Politics

The New York Knicks hired Leon Rose as their president Monday, hoping the longtime player agent can be just as successful as an executive. Rose is taking over what has...

Across Africa, steps are being taken to prepare for — and to reduce the effects of — the spread of the new coronavirus. Testing laboratories are being supplied, quarantine and...

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal of the federal ban on bump stocks, devices that allow semi-automatic firearms to fire rapidly like machine guns. The justices declined to...

Jack Welch, who transformed General Electric Co. into a highly profitable multinational conglomerate and parlayed his legendary business acumen into a retirement career as a corporate leadership guru, has died....

A West Virginia man has pleaded guilty to orchestrating a scheme that defrauded Toyota of more than $4.3 million. Stanley Clark admitted to fraudulently administering repurchasing transactions at Love Lexus...

Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street following a seven-day rout brought on by worries that the spreading coronavirus outbreak will stunt the global economy. Markets in Asia ended mostly...

The Detroit News. February 29, 2020 Want to help Detroiters? Slash property tax rate. As Detroit leaders seek to rectify the overtaxation of homeowners by roughly $600 million, they are...

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide a lawsuit that threatens the Obama-era health care law, but the decision is not likely until after the 2020 election. The court said...

Authorities are investigating a weekend fire that occurred in the control tower at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The Charlotte Observer reported that the blaze occurred Saturday morning. Airport officials said...

Des Moines Register. March 1, 2020 An Iowa Senate bill would not allow restoration of voting rights until felons have paid restitution to victims. A court has struck down a...

Worries about a new virus first detected in China that's infected tens of thousands of people globally are making a mark on the economy of a nine-state region in the...

A fast-moving fire roared through a northern New Jersey trucking center, severely damaging the building and injuring a firefighter. The fire broke out around 11 p.m. Sunday in a rear...

The European Commission has opened an investigation into whether a 400 million-euro ($440 million) loan from the Italian government to airline Alitalia breached state aid rules. The EU's executive arm...

Gas prices have dropped a little in northern New England. The latest GasBuddy.com survey shows Vermont gas prices fell 5.1 cents per gallon in the last week, to an average...

Molson Coors employees were returning to work Monday at the Milwaukee brewery where a worker last week fatally shot five co-workers and then himself. Employees will find heightened security measures,...

Security operations at Detroit's downtown convention center are being reorganized to improve safety at the sprawling venue. The TCF Center's in-house security staff scheduling has been expanded to three shifts,...

A dispute over a large hog farm in northern Indiana is getting nasty. Yard signs opposing the Miami County farm were removed and then returned with obscenities painted on them,...

Major travel disruptions due to the new coronavirus have already caused the equivalent of a roughly $100 million loss to airlines in the Middle East, which serves as a connection...

The second season of Netflix series ‘Altered Carbon' seems to have received an upgrade in quality from season one. But to claim it's all about diversity is to downplay the...

Gilead Sciences is buying the cancer treatment company Forty Seven in a deal valued at approximately $4.9 billion. Gilead, based in Foster City, California, will pay $95.50 for each Forty...

The new virus is entering new territories, from megacities to seaside villages, and casting a fast-growing shadow over the world economy. Here's a look at some of the latest developments:...

The real estate community in Miami kicks off the first week of March with a calendar filled with events. Here are a handful you wouldn't want to miss: Key to...

In last week's Business Monday section, land-use lawyer and lobbyist Neisen Kasdin argued that “Gentrification is good. The opposite of gentrification is stagnation and decline.” Mr. Kasdin argues that “the...

A Wynwood ice cream shop owner poured his life savings into his dream of scooping homemade flavors only to see customers siphoned off by a food truck operating illegally nearby....

The CEO of wireless networks company Nokia is stepping down from the post and will be succeeded by an energy executive. The company announced Monday that Pekka Lundmark will take...

The coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy has so overwhelmed the public health system there that officials are taking extraordinary measures to care for the sick, seeking to bring doctors out...

Miami's Wynwood district is experiencing growing pains as the arts and entertainment neighborhood evolves. As new residents, office workers and businesses move in, complaints about noise, loud music, large crowds...

Another big football game is coming to Miami. And like the Super Bowl, it's drawing interest from city governments willing to swap taxpayer money and waive rental fees for the...

ADVISOR MELISSA KRINZMAN Melissa Krinzman is managing partner of Krillion Ventures, a $50 million Miami-based venture capital firm that invests in seed and early-stage technology companies in the financial services,...

Daniel Revilla, Lloyd's of London's regional president for Latin America and the Caribbean, jokes that his current address could be “on a plane.” That because he's commuting between his current...

That was quick. Within months of winning the fintech vertical in the 2019 Miami Herald Startup Pitch Competition, Miami-based Digital SPV was in talks to be acquired by a leading...

Japan's deputy justice minister met top officials in Lebanon Monday over the case of former Nissan's fugitive ex-boss Carlos Ghosn who fled to his home country late last year while...

A global agency says the spreading new virus could make the world economy shrink this quarter, for the first time since the international financial crisis more than a decade ago....

Toy grocery carts usually aren't thought of as dangerous to children. But that's why three models of the Step 2 Little Helper's children's grocery shopping carts, 20,000 of them in...

Eight West Virginia health centers will receive almost $13.5 million from the federal government, the state's two U.S. senators announced. The funding is from the U.S. Department of Health and...

A measure to expand the sales tax to cover most professional services in Maryland is scheduled for a hearing before state lawmakers. Business representatives have scheduled a news conference on...

Philippine police on Monday surrounded a shopping mall in an upscale section of Manila after a recently dismissed security guard opened fire and took dozens of people hostage, an official...

By the end of the year, Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn expects to start production at a brand-new liquid crystal display manufacturing plant in southeast Wisconsin. The million-square-foot building's outline is...

The streaming TV revolution has come to this: Even the cable companies are cutting the cord. AT&T, the second largest pay-TV provider behind Comcast, is launching a nationwide live TV...

AT&T's long-anticipated AT&T TV streaming product is going public beginning Monday after several months of piloting the service in 13 test markets. AT&T TV packages start at $49.99 a month...