With its abundance of unconventional natural gas, the US has been a net exporter since 2017. It wants to sell much more liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe, but here's...
April 30, 2020
One of Mexico's best-known protest singers, Oscar Chávez, has died at age 85, Mexico's culture secretary confirmed Thursday. Local media said he died Thursday of complications from COVID-19, but Mexico's...
April 30, 2020
Illinois has spent tens of millions of dollars building makeshift field hospitals to prepare for an anticipated flood of coronavirus cases, but so far hasn't had to use the thousands...
April 30, 2020
Kentucky's top public health official splashed cold water on the prospect of opening public pools amid the coronavirus outbreak. Public pools should stay closed at least through early summer, Dr....
April 30, 2020
The world's economic pain was on full display Thursday with new bleak evidence from Europe and the United States of the mounting devastation wrought on jobs and economies by coronavirus...
April 30, 2020
The Navy awarded a contract for up to 10 frigates to a Wisconsin shipbuilder on Thursday as the Navy seeks to build smaller, lethal multi-mission warships during a time of...
April 30, 2020
R.D. Hubbard, who bred, owned and raced thoroughbred and quarter horses and was an influential executive in the racing industry, has died. He was 84. Hubbard died Wednesday at home...
April 30, 2020
Texas' coronavirus death toll hit a single-day high of 50 on Thursday, just as the state was preparing for a slow reboot of one of the world's largest economies by...
April 30, 2020
Visa said Thursday that its fiscal second-quarter profits increased 3.6% from a year earlier, helped by growth in payments being processed over the company's namesake network. The San Francisco-based company...
April 30, 2020
News that an experimental drug seems to be the first effective treatment for the new coronavirus has unleashed a flurry of interest – and a clamor to know how soon...
April 30, 2020
Site work has started on a project meant to purify water in the Florida Everglades, state officials announced Thursday. The Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir Project recently received the required federal...
April 30, 2020
Barely a week ago, rural Lamar County could make a pretty good argument for Texas' reopening on Friday. Only a handful of the 50,000 residents here, right on the border...
April 30, 2020
In normal times, news that Boeing is cutting 10 percent of its workforce would be dire in the Seattle area, a region synonymous with aerospace decades before Microsoft and Amazon...
April 30, 2020
NASA is turning to private industry for the first lunar landers for astronauts in a half-century, with three competing, quite contrasting versions. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Thursday the three...
April 30, 2020
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings announced furloughs Thursday in an email to staff from the company's chairman Frank Del Rio. Del Rio said the company took initial measures to cut costs...
April 30, 2020
Wells Fargo, one of the nation's largest home lenders, has suspended issuing home equity loans, according to news reports. The bank halted issuing new home equity loans amid the economic...
April 30, 2020
The company that owns Universal theme parks around the world said it's delaying construction on a fourth theme park in Florida and that the opening of a Nintendo-themed park in...
April 30, 2020
Oregon is planning to allow its famed microbreweries and wine tasting rooms to reopen when it starts loosening stay-home orders, rejecting a federal recommendation that bars remain closed. Oregonians will...
April 30, 2020
Many flights are nearly empty these days, but the high number of cancellations by airlines trying to save money occasionally lead to a flight like the one that Vince Warburton...
April 30, 2020
An Israeli bank and its Swiss subsidiary agreed to pay over $30 million for their role in conspiring to launder more than $20 million in kickbacks to soccer officials, the...
April 30, 2020
Leaders of the Georgia General Assembly are signaling that lawmakers won't return to the Capitol until June, despite Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan continuing to say he would like to...
April 30, 2020
Visa said Thursday that its fiscal second-quarter profits increased 3.6% from a year earlier, helped by growth in payments being processed over the company's namesake network. The San Francisco-based company...
April 30, 2020
The thirst for the beer named after Dr. Anthony Fauci continues to grow. Atlanta-area brewery Wild Heaven Beer has begun to produce a second, larger batch of Fauci Spring, a...
April 30, 2020
Amazon's profit fell 29% in the first quarter as its costs for shipping millions of packages to home-bound customers rose. But the online retail behemoth said its sales soared as...
April 30, 2020
Twitter's stock tumbled Thursday after the company failed to show that it's weathering the pandemic-borne digital advertising slump the same way its bigger rivals Facebook and Google are. The San...
April 30, 2020
The Eden Roc Miami Beach hotel has said it would lay off a total of 458 workers as a result of dead stop in its operations sparked by the coronavirus...
April 30, 2020
Social justice types cheered when Minnesota dairy firm Land O'Lakes removed a “racist” image of a Native American girl from its packaging. But on the bizarre battlefields of the culture...
April 30, 2020
NFL Players Association President JC Tretter is calling for a re-examination of a portion of the labor agreement with the league affecting disability coverage for former players. Tretter, a center...
April 30, 2020
As one of Florida's tourist meccas, the city of Miami Beach is usually bustling, its restaurants and bars overflowing and its streets pulsing with traffic. Out-of-town money kept the city's...
April 30, 2020
Sparsely populated Modoc County, in California's northeast corner, plans to reopen its schools, hair salons, churches, restaurants and the county's only movie theater Friday, becoming the first county in the...
April 30, 2020
Oilfield services giant Halliburton has closed down two sites in Texas and laid off 240 employees in Oklahoma in response to reduced customer activity due to plummeting oil prices. Halliburton...
April 30, 2020
North Carolina legislators got down Thursday to negotiating final details of their initial COVID-19 emergency package after the House approved a version more generous with federal funds than the Senate....
April 30, 2020
The South Carolina Legislature plans to return in less than two weeks as lawmakers face a deadline to pass key bills before they are required to adjourn. House Speaker Jay...
April 30, 2020
This time, he wore a mask. Vice President Mike Pence donned a face covering Thursday as he toured a General Motors/Ventec ventilator production facility in Indiana after coming under fire...
April 30, 2020
Some of the millions of American workers laid off because of the coronavirus are beginning to face a tough choice — return to work and risk infection, or stay home...
April 30, 2020
Twitter's stock tumbled Thursday after the company failed to show that it's weathering the pandemic-borne digital advertising slump the same way its bigger rivals Facebook and Google are. The San...
April 30, 2020
Economic wreckage from the coronavirus outbreak threatens Kentucky's state government with a crippling revenue shortfall that could approach half a billion dollars in the current fiscal year, according to a...
April 30, 2020
As airline bosses make tentative steps to restart flights, it's time for them to focus less on making money and a lot more on ending the appalling way they treat...
April 30, 2020
Self-employed people like me have been financially thumped by the pandemic, but easing the restrictions now won't save lives or the economy. We need to suck up the minor loss...
April 30, 2020
One in five workers in Washington have filed unemployment benefit claims since March, and nearly $1.5 billion in benefits have been paid out in that time frame, including federal money...
