Fox will find out soon whether “The Masked Singer” benefits from the best time slot in television. A new episode of the game, usually Fox's most popular prime-time program or...
February 4, 2020
A new Maryland bill would ask the state's Department of Information Technology to develop a baseline plan for localities within the state to help battle cyber attacks. Senate bill 120,...
February 4, 2020
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is removing a portion of a former wood-treatment facility in Montana from its list of Superfund sites, despite concerns. The agency and...
February 4, 2020
Ford Motor Co.'s profit last year plunged by more than $3.6 billion, weighed down by slowing U.S. sales, the cost of a botched SUV launch and some big pension expenses....
February 4, 2020
Best Buy said Tuesday that CEO Corie Barry will continue to lead the company after its board completed an investigation into allegations against her in an anonymous letter. The company...
February 4, 2020
Demand is still high for hotels in Miami Beach, say the new buyers of the Shelborne South Beach. And it's all thanks to growing room rates. The New York-based real...
February 4, 2020
A Birmingham-area roofing company was fined $15,000 over the death of a 15-year-old worker who was killed in a fall, the Alabama Department of Labor said Tuesday. The agency announced...
February 4, 2020
Would-be plotters bent on staging an attack aboard a passenger plane know they've first got to pass through a gauntlet of security measures at an airport, from body scans and...
February 4, 2020
The Arizona Senate voted unanimously Tuesday to require doctors and medical students to get explicit consent before performing pelvic exams on women under anesthesia. The approval puts Arizona a step...
February 4, 2020
A co-founder of Dragon Con has reached a plea deal in a case that accused him and three others, including a judge, of illegally accessing a Georgia courthouse computer network....
February 4, 2020
Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Tuesday, led by big gains in technology companies. The rally gave the S&P 500 its best gain since early August and drove the...
February 4, 2020
A Creswell woman accused of neglecting 61 horses boarded at her facility has been sentenced to five years of probation, can no longer board horses and must pay restitution for...
February 4, 2020
New Mexico's Senate endorsed a bill Tuesday that might allow the state to pursue imports of prescription drugs from Canada on a wholesale basis in search of cost savings. Several...
February 4, 2020
The Associated Press and four other news organizations on Tuesday urged the Labor Department to reverse its decision last month to restrict news agencies' use of economic data. In a...
February 4, 2020
Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen released dozens of Egyptian fishermen on Tuesday after detaining them for weeks on charges of trespassing into territorial waters. The 32 fishermen were ferried on...
February 4, 2020
Some top Minnesota Democratic lawmakers are planning to make a major push in the 2020 legislative session to legalize recreational marijuana, though they acknowledged Tuesday that the bill probably won't...
February 4, 2020
Higher-than-expected corporate income and sales collections in January helped keep the state's revenue above forecast and the same month last year, Arkansas finance officials said Tuesday. The state's net available...
February 4, 2020
Eight months after it seemed headed for the corporate junkyard, Tesla is now worth more than General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler combined, even though the Big Three together sell...
February 4, 2020
A Republican state senator has dropped a proposal attacking what he called “social justice prosecution” by empowering Indiana's attorney general to appoint special prosecutors to take over criminal cases that...
February 4, 2020
A plumbing and building materials manufacturer is closing its Fort Wayne plant, costing 116 northeastern Indiana workers their jobs. Davison, Michigan-based Genova Products Inc. said it will cease operations on...
February 4, 2020
The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday that profit fell 23% in its latest quarter to $2.13 billion as it absorbed losses — and a big revenue boost — from its...
February 4, 2020
Former Obama housing secretary Shaun Donovan has filed papers to run for mayor of New York City in 2021. Donovan, 54, registered a campaign Monday to succeed Mayor Bill de...
February 4, 2020
Los Angeles is blocking privately run detention centers from opening in the city, including facilities for immigrant youth in government custody, under a stopgap measure approved Tuesday by the City...
February 4, 2020
The little-known technology start-up under scrutiny after the meltdown of the Iowa Democratic caucuses on Monday was founded little more than a year ago by veterans of Hillary Clinton's failed...
February 4, 2020
The Jacksonville Jaguars have hired former San Francisco 49ers general manager Trent Baalke as their director of player personnel. Baalke replaces Chris Polian, who was fired last month after seven...
February 4, 2020
Their bodies painted black, dozens of members the Brazil's Guarani Mbya tribe lift their hands and sing a mourning song for hundreds of felled trees beside their village. They weep,...
February 4, 2020
The Pennsylvania Legislature's budget reserve for its own operations is continuing to rise, reaching $172 million for the year that ended last June, according to a financial review released Tuesday....
February 4, 2020
Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially on Tuesday: Alphabet Inc., down $37.19 to $1,445.41 The parent of search engine Google reported disappointing fourth-quarter revenue growth. BP Plc., up $1.27...
February 4, 2020
Lifetouch, the company known for taking school portraits, plans to close its Chesapeake production facility by the end of the summer, a spokeswoman for the company said. A spokeswoman for...
February 4, 2020
A Utah lawmaker has unveiled a proposal to require pornography to carry warning labels or be subject to a $2,500 penalty, though an adult-entertainment industry group warned the idea would...
February 4, 2020
A vote by the Mobile City Council on Tuesday moved the northern Gulf Coast one step closer to a resumption of regular Amtrak service for the first time since Hurricane...
February 4, 2020
North Carolina's transportation secretary is leaving the job at the end of the month, and another Cabinet member has been picked to succeed him, Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday....
February 4, 2020
A former Washington state ferry was auctioned for more than $200,000, but the boat's owner says the sale has not yet closed. Owner Greg Jones has not been paid yet...
February 4, 2020
Twitter will begin to label and in some cases remove doctored or manipulated photos, audio and videos that are designed to mislead people. The company said Tuesday that the new...
February 4, 2020
Canada's Federal Court of Appeal on Tuesday dismissed legal objections to the contentious Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that would nearly triple the flow of oil from the Alberta oil sands...
February 4, 2020
The Tennessee Valley Authority has shut down its last coal-fired unit at a western Kentucky power plant. Paradise Fossil Plant's Unit 3 began operating in 1970 with a generating capacity...
February 4, 2020
App Store Top Paid iPhone Apps: 1. Plague Inc., Ndemic Creations 2. TouchRetouch, ADVA Soft GmbH 3. Minecraft, Mojang 4. Bloons TD 6, Ninja Kiwi 5. Heads Up!, Warner Bros....
February 4, 2020
Wheat for Mar. was up 1.75 cents at 5.5725 a bushel; Mar. corn was gained 3.50 cents at 3.8225 a bushel, Mar. oats advanced 7.75 cents at $3.08 a bushel;...
February 4, 2020
Republican lawmakers are considering proposals to cut property taxes and insurance costs for farmers as part of a package to help rural Wisconsin that Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Tuesday...
February 4, 2020
The owner of the New York Stock Exchange has made an offer to buy online marketplace eBay Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The Journal said International Exchange Inc....
