Politics

The century-old Reno Rodeo has canceled this year's 10-day event in June due to the new coronavirus outbreak. Reno Rodeo President Craig Downie said in a letter to the rodeo's...

President Donald Trump said Friday he's in “no rush” to negotiate another financial rescue bill, even as the government reported that more than 20 million Americans lost their jobs last...

A Colombian advertising company is pitching a novel if morbid solution to shortages of hospital beds and coffins during the coronavirus pandemic: combine them. ABC Displays has created a cardboard...

California officials have rattled off numerous shops and businesses that can start reopening under rules aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus — but hair and nail salons are...

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...

The World Health Organization said Friday that although a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan selling live animals likely played a significant role in the emergence of the new...

With the U.S. unemployment rate spiking to levels last seen during the Great Depression, people in Seattle have felt some of the deepest impacts as the first city to grapple...

Brutal. Horrific. Tragic. Choose your description. The April jobs report showed, in harrowing detail, just how terribly the coronavirus outbreak has pummeled the U.S. economy. Most obviously, there's the 14.7%...

SeaWorld guests could be sitting in every other row of the stadium to watch orca shows when the parks eventually reopen, the company's CEO said Friday. Interim CEO Marc Swanson...

An estimated 90 shuttle bus drivers and Yosemite National Park transportation workers who were laid off after the park closed to visitors in March are now facing eviction. The group...

Police in the northern Mexico border state of Coahuila said Friday they found three sisters who worked in the government hospital system strangled to death, stirring further alarm in a...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday released the city's five-step path toward re-opening, which includes some stricter standards than the state plan released earlier this week. Lightfoot warned that progress...

COVID-19 remains a “lethal threat” to North Carolina residents who don't take it seriously, Gov. Roy Cooper said on Friday as rules he issued so more businesses can open and...

For nearly two months, many nursing homes nationwide have been on virtual lockdown. Families of residents are not allowed inside, vendors have to drop deliveries outside and the only people...

Former NBA player Shannon Brown faces charges in suburban Atlanta after he was accused of firing a rifle at two people who were looking at homes for sale, police said....

The Pennsylvania Department said Friday that 200 more people with COVID-19 have died, raising the statewide death toll to 3,616. The deaths took place over the past several weeks. The...

West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons will take a 10% salary reduction for the next fiscal year in an effort to save the athletic department $3 million in response to...

One of the greatest cons perpetrated by some elements in the Western press and the think-tank racket is that they genuinely care about the average Russian person. But in the...

After years of infighting over $112 million in legal fees in the NFL concussion case, a federal appeals court has approved a plan that gives nearly half the money to...

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday got his hair cut at a Dallas salon that became a rallying cry for conservative protests against coronavirus lockdown orders in Texas after the...

As the coronavirus rampaged across the U.S. economy, it slashed a cruel path of job losses, reduced hours and hardships for America's most vulnerable workers. The 20.5 million jobs lost...

There should be a healthy supply of water for farmers and fish in Washington state this season, despite a dry spring the last two months, a report said. The state...

Three environmental groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. government from killing coyotes and other predators in Idaho until environmental studies are carried out. Western Watersheds Project...

California's nonpartisan legislative analyst says the state can expect budget deficits through at least 2024 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Legislative Analyst Gabriel Petek released an analysis on Friday showing...

Ireland is officially recognized by the EU as a country with a “traditional policy of military neutrality.” That “neutrality” had Ireland lament Hitler's death in 1945, and still stretches credulity...

Missouri lawmakers are set Friday to pass a stripped-down budget for the upcoming fiscal year amid a steep drop in revenues because of the havoc the coronavirus has wreaked on...

As coronavirus-induced economic pain grew around the world, some U.S. states moved forward Friday with plans to reopen their economies, while European countries held muted commemorations to mark the end...

Burke Nihill has been promoted to Tennessee Titans president/CEO to replace Steve Underwood, who is retiring from a full-time role. Underwood, who joined the organization in 1991, will remain as...

With his administration under fire over its lack of transparency in COVID-19 cases at elder care facilities, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday announced that it would begin caring for...

Mississippi lawmakers on Friday started talking about how the state should spend part of the $1.25 billion it is receiving in coronavirus relief money from the federal government. Leaders said...

In the week ahead, bond investors will continue picking up the tab for the billions of dollars of taxpayer money spent to blunt the economic consequences of COVID-19. The federal...

The U.S. unemployment rate rocketed to 14.7% in April, a level last seen during the Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst monthly loss on record —...

The ‘educated' sections of the UK middle class' snobbish glances at the Union Jacks and St. George flags flown by the working class for VE Day is a display of...

At least 70 percent of U.S. Olympic sports organizations have applied for government funds during the coronavirus pandemic, a stark financial reality that underscores the frailties within the world's most...

New legal protections are being extended to help shield businesses from “frivolous” lawsuits linked to the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Kay Ivey said Friday. An order issued by Ivey would protect...

Many people in Britain are pleasantly surprised that Piers Morgan has become a fierce critic of the UK government's Covid-19 response. But I am not; I've known he's a mensch...

An employee of a payday loan business in Wichita is recovering after an armed robber doused the man with pepper spray. Police say the crime happened Thursday afternoon at a...

Economists who predict how much money South Carolina will have to spend didn't make massive adjustments to their estimates that the state will lose $700 million in next year's budget...

As coronavirus hotspots erupted at major U.S. meatpacking plants, experts criticized extremely tight working conditions that made the factories natural high risk contagion locations. But some Midwestern politicians have pointed...

The Preakness will remain a fixture at timeworn Pimlico Race Course, which will receive a much-needed facelift following the passing of a bill to redevelop Maryland tracks. Gov. Larry Hogan...