A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday seeks to force Los Angeles officials to provide thousands of shelter beds in an effort to stem what it described as the unfolding “human tragedy”...

A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday seeks to force Los Angeles officials to provide thousands of shelter beds in an effort to stem what it described as the unfolding “human tragedy”...
Such is the clamor around the PGA Tour that Commissioner Jay Monahan spoke for 45 minutes Tuesday before anyone mentioned Tiger Woods. If it's not the proposed Premier Golf League,...
Yes — in part — to teacher pay raises. No to many proposed cuts to programs. The Georgia House on Tuesday passed its version of the state's 2021 budget, a...
Seven weeks after the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the U.S., the spread of the virus that causes the disease has done widespread damage to critical economic sectors...
Here's a rundown of coronavirus-related developments in Massachusetts, as the number of people in the state who have tested positive for the virus stands at 92: STATE OF EMERGENCY Gov....
The Latest on the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries (all times local): 4:25 p.m. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is canceling a scheduled rally in Cleveland amid concerns over the spread...
Immigrant rights groups want U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release detainees at its Washington state jail who are at high risk from the coronavirus. In a letter sent to...
South Carolina senators are wasting little time in bringing together their plan to remake state-owned utility Santee Cooper. A subcommittee spent about an hour Tuesday creating a framework of what...
Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed his tightly guarded political plans Tuesday and supported a constitutional amendment that would allow him to seek reelection in 2024 by restarting the term count....
South Carolina House Democrats warned their Republican colleagues who killed proposals Tuesday to give state employees an across-the-board raise that they are going to keep losing good workers. They also...
Former Los Angeles Sparks general manager Penny Toler is suing the WNBA team saying she was fired for raising complaints about inappropriate sexual relationships involving the team president and a...
Kentucky's nursing homes should severely restrict visitors to combat the new coronavirus from spreading to a vulnerable population, Gov. Andy Beshear said Tuesday. Those restrictions will take effect at state-run...
As panic over coronavirus spreads, we have to make the ultimate choice – either we enact the most brutal logic of the survival of the fittest or some kind of...
The House of Representatives by voice vote approved legislation Tuesday to have the comptroller general of the U.S. study baseball's minor leagues, which are trying to fend off a contraction...
The Legislature has approved a measure that would make Washington the 20th state to not tax feminine hygiene products. The measure passed the House Tuesday on a 95-2 vote and...
The spread of the new coronavirus has stoked worries about Florida's economy, prompting lawmakers to rethink spending on big-ticket items as negotiations continue over the state budget. Legislative leaders voiced...
The U.S. Soccer Federation says facing hostile crowds in Mexico and Central America and makes playing for the U.S. men's national team a different job than competing for the American...
Five more people in Georgia have tested positive for COVID-19, as disease fears spread to school districts and the Georgia Capitol. A total of 17 people in the state have...
In an end run around Republican legislators, Oregon's Democratic governor ordered the state on Tuesday to lower greenhouse gas emissions, directing a state agency to set and enforce caps on...
The wife and 3-year-old child of a Texas man found to have the new coronavirus following a trip to California have also tested positive, health officials said Tuesday. Texas has...
More than a dozen pesticide sprayers in Washington state have stopped working over lack of fair wages and working conditions. United Farm Workers and several Evans Fruit employees in Sunnyside...
Whilst China's draconian measures, harshly criticized by the western media, are beating the coronavirus, Britain is importing it. We can't possibly hope to defeat the virus with insecure borders. My...
Pacific Gas & Electric told a federal bankruptcy judge that it has settled a dispute with disaster-relief agencies that threatened to siphon money away from a $13.5 billion fund earmarked...
Passengers on the Caribbean Princess cruise ship cheered Tuesday as the captain said over the loudspeaker that the ship has been cleared by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared a state emergency Tuesday due to the coronavirus and his administration urged people over age 65 and medically fragile residents to avoid large gatherings....
With just over two weeks until baseball's opening day, Texas Rangers catcher Robinson Chirinos says he's “a little bit” concerned about traveling to Seattle with Washington state having the worst...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced eight new agreements with parties responsible for cleaning up the Portland Harbor Superfund Site on the Willamette River. The agency said it has...
When picking a name for their Asian-Mexican fusion restaurant in suburban Phoenix, Paul and Nicole Fan settled on “Panda Libre,” hoping the mix of China's iconic bear and the Spanish...
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday outlined a list of requirements for long-term care facilities aimed at helping to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, including placing limits on...
The deadline for applying franchise and transition tags to free agents has been moved from Thursday to Monday by the league and the players' union. With the NFL Players Association's...
This is a developing story and will be updated. Trading in Carnival Corp., Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. was halted Tuesday after shares rose too...
The German agribusiness giant Bayer AG has temporarily closed two locations in Missouri and two in New Jersey due to concerns that an employee may have contracted the new coronavirus....
Will gas prices drop to under $2 a gallon? It's possible it could happen later this week for the first time in four years. Coronavirus has led to lower global...
The number of Pennsylvania state government employees who make at least six figures currently includes nearly 10,000 workers, according to a Pennlive.com report published Tuesday. There were 9,751 state employees...
The Latest on the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries (all times local): 11:35 a.m. Joe Biden has faced down a pro-gun worker in a testy exchange over his plan to reinstate...
The third chief executive of Wells Fargo in four years appeared in front of Congress on Tuesday, saying that there's much the bank needs to do to fix its cultural...
Grim-faced, visibly grief-stricken, some crying, hundreds of family members gathered Tuesday for a memorial service at the site where one year ago an Ethiopian Airlines jet crashed into the rocky...
The Florida Supreme Court's suspension of Coral Gables attorney Mark Scott, following November's fraud conviction in Manahattan federal court, began Wednesday. Neither length, Scott's suspension nor his sentence, has been...
The 20-something college student didn't know she had the new coronavirus as she flew home from a study abroad program in Italy, landing at one of the nation's busiest airports....
President Nixon referred to the peace accords ending the Vietnam War as “peace with honor;” what President Trump is doing in Afghanistan is gearing up to become the same –...