A Maine legislative committee has approved a proposal designed to protect patients from non-consensual pelvic exams. The Maine Legislature's Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services approved the proposal...
February 5, 2020
Barnes & Noble is withdrawing a planned line of famous literature reissued with multicultural cover images that has been met with widespread criticism on social media. "We acknowledge the voices...
February 5, 2020
The city of SeaTac will no longer issue exorbitant bills for free-speech demonstrations. An immigrant rights group called Families Belong Together-Washington Coalition sued SeaTac in 2018 after the city sent...
February 5, 2020
Coal mining in the top U.S. coal-producing region was down sharply at the end of 2019 compared to the year before. Coal production in the Powder River Basin of northeastern...
February 5, 2020
Recent editorials from Kentucky newspapers: ___ Feb. 4 The Somerset Commonwealth Journal on a Senate bill that would bring state childcare facilities in line with federal standards: We want to...
February 5, 2020
The Phoenix suburb of Peoria will be the testing ground for an autonomous shuttle service later this month. The Peoria City Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to fund a pilot...
February 5, 2020
Recent editorials from Louisiana newspapers: ___ Feb. 3 The Houma Courier on flu prevention: Health officials want you to know that while the coronavirus that started in China is new,...
February 5, 2020
Finland's female-dominated government unveiled a plan Wednesday to give both parents the same amount of fully paid parental leave in an effort to push dads in to take time off...
February 5, 2020
Recent editorials from North Carolina newspapers: ___ Jan. 31 The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer of Raleigh on the state's rate of black infant mortality: State programs and...
February 5, 2020
Recent editorials from West Virginia newspapers: ___ Feb. 4 The Martinsburg Journal on the next steps for a bill that would give businesses relief from property taxes: Regarding an important...
February 5, 2020
Recent editorials from Alabama newspapers: ___ Feb. 2 The Gadsden Times on the results of a new report on Alabama prisons: Gov. Kay Ivey's Study Group on Criminal Justice Policy,...
February 5, 2020
Frank Rhodes, a renowned pathologist who led the Ivy League's Cornell University for 18 years and oversaw a huge expansion in research funding, has died. He was 93. Rhodes died...
February 5, 2020
Six months after a 24-year-old man who'd reportedly exhibited disturbing behavior as a teenager gunned down nine people in Dayton, the Ohio Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether...
February 5, 2020
An accountant who didn't report $3.7 million in income he earned over a three-year period has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison. Louis Picardo, 64,...
February 5, 2020
Three suspensions and a disciplinary revocation taken to the next level comprise South Florida's representation on the Florida Bar's monthly report of attorneys disciplined by the Florida Supreme Court. In...
February 5, 2020
Pete Rose again asked Major League Baseball to end his lifetime ban, saying the penalty is unfair compared with discipline for steroids use and electronic sign stealing. Rose's lawyers submitted...
February 5, 2020
Facebook has agreed to shutter the public page of a group the administration has identified as anti-Semitic, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday. Murphy, a Democrat, said in a...
February 5, 2020
An Idaho lawmaker wants his colleagues to take a closer look at ways to improve air travel across the state. Currently no airports in Idaho — including the largest, in...
February 5, 2020
Donald Trump supporters cheered Wednesday as Karen Pence returned to the Indiana Statehouse where her husband used to be governor to file paperwork putting Trump's name on the state's presidential...
February 5, 2020
An election watchdog has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over a $150,000 donation to a Super PAC that has spent money in support of Republican Sen. Susan...
February 5, 2020
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said Wednesday that she will wait to make a decision about legalized gambling as a revenue source, including a tribe's push for a compact, until she...
February 5, 2020
First-time parents in New York City will be entitled to up to six home visits from a health care or social services professional under a program announced Wednesday. The $43...
February 5, 2020
Steven Woodrow, an attorney and Democratic activist, has been chosen to serve out the term of former Denver state Rep. Chris Hansen, who has taken a Senate seat. Colorado Politics...
February 5, 2020
Alaska highway officials are looking for mechanics and using department assets to find them. Electronic message boards set up along roads around Anchorage are displaying help-wanted messages calling for heavy...
February 5, 2020
A major Spanish hotel chain said Wednesday that the U.S. State Department informed the CEO he is barred from entering the United States because of his company's business interests in...
February 5, 2020
Republican leaders of the Wisconsin Legislature said Wednesday that they are looking at using some of a state surplus to cut income and property taxes while also paying down debt,...
February 5, 2020
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is emphasizing the need to reduce violent crime in Baltimore in his State of the State speech to the Maryland General Assembly on Wednesday, calling it...
February 5, 2020
Georgia's lawmakers will take an unscheduled break and use the time to try to patch up the state's ailing budget. House and Senate leaders announced Wednesday that the chambers will...
February 5, 2020
In an effort to celebrate Black History Month, and in a push for ethnic inclusiveness, book publisher Penguin Random House and retailer Barnes and Noble are turning white literary characters...
February 5, 2020
U.S. services companies grew at a slightly faster pace in January than the previous month, an indicator of continued steady expansion of the economy. The Institute for Supply Management said...
February 5, 2020
The CEO of Microsoft's LinkedIn business is being replaced by its product executive. Jeff Weiner will become executive chairman after 11 years as CEO of LinkedIn, a social networking service...
February 5, 2020
An unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from California early Wednesday on a test flight to a target in the Pacific Ocean, the Air Force Global Strike Command...
February 5, 2020
A New York man who spent 17 years in prison for the murders of his parents before his conviction was thrown out is expected to be sworn in as a...
February 5, 2020
L.L. Bean is eliminating 200 jobs across the company and closing its call center in Maine's second-largest city as part of a reorganization. The outdoor retailer's job cuts will occur...
February 5, 2020
Vice President Mike Pence is making a swing through Pennsylvania on Wednesday to tout the Trump administration's support for funding tuition for private school students and, on the campaign side,...
February 5, 2020
The US has deployed “low-yield” nuclear missiles on submarines, saying it's to discourage nuclear conflict with Russia. The move is based on a “Russian strategy” made up in Washington and...
February 5, 2020
Michigan's top insurance regulator said the state is committed to helping drivers navigate a new law that will let motorists save money by foregoing unlimited medical coverage for crash injuries....
February 5, 2020
A retired Norwegian border inspector, who was convicted in Russia for spying and who was returned home last year in a spy swap, lashed out Wednesday at the Scandinavian country's...
February 5, 2020
Ten people aboard a quarantined cruise ship run by Doral-based Carnival have tested positive for coronavirus, including one American. One Filipino crew member, two Australian passengers, three Japanese passengers, one...
February 5, 2020
Grain futures were mostly lower Wednesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Mar. delivery was fell .80 cent at $5.5940 a bushel; Mar. corn lost...
