Paris' Louvre museum was closed Friday as dozens of protesters blocked the entrance to denounce the French government's plans to overhaul the pension system. The Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit marking...
January 17, 2020
Black magic, drug addiction, attempted murder and a wrestling match over luxury cars and overseas properties. Zimbabwe is riveted by the explosive charges being made in the divorce of First...
January 17, 2020
Wilson County plans to add four new historical markers this year to commemorate African-American heroes, including a 1946 effort to organize tobacco workers. Called Operation Dixie, the unionization effort was...
January 17, 2020
Do millionaires want to live in Hollywood? One developer certainly thinks so. Jeff Morr, the chairman of the Miami Master Brokers Forum, is overseeing the $600,000 construction of an approximately...
January 17, 2020
Investors from the northeast and Latin America continue plugging their money into the Miami market as one private, Brickell-based real estate lending firm can attest. BGI Capital closed on $90...
January 17, 2020
Maximiliano Diaz, 21, works two jobs. One is a full-time gig as a bartender. The second is ... well, whatever he can get. Thanks to a new platform launching in...
January 17, 2020
Will the real Robert Shapiro please take the microphone? BBC radio presenter Evan Davis was left in an embarrassing situation Thursday while introducing a segment on a proposal to allow...
January 17, 2020
The commander of forces fighting the U.N.-supported government in war-torn Libya held meetings in Athens Friday in a bid to counter Turkey's support for his opponents. Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter...
January 17, 2020
Japan's SoftBank is offering to invest $30 billion to $40 billion in the development of a new Indonesian capital, an official said Friday. The billionaire founder and chief executive of...
January 17, 2020
Calling California's homeless crisis a public health issue, hospital giant Kaiser Permanente on Friday pledged $25 million to a new state fund aimed at getting people off the streets. Gov....
January 17, 2020
In the week ahead, technology investors will be doing what millions of people do each night — watching Netflix. The media streaming company is one of the so-called FAANG stocks...
January 17, 2020
ARCHITECTURE At Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates, a Coral Gables architecture and planning firm: Igor Reyes has been named president. He was previously vice president. Adolfo Reyna has been...
January 17, 2020
Britain's Royal College of Psychiatrists is urging that mammoth tech companies like Facebook and Twitter turn over research about possible dangers caused to young people by excessive social media use....
January 17, 2020
Dutch agriculture exports rose 4.6% in 2019 from the previous year to a new record of 94.5 billion euros ($105.2 billion), the country's statistics office and a research organization said...
January 17, 2020
The German parliament on Friday approved legislation that will allow investigators to use computer-generated child pornography to gain access to suspect internet portals. The Justice Ministry said that investigators will...
January 17, 2020
Fiat Chrysler is in talks with the Chinese company Foxconn to develop and manufacture battery-powered vehicles, the U.S.-Italian automaker said Friday. Fiat Chrysler is in the process of merging with...
January 17, 2020
Commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Warsaw by the Soviet army from Nazi occupation in WWII were supposed to bring people together. Instead, they are driving Poland...
January 17, 2020
Twitter has been on a narrative-control rampage, removing or censoring legitimate accounts that are critical of US-led wars, propaganda and lies. Facebook and Instagram have increased their Big Brother policing,...
January 17, 2020
While money may not be welcome in the economy of Black Rock City, money is necessary to create the city. It took more than $44 million to run the Burning...
January 17, 2020
2020 Genesis G70: A new small luxury sedan. Will it rival its big brothers for value? Price: $48,995 as tested. The Elite Package added low-beam assist, sunroof, and more for...
January 17, 2020
Mazda shoppers might be understandably confused these days. The charming ads – the ones where the kid whispered "ZOOM ZOOM" at the end – have been replaced by a generic...
January 17, 2020
As a commitment to a post-carbon future of "zero-emissions" electric vehicles, General Motors Co. is converting is its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant to the manufacture of electric trucks. Auto analysts forecast...
January 17, 2020
Lucid Motors, the Bay Area electric car startup that has set up shop in Tesla's backyard, is one step closer toward finally putting its first car on the market and...
January 17, 2020
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The men talk of Plum Crazy Purple, Vitamin C Orange and Sassy Grass Green. These are the colors of their childhood. These are the colors of...
January 17, 2020
Doug Schmale's family farm straddles the Great Plains in two parts: 4,500 acres in western Nebraska and a separate 160-acre plot in eastern Colorado. Schmale pays wildly different property taxes...
January 17, 2020
State lawmakers and regulators are turning their eyes to the road in the fight against climate change, recognizing that the transportation sector now produces more greenhouse gas emissions than any...
January 17, 2020
Technology unleashed baseball's Analytics Era, and now it's holding the sport prisoner. AJ Hinch, Alex Cora and Carlos Beltrán are casualties, a triple play of hubris. At the cutting edge...
January 17, 2020
John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction, testified before Congress that America's Afghan War was plagued by “mendacity and lies.” But all the honesty in the world couldn't...
January 17, 2020
Days after a fishing boat's collision with a chemical tanker just off the Texas coast left one person dead, the U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search for two fishermen. The...
January 17, 2020
The Democratic chairman and ranking Republican on a House Armed Services subcommittee are paying a visit Friday to Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works in Maine. Democratic Rep. Joe Courtney of...
January 17, 2020
A judge must decide the fate of former U.S. Rep. Christopher Collins after his lawyers and prosecutors disagreed over how he should be punished for conspiring in an insider trading...
January 17, 2020
Like all the best con artists, Randy Constant was a charmer, hard not to like. Big hearted. Good listener. You'd never have guessed that the father of three, grandfather of...
January 17, 2020
A watchdog group on ethics in government is highlighting the influence of paid lobbyists on the legislative process in New Mexico and advocating for greater public disclosures on lobbying and...
January 17, 2020
A New Mexico Supreme Court decision says at least some tribal casino workers injured on the job can't receive benefits through the state's workers' compensation program. A unanimous ruling Thursday...
January 17, 2020
How many people does it take to operate a locomotive? For the railroad industry, the answer is simple: One. The industry is hoping this year's scheduled completion of an automatic...
January 17, 2020
Ignoring the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Warsaw is just the latest questionable decision by Polish authorities, eager to rewrite WWII history to better fit modern political imperatives. However,...
January 17, 2020
In 1995, when then-President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary wanted to install a new home theater in the White House, they called Jan Vitrofsky, an expert in designing sound,...
January 17, 2020
China's President Xi Jinping was heading to Myanmar on Friday for a state visit likely to deepen the countries' already close bilateral relations at a critical time. While the visit...
January 17, 2020
The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump has begun. After years of Democrat hyperbole, it kicked off with a series of pompous theatricalities that will likely do nothing to change...
January 17, 2020
China's economic growth sank to a new multi-decade low of 6.1% in 2019 as consumer demand weakened and Beijing fought a trade war with Washington. Government data Friday showed growth...
