MLS, NBA, you have just spent three months unable to play games because of the coronavirus pandemic, what are you going to do next? We're going to Disney World! (Cue:...
June 8, 2020
Details of the proposal made Monday by Major League Baseball to the Major League Baseball Players Association, as obtained by The Associated Press: Season: 76 games per team, starting about...
June 8, 2020
Activists protesting across the US are increasingly demanding abolishing police departments altogether. Ironically, one of the alternatives they offer sounds just like the modern police, whose origin they wrongly insist...
June 8, 2020
Several advocacy groups presented their own recommendations Monday to reform law enforcement practices in Minneapolis, a day after the majority of the City Council voiced support for abolishing the police...
June 8, 2020
The judge presiding over the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy has approved an agreement among attorneys to extend an injunction halting child sex abuse lawsuits against the organization's 261 local...
June 8, 2020
Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES “Da 5 Bloods”: It's always the right...
June 8, 2020
The United States has been here before, staring into the deep chasm that divides white and black Americans. It happened after cities burned in 1967, after Los Angeles erupted with...
June 8, 2020
The mother of a popular Kentucky barbecue cook killed by law enforcement at his business last week said Monday she wants peace and justice for her son, and she's going...
June 8, 2020
TOP OF THE HOUR: — Texas' Abbott pays respects with hundreds of people mourning the death of George Floyd at a church in Houston. — Birx says she's worried about...
June 8, 2020
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the top Senate Democrat, called on the Department of Labor to investigate Florida's glitch-ridden unemployment system, asserting on Monday that the state mismanaged...
June 8, 2020
The backers of a proposed ballot initiative to increase Idaho's public education funding are suing the state in federal court, contending emergency orders during the coronavirus pandemic unconstitutionally limited their...
June 8, 2020
Forget liberty and the sanctity of the individual. Police chiefs prostrating themselves before mobs seeking absolution for the sins of their race doesn't heal divisions; it further fans the destructive...
June 8, 2020
Florida bars reopened as part of Florida's phase two of returning to the “new normal” for business. The Keys were shut down for more than two months until June 1,...
June 8, 2020
Dozens of Georgia companies are lining up behind a push to pass a state hate crimes law. The Georgia Chamber of Commerce and Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce launched a...
June 8, 2020
With calls mounting for US police forces to be disbanded, one law enforcement abolitionist has confirmed the right's worst fears: once the fuzz are gone, nobody's coming to save you,...
June 8, 2020
Lansing Correctional Facility is the largest single source of Kansas coronavirus cases, followed by the Tyson Foods meatpacking plant near Garden City, a public health document shows. The Kansas City...
June 8, 2020
The U.S. economy entered a recession in February, a group of economists declared Monday, ending the longest expansion on record. The economists said employment peaked in February and fell sharply...
June 8, 2020
Major League Baseball teams made a new offer to start the coronavirus-delayed season, proposing they guarantee 50% of players' prorated salaries over a 76-game regular season and increase the money...
June 8, 2020
The NFL and the players' union sent a planner to the 32 teams Monday outlining procedures for the full reopening of their practice facilities, which were closed because of the...
June 8, 2020
Election day is going to be a little different in South Carolina because of COVID-19. About 250 polling places had to be moved for Tuesday's primaries because buildings were still...
June 8, 2020
Grain futures were mostly lower on Monday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery was fell 7 cents at $5.1120 a bushel; July corn...
June 8, 2020
To entice a European TV executive shopping for programs a few years ago, ABC offered up glossy fare including “Scandal” starring Kerry Washington and “How to Get Away with Murder”...
June 8, 2020
A Washington labor union for farm workers has sued two state agencies, asking a Thurston County Superior Court judge to strike down emergency rules on temporary housing. Union president Ramon...
June 8, 2020
To entice a European TV executive shopping for programs, ABC offered up glossy fare including “Scandal” starring Kerry Washington and “How to Get Away with Murder” with Oscar-winner Viola Davis....
June 8, 2020
A Paris court heard allegations Monday that top athletes hushed-up suspected doping by giving millions of dollars in illicit payoffs to corrupt administrators, as the trial got underway for the...
June 8, 2020
New Mexico's cattle and sheep industries are being adversely affected as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic is causing the wholesale prices of meat and wool to drop sharply....
June 8, 2020
COVID-19 has dealt another blow to the prestigious Art Basel family of fairs. The 2020 edition of flagship Swiss fair Art Basel, originally slated for June but delayed until September...
June 8, 2020
The Black Lives Matter campaign is correct to demand justice for George Floyd's brutal death. But trying to turn this violent ex-con into a Mandela-like martyr does this crusade a...
June 8, 2020
Energy producer BP announced Monday that it will slash its global workforce by 10,000 jobs as the COVID-19 pandemic slams the oil and gas industry. Chief Executive Bernard Looney said...
June 8, 2020
The pilot of a small cargo plane was killed when the aircraft crashed during takeoff in Sioux Falls. He was the only one on board when the twin-engine Mitsubishi went...
June 8, 2020
Protesters are pushing to “defund the police" over the death of George Floyd and other black Americans killed by law enforcement. Their chant has become rallying cry — and a...
June 8, 2020
The coronavirus pushed hospitals to the edge, and millions of workers lost job-based coverage in the economic shutdown to slow the spread, but a new poll suggests Americans have remarkably...
June 8, 2020
In response to the killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin and accomplices, woke culture has intensified cringy prostration and humiliation rituals that can be traced to the...
June 8, 2020
A frequent target of racist abuse and often surrounded in controversy, Mario Balotelli's nomadic career has taken another radical turn. The former Italy striker was reportedly fired by his hometown...
June 8, 2020
Britain began imposing a 14-day quarantine Monday on travelers coming into the country — a sweeping measure meant to halt the further spread of COVID-19 that has been roundly criticized...
June 8, 2020
SEPTA's passengers on Monday again needed to wear face coverings on the mass transit system serving nearly four million people in the five counties in and around Philadelphia. The Southeastern...
June 8, 2020
Sir Keir Starmer's links to Britain's national security establishment are being questioned. But in reality they illustrate that normal service has been resumed in UK ‘democracy' and that Labour can...
June 8, 2020
Miami-Dade County is getting closer to “life in the new normal” as Florida slides into summer. More businesses are reopening Monday, including gyms, tattoo shops and massage parlors, and newlyweds...
June 8, 2020
The pandemic may have driven some buyers out of towers and into houses. But recent sales are proof that for many luxury buyers, condos are still the way to go....
June 8, 2020
These last few weeks have been very telling of where we stand as a society. To think that we've made so many “strides” only to have the bandage peel off...
