Politics

When the coronavirus pushed people out of the world and into homebound isolation, the small-screen's role grew bigger than ever. Television and its mobile iterations bore witness to a tumultuous...

Top Mississippi legislators on Monday released their first budget recommendations for the year that begins July 1. They propose spending cuts for universities, community colleges, prisons, mental health and child...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem spent the weekend traveling out of state to appearances in Texas and Georgia, as she continued to build a national profile among Republicans even as...

With weeks to go before nearly half a billion dollars in federal COVID assistance must be allocated, Miami-Dade County still hasn't managed to get a large chunk of its CARES...

The radiology technician slept in an RV in the parking lot of his rural Kansas hospital for more than a week because his co-workers were out sick with COVID-19 and...

One of the country's top book publishers is partnering with an award-winning education technology company that specializes in bilingual materials for kids. Macmillan Publishers announced Monday that it had formed...

The shuttered Metropolitan Opera said it will lock out its stagehands in Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees at midnight on Monday because it has been...

Airbnb has raised the price of its shares ahead of its initial public offering this week, betting investors will pay more given its resiliency during the pandemic. In a government...

Britain says it has no plans to introduce ‘immunity passports', but that's hardly reassuring while this virus continues to be a civil liberties game-changer. After all, national lockdowns seemed implausible...

Will Knowland is appealing against his dismissal from elite British school Eton for an online lecture that encouraged critical thinking on masculinity. Whatever happened to the idea of listening to...

In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. Many of their names hold...

Grain futures were mixed on Monday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Dec. declined .162 cents at $5.60 a bushel; Dec. corn was off .024s...

The Dallas Morning News. Dec. 6, 2020 Lawmakers can end Texas' dismal record on maternal mortality The lives of many mothers are at risk. When lawmakers return to Austin next...

Nationstar Mortgage was ordered to repay $73 million to approximately 40,000 homeowners for repeatedly failing to provide even the most basic operations as a mortgage servicing company over a period...

How could scientists race out COVID-19 vaccines so fast without cutting corners? A head start helped -- over a decade of behind-the-scenes research that had new vaccine technology poised for...

The victory of Maduro's political alliance in Sunday's parliamentary election means that despite the Covid pandemic, economic hardships and sanctions by the US, Venezuelans voted for the continuation of the...

McClatchy has named Monica R. Richardson to lead its newsrooms in Florida, becoming the Miami Herald's first Black executive editor in the newspaper's 117-year history, the company said Monday in...

John Urschel has found that a master's degree in mathematics, his stature as an accomplished author and his pending doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology isn't necessarily enough to...

The New York Philharmonic, silenced from performances at Lincoln Center since March by the coronavirus pandemic, has agreed to a four-year labor contract with its musicians through Sept. 20, 2024,...

Advocates are pressing Kansas' largest electric utility on whether its plan to generate more renewable energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions is aggressive enough. Evergy faced more than six hours...

The National Women's Soccer League is returning to Kansas City after an ownership group led by local businesspeople that includes the fiancé of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was awarded an...

Police on Monday arrested a man they allege broke into a mulitmillion dollar mansion owned by former New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his wife, Gisele Bundchen, then made...

Two people have sued a suburban Chicago funeral home after discovering that one of them was given the ashes of an elderly woman in a mix-up instead of those of...

A post office in North Carolina's largest city is now renamed for a late civil rights attorney. President Donald Trump signed into law a measure backed by North Carolina's congressional...

Brain scans offer a tantalizing glimpse into the mind's mysteries, promising an almost X-ray-like vision into how we feel pain, interpret faces and wiggle fingers. Studies of brain images have...

The deadly pandemic that tore through the nation's heartland struck just as Aaron Crawford was in a moment of crisis. He was looking for work, his wife needed surgery, then...

The deadly pandemic that tore through the nation's heartland struck just as Aaron Crawford was in a moment of crisis. He was looking for work, his wife needed surgery, then...

The Miami Herald's parent company named a new executive editor on Monday to lead its newsrooms in Florida — a 30-year veteran of the news business, with expertise in Metro...

Zoom, Zoom and Zoom. Masks, masks and masks. Sourdough starter and short-order cooking. In these “troubled times,” in our sweat pants and the isolation we endure “out of an abundance...

When Mary De La Rosa closed her toddler and preschool program in March because of the coronavirus pandemic, she fully expected to serve the 14 children again some day. In...

A small capsule containing asteroid soil samples that was dropped from 220,000 kilometers (136,700 miles) in space by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft landed successfully in the Australian Outback on Sunday. After...

A Spanish government official said Monday that Juan Carlos I deserves no special treatment by the legal system, amid reports the former monarch is preparing to admit alleged undeclared income....

For nine years, Jaimie Nicole Scheiner had built up her namesake jewelry brand, operating out of a Coral Gables office/showroom. Although she had a functioning e-commerce channel, most of her...

After years of cozying up to foreign sponsors of radical Islamism & turning a blind eye to huge integration problems, Paris is closing mosques and tabling a new law to...

Bob Dylan's entire catalog of songs, which reaches back 60 years and is among the most prized next to that of the Beatles, is being acquired by Universal Music Publishing...

It seems inevitable that Boris Johnson will do some kind of deal with the EU, because the alternative could be economically ruinous. But whatever is agreed is unlikely to please...

Hollywood loves stories about Hollywood but Mank doesn't glamorize Tinsel Town's golden age but rather reveals the wound festering beneath the mythology…the same wound inflicting modern America. On its surface,...

Hollywood loves stories about Hollywood but Mank doesn't glamorize Tinsel Town's golden age but rather reveals the wound festering beneath the mythology…the same wound inflicting modern America. On its surface,...

Every year we lose a favorite restaurant in Miami, but the losses this year seem to sting more. The coronavirus has shown us what life without them is like, these...

Every year we lose a favorite restaurant in Miami, but the losses this year seem to sting more. The coronavirus has shown us what life without them is like, these...