Gap is being sued for refusing to pay rent for stores temporarily closed during the coronavirus pandemic. Mall owner Simon Property Group said in a lawsuit filed this week that...
June 4, 2020
North Carolina legislators have finally completed the General Assembly's annual agriculture policy bill, albeit the one that was first debated in 2019. The Senate gave final approval on Thursday to...
June 4, 2020
Former US President Barack Obama has won liberal praise with a compassionate speech on the killing of George Floyd, while Trump gets nothing but hate. Neither has done much to...
June 4, 2020
Two dogs died in a hot car at a dog training center near St. Louis as their owner attended a lecture on how to become a paid dog trainer, the...
June 4, 2020
Helped by the continuing spread of legal sports betting, commercial casinos in the U.S. won $43.6 billion from gamblers last year, an increase of 3.7% from the previous year. In...
June 4, 2020
In the wake of nationwide protests over police brutality, Georgia Tech wants to make sure its athletes take time to vote in November. The school said Thursday that nine teams,...
June 4, 2020
The architect of Brexit tells RT.com that the MSM and the government are using Covid-19 and the George Floyd controversy as excuses to ignore the widespread illegal trafficking of migrants...
June 4, 2020
The United Nations is among organizations urging companies to create a “people's vaccine” for COVID-19 that would be free to everyone once one is developed. In a hopeful sign, almost...
June 4, 2020
A new study says that while autonomous vehicle technology has great promise to reduce crashes, it may not be able to prevent all mishaps caused by human error. Auto safety...
June 4, 2020
The Department of Energy has announced it will pay the company building the Hanford vitrification plant $5 million in incentive pay after it received its best performance evaluation in three...
June 4, 2020
A writer from a “Law & Order" spin-off and the play-by-play broadcaster for the NBA's Sacramento Kings found themselves out of jobs after making social media posts this week that...
June 4, 2020
New unemployment claims declined by nearly 25% in Alabama over a week as state businesses continued reopening during the pandemic, statistics showed Thursday. More than 550,000 people in all have...
June 4, 2020
With masks on their faces and temperature checks at entrances, Harry Potter fans and roller coaster lovers streamed back into Universal Orlando Resort this week in one of the first...
June 4, 2020
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ English soccer club Tottenham says it is expecting to lose more than $250 million in...
June 4, 2020
Gyms and fitness studios across Miami-Dade may reopen June 8 after 12 weeks of closures ordered by Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez in March as an emergency measure against the spread...
June 4, 2020
Atlético Madrid striker Diego Costa pleaded guilty to tax fraud on Thursday after not paying more than 1 million euros ($1.1 million) from income earned through image rights. Costa was...
June 4, 2020
With masks on their faces and temperature checks at entrances, Harry Potter fans and roller coaster lovers streamed back into Universal Orlando Resort this week in one of the first...
June 4, 2020
The former NFL player who was first to take a knee paid for his protest with his career. It seems other black stars are fearful of losing theirs if their...
June 4, 2020
Initial unemployment claims continue to surge in Florida, even as jobless filings in the rest of the U.S. decline. New claims for the week ending May 30 increased by 31,083...
June 4, 2020
Nearly 1.9 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, the ninth straight decline since applications spiked in mid-March, a sign that the gradual reopening of businesses has slowed...
June 4, 2020
The Swedish hero of the anti-lockdown movement has said Sweden should have had a tougher lockdown. How will his devotees cope with their grief and can he ever be replaced?...
June 4, 2020
Eric Pray is used to shipping seafood all over the country. But since the coronavirus took hold, he has shifted his focus closer to home — selling lobsters from a...
June 4, 2020
Orlando's First Presbyterian Church has made a donation of over $500,000 to Central Florida's nonprofits to help ease some of the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus. The church pooled...
June 4, 2020
Coral Gables is getting its first senior living community with a memory-care center. And it's steps from Merrick Park. The city's commision has approved a 350,000-square-foot senior living project proposed...
June 4, 2020
Hotel occupancy in Miami-Dade County rose to 32.8% for the week ending May 30 — a slight improvement from the 29.3% occupancy in the week prior, according to travel data...
June 4, 2020
South Florida's largest condo developer is replacing its planned PortMiami condo with an office building. The downtown Miami-based Related Group has replaced its original plan for a 35-story, 90-unit residential...
June 4, 2020
On Friday, bars and movie theaters will finally be allowed to welcome customers across Florida — except in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, where some business owners said they're...
June 4, 2020
The United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are urging that governments and others unite in developing a “people's vaccine” to protect everyone against the coronavirus....
June 4, 2020
Siri and Alexa encourage sexism, apparently. So, to avoid any possibility of reinforcing negative stereotypes, the Beeb has made its version a male. But its plan isn't without flaws. After...
June 4, 2020
The most eagerly anticipated study on the effect of antimalarial drugs – the drugs assiduously promoted by President Trump – on COVID-19 finds that they're worthless against the disease caused...
June 4, 2020
Demonstrations for the civil rights of black Americans that have gripped the country in recent days have spilled into the corridors of the New York Times, as writers protested the...
June 4, 2020
Already caught in the shockwaves of a global pandemic, Cupertino now has another unprecedented problem: For the first time in recent memory, the upscale city has a visible homelessness issue....
June 4, 2020
Super-low mortgage rates, which took hold back in early April, are now amazingly stretching into summer, giving many who didn't refinance yet a second chance. "The average 30-year fixed mortgage...
June 4, 2020
A neighborhood coffee shop on the walk to work. A gym on the way home. A theater or concert venue a few blocks away. An assortment of restaurants and bars...
June 4, 2020
The British PM's mantra used to be “follow the science.” Now it's more like “follow the last person I spoke to.” Wherever you look, from schools to care homes to...
June 4, 2020
We were supposed to be “following the science,” but now the scientists are falling over themselves to admit they didn't get it right. How on earth did we end up...
June 4, 2020
Most Asian stock markets rose Thursday after Wall Street gained on surveys showing better U.S. jobs and manufacturing conditions than expected. Tokyo, Sydney and Southeast Asia advanced while Shanghai declined....
June 4, 2020
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan reported a record single-day spike in coronavirus-related deaths with 82 new fatalities and 4,688 cases that it says resulted from increased testing in the past 24 hours....
June 4, 2020
On a summer day last year, presidential guards drove out of the charity organization founded by Syria's wealthiest businessman and a close cousin of President Bashar Assad, carting away boxes...
June 4, 2020
NBA The NBA has told the National Basketball Players Association that it will present a 22-team plan for restarting the season to the league's board of governors on Thursday, a...
