Lawmakers in the Kentucky House approved a bill to loan $35 million to the University of Louisville to support its acquisition of a health care system which includes a hospital....
February 13, 2020
Commercial aircraft maker Airbus lost 1.36 billion euros ($1.48 billion) in 2019 because of a multibillion-euro bribery settlement with authorities in three countries, but otherwise saw a record year of...
February 13, 2020
Cesar Awards, the French equivalent of the Oscars, has promised to make sweeping changes to increase gender parity and “diversity”, after a #MeToo outcry sparked by 12 nominations for Roman...
February 13, 2020
Fear. Surprising moments of levity. Soul-crushing boredom. Life on the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship quarantined in a Japanese port with scores of cases of a new virus, means experiencing...
February 13, 2020
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will testify Thursday before a German parliamentary committee investigating whether there was wrongdoing in the use of external experts during her time as...
February 13, 2020
While some basketball purists are skeptical about this year's new format for the NBA All-Star Game, the changes have curiosity brewing within the betting industry. This year the league's annual...
February 13, 2020
Interstate fishing regulators are holding a series of public hearings in March about plans to try to better manage the fishery for Atlantic herring. Herring are the subject of a...
February 13, 2020
New Orleans news outlets were set to argue Thursday for an open hearing on the confidentiality of emails between Roman Catholic officials and the city's NFL franchise concerning clergy sex-abuse...
February 13, 2020
Countries in the Indo-Pacific region are beginning to take a stand against Chinese attempts to manipulate them through debt-trap diplomacy, coercion and bullying, a senior U.S. naval commander said Thursday....
February 13, 2020
Some of President Donald Trump's top foreign policy priorities stand at pivotal moments as two high-level national security officials head to an annual security forum in Germany. Strains in the...
February 13, 2020
The Navajo Nation has filed to intervene in a rate case for one of Arizona's largest utilities as it seeks ways to make up for the loss of coal revenue...
February 13, 2020
Scientists and experts in New Mexico will share more than $441,000 in federal grant funding to develop tools that can be used to better inform water management decisions in the...
February 13, 2020
With Colombian military snipers in position, Howard Buffet descends from a helicopter and trudges through the wet grass in steel-toe boots chewed through by his dog's teeth. Waiting under a...
February 13, 2020
Sixty-four cars and SUVs sold in the U.S. earned Top Safety Pick awards from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The 2020 model year vehicles perform well in crash tests...
February 13, 2020
One of President Donald Trump's nominees for the Federal Reserve will likely face skeptical questioning from a Senate committee Thursday over her unconventional economic views. Trump has nominated Judy Shelton...
February 13, 2020
I have personal reasons to be elated with the 11-year-sentencing of the UN-designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday – though like most self-gratifying moments, I could be...
February 13, 2020
A New Mexico Senate committee led by a marijuana-legalization skeptic was scheduled to begin deliberations Wednesday evening on a bill that would authorize sales and taxation of recreational marijuana. The...
February 13, 2020
Almost one in three American workers can't quite make ends meet in between paydays, a new survey has revealed. This doesn't bode well for the US' service economy, where discretionary...
February 13, 2020
The Department of Justice and Utah State University have agreed to a series of guidelines following a three-year investigation into the school's alleged mishandling of sexual assault cases on campus....
February 13, 2020
Nevada Supreme Court justices are considering whether lawyers for the Legislature can defend Democratic lawmakers in a lawsuit filed by Republican colleagues. Chief Justice Kristina Pickering promised Tuesday that the...
February 13, 2020
The dean of the engineering school at the University of Maryland has been named the school's next president, officials announced Wednesday. A news release from the University System of Maryland...
February 13, 2020
Texas oil and ranching heiress Anne Marion, who founded the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has died. She was 81. Cody Hartley, director of the O'Keeffe museum,...
February 13, 2020
Urged to reduce Medicaid bureaucracy, the Kentucky Senate passed a bill Wednesday to limit the number of managed care organizations hired by the state to run its massive Medicaid program....
February 13, 2020
At the height of the 2008 economic collapse, then-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the elimination of a discriminatory housing practice known as “redlining” was responsible for instigating the meltdown....
February 13, 2020
Puerto Rico's government has lost more than $2.6 million after falling for an email phishing scam, according to a senior official. The finance director of the island's Industrial Development Company,...
February 12, 2020
Six employees of the Kansas City public works department admitted they conspired over three years to collect about $58,000 in overtime pay they had not earned. When the city receives...
February 12, 2020
Outraged Tennessee lawmakers grilled state education officials Wednesday about the handling of a much-debated school voucher program, and a key Republican lawmaker made a surprise admission that he regretted voted...
February 12, 2020
A state legislator is working to ban noncompete agreements for physicians in Minnesota. Democratic State Rep. Alice Mann, who is also a doctor, plans to reintroduce a bill during the...
February 12, 2020
Jim Murren, the head of casino giant MGM Resorts International, says he'll step down as chairman and chief executive as soon as the company finds a successor. Murren has led...
February 12, 2020
Members of New Mexico's congressional delegation on Wednesday demanded the U.S. Defense Department help with drinking water cleanup in eastern New Mexico after traces of a cancer-causing pollutant were found...
February 12, 2020
A North Dakota artist said Wednesday he has scrapped his plans for a mural honoring Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg following boycott threats against a Bismarck business that would have...
February 12, 2020
Google and a dodgy “election security” nonprofit are reaching out to Democratic campaigns with free security tools, even offering to activate them. After the Iowa debacle, campaigns should be wary...
February 12, 2020
He's disappeared from Twitter, his last Instagram post was eight months ago, and his acting and singing careers appear to be at a standstill. Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett has...
February 12, 2020
Fernando Tatis Jr. will continue to make his diving, spinning moves at shortstop rather than in center field, rookie San Diego Padres manager Jayce Tingler said Wednesday. Tingler said he...
February 12, 2020
NASA's new record-setting astronaut said Wednesday that aside from sore muscles and trouble with balance, she's readjusting well to gravity after nearly 11 months in space. Christina Koch met with...
February 12, 2020
—- Virus worries force cancellation of major tech show in Spain LONDON (AP) — Organizers of the world's biggest mobile technology fair are pulling the plug over worries about the...
February 12, 2020
The Arizona Senate has passed a bill designed to boost protections for firefighters and other first responders who are diagnosed with cancers linked to the workplace. The proposal from Republican...
February 12, 2020
Inside the Capitol, it's as if the impeachment of President Donald Trump never happened. One week after the historic undertaking shuttered to a close, Congress is feverishly back at work...
February 12, 2020
Arizona cities and counties would not be allowed to ban new natural gas hookups under legislation moving through the Arizona Legislature, an effort to prevent the spread here of gas...
February 12, 2020
Bernie Sanders is in talks with the Democratic National Committee to headline the first of two party fundraisers, where he will likely appear before the same big-dollar donors that he...
