St. Louis manager Mike Shildt described technology's rapid encroachment on baseball in recent years as ethically murky, expressing his satisfaction in Commissioner Rob Manfred's intention to cut down the use...
February 17, 2020
Owen Bieber, who led the United Auto Workers union from the auto industry's dark days of the early 1980s to the prosperity of the mid-1990s, has died. He was 90....
February 17, 2020
Britain's chief negotiator on Monday set out a clashing course in trade talks with the European Union, saying the 27-nation bloc has totally missed the point of Brexit if it...
February 17, 2020
The scrapping by the Philippines of a military partnership with the US occurs with rather embarrassing timing for Washington, as it seeks to rally its allies to adopt America's hostile...
February 17, 2020
In this post-impeachment era of divisiveness and deadlock in the nation's capital, Uncle Sam has a message for top U.S. technologists: I Still Want You. A Washington-based nerd strike force...
February 17, 2020
A freshman congressman from North Dakota who spent much of his first term defending President Donald Trump during impeachment hearings said Monday he wants to return to Washington and begin...
February 17, 2020
A so-far elusive deal to reunite Cyprus would mean more money in pockets on both sides of the ethnically divided island, a World Bank and U.N.-funded report said Monday. Presenting...
February 17, 2020
The West Virginia Senate on Monday passed a bill to give pay raises to judges statewide. The bill passed on a 29-3 vote. It now goes to the House of...
February 17, 2020
The ACLU, once the flagship US civil liberties organization, has abandoned its post right when it's most needed. Unlike other groups that have sold out for political expediency, it can't...
February 17, 2020
International donors have committed over a billlion euros in relief for Albania in the wake of last year's earthquake. The European Union led the pledging of aid at a special...
February 17, 2020
The demand for parking at the airport has declined with the rise of Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing services, Atlanta airport officials say. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is shelving plans...
February 17, 2020
Home goods retailer Pier 1 Imports Inc. said Monday that it has filed for bankruptcy protection. The Fort Worth, Texas-based company, which was founded in 1962, has been struggling with...
February 17, 2020
No NATO ally should succumb to the temptation of letting Chinese tech giant Huawei into their next-generation cellular networks, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday at Allied headquarters, turning...
February 17, 2020
Sugarbush Resort hosting a panel discussion on climate change and other related challenges to the ski and snow sport industries. The free open forum is being held on Saturday, Feb....
February 17, 2020
Experts say the big one is coming to the Pacific Northwest: a massive earthquake that will cause buildings and bridges to collapse and unleash a tsunami that will devastate the...
February 17, 2020
A fire that started Monday morning at a Citgo refinery in a South Texas city is under control and air-quality monitoring suggests it is safe for residents to leave their...
February 17, 2020
A group of students at Yale University has set up a drone delivery service on campus. Kiki Air promises to deliver candy, snacks and other small items to students who...
February 17, 2020
For decades, the Uighur imam was a bedrock of his farming community in China's far west. On Fridays, he preached Islam as a religion of peace. On Sundays, he treated...
February 17, 2020
Teams of Russian agents have been dispatched to Ireland to map undersea fiber-optic cables, with a view to “cutting communications in time of conflict.” A damning indictment that sounds suspiciously...
February 17, 2020
The Port of South Louisiana is receiving a $13.4 million federal transportation grant that it will use to upgrade its industrial park and allow it to carry heavier cargo. The...
February 17, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was under pressure Monday to fire an adviser who has linked intelligence to race and suggested contraception should be made compulsory to avoid “a permanent...
February 17, 2020
Republican lawmakers are set to begin a last-minute push to pass a $250 million income tax cut plan Monday with a public hearing and vote in the Legislature's powerful finance...
February 17, 2020
Authorities say a worker at a New Jersey mall was seriously injured in a 30-foot fall from the roof over the weekend. Roxbury police were dispatched to the Ledgewood Mall...
February 17, 2020
The French love an outre liberal cause, until the point comes when that cause makes them look un petit fou – as their recent infatuation with anti-Kremlin artist-activist Pyotr Pavlensky...
February 17, 2020
A public meeting has been scheduled to gather input on the master plan for Rhode Island's main airport. The Rhode Island Airport Corporation plans to hold a master plan open...
February 17, 2020
New Hampshire has been chosen as the site of a new public-private partnership focused on biotechnology. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is launching the nation's first Foundry...
February 17, 2020
Britain issued severe flood alerts Monday, warning of life-threatening danger after Storm Dennis dumped weeks' worth of rain in some places. One woman swept away by the floodwaters was feared...
February 17, 2020
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met top European Union officials on a visit to Brussels on Monday, days before the bloc is expected to release new proposals on regulating artificial intelligence....
February 17, 2020
After the first round of major Powder River Basin coal layoffs and bankruptcies in 2015 and 2016, the buzzworthy response was Wyoming and Campbell County would have to adjust to...
February 17, 2020
Omaha World Herald. February 13, 2020 The Nebraska Legislature has important oversight responsibilities The Legislature's oversight of state agencies has proven valuable in the past, and a proposal for a...
February 17, 2020
The Des Moines Register. February 13, 2020 Uphold abortion rights: Amendments to Iowa Constitution should extend, not deny, rights to people Republican lawmakers and governors have worked hard the past...
February 17, 2020
Indiana State University's trustees will consider a proposal to add electronic cigarettes to the western Indiana school's ban on tobacco-related products. The Terre Haute campus is largely tobacco free under...
February 17, 2020
The Atlanta Braves extended the contracts of manager Brian Snitker and general manager Alex Anthopoulos on Monday. Anthopoulos also was given an additional title of president, baseball operations, while his...
February 17, 2020
One in a series of stories about the future of the dairy industry from Farm and Dairy newspaper. ___ Go big or go out of business. That was Sonny Perdue's...
February 17, 2020
Hurricane Harvey's historic flooding in 2017 overwhelmed power systems at Arkema Inc.'s chemical plant in suburban Houston, eventually causing organic peroxides made at the facility to catch fire and explode,...
February 17, 2020
Gas prices are going up nationwide, but not in northern New England. The lastest GasBuddy.com survey shows Maine gas prices falling half a cent per gallon the last week to...
February 17, 2020
South Dakota lawmakers said they would turn their focus to the state budget this week as they hit the halfway mark in the 2020 session, though Republicans and Democrats laid...
February 17, 2020
New York retailers have begun giving up single-use plastic bags as the state prepares for the March 1 implementation of a ban aimed at reducing pollution, but many of those...
February 17, 2020
Debate over a referendum aimed at nullifying a Maine law that eliminates religious and philosophical exemptions for childhood vaccinations is intensifying during the countdown to a statewide vote. A group...
February 17, 2020
The Detroit News. February 13, 2020 Whitmer not above Michigan's reading law In her response to the State of the Union address last week, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer used a favorite...
