Politics

Downtown's longtime jewelry hub, the Seybold building, has a rival. Aspiring to become the city's epicenter for jewelry, owners of the Time Century Jewelry Center — formerly known as Metro...

We've forgotten how to make small talk – so much so that trainee lawyers now need a university course to re-learn it. But at a time when voicing opinions is...

It has been announced that a further 1.7 million people have been added to the Covid shielding list in England – and, of course, it is the poorest among us...

As millions of Texans struggled without heat or electricity due to a freak winter storm, social media exploded with partisan mockery, selective solidarity and even calls for “class war.” If...

Miami developer Moishe Mana has broken ground on what he is calling the Nikola Tesla Innovation Hub, part of his planned Flagler District downtown. The hub, a 13-floor 136,000 square...

A raft of public figures from the Great White North, including Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford, have been caught breaking rules they insist citizens observe for the sake of safety....

France has hit pause on the withdrawal of troops fighting in the Sahel against ISIS terrorists, but President Macron must revisit the strategy behind his nation's role in the region...

The US' future looks grim indeed in the face of a ‘Great Reset' proposed by the same powers that steered it into a deadly economic quagmire. Why are Americans allowing...

Plans unveiled by UK education secretary Gavin Williamson that no-platformed speakers could get compensation from universities should be opposed by anyone seriously in favour of defending free speech. If you...

More than 120,000 ‘hate incidents' have been recorded by police in England and Wales under well-intended new legislation. But it's actually stopping some people from reporting crimes for fear of...

From using terms like ‘chestfeeding' to claiming campaigning against trans electoral candidates is transphobic, trans activism has changed from an earnest campaign for rights into a mission to replace evidence...

CONSTRUCTION Brad Meltzer has been promoted to chairman and chief executive officer at Plaza Construction in Miami. He was president of the firm. LAW Allison Jade Leonard has been promoted...

There's failing restaurant inspections, which is like getting an F on a test. There's passing inspections, which is akin to getting anything from a D- to an A. Then, there's...

Nearly a year after the COVID-19 pandemic began tossing people out of work, a circuit judge is again poised to consider a potential class-action lawsuit stemming from major problems in...

Developers have scrapped a plan to create a new retail hub in Doral in the former PepsiCo bottling plant. Instead, the 1960s Brutalist style theater and plant will become a...

The developer of a Florida City residential project is giving early buyers their money back. Construction costs have risen so much, according to Brickless Developers, that it is raising prices...

The Girl Scouts are in a “highly damaging” recruitment war with the Boy Scouts after the latter opened its core services to girls, leading to marketplace confusion and some girls...

Millions of people in the U.K. faced tough new coronavirus restrictions Saturday, with Scotland and Northern Ireland demanding tighter measures to try to halt a new variant of the virus...

The Texas Rangers have signed Japanese pitcher Kohei Arihara to a $6 million, two-year contract. The right-hander spent six years with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball....

Every afternoon, Dr. Thomas Moore, medical director of UC San Diego Health, meets with staff to review patient counts at its hospitals, the severity of cases and scheduled surgeries and...

A county board in central Illinois will decide next month whether to approve taller wind turbines despite some residents' concerns that the loftier structures would become eyesores. Piatt County's zoning...

Boeing says it is moving up its timeline to start assembling 787 Dreamliner jets in South Carolina in the spring. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports the company will...

Two companies that offer Mississippi River cruises can start making improvements to the waterfront in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The city's mayor and aldermen reached an agreement with a railway company Wednesday,...

Hungarian doctors and health care workers began getting vaccinated Saturday with one of the continent's first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, upsetting the European Union's plans for a coordinated...

Leaders in the Evansville area say they're expecting action in the coming year toward the construction of an Interstate 69 bridge over the Ohio River between Indiana and Kentucky. The...

LONDON — Tough new coronavirus restrictions have begun in the U.K. with Scotland and Northern Ireland under tighter measures to try to halt a new variant of the virus that...

Nearly two years after the overthrow of autocrat Omar al-Bashir, Sudan is taking steps to rejoin the international community from which it was long shunned. That includes its film industry....

A recreational vehicle parked in the deserted streets of downtown Nashville exploded early Christmas morning, causing widespread communications outages that took down police emergency systems and grounded holiday travel at...

The European Union and the United Kingdom made public Saturday the vast agreement that is likely to govern future trade and cooperation between them from Jan. 1, setting the 27-nation...

Beijing has urged residents not to leave the city during the Lunar New Year holiday in February, implementing new restrictions after several coronavirus infections last week. Two domestic cases were...

Corporations went headlong into performative wokeness this year, falling over themselves to embody the spirit of diversity and inclusion. They mostly succeeded in alienating customers and bringing down torrents of...

The Russian armed forces' modernization drive is in full swing, with multiple new weapons entering service and mass production in the coming year and beyond. Here's a look at some...

Burmese python may not be everyone's first food of choice for festive holiday fare — or second, third or fourth either. For starters, it's snake. Plus, because of potentially high...

For one of Orlando's barbecue kings, a lunch spot in a downtown tower next to City Hall was an easy sell: the smokey aromas lured crowds of hungry office workers...

Paul Dagostin pulled his pickup truck alongside the barn at the Bloss Farm in Hollenback Township last month to pick up nearly 600 gallons of raw milk for the Milkhouse...

South Korea had seemed to be winning the fight against the coronavirus: Quickly ramping up its testing, contact-tracing and quarantine efforts paid off when it weathered an early outbreak without...

New life has been breathed into the former Whitworth Inn in Flowery Branch. What was once a bed and breakfast is now a home where women struggling with addiction can...

Restaurant owners, who have seen their capacity and hours limited by government entities, are struggling to keep the doors open, while their staff, often in a very public-facing position, try...

PARIS — French health authorities have confirmed the country's first case of the virus variant that prompted strict new lockdown measures in Britain and global travel restrictions. A French man...

President Donald Trump spent his Christmas golfing in Florida as a government shutdown looms and COVID relief hangs in the balance. Trump, at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach for...