Politics

Ellen DeGeneres and Kelly Clarkson are temporarily off the air on NBC 6 — and it has to do with President Donald Trump's impeachment trials. It doesn't mean you can't...

Hoisting a large leather Bible above her head, Bolivia's new interim president delivered an emphatic message hours after Evo Morales fled under pressure, the end of a nearly 14-year presidency...

Dismantling of the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on the Southern California coast will begin next month. Southern California Edison this week mailed 30-day notices of the key timelines...

Nebraska's unemployment rate of 3.1% didn't change in December, marking the sixth straight month it has held steady, officials said Friday. The preliminary December rate was three-tenths of a point...

The Trump administration has named a new head of the U.S. Border Patrol. Rodney Scott will take over for Carla Provost, who is retiring, according to an announcement obtained Friday...

French officials have filed preliminary charges of money laundering and extortion against Russian bitcoin fraud suspect Alexander Vinnik, who's tangled in a multi-country legal battle. The United States also wants...

With Syria's currency hitting record lows, a nationwide symbolic campaign has been launched by merchants, barbers, supermarkets and even gyms in the war-torn country to support the Syrian pound. Under...

Officials in North Dakota say it's time for property owners in flood-prone areas of the Red River Valley to think about buying flood insurance. The state Water Commission has scheduled...

Wondering when Publix's Chicken Tender Subs will be on sale next? You won't have to worry about standing in line for it anymore at the deli counter. Publix is expanding...

A massive explosion early Friday leveled a warehouse in Houston and damaged nearby buildings and homes, rousing frightened people from their sleep miles away and leaving one worker missing. The...

A Zimbabwean judge on Friday described as “frightening” the use of soldiers by the country's vice president in a divorce-related dispute, and ruled that his wife should regain custody of...

The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's...

Pennsylvania's unemployment rate rose in December for the fourth straight month, as payrolls shrank and the labor force hit another record high. The state Department of Labor and Industry said...

Technology companies are leading U.S. stocks higher at the open Friday, led by a sharp gain for chipmaker Intel. Investors continue to monitor developments in the international effort to contain...

State lawmakers are hearing testimony Friday on a proposal that would make Massachusetts a sanctuary state. The Safe Communities Act is meant to limit interaction between local law enforcement agencies...

Two former officers at a northwest Iowa agriculture cooperative have pleaded not guilty to federal fraud charges. The Sioux City Journal reported that Kenneth Ehrp and Calvin Diehl entered the...

A book by Rep. Elijah Cummings, nearly finished in his lifetime and worked on by his widow after his death, will be published this summer. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins...

With budget season approaching, Gov. Tom Wolf's administration is developing a plan to help deal with aging school buildings plagued by environmental problems, including lead paint and asbestos insulation, his...

Alaska state officials have released a court-ordered plan detailing how the state expects to keep psychiatric patients from being warehoused in hospitals and jails before being transferred to treatment centers....

Alabama's unemployment rate is unchanged at a record-low 2.7%, well below the jobless level from a year ago, state officials said Friday. A news release from the Alabama Department of...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued a permit for a cruise ship dock in southeast Alaska, but the dock's opening date is unclear, agency officials said. The permit...

Soccer players' union FIFPro distanced itself Friday from reports Michel Platini will be advising the organization's president. French media reported that Platini, who has finished serving a four-year ban by...

Omaha's mayor wants voters to decide whether they're willing to raise their property taxes to fund a long-term plan for improving city streets — often the objects of residents' wrath...

An assistant tax collector in Mississippi won't be allowed to volunteer for tax season in the county where she worked for 35 years after pleading guilty to felony fraud. Denise...

The president of Belarus on Friday accused Moscow of pressuring his country to merge with Russia and vowed not to let it happen. Talking to workers of a paper plant...

The billionaire daughter of a former African leader is shedding some of her investments in Europe after she came under official investigation for alleged money-laundering and corruption. Isabel dos Santos...

Two Russian diplomats accused of spying by Bulgarian prosecutors will be declared persona non grata and expelled from the country, Bulgaria's foreign minister said Friday. Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said...

Although Western media has a shoddy track record of lying on Syria (and Libya, Iraq...), the US State Department will pump $35 million more into future war propaganda on Syria,...

A deal has been struck that could avert a strike by unionized nurses at MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center in Sioux City. Nurses represented by the United Food & Commercial Workers...

London police say they will start using live facial recognition cameras in operational deployments, in a major advance for the controversial technology. The Metropolitan Police Service said Friday it will...

More airports are beginning to screen passengers arriving from China amid growing concerns Friday over the outbreak of a new virus there that has already killed more than two dozen...

Greece's parliament is set to approve a proposal by the country's center-right government to abolish an election system based on proportional representation but is likely to fall short of the...

U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy for talks between Serbia and Kosovo said Friday that the two Balkan rivals must remove obstacles that have blocked negotiations for more than a...

The Greek government said Friday that the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries were briefly disabled by a cyberattack...

High school hockey players in Waseca won't be able to wear game jerseys made in honor of a local police officer gravely wounded in the line of duty. The Minnesota...

German finance minister says he is confident that his country won't suffer from Brexit but that Britain will inevitably face “consequences” from its decision to leave the European Union. At...

British regulators have opened an initial investigation into a merger between U.K.-based food delivery company Just Eat and its Dutch rival Takeaway.com over worries that it might stifle competition. The...

The ongoing, sometimes controversial makeover of the U.S. 1 corridor in Coral Gables from sprawling suburbia to Mediterranean-garbed urban density is about to receive a massive addition — and the...

No matter what industry you are in, you will find that older/senior-level workers are waiting longer to retire. These diehards have varying motivations for extending their careers. Their names may...

A new viral challenge that's circulating on the internet is worrying authorities. It's called the #outletchallenge and it's proliferating in Tik Tok, the popular social media application for videos. So,...