The Associated Press and Report for America are hiring 17 journalists to boost the AP's statehouse coverage. The journalists will cover beats including climate change, public health policy, infrastructure and...
April 23, 2020
Leaders of counties on the edge of Missouri's two metropolitan areas are showing an increasing urge to end business shutdowns necessitated by the coronavirus, breaking with urban leaders who have...
April 23, 2020
The Miami Herald determined that thousands of passengers and crew members have contracted the coronavirus on cruise ships. But there are likely many more cases we don't know about. (Click...
April 23, 2020
No government or international regulatory agency is comprehensively tracking cases of COVID-19 linked to cruise ships — at least not publicly. Experts say having accurate data is crucial — now...
April 23, 2020
As the coronavirus spread across the world in early 2020, millions of people found themselves trapped in what is now understood to be one of the most dangerous places during...
April 23, 2020
Nearly 60,000 more Missouri workers filed initial unemployment claims last week amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis, according to data released Thursday by the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations....
April 23, 2020
More than 341,000 people have said they lost their jobs in South Carolina since the coronavirus pandemic began. The 73,000 jobless claims filed for the week ending April 18 was...
April 23, 2020
The Buffalo Bills have picked up the fifth-year option on cornerback Tre'Davious White's contract, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the...
April 23, 2020
In an historic setting, the Washington Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday while sitting alone in their separate chambers using Zoom technology in a case that addresses the safety...
April 23, 2020
As the Covid-19 pandemic destroys incomes, the middle class is forced to pay exorbitant credit card rates. How much longer are the debt-serfs willing to get fleeced by bankers and...
April 23, 2020
A paper mill disabled by a dramatic explosion caught on video last week has resumed production with two of its three paper machines, officials said Thursday. The restart of Pixelle...
April 23, 2020
Gov. Laura Kelly has suspended multiple regulations licensing medical professionals to make it easier for them to work in health care facilities and nursing homes. The executive order Kelly issued...
April 23, 2020
UEFA is keener on leagues adopting new formats to determine final league places for European qualification if suspended domestic competitions cannot be completed due to government restrictions or financial concerns...
April 23, 2020
For many observing the British government's fiasco over the Covid-19 pandemic, it is like watching a rerun of the Dad's Army sitcom. Then enters former PM Tony Blair and the...
April 23, 2020
After two months and more than 10,000 deaths that have made the nation's nursing homes some of the most terrifying places to be during the coronavirus crisis, most of them...
April 23, 2020
Joe Burrow has a chance to join some very exclusive company if the LSU quarterback winds up going No. 1 overall to Cincinnati. Not only could he become the ninth...
April 23, 2020
The Spanish league wants all players and coaches tested daily for the coronavirus when trainings resume. The information is on a league protocol to which The Associated Press gained access...
April 23, 2020
More than 103,000 Kentuckians applied for unemployment benefits last week, raising the five-week total to about 500,000 as jobs vanish across an economy in near lockdown from the coronavirus. The...
April 23, 2020
The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll on Veterans Affairs health care workers. White House officials believe they've entered a new chapter of the pandemic response. Meanwhile, another 4.4 million...
April 23, 2020
A county in South Carolina approved a deal loaded with tax breaks for the Carolina Panthers to move their headquarters and practice site. The York County Council approved the deal...
April 23, 2020
More than four million jobless claims were filed in the week ending April 18, bringing the total to 26 million claims in the past five weeks, new U.S. Department of...
April 23, 2020
A half million Floridians applied for unemployment benefits last week, according to figures released Thursday, as a statewide task force continued examining when businesses shuttered and forced to lay off...
April 23, 2020
The looming deep and probably long-lasting global recession caused by the shutting down of our economies will hurt us all – but it will be much, much worse for those...
April 23, 2020
The Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald newsrooms will be receiving two additional reporters this year as corps members of Report for America, a national service program that places talented...
April 23, 2020
The U.S. government is set Thursday to issue another gloomy report on the layoffs that have swept through America's workforce since the coronavirus outbreak forced businesses to shut down beginning...
April 23, 2020
A study of the worldwide Olympic bureaucracy's finances concludes there's far more money available for athletes than what they receive, and that they would be best served by the sort...
April 23, 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...
April 23, 2020
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...
April 23, 2020
The chief executive of the Tokyo Olympics promised “transparency” with the Japanese public on Thursday regarding the cost of postponing the games until next year. Neither the Japanese organizers nor...
April 23, 2020
For a limestone mantel from the Waldorf Astoria, the church that owns the Olde Good Things antique stores asks for $8,500. But for the death of each child in a...
April 23, 2020
A number of beer and wine distributors in North Carolina are volunteering their tractor-trailers to help stock the state's grocery stores and food pantries in the midst of the coronavirus....
April 23, 2020
The Carrollton School's proposal to build a new boys' school on the Villa Woodbine property in Coconut Grove may be deferred during Thursday's Miami city commission virtual meeting to allow...
April 23, 2020
Some industries that drove demand in South Florida's warehouse market — such as flowers — are shrinking due to the coronavirus pandemic. But one is growing: Pharma. While commercial travel...
April 23, 2020
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ A decree issued by the Hungarian government allows most professional sports clubs and soccer teams...
April 23, 2020
Steve Simon will do something this week that he and thousands of other business owners long took for granted. He's cutting the first payroll checks to his employees in more...
April 23, 2020
A once-bustling bar and grill tucked below a Michigan Avenue overpass famously inspired a “Saturday Night Live” skit starring John Belushi and Bill Murray. But the money the Billy Goat...
April 23, 2020
Lorenzo Salinas doesn't know how he'll pay next month's rent, much less how he would keep his whole family from getting sick if one of them fell ill with the...
April 23, 2020
For years, Dylan Howard, a skilled and controversial practitioner of the dark arts of tabloid journalism, beat the scandal drum often and loudly. As an editor and later the chief...
April 23, 2020
Home sales were already headed down in March, before the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nationwide existing home sales fell 8.5% last month, according to just-released numbers from the...
April 23, 2020
When developer Ginger Hitzke first proposed an affordable housing complex on a parking lot in Solana Beach, she envisioned building 18 new homes for low-income families and adults at a...
