Tesla has picked Austin, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, as finalists for its new U.S. assembly plant, a person briefed on the matter said Friday. The person says company officials visited...
May 15, 2020
Idaho State Police say two people and more than a dozen dogs died when a box truck transporting animals for a rescue group crashed in eastern Idaho. They say the...
May 15, 2020
“No Mask! No Service! No Mascara! No Servicio!” say the stickers, posters and T-shirts going up across northeast Georgia, as community leaders try to rally people to prevent the spread...
May 15, 2020
Yannick Nézet-Séguin's income from the Metropolitan Opera in his first season as music director was about a quarter of what James Levine earned in his last full season as music...
May 15, 2020
Linda MowBray admits she's uneasy as communities ease restrictions meant to stop the coronavirus spread, luring people back to restaurants, businesses and normal life. She gets it that the economy...
May 15, 2020
Some elected officials in Missouri and neighboring Illinois were at odds Friday as Congress debated additional aid to states because of the coronavirus. The divide mirrored a political split in...
May 15, 2020
Upcoming changes to Title IX sexual assault laws have stirred the “believe all accusers” #MeToo crowd. As well they should have, because “believe all accusers” is no substitute for due...
May 15, 2020
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social...
May 15, 2020
Tesla has picked Austin, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, as finalists for its new U.S. assembly plant, a person briefed on the matter said Friday. The person says company officials visited...
May 15, 2020
What does a cruise company layoff look like? At Royal Caribbean, previously announced round of South Florida layoffs came into focus with terminations that went across the board, a new...
May 15, 2020
Crew chief Chad Knaus won't get a look at the car Hendrick Motorsports built for Darlington Raceway until he gets to the track Sunday morning, a few hours before the...
May 15, 2020
The Washington Post has warned readers they should “prepare for the possibility of Trump rejecting election results,” should he lose in November. For a paper that's spent four years rejecting...
May 15, 2020
The U.S. government imposed new restrictions on Chinese tech giant Huawei on Friday, limiting its ability to use American technology to design and manufacture semiconductors produced for it abroad. The...
May 15, 2020
Hollywood star Matt Damon saying “it feels like a fairytale” being on lockdown in the Irish capital just shows how out of touch he truly is with the reality of...
May 15, 2020
A court in Istanbul on Friday accepted an indictment against four pilots, an airline company official and two flight attendants accused of helping former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn escape from...
May 15, 2020
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that people who are healthier are less likely to die from the coronavirus, which is part of his rationale to include gyms as...
May 15, 2020
All inmates at a work release facility in downtown Wichita have been moved to another facility after 38 of them tested positive for the coronavirus, the state Department of Corrections...
May 15, 2020
Missouri lawmakers have only hours left to pass bills before their 6 p.m. Friday deadline after an unprecedented 2020 session stunted by the coronavirus pandemic. Lawmakers left the Capitol mid-session...
May 15, 2020
As Jessica Goldman Srebnick contemplates reopening Wynwood Walls, the complex of murals, galleries, retail and restaurants that drove the neighborhood's transformation, she hesitates. Her employees and her family company, Goldman...
May 15, 2020
In a story Thursday about Salarius Pharmaceutical's quarterly results — generated by Automated Insights using data from Zacks Investment Research — The Associated Press reported erroneously that the company earned...
May 15, 2020
Federal agents seized more than 280,000 masks from a Mississippi pharmaceutical company last month under a law prohibiting the hoarding of in-demand equipment needed by health workers on the front...
May 15, 2020
Pennsylvania state health officials are “being misinformed” about the availability of personal protective equipment inside hospitals, one of the state's largest nurses' unions alleges in a letter that says hospitals...
May 15, 2020
In the US, the fight against Covid-19 has become a political battleground. And the Democrats' insistence on limiting Americans' hard-won civil liberties doesn't look like a winning tactic. It might...
May 15, 2020
Facebook has bought Giphy, a popular tool for creating the animated images known as GIFs that pepper conversations around the internet. The companies did not disclose financial terms. Citing unnamed...
May 15, 2020
Workers at seven produce warehouses in central Washington state have walked off the job this week to protest what they call a lack of protections against the coronavirus pandemic. The...
May 15, 2020
Another 2.6 million people across western Pennsylvania began to emerge from lockdown Friday as Gov. Tom Wolf prepared to announce that 12 more counties soon would join them in a...
May 15, 2020
The head of the Food and Drug Administration said Friday his agency has provided new guidance to the White House after data suggested that a rapid COVID-19 test used by...
May 15, 2020
The Cleveland Browns have hired former 49ers executive Kwesi Adofo-Mensah as their new vice president of football operations — a top assistant to first-year general manager Andrew Berry. Adofo-Mensah will...
May 15, 2020
Grain futures were higher Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery gained 3 cents at $5.06 a bushel; May corn rose 2.60 cents...
May 15, 2020
Security camera footage taken in December outside a home being built in coastal Georgia raises new questions about what Ahmaud Arbery was doing at the site two months later right...
May 15, 2020
Ja'nayla Johnson worked hard in high school with the dream of being the first in her family to graduate from college, but she started to doubt herself as several colleges...
May 15, 2020
Daveed Diggs was sorting through the many TV offers coming his way a few years ago when, as the Tony Award-winning actor puts it, “there was a lot of 'Hamilton'...
May 15, 2020
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ The Michigan tournament where the LPGA Tour hoped to resume has been canceled. The LPGA...
May 15, 2020
Voters in metropolitan Portland, Oregon, will be asked Tuesday to approve taxes on personal income and business profits that would raise $2.5 billion over a decade to fight homelessness even...
May 15, 2020
While rates of infection around the UK vary wildly, the capital has managed to hit a low of fewer than 24 cases a day. Now the clamor is growing to...
May 15, 2020
A poultry producer is temporarily closing two plants at a North Carolina complex for cleaning amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Tyson Foods spokesman Derek Burleson said in an email one of...
May 15, 2020
During a storied legal career, Clyde Bergstresser has become one of the go-to medical malpractice lawyers in Massachusetts. But as COVID-19 cases surged at Boston area hospitals, Bergstresser found his...
May 15, 2020
During a recent songwriting session, singer-songwriters Sarah Loethen and Christoffer Wadensten pieced together the lyrics and melody of a song they were writing about the global pandemic. Loethen played the...
May 15, 2020
The elderly in US care institutions are dying disproportionately from Covid-19. The pandemic has revealed the extent to which their wellbeing and safety have been sacrificed by an industry that...
May 15, 2020
A gravel barge that floated without a crew down an Alaska river after breaking free from ice has been recovered. The rogue barge was brought under control and towed to...
