Politics

In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti has instituted a shutdown on a city of nearly 4 million people and threatened uncooperative business owners with power shutoffs and arrest. In Mississippi,...

Asian shares started the week with fresh losses as countries reported surging numbers of infections from the coronavirus that has prompted shutdowns of travel and business in many parts of...

A possible strike by Instacart workers highlights the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the grocery delivery business, where workers are worried about their safety as they try to meet...

In times of crisis, people look to the president for leadership. But the media's criticism of Donald Trump misses the point: New York is sick not because of POTUS, but...

Bracing the nation for a death toll that could exceed 100,000 people, President Donald Trump on Sunday extended restrictive social distancing guidelines through April, bowing to public-health experts who presented...

As the cruise industry races to get passengers around the globe caught on coronavirus-infected ships home safe, the crew is increasingly trapped on board — some with COVID-19, and some...

After cruise companies canceled all new cruises on March 13, most passengers got to go home, but many crew members, hoping to do the same, are still not allowed to...

A Washington state electric utility signed a contract to purchase hydroelectric power from a Montana tribal company. Puget Sound Energy Inc. signed the 15-year contract to draw power from a...

Californians endured a weekend of stepped-up restrictions aimed at keeping them home as much as possible while hospitals and health officials scrambled Sunday to ready themselves for a week that...

A Holland America cruise ship with four COVID-19 deaths and 150 people sick is headed for Port Everglades and Fort Lauderddale Mayor Dean Trantalis issued a hard not-in-my-constituents'-backyard statement. “Until...

Mississippi legislators are supposed to set a state spending plan before the new fiscal year begins July 1. The coronavirus pandemic has scrambled most of the planning that budget writers...

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pennsylvania increased by more than 640 over the past day and four more people died, the state Health Department announced Sunday. The state's...

As Alabama settles into a statewide stay at home order from the governor, the number of verified coronavirus cases continues to rise. The number of COVID-19 infections in Alabama was...

Some Chicago residents want a citywide rent freeze, saying the coronavirus outbreak has caused extreme financial hardship. More than 13,000 have signed an online petition started by a tenants union...

Gov. Jay Inslee said Sunday that Washington state still has a shortage of coronavirus testing kits and again suggested the shutdown of most businesses and extreme social distancing would likely...

Visa has told its global roster of Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls their sponsorships will be extended into 2021 after the Tokyo Games were postponed, providing some financial certainty amid the...

Covid-19 lives, Capitalism dies: Oligarchs, buying influence in Washington and Westminster, have become reliant upon bankers and politicians providing taxpayer-backed bailouts when their reckless highly leveraged bets go wrong. Since...

California's second-largest river has sustained Native American tribes with plentiful salmon for millennia, provided upstream farmers with irrigation water for generations and served as a haven for retirees who built...

Rachel Folden figured something out early on during her first spring training with the Chicago Cubs — long before the coronavirus pandemic wiped out team activities. None of the players...

The second-largest river in California has sustained Native American tribes with plentiful salmon for millennia, provided upstream farmers with irrigation water for generations and served as a haven for retirees...

Members of the Arkansas House met in a college basketball arena, spaced out among 5,600 seats, as they voted on ways to cover a budget shortfall caused by the coronavirus...

A Missouri student and teacher are using 3D printing to supply health care facilities in the area with face shields amid the coronavirus pandemic. A.T. Still University recruited senior Caleb...

Business closed by coronavirus pandemic measures, but physically connected to Publix as a strip mall tenant can get a rent break, the supermarket chain announced Friday. For two months, Publix...

This is a story about bosses and their workers, in the dark days of COVID-19. It's also a story about how one good turn deserves another and yet another. And...

No one likes uncertainty, especially when it comes to the threat of death posed by the coronavirus. Demanding certainty may be human, but we should be very wary of rushing...

The billions of tax dollars headed for hospitals and states as part of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus response bill won't fix the problem facing doctors and nurses: a critical shortage...

White House candidates aren't usually bashful about asking supporters for money. But as the coronavirus upends everyday life, inundating hospitals, tanking financial markets and putting 3.3 million Americans out of...

Fourteen crew members aboard Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a recording obtained by the Miami Herald. On Saturday, a crew member aboard...

Iran's president on Sunday lashed out at criticism of its lagging response to the worst coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East as a “political war,” saying he had to weigh...

Just as previous wars on poverty, drugs & terrorism, a new ‘war on COVID-19' is doomed to failure if a similar militaristic approach is used. We can only win if...

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...

Members of the Charleston area's Chinese community are making an effort to both aid hospital workers during a time of crisis and shed stereotypes surrounding Asian Americans amid the coronavirus...

As the COVID-19 outbreak puts people out of work, restaurant employees — many of whom are out of work themselves — are stepping up to help. Jeff Bacon, the vice...

A gun rights group is cheering the Trump administration's designation of the firearms industry, including retailers, as part of the nation's critical infrastructure during the coronavirus emergency. The designation by...

James Dolan, the executive chairman of Madison Square Garden Company and owner of the New York Knicks, has tested positive for the coronavirus. The Knicks announced Dolan's diagnosis Saturday night....

The number of COVID-19 infections in Alabama rose to 695 on Saturday from 638 a day earlier, with the virus spreading to 54 of the state's 67 counties. Alabama's official...

A military field hospital for people with medical issues that are not related to the coronavirus outbreak is under construction at CenturyLink Field Event Center, which is home to the...

The world changed remarkably this past week — yet again, just as it did the week before, as the coronavirus marched across the world. No corner of the planet was...

His family said goodbye over speakerphone. They told him they loved him, and they thanked him for being a great husband, father and grandfather. All that's left to do now...

Deaths and the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Georgia continued to increase Saturday, even as lawmakers tried to grapple with what the respiratory illness will mean for state finances....