Politics

Taiwan is donating 100,000 surgical masks to Kansas to help medical and meat packing workers amid the coronavirus outbreak. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, announced Wednesday that the...

Nowadays, creators seem more concerned with preaching to audiences instead of entertaining them. What will it take to keep Hollywood from killing beloved franchises by turning them political? Recently, the...

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation launched a criminal probe into a district attorney accused of using at least $140,000 in city of Atlanta money paid to a nonprofit to supplement...

Kentucky's tax collections went into a free-fall in April, when General Fund tax receipts fell nearly $433 million below collections a year ago as the coronavirus outbreak stalled much of...

Grain futures were mostly lower Wednesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for May delivery rose 2.20 cents at $5.2120 a bushel; May corn fell5.20 cent...

Uber is cutting 3,700 full-time workers and its CEO will give up his base salary with the nation largely still in lockdown. The San Francisco company said Wednesday that the...

We are entering an even Greater Depression than the 1930s, with hundreds of millions thrown out of work across the world. Capitalism is a broken, unstable system that is beyond...

From the marbled halls of Italy to the wheat fields of Kansas, health authorities are increasingly warning that the question isn't whether a second wave of coronavirus infections and deaths...

In Key West, several retail shops reopened but most of them already cater to locals. Divers Direct was doing decent business since it's both hogfish and grouper season. … Click...

Coronavirus sufferers complain they are victims twice over: first from getting the disease, then by the way they are then stigmatized, as social safeguards mutate into their own contagious form...

Migrant farm workers must be treated with dignity, Pope Francis said Wednesday, issuing his appeal as Italy weighs whether to legalize the workers amid a shortage of seasonal farmhands due...

The Supreme Court is back for Day Three of arguments by telephone with the audio available live to audiences around the world. You can listen live here starting at 10...

Chefs need to be good at math to keep their menus balanced. But Chef Erik Bruner-Yang is applying his math skills to help something larger — the decimated restaurant industry....

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...

Two Russian doctors have died and one remains in the intensive care unit in serious condition after falling out of windows in hospitals under mysterious circumstances. The tragic incidents last...

A hair salon owner in Texas was ordered to spend a week in jail after she continued to operate her business despite restrictions put in place because of the coronavirus...

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Soccer players in Spain are going back to their team's training camps for the first...

With varying restrictions in place, shopping malls have begun reopening in many places across America amid a still-raging coronavirus pandemic — though not yet in South Florida. When they might...

While some real estate firms are contracting, at least one local brokerage is expanding. RE/MAX Advance Realty acquired RE/MAX Oceanside Realty on Friday, expanding into North Miami, said Anthony Askowitz,...

Measures to contain the spread of coronavirus are still shifting by the day — and so are responses by investors, developers, builders, banks and buyers. To track the impact in...

The European Union predicted Wednesday “a recession of historic proportions this year” due to the impact of the coronavirus with a drop in output of more than 7%, as it...

The British government allowed IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands to starve to death in 1981. It is showing the same lack of judgment today on what is right and wrong, by...

A Georgian-Israeli billionaire believes he has found a solution to the Gaza Strip's chronic water crisis. Michael Mirilashvili wants to deliver hundreds of generators that produce drinking water out of...

Employment at U.S. companies plummeted in April by the most in records back to 2002 as coronavirus mitigation efforts brought business activity to a near standstill. Private payrolls slumped by...

The explosion in financial innovation is prompting a diverse set of worries from lawmakers, from potentially adverse impacts on lower-income and minority consumers to the increasing reliance on artificial intelligence...

Near downtown Los Angeles, a meat processing plant ramped up production even as it worked to keep frontline employees separated from one another. In Salinas, Calif., a lettuce grower hustled...

As we experience a frisson of excitement at soon being set free from lockdown, summer 2020 may yet prove to be a winner for those willing to venture out and...

Normally at this time of year, the Italian seaside beach town of Sperlonga would have been bustling with its first clients of the season. Restaurants would have been fully open...

Authorities in North Carolina filed the state's first price-gouging lawsuit against a towing company accused of employing predatory towing and booting practices during the coronavirus pandemic. A temporary restraining order...

Even as countries moved forward Wednesday with easing their coronavirus restrictions and restarting their economies, a large cluster of infections linked to a market in India and the first lockdown...

Asian stock markets gained Wednesday as hopes for a global economic recovery rose after more governments eased anti-virus controls. Shanghai, Hong Kong and Southeast Asian markets followed Wall Street higher...

Two rural counties that defied California's stay-at-home order and reopened businesses aren't backing down even though Gov. Gavin Newsom calls their decision “a big mistake” that could slow the state's...

The Trump administration failed to prepare for the onslaught of the coronavirus, then sought a quick fix by trying to rush an unproven drug to patients, a senior government scientist...

More than 100 state parks, trails and boating sites across Washington state reopened Tuesday, as well as some golf courses, as certain coronavirus restrictions were eased. Meanwhile a group of...

The Illinois Department of Public Health on Tuesday was ordered by a Cook County judge to inspect a suburban Chicago nursing home being targeted for closing because of a COVID-19...

The leading broadcast network in the Philippines went off the air under government order Tuesday, sparking shock over the loss of a major news provider during the coronavirus pandemic and...

Even as its own unprecedented wrongdoing since 2016 is ever-so-slowly coming to light, the FBI is peddling warnings about what Russia might possibly do in the 2020 US elections. Buckle...

Alabama lawmakers advanced pared down state budgets on Tuesday amid uncertain revenue projections because of the coronavirus outbreak. The House Ways and Means Education Committee advanced a $7.2 billion education...

The Walt Disney Co., like other businesses facing a steep decline in their business due to the coronavirus pandemic, on Tuesday reported a $1.4 billion cut in its earnings from...

The US government has distributed about 130 million economic impact payments to taxpayers in less than 30 days. The IRS anticipates sending more than 150 million payments as part of...