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Sonoma County and several Northern California agencies sued Pacific Gas & Electric Co. on Tuesday over damage caused by a wildfire that burned a large swath of land last year...

The nomination of Judy Shelton, President Donald Trump's controversial pick for the Federal Reserve, is stalled in the Senate after Vice President-elect Kamala Harris returned to the chamber to cast...

Peruvians returned to their daily lives Tuesday as the South American nation prepared to swear in its third president in a week. Many were hoping Francisco Sagasti will be the...

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for December delivery rose 9 cents to $41.43 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude oil for January delivery fell 7 cents to $43.75 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline...

Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott's quarantine for potential COVID-19 exposure could help sink, at least temporarily, President Donald Trump's Federal Reserve Board nominee who wants to return to the gold...

Italy's sports minister has promised “autonomy” for the country's Olympic committee operations, two months after IOC president Thomas Bach dangled the threat of probation for the Tokyo Games due to...

The University of South Carolina announced on Tuesday that a store selling Apple products is coming to its campus in Columbia in early 2021 — and will be managed largely...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the nationwide surge in confirmed coronavirus could slow the economy in the months ahead by discouraging consumers from spending. “We're seeing states...

Multiple ski resorts in New Mexico have delayed their scheduled openings this month in response to state-mandated COVID-19 lockdown orders that went into effect Monday. The regulations ordered by Democratic...

The US has long dismissed Russian concerns over the deployment of the Aegis Ashore missile defense system on European soil. This week's test of the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor against...

Two COVID-19 vaccines might be nearing the finish line, but scientists caution it's critical that enough people volunteer to help finish studying other candidates in the U.S. and around the...

Police violence is routine as they deal with youths in the banlieues, asylum seekers, and Yellow Vests. The solution according to Macron? Ban the publishing of images of the officers,...

The New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons each put a player on the NFL's COVID-19 list Tuesday, while Washington had its first instance of someone in the organization testing positive...

After a tumultuous national election year in which a virus has gripped the world with fear, Florida's two new legislative leaders gave a message of hope for 2021 as lawmakers...

The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local): 2:10 p.m. Leaders of the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association say the Trump administration must share...

British Airways said Tuesday that it will start testing passengers flying from the U.S. to London's Heathrow Airport for COVID-19 in an effort to persuade the British government it should...

Pennsylvania's state Legislature is working this week to assemble a spending plan to carry state government through the rest of the fiscal year and fill, at least for the moment,...

General Dynamics Electric Boat, the Connecticut-based builder of U.S. Navy submarines, is encouraging more people to work from home as it contends with a surge in coronavirus infections among its...

Theo Epstein, who transformed the long-suffering Chicago Cubs and helped bring home a drought-busting championship in 2016, is stepping down after nine seasons as the club's president of baseball operations....

Hurricane Iota tore across Nicaragua on Tuesday, hours after roaring ashore as a Category 4 storm along almost exactly the same stretch of the Caribbean coast that was recently devastated...

Corporate 'feminists' are lumping in legitimate opposition to Democrat Vice President-elect Kamala Harris with an eruption of misogyny from the ‘Manosphere'. But it's her indefensible policies that should really concern...

Playwright Keenan Scott II's play “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” a work about the outer and inner lives of Black men, is heading to the bright lights of Broadway. The...

Playwright Keenan Scott II's play “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” a work about the outer and inner lives of Black men, is heading to the bright lights of Broadway. The...

With more shutdowns looming and a vaccine months away from wide distribution, governors across the U.S. are pleading for more help from Washington ahead of what is shaping up to...

The UK's Undercover Policing Inquiry has censored mention of the name of an officer who did untold emotional damage to a number of women. This is another injustice for victims...

President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign was powered by a cell phone app that allowed staff to monitor the movements of his millions of supporters, and offered intimate access to...

The skeletons of two dinosaurs that appeared to have died fighting each other have been donated to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The nonprofit organization Friends of the...

President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign was powered by a cell phone app that allowed staff to monitor the movements of his millions of supporters, and offered intimate access to...

The anchor issued a half-hearted non-apology for using the anniversary of the Nazi pogrom to take a cheap shot at Trump, but her readiness to make the comparison is endemic...

While December's live art fairs are mostly canceled, culture lovers can still indulge in a wide array of in-person and virtual museum shows, exhibitions, performances and talks. How to find...

Revelations that America engaged in surveillance on Denmark should come as no surprise. It has consistently spied on its allies, and its efforts to vilify Huawei are simply an attempt...

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ An unidentified New York Giants player has tested positive for the coronavirus, prompting the team...

The salary cap for Spanish league clubs has been reduced more than $700 million because of the coronavirus pandemic, with Barcelona and Valencia in line to take the biggest hit,...

Jefferson City News-Tribune, Nov. 15 We agree with Gov. Mike Parson and the Missouri Legislature's attempts to plug federal aid into the state budget to fight a pandemic that's spinning...

A woman who jumped off the state ferry Chimacum during a Monday afternoon crossing was recovered and brought to St. Michael Medical Center in Bremerton, the Coast Guard reported. The...

A woman who jumped off the state ferry Chimacum during a Monday afternoon crossing was recovered and brought to St. Michael Medical Center in Bremerton, the Coast Guard reported. The...

FIFA is working with technology firms to develop better visuals of offside lines and improve decision making by referees, the soccer body said Tuesday. FIFA provided an update on its...

With Abigail Shriver's recent book being banned and unbanned at Target, there is debate about whether the book should exist at all. And the ACLU, a supposedly pro-civil liberties organization,...

Now sold on Amazon: insulin and inhalers. The company opened an online pharmacy Tuesday, giving Amazon shoppers the chance to buy their medication and order refills on their phones and...

It looks like a safe bet that Joe Biden will be sworn in on January 20th after successfully campaigning on returning the murderous and oppressive Orwellian US empire back to...