When some Florida's businesses start to reopen Monday, questions about worker and customer safety are likely to be among their most pressing concerns. Florida lawmakers want to make it easier...
May 1, 2020
Missouri voters could get to decide whether to expand Medicaid health care coverage for thousands of low-income adults after a decade of repeated rejections by the state's Republican-led Legislature. Supporters...
May 1, 2020
While the US and Canada have much in common and even seem similar enough to an outsider, the ‘assault guns' ban by PM Justin Trudeau marks the biggest distinction between...
May 1, 2020
The BBC is regarded as the gold standard of journalism. This grand organization's members are fact-finding reporters, not political spin doctors – but it appears the dividing line is becoming...
May 1, 2020
Before the coronavirus outbreak, furniture deliveries at Sunnyland Outdoor Living meant two employees sitting side-by-side in a truck. Now, one will be driving the truck while the second follows in...
May 1, 2020
Gianluca Vacchi has many titles in life — Instagram star, DJ, investor and board member of IMA Group, short for Industria Macchine Automatiche. Now he has another — home seller....
May 1, 2020
Katie Hill is back. The former Democratic congresswoman from Southern California who resigned last year is running a digital and cable TV ad urging residents of her old district to...
May 1, 2020
Your daily look at nonvirus stories in the news: 1. BIDEN DENIES EX-STAFFER'S SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATION - In his first public comment on the allegation, Biden said the accusation isn't...
May 1, 2020
Virgin Galactic's spaceship VSS Unity landed in the New Mexico desert on Friday, marking its first glide flight from Spaceport America as the company moves toward commercial operations. The company...
May 1, 2020
Nearly 300 workers at a northwestern Missouri pork processing plant have tested positive for the coronavirus, state health officials said Friday. The Triumph Foods plat in St. Joseph is the...
May 1, 2020
President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer should “give a little” and “put out the fire” a day after hundreds of conservative demonstrators, some with assault weapons,...
May 1, 2020
PG&E Corp. will sweep out three quarters of its board of directors to start with a mostly clean slate when it emerges from a bankruptcy case triggered by deadly wildfires...
May 1, 2020
As new information indicates the FBI set a ‘perjury trap' for Trump's former national security adviser, the gloves have come off between the Democrats and Republicans. The epic showdown could...
May 1, 2020
Forecasting a major blow to the state's economy and revenue collections due to the coronavirus pandemic, Georgia lawmakers in charge of the state budget sent a memo on Friday asking...
May 1, 2020
The U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure announced an investigation into Carnival Corporation's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on Friday. In a letter to CEO Arnold Donald published by...
May 1, 2020
Officials are giving people in South Carolina plenty of chances to get outside and enjoy the sunshine this weekend after weeks of locked gates and shuttered hotels because of the...
May 1, 2020
A husband and wife are wanted in connection with a home improvement scheme that defrauded elderly customers out of $2 million, the FBI said Friday. According to a news release...
May 1, 2020
NASA and SpaceX on Friday urged everyone to stay home for the first home launch of astronauts in nearly a decade because of the coronavirus pandemic. Top officials warned the...
May 1, 2020
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board must allow distributors to send special wine and liquor orders directly to retailers instead of sending them to state stores for pickup, a court ruled...
May 1, 2020
A rural California county allowed nonessential businesses to reopen and diners to eat in restaurants on Friday, becoming the first to defy Gov. Gavin Newsom's statewide orders barring such moves...
May 1, 2020
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday that Canada is banning the use and trade of assault-style weapons immediately. Trudeau cited numerous mass shootings in the country, including the killing of...
May 1, 2020
Recently, leaks from the highly anticipated video game The Last of Us 2 have taken a lot of air out of the proverbial tires. The spoilers show a bland game...
May 1, 2020
Gov. Tom Wolf was preparing to announce Friday which parts of Pennsylvania will see some relief from his strictest orders for residents to stay at home and businesses to close...
May 1, 2020
When it comes to the coronavirus pandemic, the UK government and right-wing press love a war analogy. So let's fund the fight as we always have in times of conflict:...
May 1, 2020
When Jamie Bolker started teaching composition at MacMurray College in January, she felt she'd won the lottery. After sending out more than 140 resumes, she had a tenure-track position in...
May 1, 2020
Horse racing's Triple Crown season has been thrust into months of uncertainty by the coronavirus pandemic. The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont face the same challenges in their own unique...
May 1, 2020
Trapped between fear of an invisible enemy and looming economic ruin and hunger, millions of workers worldwide marked international labor day Friday with vastly muted celebrations amid the coronavirus pandemic....
May 1, 2020
U.S. Steel expects to lay off roughly 2,700 employees as the demand for iron and steel drops during the coronavirus pandemic, the company said. The Pittsburgh-based steelmaker, one of the...
May 1, 2020
After a probe that took over six years, U.S. auto safety investigators have found no apparent defect with the passenger air bag seat sensors in thousands of older General Motors...
May 1, 2020
The company that sells the highly sought N95 masks used to shield healthcare workers from airborne transmission of COVID-19 filed three additional lawsuits in Florida on Thursday alleging that companies...
May 1, 2020
The NFL has switched its mid-May owners meeting to remote video conferencing because of the coronavirus pandemic. The meeting was scheduled for Marina del Rey, California, on May 19-20. The...
May 1, 2020
The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same methodology...
May 1, 2020
The town of Eureka won't stray from St. Louis County's stay-at-home order after all. Eureka Mayor Sean Flower said that based on feedback and discussions in the community, he has...
May 1, 2020
Alaska Airlines says passengers will soon need to wear face masks on flights due to the threat from coronavirus. In a statement Friday, the Seattle-based airline said face masks will...
May 1, 2020
The latest survey of supply managers in a nine-state region of the Midwest and Plains shows that many are holding out hope for an economic rebound later this year, even...
May 1, 2020
The economic hurt from measures to contain the coronavirus is being felt, as Pennsylvania state government's tax collections collapsed in April and, in Philadelphia, Mayor Jim Kenney proposed tax increases...
May 1, 2020
Grain futures were mostly lower Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for May delivery rose 6.40 cents at $5.2640 a bushel; May corn fell 2.20...
May 1, 2020
After spending two decades raising pigs to send to slaughterhouses, Dean Meyer now faces the mentally draining, physically difficult task of killing them even before they leave his northwest Iowa...
May 1, 2020
An heir to the Hot Pockets fortune and a former investment executive who participated in the college admissions cheating scheme won't get to serve their punishments at home, but they...
May 1, 2020
Elon Musk has taken Gordon Gekko's “greed is good” mantra to a whole new level with his “FREE AMERICA NOW” tweet – clearly ignoring the fact that the USA is...
