The upcoming US-led Defender Europe 20 military exercises – ostensibly designed to promote peace through deterrence – only increase the prospects of a deadly war with Russia on European soil....
January 21, 2020
A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday lifted a month-old halt to police seizures of the Pennsylvania Skill brand of cash-paying video machines while the courts consider the legal fate of what...
January 21, 2020
One of Republican Brian Kemp's first acts as Georgia governor involved revamping the state's handling of sexual harassment complaints and placing State Inspector General Deborah Wallace in charge of the...
January 21, 2020
A federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced Brazilian broadcast executive Jose Margulies to two years' probation on Tuesday for acting as an intermediary in a scheme to exchange bribes for the...
January 21, 2020
Wisconsin insurance companies, healthcare providers and others announced an agreement Tuesday to do away with prior authorization requirements for most patients that can slow the prescription of drugs to treat...
January 21, 2020
Flooding due to climate change-related sea level rising, the erosion of natural barriers and long-periods of rain pose substantial economic risks to Florida, particularly to the value of South Florida...
January 21, 2020
Lebanon, New Hampshire, will consider raising the minimum purchasing age for tobacco to 21 under a new ordinance, despite a recent federal law that mandates the same. Like the new...
January 21, 2020
Lebanon's acting foreign minister is attending the elite annual World Economic Forum in the Swiss village Davos. In his home country, however, where mass protests have forced the government to...
January 21, 2020
The 2020 Census kicks off Tuesday in remote Alaska. U.S. Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham will be there to conduct the first count in the Bering Sea community of Toksook...
January 21, 2020
Lizzie Chimiugak has lived for 90 years in the windswept western wilds of Alaska, born to a nomadic family who lived in mud homes and followed where the good hunting...
January 21, 2020
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear have teamed up on an effort to expand the new Green River National Wildlife Refuge in western Kentucky. The...
January 21, 2020
Fares on New Jersey Transit buses and trains won't rise in the next fiscal year, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said Tuesday. At a graduation ceremony for new engineers, Murphy said...
January 21, 2020
A company plans to create as many as 400 jobs as it reopens a closed latex factory in southeast Alabama, the state said Tuesday. The Alabama Department of Commerce said...
January 21, 2020
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, whose support at home is waning due to numerous scandals and zero achievements, goes abroad to seek US and European backing. But does he still...
January 21, 2020
An energy cooperative announced Tuesday it will close a southwestern Indiana power plant in 2023, affecting 185 workers. Bloomington-based Hoosier Energy said it will idle the coal-fired Merom Generating Station...
January 21, 2020
Bangladesh's High Court has asked authorities to shut down 231 factories surrounding the highly polluted main river in the nation's capital, lawyers and activists said Tuesday. Manzil Murshid, who filed...
January 21, 2020
New Mexico's Democrat-led Legislature is looking for new ways to bolster a lagging public education system and open up new economic opportunities by legalizing recreational marijuana and providing tuition-free college...
January 21, 2020
A dispute over mail delivery has landed in federal court. Four Kentucky apartment complexes near Western Kentucky University sued the United States Postal Service and a postmaster last week in...
January 21, 2020
Michael Avenatti is housed in drug kingpin El Chapo's chilly former cell, making it impossible to properly prepare for an extortion trial that was supposed to start his week, his...
January 21, 2020
Grain futures were mostly higher Tuesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Mar. delivery gained 9.20 cents at $5.7660 a bushel; Mar. corn rose 6.20...
January 21, 2020
A New Jersey community is taking quick steps to raise parking fees for out-of-towners under a law signed recently by Gov. Phil Murphy. Jersey City's council will consider a measure...
January 21, 2020
Elizabeth Warren says she'll create a federal task force to investigate corruption during the Trump administration if she's elected president. The Massachusetts senator on Tuesday released a plan that her...
January 21, 2020
Money, it's a gas. Unless you need to borrow some from your parents. Then it's a conversation many adults will avoid at all costs, even if it means paying for...
January 21, 2020
Whoever replaces outgoing BBC Director General Tony Hall, be sure that establishment interests will be in safe hands. But multiple scandals the broadcaster has been involved in damaged it quite...
January 21, 2020
The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to consider a fast-track review of a lawsuit that threatens the Obama-era health care law, making it highly unlikely that the justices would decide the...
January 21, 2020
Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street as concern about the impact of a Chinese disease outbreak grows. Other global markets also dropped, with Hong Kong and Shanghai falling sharply....
January 21, 2020
A fight is coming to California over whether to list one of the world's most common over-the-counter drugs as a carcinogen, echoing recent high-profile battles over things like alcohol and...
January 21, 2020
Major central banks have joined together to explore whether they should issue cryptocurrencies as the use of cash declines and more people turn to electronic forms of paying. The study...
January 21, 2020
The Kansas City Star, Jan. 20 Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly should abandon her proposal to impose sales taxes on Netflix and other digital streaming services. Her misguided plan would hit...
January 21, 2020
A project to expand rural broadband in five north-central West Virginia counties will get $18.7 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, officials announced. The $25 million project will connect...
January 21, 2020
Hollywood thinks that by telling Chinese stories they will woo its massive market they so crave…they couldn't be more wrong, as the failure of the Farewell amply illustrates. The critically...
January 21, 2020
Detroit's Motown Museum announced a $1 million grant from a southeastern Michigan foundation toward its expansion. The money from the Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation will support Hitsville Next, the...
January 21, 2020
Federal court officials in Indianapolis are warning that scammers posing as court employees are calling people with cases pending before the court and asking them for their Social Security number....
January 21, 2020
British-based BAE Systems will maintain a presence in the Cedar Rapids area after it completes a deal to acquire Collins Aerospace's military GPS business, officials said. BAE announced Monday that...
January 21, 2020
Illinois grant funds will provide nearly $30 million for efforts across the state to acquire open spaces and develop and improve recreational facilities. Gov. J.B. Pritzker released the list of...
January 21, 2020
Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott is scheduled to lay out his 2020 spending priorities during the governor's annual budget address on Tuesday. Scott is due to give the address during...
January 21, 2020
A new Sukhoi Su-30MKI squadron, equipped with the Indo-Russian BrahMos missiles, vastly extends India's air power in the Indian Ocean. Can it help to counter the growing influence of the...
January 21, 2020
Jeanine Cummins' “American Dirt,” one of the year's most anticipated and debated novels, is Oprah Winfrey's new pick for her book club. “American Dirt,” published Tuesday, tells of a bookstore...
January 21, 2020
Revenue from food and drinks has increased from a new $1 billion terminal at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport according to a recent report, which could mean more flights...
January 21, 2020
Federal agents seized nearly half a million dollars worth of counterfeit shoes, handbags and watches at a Greensboro flea market, according to the North Carolina Secretary of State. Knock-off Rolex...
