Politics

Mexican league soccer owners voted Friday to suspend relegation and promotion between the country's top two divisions for five years, citing economic problems for the second division that have been...

A group representing the homeless is asking to use the Athletes Village for next year's Tokyo Olympics as a shelter during the coronavirus pandemic. An online petition addressed to Tokyo...

Hospitals in Japan are increasingly turning away sick people as the country struggles with surging coronavirus infections and its emergency medical system collapses. In one recent case, an ambulance carrying...

President Donald Trump's former lawyer and longtime fixer Michael Cohen will be released from federal prison to serve the remainder of his sentence in home confinement because of the coronavirus...

What would normally be broad constitutional protections for freedoms of assembly, religion — even buying guns — may be curtailed when they endanger others during the coronavirus pandemic, California's top...

In Wall Street's tug of war between hope and pessimism about the coronavirus pandemic, hope is fighting back. U.S. stocks joined a worldwide rally Friday and closed out their first...

Democratic lawmakers want police departments to be vigilant about any racially biased policing during the coronavirus pandemic, as people in communities of color express fears of being profiled while wearing...

California lost nearly 100,000 jobs in March, state officials announced Friday, signaling a sudden end to a record 10-year streak of growth because of a coronavirus outbreak that has shuttered...

Several Native American tribes sued the federal government Friday, seeking to keep any of the $8 billion in federal coronavirus relief for tribes kept out of the hands of for-profit...

Major party and candidate policy platforms are now notoriously irrelevant to the actual making of policy in the United States. They do have key uses for Democratic Party politicos, however....

A virtual meeting of the Indiana Election Commission on an online video platform was disrupted with pornographic imagery on Friday. Commission chairman Paul Okeson said the meeting was open to...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on Friday embraced plans by the White House to lift restrictions brought on by the coronavirus, but said the state must increase its testing capacity to...

The company that makes the coveted N95 masks needed by healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic has taken notice of the frenzied scramble by unconventional companies to become suppliers of...

Pennsylvania has managed to avoid the worst of the pandemic and it's now time to start talking about a gradual reopening of the state's battered economy, Gov. Tom Wolf said...

As Gov. Gavin Newsom turns his attention to the economic devastation in California brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, he's turning to heads of some of the county's biggest companies,...

President Donald Trump appears to be encouraging resistance to stay at home orders aimed at containing the coronavirus that have thrown millions of Americans out of work. But some governors...

California recorded more than 1,000 deaths from the coronavirus Friday as the pandemic pushed the state into recession, despite signs that have emerged of an improving outlook for the virus....

NASA and SpaceX have picked May 27 for resuming astronaut launches from the U.S. after nine years of complete Russian dependence. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the launch date Friday....

The Trump White House intervened to weaken one of the few public health protections pursued by its own administration, a rule to limit the use of a toxic industrial compound...

Commissioner Adam Silver said it remains impossible for the NBA to make any decisions about whether to resume this season and that it is unclear when that will change. But...

President Donald Trump urged supporters to “LIBERATE” three states led by Democratic governors Friday, apparently encouraging protests against stay-at-home restrictions. Some states under Republican leadership edged toward easing up the...

Four employees of a major poultry producer's operations in rural southwest Georgia have died after becoming infected with the coronavirus, a company spokesman said Friday. Tyson Foods spokesman Gary Mickelson...

The United States is struggling to test enough people to track and control the spread of the novel coronavirus, a crucial first step to reopening parts of the economy, which...

Forget the Covid-19 pandemic, both US President Donald Trump and his Democrat challenger Joe Biden intend to use China as a weapon to bash each other in the 2020 presidential...

The British Foreign Secretary threatened China today. Not with our moth-eaten coronavirus-riddled armed forces, of course; that would be way more than a bridge too far. The British government –...

The great French Algerian philosopher Albert Camus observed in his classic novel “The Plague” that “…always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.” What does not take people by...

US President Donald Trump and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo have retained squads of Big Business honchos to advise them on reopening the economy. Lost in the scuffle are the...

President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort said it began temporarily furloughing 153 workers in March, according to a notice filed with the state of Florida and reported by the state's Department...

CONSTRUCTION Patrick Christie has been named director of construction at Konover South, based in Deerfield Beach. He was director of project management at CBRE | Skye Group in Miami, and...

While the rest of us nervously await our fates in the looming economic armageddon, the Amazon founder's wealth shot up by $24 billion this week, to $138 billion. Fear not,...

In late March, CEOs were asked: Do you anticipate any major changes to your business once this all blows over? == To be sure, there will be changes. When COVID-19...

There is something shameful about the shipping in of Romanian farm workers. Not because I have any problems with them, but because at a time of national emergency we should...

By publicly entertaining theories linking the Covid-19 virus to Chinese research laboratories, US President Donald Trump and his administration are setting China up as the witch in a new political...

Billionaire bachelor the Duke of Westminster, one of the UK's richest people, has scored some good PR with a grand NHS donation… but his tainted money proves he is morally...

Florida has a greater percentage of its workforce classified as independent contractors or gig economy workers than any other state in the country, but in the three weeks since the...

Miami-Dade's unemployment rate more than doubled in March, from 1.5% in February to 3.7% last month, according to an initial estimate from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity. While that...

To anyone doubting the Covid-19 bailouts will line executives' pockets, American Airlines CEO Doug Parker says he'll “find a way around” the rules against it. This after making $150 million...

As U.S. travelers around the world find themselves stranded overseas by COVID-19-related border closures, they have turned to embassies and the State Department to find them repatriation flights. One problem:...

Even in the age of COVID-19, multi-million dollar sales continue. This time, the purchase was in downtown, where an unnamed buyer dropped $11.2 million for a penthouse in Brickell Flatiron....

Despite mass cancellations of voyages, Miami-based Carnival Corporation, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings — the three largest cruise companies — have raised enough cash to last...