When it comes to U.K.-European Union relations, there's nothing like slapping a fish around. After all, both sides have been contesting who rules their waves practicallysince the United Kingdom became...
January 29, 2020
Authorities in Bangladesh in partnership with the United Nations will expand educational programs for hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya children living in refugee camps who are currently receiving only...
January 29, 2020
Britain officially leaves the European Union on Friday after a debilitating political period that has bitterly divided the nation since the 2016 Brexit referendum. Difficult negotiations setting out the new...
January 29, 2020
British Airways and Asian budget carriers Lion Air and Seoul Air are suspending all flights to China as fears spread about the outbreak of a new virus that has killed...
January 29, 2020
The Saudi Telecom Co. announced it reached a preliminary agreement on Wednesday to buy a 55% stake in the Egyptian holdings of telecommunications giant Vodafone. The kingdom's largely state-owned communication...
January 29, 2020
Bulgaria's ruling coalition on Wednesday survived a no-confidence vote called by the opposition, which accused the government of failing to protect the environment and guarantee water supplies. The 240-member parliament...
January 29, 2020
A Kentucky company that specializes in storing and processing Kentucky-grown hemp for the purpose of cannabidiol oil extraction and refinement will benefit from a $1 million grant. Gov. Andy Beshear...
January 29, 2020
Russia's emergency services rescued 536 ice fishermen after they got stranded on a giant ice floe that broke off the island of Sakhalin in eastern Siberia, officials said. Around 60...
January 29, 2020
West Virginia officials are closing lanes on the Eugene A. Carter Memorial Bridge on I-64 for repairs after a hole in the bridge snarled traffic last week. A news release...
January 29, 2020
West Virginia officials are trying to find someone interested in preserving a historic bridge connecting West Virginia and Ohio. The Aetnaville Bridge, also known as the Georgia Street Bridge, was...
January 29, 2020
The Community Reinvestment Act has over past four decades spurred hundreds of billions of dollars in lending to low- and middle-income communities. But it's out of date and in need...
January 29, 2020
Despite being home to some of the biggest, best-known technology companies in the world, the Bay Area is somehow worse for tech workers than Seatle, Austin and ... Pittsburgh? A...
January 29, 2020
A trial began in federal court Monday where Missouri's largest peach farmer blames severe economic losses on damage from the weedkiller dicamba, and on Bayer and BASF, agribusiness companies that...
January 29, 2020
The helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant didn't have a recommended warning system to alert the pilot he was too close to land but it's not clear it would have averted the...
January 29, 2020
Shares advanced in most Asian markets on Wednesday after a rebound on Wall Street that reversed most losses from a sell-off the day before. Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 2.8%,...
January 29, 2020
Not many years ago in a small, rural South Carolina town stood The Redneck Shop — a racist emporium and Ku Klux Klan museum housed in an old theater, where...
January 29, 2020
A ruling from the New Mexico Supreme Court could determine how the state implements a landmark law that clears the way for the closure of a coal-fired power plant and...
January 29, 2020
President Donald Trump is eager to show off a big policy win during his impeachment trial by signing into law a major rewrite of the rules of trade with Canada...
January 29, 2020
With a successful testing of its K-4 nuclear-capable, submarine-launched ballistic missile under its belt, India is seeking to develop the K-5, a long-range ballistic weapon that could reach well beyond...
January 29, 2020
The Cubs are taking two more low-risk fliers on a pair of players hoping to rebound from injuries, reaching one-year deals with reliever Jeremy Jeffress and outfielder Steven Souza Jr....
January 29, 2020
Moving on several fronts toward shoring up support for his reelection bid, President Donald Trump capped off a busy Tuesday by heaping praise on the newest Republican member of Congress...
January 29, 2020
The population of endangered beluga whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet continues to decline, federal marine mammal authorities announced Tuesday. A biennial survey conducted by the fisheries arm of the National...
January 29, 2020
January 26, 2020 (Decatur) Herald & Review Illinois Voter registration glitch a disaster In theory, automatic voter registration is a wonderful idea. Democracy is only as good as the number...
January 29, 2020
A top San Francisco public official and go-to bureaucrat to mayors over two decades was charged with public corruption Tuesday, upending City Hall as elected leaders scrambled to reassure the...
January 29, 2020
The head of a company involved in a massive explosion in Houston that killed two workers and injured 20 others on Tuesday backtracked on a pledge he had made earlier...
January 29, 2020
Slumping Nissan Motor Co. is offering voluntary separation packages to many of its U.S. workers as it tries to resize itself to match lower sales. The Japanese automaker wouldn't say...
January 29, 2020
Three people were killed when a small plane crashed in a field southeast of Springfield, Illinois, authorities said Tuesday. The Sangamon County Sheriff's Department says the pilot of the twin-engine...
January 29, 2020
A U.S. judge Tuesday sentenced a socially awkward math whiz-turned-futures trader who earned tens of millions of dollars over several years and helped trigger a U.S. stock market “flash crash”...
January 29, 2020
Proposals included in Gov. Andy Beshear's two-year budget plan submitted to the legislature Tuesday evening: EDUCATION: —$2,000 salary increase for all of Kentucky's public school teachers. —1% increase in the...
January 29, 2020
Two men who were fatally stabbed and a third who was severely injured in an attack on a Portland, Oregon, light-rail train likely did not know the man charged in...
January 29, 2020
Mexico is trying to sell its luxurious presidential jet to Canada, but will raffle the plane off if the Canadians don't want it, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday....
January 28, 2020
The driver of a snowplow plunged the vehicle into the Platte River on Tuesday as he was being followed by authorities who later arrested him. U.S. marshals and Sarpy County...
January 28, 2020
Parents who no longer qualify for government health care but fail to sign up their children separately are partly to blame for the drop in children's Medicaid coverage, a top...
January 28, 2020
Oklahoma's long-serving mental health commissioner announced her resignation Tuesday, saying her last day in office will be Feb. 1. Oklahoma State Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Terri White...
January 28, 2020
NFL teams paid more than a half-billion dollars to Week 1 starters who missed games because of injuries this season and players who ended the year on injured reserve, according...
January 28, 2020
A small plane has crashed in a field outside Springfield, authorities in central Illinois said Tuesday Springfield Airport Authority executive director Mark Hanna says the twin-engine Piper Aerostar went down...
January 28, 2020
___ Bad timing: New virus poses threat to fragile world economy China's new virus is striking at a bad time for the world economy. The Chinese economy, No. 2 in...
January 28, 2020
The Arizona Department of Education said Tuesday it inadvertently released personal information about families that get a state-funded voucher to pay for private education. Agency officials thought they had blacked...
January 28, 2020
Two Maine lawyers are filing a lawsuit against Central Maine Power on the behalf of three customers who say the utility illegally threatened to shutoff their power. Philip Coffin and...
January 28, 2020
Georgia lawmakers considering restrictions on vaping products heard from doctors and students Tuesday who said e-cigarette use is prevalent among children and poses serious risks to their health. In emotional...
