Politics

California is calling for all residents and health care workers at skilled nursing facilities to be tested for the new coronavirus to try to slow the spread of the illness....

Five retail chains flooded two Ohio counties with tens of millions of prescription painkillers through their pharmacies while taking few if any steps to stop drugs from being illegally diverted,...

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Texas will soon allow outdoor pro sports events to have spectators, but their numbers will...

Fewer people are filing initial unemployment insurance claims or requesting payments under continued claims, officials said Thursday, but Idaho's overall jobless numbers remain bleak. The Idaho Department of Labor said...

Idaho Republican Party Chairman Raul Labrador has signed on to represent two college track athletes who want a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a new state law banning...

At a small farmhouse outside Colombia's capital city, Marlene Beltran picks up a ruler and crayons. She turns on the radio, sits down at a creaky wooden table and helps...

Marijuana shops in many states have enjoyed brisk business during the coronavirus pandemic. In New England? Not so much. Recreational shops reopened this week in Massachusetts with strict regulations after...

The committee assigned by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster to plan to reopen the state after the initial spread of the coronavirus and figure out how to spend $1.9 billion...

Humiliated by a £1.6bn government bailout for London's transport system, Sadiq Khan's hopes for the postponed mayoral elections could suffer a fatal blow unless restrictions are lifted soon and the...

The Florida Keys have been shut down for more than two months. On Monday, June 1, the highway checkpoints come down and tourists will once again hit the restaurants, shops...

Ecuador's unpopular leader Lenin Moreno has never been so politically isolated, and might be readying his own departure as anti-austerity protests grow in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. Thousands...

North Carolina legislators are wading into Gov. Roy Cooper's business reopening decisions, as the state Senate voted Thursday to let bars serve customers again despite his recent executive order keeping...

The founder of the weekly show of fealty to the NHS which sees the public applauding like Pavlovian performing seals ends says tonight should be the last time because it...

A Michigan court on Thursday ordered a barber to close his shop and stop defying the state's coronavirus restrictions, though he vowed to keep cutting hair. The Michigan appeals court...

Agent Scott Boras recommends his clients refuse Major League Baseball's attempt to cut salaries during negotiations with the players' association, claiming team financial issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic have...

Federal courts have delivered a string of rebukes to the Trump administration over what they found were failures to protect the environment and address climate change as it promotes fossil...

Sweden's lack of a coherent strategy on treating coronavirus has caused needless suffering among old people, and the media seems unwilling to expose the failures. In early April, in an...

The CEO of a Vancouver, Washington, fruit processor connected to 85 coronavirus cases says his company could have done more to protect employees. Firestone Pacific Foods CEO Josh Hinerfeld said...

Grain futures were mostly lower Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery was off 2 cents at $5.0440 a bushel; May corn was...

Jonathan Karp, who has worked with authors ranging from Sen. Edward Kennedy to Susan Orlean, has been named the new CEO of Simon & Schuster. He replaces Carolyn Reidy, who...

More than 50,000 Kentucky residents applied for unemployment benefits last week, a slight increase that reflects continuing struggles in the labor market as a reopening economy tries to recover from...

A Hawaii ocean shipping firm requested $25 million in federal coronavirus relief funds from the state to keep the company operating. Young Brothers LLC, Hawaii's only regulated interisland cargo company,...

CVS Health will try delivering prescriptions with self-driving vehicles in a test that begins next month. The drugstore chain said Thursday that it will partner with the Silicon Valley robotics...

China officially ratified a plan Thursday to write a national security law for Hong Kong that exerts Beijing's broader, new control over the semi-autonomous territory in a bid to prevent...

As an NHS doctor, I've seen people die and be listed as a victim of coronavirus without ever being tested for it. But unless we have accurate data, we won't...

Florida had 173,731 new unemployment claims last week — the second-highest figure among all states, trailing only New York. However, the new figure represented a decline of 23% from the...

Mike Cernovich's documentary about the media's disregard for truth is a missed opportunity due to its inability to fully break free from the heavy chains of partisan politics. Hoaxed, the...

Schalke thought its troubles were over once the Bundesliga restarted. The Gelsenkirchen-based club was facing insolvency with no soccer being played because of the coronavirus pandemic, and had been pushing...

The U.S. government is set to sketch its latest picture Thursday of the layoffs that have left tens of millions of people unemployed but have slowed as states increasingly allow...

Landlords might finally be cutting multifamily renters a break in South Florida, with Zillow reporting decreased asking rents for new leases since the pandemic. The average asking rents decreased year-over-year...

Luxury home buyers are changing their wish lists after the pandemic. Some items are rising from the bottom of the list to the top. The biggest trend? More buyers are...

Hotels and motels were given the OK to reopen in Broward County on Tuesday, and yes, you can still order room service, spend a day being pampered at the spa...

After they stuck ‘fact-check' warnings on two of his posts, the US president has vowed he won't allow Twitter to stifle free speech. But instead of just regulating them, he...

A public bus driver in Charlotte has been accused of hitting and killing a man standing at a bus stop and then fleeing the scene without administering any aid. The...

As if the coronavirus wasn't enough, India grappled with scorching temperatures and the worst locust invasion in decades as authorities prepared for the end of a monthslong lockdown despite recording...

Bryan Locasale listed one of his rental properties in Philadelphia's Callowhill neighborhood last week on Zillow. Twenty minutes later, a woman contacted him about it. In an hour and a...

When Harry Sentoso got called back to work at an Amazon delivery center in Irvine, Calif., in late March, he was excited. He had been working in Amazon warehouses on...

In the early days of 2017, as a new president was set to take office and the U.S. stock market began a historic rise that would only be felled years...

J.C. Penney said its stores are reopening at a faster pace now. The Plano, Texas-based department store chain which filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, said Thursday it has opened...

The Federal Reserve's next front in the battle to support the U.S. economy is to prevent millions of American small businesses from becoming the Achilles heel of the recovery. Fed...