The 75th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden should force us to understand that, unfortunately, as the Roman statesman Cicero said, “In war, the law falls silent.” Dresden is like...
February 13, 2020
A Spanish court ruled Thursday that a former head of Mexico's state oil company must remain in custody while an extradition case is heard against him. A judge ruled that...
February 13, 2020
The Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma would not be allowed to expand under a bill that the state House of Representatives approved Wednesday. The News Tribune reports if it becomes...
February 13, 2020
An Alabama school system called off classes Thursday because flooding affected its public water supply, and officials asked residents to conserve water. Hartselle schools canceled for the day because water...
February 13, 2020
President Donald Trump's nominee to the Federal Reserve touted her credentials in written testimony Thursday and said she would “work collegially” if approved. Judy Shelton, a former adviser to Trump's...
February 13, 2020
American Airlines and Alaska Airlines say they will cooperate more closely on West Coast service, including new American flights from Seattle to India's technology hub in Bangalore. The airlines already...
February 13, 2020
A court in Moscow fined Twitter and Facebook 4 million rubles each Thursday for refusing to store the personal data of Russian citizens on servers in Russia, the largest penalties...
February 13, 2020
The International Energy Agency expects demand for oil to fall in the first quarter as a result of the virus outbreak that emanated in China. Any fall would represent the...
February 13, 2020
Here comes Presidents Day, a time to celebrate Lincoln and Roosevelt — and blowout mattress sales. These holiday-weekend bargains can be a smart opportunity to shop for a mattress if...
February 13, 2020
U.S. consumer prices rose modestly last month, weighed down by falling gasoline prices. The Labor Department said Thursday that its consumer price index blipped up 0.1% in January after rising...
February 13, 2020
Four nonprofits filed a joint lawsuit Tuesday against the state Department of Fish & Wildlife for issuing a permit for steelhead farms in the marine waters of Skagit and Kitsap...
February 13, 2020
A jury has awarded more than $10 million to a man who was seriously hurt when an Amtrak train derailed between Tacoma and Olympia in 2017. Donnell Linton, 47 of...
February 13, 2020
A hazardous materials team responded to a pharmaceutical chemical plant in Massachusetts on Thursday morning after firefighters reported hearing several explosions in the building, authorities said. Firefighters responding to a...
February 13, 2020
Showfields, the U.K.-based retail chain that bridges the gap between brick-and-mortar stores and online vendors, is opening its second U.S. location on Lincoln Road in May. The two-story, 14,300 square-foot...
February 13, 2020
The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined two companies for safety violations that led to the deaths of two workers at a Portland area music festival. OSHA issued...
February 13, 2020
Lebanon's finance minister said Thursday the country's new government is weighing whether to pay or default on its $1.2 billion Eurobond maturing next month, amid an economic crisis that has...
February 13, 2020
What's inside the frame and what's outside of it are electrifyingly synonymous in French filmmaker Céline Sciamma's “Portrait of a Lady on Fire.” It's a sumptuous period romance set in...
February 13, 2020
The European Union warned Thursday that the spread of the viral outbreak in China is a risk for the economy but that its full impact will depend on how long...
February 13, 2020
The publisher of the Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star and dozens of newspapers across the country is filing for bankruptcy protection. McClatchy Co. said Thursday that it will continue...
February 13, 2020
The gradual redevelopment of central Overtown, the long-neglected heart of Miami's original black neighborhood, will take a giant leap forward with the planned construction of a $350 million mega-project anchored...
February 13, 2020
The number of cruise passengers in South Florida grew in 2019 continuing a five-year upward trend. That means a boost for hotel development and room rates, too. PortMiami had 6.7...
February 13, 2020
Office space development in Wynwood keeps growing, but some South Florida brokers are struggling to find tenants to fill the new inventory. The ongoing construction is to blame for the...
February 13, 2020
Organizers of the world's biggest mobile technology fair say the cost of cancelling the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) is not yet known and that the motivation behind the decision...
February 13, 2020
Organizers of the world's biggest mobile technology fair say the cost of cancelling the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) is not yet known and that the motivation behind the decision...
February 13, 2020
How's your 401(k) doing? President Donald Trump likes to ask that question around the country, sometimes throwing out big gains like 90% or 95%. The average 401(k) did indeed hit...
February 13, 2020
Los Angeles County prosecutors are joining other district attorneys to use technology to wipe out or reduce as many as 66,000 old marijuana convictions years after California voters broadly legalized...
February 13, 2020
CEOs were asked: How did you approach holiday spending/giving? What has made it different from previous ones? == The vast majority of our annual giving is done through the Ansin...
February 13, 2020
Miami has seen close to 2 million electric scooter rides since it began tracking them last April. For Commissioner Ken Russell, the figure is a sign of the extraordinary demand...
February 13, 2020
A Danish appeals court on Thursday increased the fines given to a major newspaper group and its chief editor for publishing a book based on interviews with Denmark's former domestic...
February 13, 2020
The revelation that the CIA (and German Intelligence) was in secret control of the Swiss cryptography firm Crypto AG highlights the hypocrisy of US ‘security concerns‘ over the advance of...
February 13, 2020
China's auto sales plunged in January, deepening a painful downturn in the industry's biggest global market and adding to economic pressures as the country fights a virus outbreak. Sales of...
February 13, 2020
Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday said he's starting to form a rural medicine task force after cutbacks were announced at yet another West Virginia hospital. The Republican governor said Pleasant...
February 13, 2020
Nissan, reeling from a scandal over its former superstar executive Carlos Ghosn, sank into red ink in the latest quarter as its vehicle sales fell around the world, and the...
February 13, 2020
Britain's financial watchdog is investigating whether Barclays chief executive Jes Staley disclosed full details of his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the bank said Thursday. The...
February 13, 2020
Asian shares were mostly lower Thursday as reported cases of the new virus jumped in China. The Shanghai Composite declined 0.7% to 2,906.07 in afternoon trading. Hong Kong's Hang Seng...
February 13, 2020
Air so foul it is hard to take a deep breath. Toxic chemicals seeping into the earth. Mothers giving birth to disabled children. These are the suspected effects of the...
February 13, 2020
European Union health ministers were holding an emergency meeting Thursday on how to prevent the COVID-19 virus from further spreading across Europe. Ministers from the bloc's 27 member states gather...
February 13, 2020
France's government calculates that the deadly virus outbreak in China will shave at least 1 percentage point off the growth this year of the world's second largest economy, hurting global...
February 13, 2020
A German businessman has been arrested on suspicion of delivering machinery to the Russian military in violation of European Union sanctions against the country, prosecutors said Thursday. The suspect, the...
February 13, 2020
The Sacramento Kings and Intel announced plans Thursday for the NBA's first research and development site devoted to finding new ways for fans to access replay angles never seen before....
