prime minister and America...
June 12, 2020
CEOs were asked: In just a few sentences, what is your business outlook for the rest of 2020, assuming there is not another COVID-19 shutdown in the fall? == I...
June 12, 2020
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against a real estate company on North Carolina's Outer Banks after it allegedly refused to issue refunds for people who couldn't visit because of...
June 12, 2020
ACCOUNTING Moises D. Ariza, a partner in the assurance division at the Miami office of Marcum, has been named the office managing partner for the office. He has a bachelor's...
June 12, 2020
Much has been written about government abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plenty has been said, too, about how some well-heeled businesses have snatched up government loans intended for smaller, local...
June 12, 2020
Emily Brown was stretched thin. As the director of the Rio Grande County Public Health Department in rural Colorado, she was working 12- and 14-hour days, struggling to respond to...
June 12, 2020
Measures to contain the spread of coronavirus continue to shift — and so do responses by investors, developers, builders, banks and buyers. To track the impact, RE|source Miami is asking...
June 12, 2020
Development along the long-promised Ludlum Trail linear park has lagged. But one project is moving ahead. Ground-breaking is scheduled next week on Altís Ludlam Trail, a six-story, 300-unit apartment complex...
June 12, 2020
Like so much of what happened in the economy in April, retail sales were just awful. Investors will learn just how resilient the American consumer is when May retail sales...
June 12, 2020
Media outlets in the US and UK have been conducting mental gymnastics worthy of Cirque du Soleil to portray rioters as virtuous, non-violent freedom fighters even as they film them...
June 12, 2020
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Formula One races in Azerbaijan, Singapore and Japan have been canceled because of the coronavirus...
June 12, 2020
Lebanon's prime minister held an emergency Cabinet meeting Friday after a night of raging protests that saw demonstrators shut down roads across the country with burning tires in renewed protests...
June 12, 2020
While "Jeep dominates" the popular off-road vehicle market, Ford Motor Co. is strategically planning to steal customers from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Jim Farley, chief operating officer, told Wall Street analysts...
June 12, 2020
While "Jeep dominates" the popular off-road vehicle market, Ford Motor Co. is strategically planning to steal customers from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Jim Farley, chief operating officer, told Wall Street analysts...
June 12, 2020
U.S. consumer sentiment climbed in early June by the most since 2016 as more states began to reopen their economies and employers restored jobs. The University of Michigan's preliminary sentiment...
June 12, 2020
Ford announced the first-ever plug-in model of its Escape SUV this week, part of the brand's full-court press to bring electrification to its lineup. Based on the $26,130 compact Escape...
June 12, 2020
The price of meat is going up. Choices will be fewer in your grocer's meat case. You can't buy as much as you want and, just like everything else during...
June 12, 2020
American Seafoods will forgo additional COVID-19 screening of the Ocean Rover factory trawler, a move that has some crew worried and wanting more assurances the disease has not found its...
June 12, 2020
At a time when most food producers are facing disruption, Ethan Brown is high on the hog. Well, the hogless hog. Brown is the founder and CEO of Beyond Meat,...
June 12, 2020
At a time when most food producers are facing disruption, Ethan Brown is high on the hog. Well, the hogless hog. Brown is the founder and CEO of Beyond Meat,...
June 12, 2020
Boris Johnson has now been British PM for six months, and his rollercoaster reign has been marked by one incompetence after another. It's enough to make you nostalgic for Theresa...
June 12, 2020
Asian shares were moderately lower Friday after an overnight rout on Wall Street as investors were spooked by reports of rising coronavirus cases in the U.S. Fear that a so-called...
June 12, 2020
The number of homeless people counted across Los Angeles County jumped 12.7% over the past year to more than 66,400 and authorities fear that figure will spike again once the...
June 12, 2020
Malco Theaters plans to reopen six movie cinemas that were closed due to the new coronavirus outbreak in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky. The Memphis-based cinema chain said the six theaters...
June 12, 2020
In scenes not witnessed for years in government-controlled parts of Syria, dozens of men and women marched through the streets this week, protesting a sharp increase in prices and collapse...
June 12, 2020
Seattle officers hold down a protester, and one repeatedly punches him in the face. In another run-in, officers handcuff a looting suspect on the ground, one pressing a knee into...
June 12, 2020
Michael Conley felt especially isolated these past few months: A deaf man, he was prevented from reading lips by the masks people wore to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But...
June 12, 2020
NEW DELHI— India's coronavirus caseload has become the fourth-highest in the world, overtaking Britain, by adding 10,956 new cases in yet another biggest single-day spike. India's two-month lockdown kept transmission...
