If anything is known for sure about the scientific battle against the novel coronavirus, it's that the quest for a vaccine has been unprecedentedly intense, with rapid development and speedy...
May 28, 2020
Video tours and virtual walk-throughs have become the norm for home sellers during the coronavirus pandemic, but Moshe Teldon took things one step further. The suburban Wilmette rabbi and his...
May 28, 2020
Video tours and virtual walk-throughs have become the norm for home sellers during the coronavirus pandemic, but Moshe Teldon took things one step further. The suburban Wilmette rabbi and his...
May 28, 2020
Jeff Bezos rejected the notion that Amazon has fired employees in recent weeks for speaking about working conditions. "We support every employees' right to criticize their employer's working conditions, but...
May 28, 2020
Dining at a table where each person is enclosed by a clear plastic shield might look and sound futuristic, but it could be one way for some restaurants to reopen....
May 28, 2020
A county in South Carolina has proposed dropping five holidays, including Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Confederate Memorial Day, to allow county offices to be open to the public...
May 28, 2020
Sorry ladies, but women aren't superior at managing a global health crisis. No matter how much man-hating feminists want this pipedream to be true. Another day, another reminder that toxic...
May 28, 2020
As the death toll from the coronavirus rose above 100,000 in the United States, there were also record numbers getting sick in India and worrying signs of a resurgence in...
May 28, 2020
A North Carolina casino says it's ready to reopen its doors to patrons. Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort said it's planning to reopen at 6 a.m. on Thursday. On its Facebook...
May 28, 2020
Winding stone streets, usually packed with tourists, silent as a graveyard. Restaurants closed. Beaches deserted. Hotels bolted shut. When Europe locked down in response to the spread of the coronavirus,...
May 28, 2020
Zoilo Patiño was just one of more than 19,000 elderly people to die of coronavirus in Spain's nursing homes but he has come to symbolize a system of caring for...
May 28, 2020
Asian stocks were mixed after an upbeat open on Thursday, as investors pinned their hopes on an economic rebound from the coronavirus crisis. Shares rose in Tokyo, Sydney and Mumbai...
May 28, 2020
New Zealand's financially troubled horse racing industry reopened Thursday after being shuttered for months because of the coronavirus outbreak, leading the return of organized sports as the nation moves toward...
May 28, 2020
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can...
May 28, 2020
It was a day for the history books on Capitol Hill: For the first time, House lawmakers voted by proxy, an unprecedented move to avoid the risks of travel to...
May 28, 2020
Threatening to shut down Twitter for flagging false content. Claiming he can “override" governors who dare to keep churches closed to congregants. Asserting the “absolute authority” to force states to...
May 28, 2020
President Donald Trump, the historically prolific tweeter of political barbs and blasts, threatened social media companies with new regulation or even shuttering after Twitter added fact checks to two of...
May 28, 2020
Three pro-democracy lawmakers were ejected from Hong Kong's legislative chamber Thursday morning, disrupting the start of a second day of debate on a contentious bill that would criminalize insulting or...
May 28, 2020
The U.N. World Food Program is warning that upward of at least 14 million people could go hungry in Latin America as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, shuttering people in...
May 28, 2020
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza made known in a video she released Wednesday that state legislators will not be getting raises in the next budget year, which begins July 1. The...
May 28, 2020
Retail shops and offices were allowed to open Wednesday and the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the U.S. announced a plan to resume services as Los Angeles County took another...
May 28, 2020
Casinos from Lake Tahoe to Laughlin started announcing plans Wednesday to lure back customers beginning June 4, with one downtown Las Vegas hotel owner buying more than 1,000 one-way airline...
May 28, 2020
A regional US military command tasked with hunting down terrorists across Africa seems to be far more interested in waging psychological operations targeting the American public, the Pentagon and the...
May 28, 2020
A decade after the “Hunger Games” series had apparently ended, readers were clearly ready for more. Suzanne Collins' “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” sold more 500,000 copies last week,...
May 27, 2020
Texas officials fighting to block widespread mail-in voting during the pandemic claimed victory after the state's highest court ruled Wednesday that a lack of immunity to the coronavirus doesn't qualify...
May 27, 2020
Texas officials fighting to block widespread mail-in voting during the pandemic claimed victory after the state's highest court ruled Wednesday that a lack of immunity to the coronavirus doesn't qualify...
May 27, 2020
Baseball players will take at least a few days and possibly until next week to respond to Major League Baseball's proposed sliding scale of salary slashing for a pandemic-delayed season...
May 27, 2020
Twitter has taken the unprecedented step of adding fact-check warnings to two of President Donald Trump's tweets that falsely called mail-in ballots “substantially fraudulent” and predicted a “Rigged Election.” On...
May 27, 2020
Pro soccer returns to the U.S. next month when the National Women's Soccer League starts a 25-game tournament in a pair of stadiums in Utah that will be kept clear...
May 27, 2020
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Wednesday that churches, mosques and synagogues can resume in-person services, with those in counties in the second stage of the state's COVID-19 reopening plan allowed...
May 27, 2020
An investigation of Gabrielle Union's complaints of racism on the set of “America's Got Talent” concluded that her allegations were unfounded, according to NBC and the show's producers. The outside...
May 27, 2020
Two companies that caused a chlorine gas leak over Atchison in 2106 were each fined $1 million Wednesday for violating federal clean air laws. Harcros Chemicals, Inc., and MGP Ingredients,...
May 27, 2020
“The Vast of Night,” a micro-budget noir set in 1950s New Mexico, crackles with B-movie electricity. The film is one of those little miracles: a directorial debut, made for nothing,...
May 27, 2020
The Nevada secretary of state's office is reviewing allegations made by a former executive of the cannabis company MedMen Enterprises Inc. that the company's co-founders made illegal campaign donations to...
May 27, 2020
The weekly fishing report as compiled for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for May 27 and also available on the internet at https://tpwd.texas.gov/fishboat/fish/recreational/fishreport.phtml: CENTRAL AUSTIN: GOOD. Water clear; 77...
May 27, 2020
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ May 27 The New York Post on Twitter fact-checking President Donald Trump's tweets: After President Trump's fevered conspiracy tweets...
May 27, 2020
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Wednesday that he wants to lift more restrictions on businesses as long as people continue to heed coronavirus guidance from officials and public health experts....
May 27, 2020
The winner, and still champion, is CBS. The Tiffany network finished the traditional television season, which ended last week, as the most-watched broadcaster for the 12th consecutive year, the Nielsen...
May 27, 2020
Before he died after being pinned for minutes beneath a Minneapolis police officer's knee, George Floyd was suffering the same fate as millions of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic: out...
May 27, 2020
Nearly two dozen states and several cities on Wednesday filed a legal challenge to the Trump administration's rollback of Obama-era mileage standards, saying science backed up the old regulations developed...
