Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ June 10 The Los Angles Times on the crack epidemic in the 1980s, harsh prison sentences disproportionately against black...
June 10, 2020
Google has released a test version of its annual upgrade to its Android software without the usual fanfare heralding the latest operating system powering most smartphones. The debut of Android...
June 10, 2020
Musikfest, which draws more than a million people over several days each year to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, will be mostly a virtual event this year, with 80 performances livestreamed directly to...
June 10, 2020
The North Carolina legislature passed another bill on Wednesday overturning parts of Gov. Roy Cooper's executive order that keep certain businesses closed to discourage the spread of COVID-19. As with...
June 10, 2020
The Washington state Department of Ecology has created a working group to address and resolve issues stemming from lead arsenate contamination on former orchard lands in Yakima after receiving an...
June 10, 2020
Mississippi is opening a grant program for small businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said Wednesday that the application process begins at noon Thursday at backtobusinessms.org....
June 10, 2020
U.S. officials will delay the repair of an impassable northern Idaho road in important grizzly bear habitat near the Canadian border because of a lawsuit filed by environmentalists, according to...
June 10, 2020
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Wednesday an Illinois budget heavily reliant on borrowing because of revenue lost to COVID-19 restrictions on businesses and social interaction. But even short of...
June 10, 2020
Stocks ended a bumpy day mostly lower Wednesday despite assurances from the Federal Reserve that it would keep interest rates low through 2022 and would continue buying bonds to help...
June 10, 2020
The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Florida says it will open its doors later this week for the first time since March, when coronavirus concerns forced it to...
June 10, 2020
HBO Max has deemed the movie Gone With the Wind racist and has pulled it from its service, because viewers are apparently too fragile and too stupid to be allowed...
June 10, 2020
Today is #ShutDownSTEM day, wherein researchers around the world have forgone their scientific duties and instead decided to ‘Strike For Black Lives' and, in the process, also condemned science as...
June 10, 2020
Vice President Mike Pence will make an appearance at a manufacturing plant near Pittsburgh on Friday as part of a new campaign effort showcasing the nation's economy making a comeback....
June 10, 2020
The Minneapolis Police Department will withdraw from police union contract negotiations, Chief Medaria Arradondo said Wednesday, as he announced initial steps in what he said would be transformational reforms to...
June 10, 2020
The Greek Culture Ministry said Wednesday it would seek the repatriation from New York of a 2,700-year-old bronze horse statuette which it says was illegally exported from Greece, after a...
June 10, 2020
A statue of former Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson, which had stood in front of the team's stadium since it opened nearly 25 years ago, was removed by workers on...
June 10, 2020
The Coca-Cola Co. has ended its sponsorship of Major League Baseball after three seasons. “Following a review of all Coca-Cola North America marketing assets at the conclusion of 2019, we...
June 10, 2020
Citing “extreme wait times and confusion at polling places” in some precincts in and around South Carolina's capital city during Tuesday's primary, state election officials said they are sending help...
June 10, 2020
Vogue's Anna Wintour has apologized in an internal email for “mistakes" made in her 32-year tenure in not doing enough to elevate black voices on her staff and publishing images...
June 10, 2020
Personal information of police officers in departments nationwide is being leaked online amid tense interactions at demonstrations across the U.S. over the police custody death of George Floyd and others,...
June 10, 2020
Would-be revolutionaries across the US are looking to Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone for cues on what's next. But its demands are larded with quixotic, unworkable “solutions” that distract from...
June 10, 2020
Recent editorials from Mississippi newspapers: ___ June 9 The Dispatch on continuing to combat racism: Over the past two weeks, protests and marches demanding racial justice have swept the country....
June 10, 2020
The Federal Reserve says it will keep buying bonds to maintain low borrowing rates and support the U.S. economy in the midst of a recession. And it says nearly all...
June 10, 2020
The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Florida says it will open its doors later this week for the first time since March when coronavirus concerns forced it to...
June 10, 2020
In the wake of George Floyd's death that occurred under the knee of a white cop, leftist groups are demanding police departments be abolished. If they succeed, problems for whites...
June 10, 2020
Just Eat Takeaway.com says the European restaurant delivery company is in advanced talks with Grubhub for the two companies to merge. The Amsterdam-based company said Wednesday the two companies are...
June 10, 2020
TOP OF THE HOUR: — Minneapolis police department withdraws from union contract negotiations to begin reforms. — Virginia city looks into moving Confederate statue. — New York passes bill to...
June 10, 2020
The Minneapolis Police Department will withdraw from police union contract negotiations, Chief Medaria Arradondo said Wednesday in announcing the first steps in what he said would be transformational reforms to...
June 10, 2020
After more than 27 years in the force, I've had enough. These protests and riots are the final straw. The nasty words we get called all the time have now...
June 10, 2020
A southcentral Kentucky newspaper said is has converted to online only due to steep losses in revenue caused by the coronavirus epidemic. The Glasgow Daily Times reported Tuesday's print edition...
June 10, 2020
Simon Property Group, the country's largest mall operator, announced Wednesday that it is pulling the plug on its deal to buy mall operator Taubman Realty in a deal valued at...
June 10, 2020
Grain futures were mostly higher on Wednesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery rose 4.20 cents at $5.0860 a bushel; July corn was...
June 10, 2020
Efforts to legalize sports betting in Ohio have made halting progress more than a year after bills were introduced in the House and Senate, although sponsors of the conflicting legislation...
June 10, 2020
A Louisiana woman was surprising her husband with breakfast when a plane hit her vehicle, causing it to flip several times and catch fire, according to a lawsuit filed over...
June 10, 2020
City leaders have discussed replacing the West Seattle Bridge with a tunnel or more traditional bridge options after engineers discovered growing infrastructure cracks in March. The Seattle Department of Transportation...
June 10, 2020
An aluminum company planning to build a $1.7 billion plant in Appalachia has settled a lawsuit filed by its founder after his ouster as CEO, which came at a crucial...
June 10, 2020
HBO Max has temporarily removed “Gone With the Wind” from its streaming library in order to add historical context to the 1939 film long criticized for romanticizing slavery and the...
June 10, 2020
Unfilled potholes, uncollected trash, un-mowed grass and, most significantly, fewer police on the street are some of what Allentown says it's contemplating unless Washington helps it plug a multimillion-dollar budget...
June 10, 2020
Councils across the UK should rethink their plans to review statues that are deemed offensive. Trying to curate the past to fit in with the present will only lead to...
June 10, 2020
As the influence of the US and Europe wanes in the face of a new geopolitical reality, their Cold War progeny, NATO, seeks to redefine itself as a global player....
