Politics

A chemical gas leaked from an industrial plant in southern India early Thursday, leaving people struggling to breathe and collapsing in the streets as they tried to flee. At least...

A cruise ship being investigated in Australia for sparking coronavirus infections anchored in Manila Bay on Thursday to bring Filipino crew members home. The Ruby Princess joins at least 16...

Business owners across California anxiously awaited new guidelines Thursday from Gov. Gavin Newsom that will outline the first widespread changes to a statewide stay-at-home order that shut most retail shops...

Decades after the Vietnam War, retired Army Command Sgt. Maj. Bennie Adkins had a simple way of explaining how he survived mortar attacks and rifle bullets that killed so many...

When he stood before Congress in 1996 and declared “the era of big government is over,” President Bill Clinton gave voice to a doctrine that permeated Democratic politics for more...

A set of detailed documents created by the nation's top disease investigators meant to give step-by-step advice to local leaders deciding when and how to reopen public places such as...

Defense Secretary Mark Esper is traveling beyond Washington for the first time in nearly two months as he looks to highlight and defend a Pentagon approach to fighting the coronavirus...

President Donald Trump reversed course on plans to wind down his COVID-19 task force, attempting to balance his enthusiasm for “reopening” the country with rising infection rates in parts of...

Frontier Airlines is dropping plans to charge passengers extra to sit next to an empty middle seat after congressional Democrats accused the airline of trying to profit from fear over...

California restaurants have drafted a plan to allow the industry to reopen for sit-down dining with an array of safeguards while avoiding possible requirements that customers have their temperature taken...

Seabourn Cruise Line, owned by Carnival Corp., has extended the cancellation of its five ships into October and November. Seabourn originally canceled its cruises from March 14 to June 30...

Pennsylvania on Wednesday reported below 1,000 new cases of the coronavirus for the fourth straight day, the longest such streak since the daily reports of new cases first reached four...

A South Carolina county elected treasurer said she would step down from her role after failing to deliver a $1 million payment to a neighboring county for nearly two years....

More than 60% of coronavirus deaths in Washington are linked to long-term care facilities and authorities say more than 250 such locations in the state have reported at least one...

A former Green Beret who has claimed responsibility for an ill-fated military incursion into Venezuela is under federal investigation for arms trafficking, according to current and former U.S. law enforcement...

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed an executive order allowing employees across California's economy to apply for worker's compensation if they contract the coronavirus, with a presumption that it was...

Millions of protective masks that were to arrive in California this week as part of the state's nearly $1 billion deal with a Chinese company have been delayed, Gov. Gavin...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears to have hit all the milestones he needed to receive a stock award now worth about $730 million, a payday that will further pad the...

Fast-food workers all around Florida went on strike Wednesday to advocate for more health security and higher pay during the novel coronavirus outbreak. The Fight for $15 campaign worked with...

Gov. Andy Beshear reported nearly 160 additional coronavirus cases in Kentucky on Wednesday, slightly less than half the previous day's count that was inflated by an outbreak at a prison....

The Anaheim Ducks have re-signed defensemen Christian Djoos and Jani Hakanpää to one-year contracts. The Ducks announced the deals Wednesday. Djoos will make $1 million next season, and Hakanpää gets...

Georgia's state tax revenues swooned by $1 billion in April thanks to coronavirus-related disruptions, as the number of COVID-19 infections in the state surpassed 30,000 confirmed cases and 1,300 deaths...

Miramar-based Spirit Airlines announced Wednesday it plans to raise cash through debt and equity sales as it seeks to navigate the ongoing economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic. In a...

Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Maryland records relating to a $12.5 million contract for personal protective equipment that never arrived, a spokesman for Gov. Larry Hogan said Wednesday. Michael Ricci, Hogan's...

Power adapters shouldn't threaten to burn down the house. That's why Epson recalled 339,000 power adapters in the United States and Canada. The exact problem, as stated in the U.S....

The federal government has fined Sinclair Broadcasting Corp. $48 million, largely because of actions the TV broadcaster took in its failed attempt to acquire smaller rival Tribune Media. Sinclair in...

The Florida Supreme Court is considering whether a recreational marijuana ballot proposal can go before voters in 2022 and whether the state's tight regulation of the medical marijuana industry violates...

Three American universities have received government coronavirus funding to create a mobile app combining contact-tracing with an individual “risk score” – mimicking the Chinese apps the US denounced as dystopian...

Four Major League Soccer teams took the first small step toward returning to play Wednesday by allowing players to use team training fields for individual workouts. Sporting Kansas City, Atlanta...

The U.S. House of Representatives is already investigating Carnival Corporation. Now two senators are calling for a similar investigation in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Citing concerns...

Murphy Oil Corp. on Wednesday said it's closing its El Dorado, Arkansas, headquarters and moving to Houston. The independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company cited the steep...

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro touted a video showing a scruffy-looking American divulging details about a failed invasion as proof Wednesday that U.S. authorities backed an alleged attempt to forcibly remove...

A printing company whose Virginia operation dates back more than a century has announced it is closing the facility, putting 184 people out of a job. Cenveo Worldwide Ltd. told...

The Washington Senate has formed a bipartisan special committee to recommend legislation to address long-term economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The Senate Facilities and Operations Committee voted Wednesday to...

Two Idaho organizations have filed emergency amicus briefs in nine eviction hearings scheduled for Tuesday, seeking to halt the evictions under provisions in the coronavirus relief bill. The American Civil...

The millions of unemployed in Thailand due to the coronavirus include elephants which depend on the tourist industry to feed their voracious appetites. With scant numbers of foreign visitors, commercial...

Mining the Moon sounds like a grand vision of the future, but the way the US reportedly proposes to go about it conjures some of the worst blunders in Earth's...

As swaths of Pennsylvania prepare for a limited reopening Friday, some fed-up business owners are jumping the gun and have resumed serving customers in defiance of Gov. Tom Wolf's shutdown...

A system able to decontaminate 80,000 N95 masks a day so they can be reused has arrived in Idaho Falls, strengthening the state's ability to protect healthcare workers from the...

Three counties on North Carolina's tourist-reliant Outer Banks announced plans Wednesday to lift coronavirus-related visitor restrictions, although they warned of the need to continue to practice social distancing amid the...