Once a hidden and under-the-radar topic, privacy got more attention at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas this week. Startups now volunteer information about how they're securing your data...
January 10, 2020
Online mattress pioneer Casper Sleep Inc. has filed regulatory paperwork to go public. Casper said in a filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission that its stock will be...
January 10, 2020
Two more decommissioned Cold War-era missile silos have entered the Arizona real estate market after one northwest of Tucson sold for more than the asking price. Listing agent Grant Hampton...
January 10, 2020
George Nicolau, who ruled against baseball owners in two collusion cases and served as president of the National Academy of Arbitrators, has died. He was 94. Nicolau died Jan. 2...
January 10, 2020
CareCloud, the first major Miami-based health IT startup to garner significant venture capital this century, has been sold. New Jersey-based MTBC, an electronic health-records group, announced the acquisition Friday. The...
January 10, 2020
The state of Oklahoma will receive $8.75 million from two pharmaceutical companies in a deal announced Friday that will end legal action the state was considering against the opioid manufacturers....
January 10, 2020
A prominent transplant surgeon who serves as speaker of Poland's Senate defended himself from allegations that he took bribes from patients, claims that appeared in state-controlled media and which the...
January 10, 2020
Uber said Friday it will stop operating in Colombia, following stiff opposition from taxi drivers' unions and a lawsuit that said the ride-sharing app was breaking local transport laws. In...
January 10, 2020
A judge has ruled that several sessions of Bakersfield City Council meetings held behind closed doors in 2017 violated California's open meeting law, a newspaper reported. The closed sessions involved...
January 10, 2020
The Congressional Black Caucus is making its first visit to Massachusetts to host events focused on economic and school issues. U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, of Boston, says fellow Democratic members...
January 10, 2020
Just before 5 p.m., Marie-Mislen Thomas' house fell on top of her three children. In the first nightmarish hour after a massive earthquake devastated Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, the...
January 10, 2020
David Drummond, the legal chief of Google parent company Alphabet, is leaving at the end of the month, following accusations of inappropriate relationships with employees. Alphabet did not give a...
January 10, 2020
Hello! Here's a look at how AP's general news coverage is shaping up in the Mid-Atlantic, covering North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. Questions about coverage plans are welcome and...
January 10, 2020
Figuring out how to fund delayed pay raises, clamping down on pipeline protesters, and legalizing hemp in a way to prevent people from getting stoned will top South Dakota lawmakers'...
January 10, 2020
BBC's Samira Ahmed earned her chops in journalism after a good education and a string of challenging jobs. But now she's won a sex equality claim for being paid less...
January 10, 2020
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is restoring a workplace safety board that was abolished by former Gov. Matt Bevin. Beshear said on Friday the move to reestablish the 12-member Occupational Safety...
January 10, 2020
Jim Little was hired Friday as chief executive officer of the Ottawa Senators, a team looking for a boost on the ice and at the gate. Owner Eugene Melnyk, whose...
January 10, 2020
An Army veteran in Mississippi who served in Vietnam and Iraq says a dispute over payments has left him unable to use a pair of expensive prosthetic legs. Jerry Holliman,...
January 10, 2020
Anemic funding, alleged unpaid work and legal fights are hobbling developers of a proposed $800 million oil refinery near Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota. But the project...
January 10, 2020
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is warning international students that federal immigration officials may visit their work sites to verify that their employment is directly related to their studies. School...
January 10, 2020
President Donald Trump ordered new retaliatory economic sanctions on Iran Friday, even as his administration faced persistent questions over its drone strike on an Iranian general that helped ignite the...
January 10, 2020
The University of Virginia's School of Nursing has received a $20 million gift to support the enrollment of more than 1,000 students in its programs over the next decade. UVA...
January 10, 2020
The Seattle Police Department's civilian watchdog has found that an officer's ruse in a 2018 hit-and-run case contributed to the driver's suicide. The Office of Police Accountability said that to...
January 10, 2020
The clamor to blame Iran and ‘Russian missiles' for this week's UIA PS752 plane crash in Iran is a reminder of how geopolitics plays its part in determining which disasters...
January 10, 2020
The state of Michigan's tax revenues are slightly higher than anticipated, but both Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's administration and Republicans in the Legislature say it's not a jackpot for new spending....
January 10, 2020
A prominent transplant surgeon who serves as speaker of Poland's Senate defended himself from allegations that he took bribes from patients, claims that appeared in state-controlled media and which the...
January 10, 2020
Guardians caring for hundreds of thousands of children born addicted to opioids since 2000 should be grouped together as part of the class action lawsuit filed by local governments and...
January 10, 2020
A large resort on Minnesota's North Shore of Lake Superior has been sold for $15 million. The sale of Superior Shores Resort near Two Harbors to North Shore Resort Company...
January 10, 2020
Trump said Iran is in conflict with the ‘civilized world,' but civilized states don't seek regime change, lead aggressive wars, and trash international law like the US has done more...
January 10, 2020
A state employee who says she was sexually harassed and physically injured by a supervisor is suing the state for $19 million. Toni Prins, a Kenai juvenile justice worker, also...
January 10, 2020
The former chief financial officer of Silverwood Theme Park has been sentence to up to 14 years in prison for embezzling thousands of dollars from the northern Idaho amusement park....
January 10, 2020
An upstate New York airport and its computer management provider were attacked by ransomware over Christmas, officials said. Officials at the Albany County Airport Authority announced Thursday that the attack...
January 10, 2020
Republican congressional candidate Tom Tiffany tosses a shovel-full of cow manure to demonstrate his pledge to work closely with President Donald Trump to “clean out the three-ring circus in Washington"...
January 10, 2020
The governor of New Mexico has hosted about 30 executives in the aerospace industry at a closed-door summit to reportedly collaborate on strategies promoting business development in the state. Democratic...
January 10, 2020
A civil engineer who has worked at the Iowa Department of Transportation for 28 years has been chosen as the agency's interim director, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said Friday. Stuart...
January 10, 2020
A Baltimore judge has ruled in favor of an apartment company owed by President Donald Trump's son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner in a lawsuit that claimed the company...
January 10, 2020
The Trump administration is announcing new sanctions on Iran following this week's missile strikes by the Islamic Republic on U.S. bases in Iraq. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury...
January 10, 2020
Grain futures were mostly higher Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Mar. delivery rose 4.80 cents at $5.6620 a bushel; Mar. corn fell 3...
January 10, 2020
Aircraft parts maker Spirit AeroSystems has announced it is laying off 2,800 employees at its Wichita, Kansas, facility due to the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max. Employees will be...
January 10, 2020
A PC Specialist ad has been pulled in the UK for "harmful gender stereotypes," after a handful of politically correct whiners reported it to the Advertising Standards Authority for showing...
