The NFL is considering adding a “booth umpire” and a senior technology advisor to the referee to assist the officiating crew. The league also is looking at other rules changes,...
May 21, 2020
Durham County won't allow restaurants, pools, barbershops and salons to open until June 1, a county official said. Wendy Jacobs, chair of the Durham County Board of Commissioners, confirmed in...
May 21, 2020
Claims for unemployment compensation during the coronavirus pandemic have topped 500,000 in Alabama, officials said Thursday, but the rate of increase has declined as the state's economy reopens. The state...
May 21, 2020
Singer Lana Del Rey is being excoriated for “glamorizing abuse” and even “racism” after attempting to defend writing lyrics from a vulnerable female perspective. The attacks have made her point...
May 21, 2020
Florida AT&T customers suffering slow or stalled internet should be seeing a return to normal by mid-afternoon Thursday. An AT&T spokesman said in an email to the Miami Herald that...
May 21, 2020
A bitterly divided Senate panel voted along party lines Thursday to advance President Donald Trump's choice to head the Voice of America and other U.S. government-funded international broadcasters that have...
May 21, 2020
Pandemic politics shadowed President Donald Trump's trip to Michigan on Thursday to highlight lifesaving medical devices, with the president and officials from the electoral battleground state clashing over federal aid,...
May 21, 2020
The Trump administration notified international partners on Thursday that it's pulling out of a treaty that permits 30-plus nations to conduct unarmed, observation flights over each other's territory — overflights...
May 21, 2020
Lydia Wahlke has resigned as chief legal officer of the U.S. Soccer Federation, two months after she was placed on administrative leave. The federation announced her departure in a note...
May 21, 2020
Georgia set a new all-time high for unemployment in April, with the jobless rate rising to 11.9% as waves of workers lost their jobs due to COVID-19. The state only...
May 21, 2020
Feminists on the frontline of gender politics have seized on a poll they helped publish to push their agenda to the fore in a crisis that has wrecked everyone's economies...
May 21, 2020
For the first time in nearly a decade, U.S. astronauts are about to blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil. And for the first time in the...
May 21, 2020
Seldom far from the centre of events, newly emboldened Tony Blair returns to what he knows best – the avoidable slaughter of the innocents. Britain's foremost expert on the deaths...
May 21, 2020
The bride wore a white beaded dress and a white cloth face mask that said “Mrs.” in curly black letters. Her new husband, dressed in black, wore one that said...
May 21, 2020
For more than a century, New Orleans has depended on canals and pumps to get rid of stormwater in a city where about half the land is below sea level....
May 21, 2020
A new survey of bankers in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states inched upward in May from April's record low, but still remained profoundly low as efforts to...
May 21, 2020
Some furloughs at a Trump golf resort in South Florida are becoming permanent layoffs. A notice that the Trump National Doral Miami filed with the State of Florida last week...
May 21, 2020
The Abbott Terrace Health Center in Waterbury, where 41 residents have died from the coronavirus, has been cited by regulators for infection control violations and fined three times by the...
May 21, 2020
More than 2.4 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the viral outbreak that triggered widespread business shutdowns and job cuts...
May 21, 2020
This is a developing story. Trump National Doral Miami, President Donald J. Trump's Miami-Dade resort hotel and golf course, has announced 250 workers who were originally furloughed indefinitely will now...
May 21, 2020
We are becoming a nation of amateur actuaries, calculating the risk of restarting our lives. Can we go outside? Can we go back to work? Can we go to a...
May 21, 2020
Hiring has started for more than 2,000 jobs at a new Amazon processing facility in the Spokane suburb of Airway Heights. Amazon said Wednesday that it is looking for employees...
May 21, 2020
The number of Floridians who filed new unemployment claims last week remained almost unchanged from the previous week, suggesting some stabilization in job losses as Florida businesses have started reopening...
May 21, 2020
Times of crisis bring people together under a common cause – says the propaganda of the blind optimist. What we've actually seen during the coronavirus pandemic is society divide into...
May 21, 2020
A 14% cut in state spending in Georgia would lead to more than a thousand employees being laid off or bought out and thousands more being forced to take unpaid...
May 21, 2020
The number of laid-off Kentucky workers seeking assistance continued to decline last week, when about 47,000 people applied for jobless benefits as the economy shifts into more activity. The latest...
May 21, 2020
Shopping districts around Miami-Dade County reopened on Wednesday, after having closed two months ago due to the COVID-19 outbreak. … Click to Continue »
May 21, 2020
The Treasury Department is working with lawmakers — including Florida Sen. Marco Rubio — toward a compromise on changing a heavily criticized rule that excludes small business owners with any...
May 21, 2020
Some 223,000 new claims for unemployment were filed in Florida last week, nearly matching last week's figure and suggesting the state's epidemic of job losses from the coronavirus pandemic continues...
May 21, 2020
Meat producer Tyson Foods is reporting 570 cases of COVID-19 at a poultry processing complex in North Carolina. Tyson said in a news release that it tested more than 2,000...
May 21, 2020
A high school principal's online meeting to plan a virtual graduation ceremony was hijacked by someone who played porn videos for students and parents, news outlets reported. “As you might...
May 21, 2020
More than 2.4 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the viral outbreak that triggered widespread business shutdowns two months ago...
May 21, 2020
The ‘social justice' warriors on Twitter have forced German car giant Volkswagen to pull an advert showing a giant white hand flicking a black man because apparently everything is bigoted...
May 21, 2020
Washington has trained more than 2,100 people to work as contact tracers during the coronavirus outbreak, people who will call every person who tests positive for COVID-19 to find out...
May 21, 2020
For all the personal and financial damage the coronavirus pandemic has caused, it has also given new impetus to what had been a slow-moving trend toward healthier homes. And it's...
May 21, 2020
A high speed train service that operates between Miami and West Palm Beach announced Wednesday it is suspending service “for the coming months" because of the coronavirus pandemic. Virgin Trains...
May 21, 2020
The iconic 36-story guitar-shaped tower has continued to glow every night during the coronavirus crisis, but the slot machines have been dark and silent inside the newly-renovated Seminole Hard Rock...
May 21, 2020
A first-time real estate developer is moving forward with his large scale, mixed-use development in Broward County. Guiseppe Iadisernia broke ground on the 10-acre, $370 million project Oasis Hallandale at...
May 21, 2020
Sporting a jaunty black ballcap with “QUEEN” spelled out in rhinestones on the front, Nanette Lemus ventured out of long isolation at home in Coral Gables on Wednesday to check...
May 21, 2020
Cambridge University's announcement that it is moving all its lectures online for the 2020/21 academic year is deeply worrying, as it seems to be an acceptance that social distancing is...
