U.S. officials believe China covered up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak — and how contagious the disease is — to stock up on medical supplies needed to respond to...
May 3, 2020
Business owners across much of Florida were busy Sunday preparing to reopen under new restrictions. Restaurants spaced out tables six-feet apart and salon owners begged to be considered in Monday's...
May 3, 2020
As the coronavirus crisis took hold, Akeil Smith's employer slashed her work as a home health aide to 25 hours per week. Her $15-an-hour salary no longer provided enough to...
May 3, 2020
Florida has now reported over 1 million unemployed workers, a bleak milestone as the state continues to lag on processing a massive caseload. According to the Florida Department of Economic...
May 3, 2020
A private Czech television station has joined forces with CNN to create a news channel in the Czech Republic. The Czech FTV Group and CNN International Commercial launched the channel,...
May 3, 2020
Having provoked extensive existential angst and worry through a Covid-19 Project Fear, governments are now faced with societies that are petrified of normal life and are pushing back against any...
May 3, 2020
The National Rifle Association has laid off dozens of employees, canceled its national convention and scuttled fundraising, membership and shooting events that normally would be key to rallying its base...
May 3, 2020
Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman underwent a heart procedure Sunday at a hospital in Amsterdam after feeling pain in his chest, his management company said in a statement. The 57-year-old coach,...
May 3, 2020
NATO's self-described mission as an expression of the Transatlantic community's “common democratic values” has always provoked eye-rolling in Moscow. Now a former US ambassador to the alliance has confirmed Russian...
May 3, 2020
Cologne has called midfielder Birger Verstraete to account for an interview he gave in which he criticized the club for its handing of three positive cases of the coronavirus. The...
May 3, 2020
Gil Schwartz, the longtime CBS communications executive who wrote humorous novels and columns under the pen name Stanley Bing, has died. He was 68. CBS representatives said Sunday that Schwartz...
May 3, 2020
Venezuelan officials said they foiled an early morning attempt by a group of armed men to invade the country by boat on Sunday, killing eight attackers and arresting two more....
May 3, 2020
Venezuelan officials said they foiled an early morning attempt by a group of armed men to invade the country by boat on Sunday, killing eight attackers and arresting two more....
May 3, 2020
Eric Meyer didn't have a place to stay. And worse — much, much worse — he didn't have any money. Not for food, sure, but more pressingly, not for alcohol,...
May 3, 2020
Faced with 19,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation's nursing homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits with a sweeping lobbying effort to get states to grant...
May 3, 2020
A former Northern California business executive and his companies will pay $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit by the state accusing him of sexually harassing a female employee, according to...
May 3, 2020
California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon is calling lawmakers back to the Capitol on Monday, restarting a legislative session interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, even as a handful of lawmakers plan...
May 3, 2020
A sharp drop in gas prices around the world is challenging the ethanol industry in Kansas, with two plants currently idle and nine having decreased production by at least 40%....
May 3, 2020
Plans to restore passenger train service along the Gulf Coast are getting a big boost. Members of Congress from Mississippi announced Friday that the Federal Railroad Administration had awarded just...
May 3, 2020
A group of award-winning barbecue restaurants in southern Illinois are coming together to provide meals for health care employees and other workers battling on the front lines of the coronavirus...
May 3, 2020
Six months ago, the global tourism industry was celebrating a record year for travel. Now, it's decimated and facing a recovery that could take years. Tourism Economics, a data and...
May 3, 2020
As the coronavirus took root and began to spread in nursing homes around the country, at least 15 states took action to limit lawsuits over deaths, injuries and decisions at...
May 3, 2020
Faced with 19,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation's nursing homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits with a sweeping lobbying effort to get states to grant...
May 3, 2020
Members of Georgia's congressional delegation are urging the Pentagon to choose a Savannah unit to be among the first in the Air National Guard to receive the military's new C-130J...
May 3, 2020
Confronting and managing an unprecedented financial crisis. Uniting the northern and southern hemispheres in one global calendar. Maintaining the growth of the women's and sevens games. All while not even...
May 3, 2020
For farmer Mike Pink, spring is supposed to be a time of hope, when he can survey a green field of young potato plants and anticipate the bounty to be...
May 3, 2020
COVID-19 could have stamped a person “uninsurable” if not for the Affordable Care Act. The ban on insurers using preexisting conditions to deny coverage is a key part of the...
May 3, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is expected to end years of record growth in Alabama's tourism revenues as spending falls by the billions. The Alabama Tourism Department said 28 million visitors spent...
May 3, 2020
The Latest on the effects of the new coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ The chairman of Crystal Palace says the Premier League could face years of legal...
May 3, 2020
Future historians are going to look back in shock and horror at many of the radical lockdown rules being enforced now, or the off-the-wall ones being planned for when tourism...
May 3, 2020
Since the late 1980s, when she left her native Honduras and moved to Miami, Diana Ventura has regularly sent some of the money she earned cleaning houses to relatives back...
May 3, 2020
Halfway through his 30-minute bike ride to work, police ordered Juan Pasamar to dismount, accusing him of breaking Spain's coronavirus lockdown rules by exercising in public. The officers were not...
May 3, 2020
As always, Garson Dupuy was out on street patrol this week rounding up strays and responding to reports of vicious dogs or vicious people doing bad things to animals. A...
May 3, 2020
The man wearing an explosive vest emerged from a car and calmly marched toward the gates of the intelligence building in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk. When he ignored their...
May 3, 2020
They're being dubbed the New Zealand “Nomads," and with good reason. The New Zealand Warriors of the National Rugby League were scheduled to arrive at a small regional airport in...
May 3, 2020
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...
May 3, 2020
On a sunny Saturday morning, Lynn Ehmen pulls up in her Chrysler Pacifica van and does an immediate inspection of a micropantry tucked off Converse Avenue at Lanphier High School....
May 3, 2020
The Rev. Bruce Rice does not pretend to be any sort of fortune teller. Rice, however, is confident of what he feels the future will hold once the pandemic surrounding...
May 3, 2020
Farmers are known throughout the community as optimistic, determined and hardworking. However, in today's time, their worries may be outweighing their optimism. Every year farmers know they have a constant...
May 2, 2020
An airport in Alaska has reopened Saturday after a bomb threat regarding a cargo plane heading to Asia forced the aircraft to divert to Anchorage and officials closed the air...
