Politics

The audio book company Audible, Inc. and the publishing houses that had sued it for copyright infringement have agreed to a settlement. In a letter filed this week in federal...

A Wyoming company has settled a federal lawsuit by a former employee who claimed she was pressured to take Scientology courses as a condition of her employment. Julie A. Rohrbacher...

Americans are drinking more now than when Prohibition was enacted. What's more, it's been rising for two decades, and it's not clear when it will fall again. That's the picture...

Georgia lawmakers say they're near a deal to tighten tax collections on some online sales. The state House of Representatives sent House Bill 276 to a conference committee with senators...

Iowa Gov Kim Reynolds asked lawmakers Tuesday to consider increasing the state sales tax by 1 cent to fund increased spending on water quality, the environment and mental health care...

Nevada collected a monthly record of nearly $9.8 million in marijuana taxes in October, state officials reported. State Department of Taxation figures reported Monday by the Las Vegas Sun represented...

Newly declassified documents reveal the British government secretly gave the Reuters news agency funding during the Cold War so it would expand coverage of the Middle East and Latin America....

An environmental group is suing the federal government to try to keep livestock away from Southwestern waterways that are home to threatened and endangered species. The Center for Biological Diversity...

Eastern Airlines is plotting a comeback. Once one of South Florida's largest employers, Eastern Airlines, now based in Pennsylvania, launched scheduled service earlier this month out of John F. Kennedy...

The foundation of the ‘American Dream' has long been the family home, complete with backyard and picket fence. Now that dream is endangered as progressives say the lifestyle reeks of...

The Republican-controlled Iowa Legislature has again denied press access to a liberal journalist whose blog is often critical of its policies, despite warnings from state and national groups that the...

Guatemala swears in Alejandro Giammattei, a conservative physician opposed to gay marriage and abortion, as its new president Tuesday while the country's outgoing leader exits amid swirling corruption accusations. The...

Political leaders in New York have reached an agreement to pass new limousine safety bills inspired by deadly crashes in 2015 and 2018, officials said Tuesday. The proposals target unsafe...

Dating apps including Grindr, OkCupid and Tinder leak personal information to advertising tech companies in possible violation of European data privacy laws, a Norwegian consumer group said in a report...

A Mississippi city is implementing energy efficiency measures that are estimated to save it more than $60,000 a year on utility bills. The Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved...

A Connecticut man charged with killing a hotel worker he says attacked his family on the Caribbean island of Anguilla has filed a negligence lawsuit against the resort company that...

American Airlines said Tuesday it is removing the Boeing 737 Max from its schedule for two more months and canceling nearly 20,000 flights through early June, an acknowledgment of the...

When Vince Vaughn uttered a few sentences then shook Trump's hand at a championship college football game, a woke member of the crowd recorded the transgression and tried to cancel...

Nigel Farage, the self-declared “pantomime villain” of Brexit, is leaving his favorite theater — the European Union's parliament in Strasbourg — this week with a sense of mission accomplished. Ridiculed...

Cyprus has paid off ahead of schedule an International Monetary Fund loan that was part of a multi-billion euro financial rescue deal in 2013, the finance minister said Tuesday. Minister...

Some Waterloo officials say the city can't afford to fix the crumbling third runway at the city-owned airport and may have to shut it down and rely on just the...

Public health advocates rallied at Kentucky's Capitol on Tuesday to push for legislation aimed at reducing smoking and e-cigarette use among young people. A group called the Coalition for a...

State environmental officials say a spill of oilfield wastewater caused by a faulty valve has affected some pastureland in western North Dakota. The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality said...

Pollution, sedentary lifestyles, soy and even social ‘feminization' have been blamed for a deepening testosterone crisis. But finding the answer fast is important – the future of America's population literally...

Four homeless women who were ordered by a judge last week to leave a vacant house in Oakland were evicted before dawn Tuesday by heavily armed sheriff's deputies in a...

Prosecutors in Germany have filed charges against six more individuals in connection with Volkswagen's diesel emissions scandal, bringing the total to 11. Prosecutors in the town of Braunschweig said Tuesday...

Video review will be used in table tennis at the Tokyo Olympics for players to challenge umpire decisions. A combination of ball-tracking technology, similar to tennis, and review of slow-motion...

A U.S. Border Patrol dog sniffed out more than $190,000 worth of methamphetamine concealed in a vehicle along a Southern California highway, the agency said An agent patrolling Interstate 15...

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo is delivering her annual State of the State speech to lawmakers. The Democratic governor is scheduled to address a joint session of the General Assembly...

In this era of bottomless mimosas, craft beers and ever-present happy hours, it's striking to recall that 100 years ago the United States imposed a nationwide ban on the production...

A pipeline spill of oilfield wastewater has affected cropland in northwestern North Dakota. State environmental scientist Bill Suess said regulators were notified Monday of the 8,400 gallon (31,797 liter) pipeline...

A hot chocolate company led by Hollywood stuntman and occasional racer Stanton Barrett has signed as primary sponsor for Swedish driver Marcus Ericsson at Chip Ganassi Racing. This is the...

Donald Trump once bragged about the total demolition of Islamic State. Today, thanks to his and previous presidents' policies, IS is making a dangerous comeback. Now, even staunch American supporters...

Iran's foreign minister has cancelled an expected appearance at next week's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, organizers said Tuesday, citing the “backdrop of uncertainty” in the Middle East. The...

The state's comptroller says New York once again is paying much more in federal taxes than it receives in federal spending. A report set to be released Tuesday says New...

A Kansas man who pleaded guilty to stealing mail while working as a contract driver for the U.S. Postal Service has been ordered to pay more than $3,000 in restitution....

Stocks are off to a mostly lower start on Wall Street as losses for some banks and health care companies offset gains elsewhere in the market. Wells Fargo slumped in...

MGM Resorts International is selling the MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay resorts and casinos on the Las Vegas Strip to a joint venture for about $2.5 billion. The joint venture...

A popular Honolulu bar and restaurant is set to close and be replaced by a new outlet of one of the nation's biggest restaurant chains, officials said. The Mai Tai...

A derelict Alaska tugboat floated away from the spot where it was anchored in Juneau's Gastineau Channel before eventually running aground, officials said. The tug Lumberman traveled several hundred yards...