Politics

The Joplin Globe, Oct. 27 No one is ever going to mistake the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services for a transparent and public-minded organization. The latest shadow fell...

The city of Gary is selling a former public housing site to a California-based tech company that plans to move its corporate headquarters to the northwestern Indiana city and build...

Coronavirus infections hit a new high this week in Russia, while Germany and the U.K. announced plans to expand virus testing as European nations battled rapidly increasing infections and hospitalizations...

It broke Jessica Murray's heart that so many people in the St. Louis area were dying from the coronavirus and that they were being remembered less for who they were...

For four years, the world's nations have watched as a very different American president engages with the international community — or doesn't. Longtime alliances have been strained, agreements wiped away,...

Donald Trump could be planning to call an early electoral victory if it looks like he's in the lead on election day – and then claim Biden stole it as...

A half-million people in the English city of Liverpool will be regularly tested for COVID-19 in Britain's first citywide trial of widespread, rapid testing that the government hopes will be...

More than $5 million in federal grants have been awarded to six projects in southern and eastern Kentucky, officials said. The funding was awarded by the Appalachian Regional Commission's Partnerships...

The University of Kentucky has been awarded a $100,000 grant for a four-year program focused on precast concrete education by the PCI Foundation. Marty McIntyre, executive director of the Chicago-based...

As Europe tries to break the surging second wave of coronavirus infections, Germany is counting on a new type of test to avoid closing nursing homes to visitors, a move...

The British populist politician has rebranded his party and will now devote his energy to addressing Covid-19, by backing the controversial Great Barrington Declaration advocating herd immunity. Just like Batman,...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Authorities in Sri Lanka have extended the school holidays for two more weeks, postponing the opening of classes amid a surge of COVID-19 patients from two...

The work of a British family doctor demonstrates that stopping eating carbohydrates helps with blood pressure, diabetes and weight loss - helping save lives during Covid-19. But the medical industry...

After a rocky primary election that spawned viral photos of voters waiting in hourslong lines to cast their ballots, Georgia election officials are hoping that steps taken since then will...

Florida voters on Tuesday were deciding whether to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next six years, which advocates say will lift the pay for...

Florida voters on Tuesday were deciding whether to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next six years, which advocates say will lift the pay for...

The most competitive election cycle in decades could confirm Georgia as a swing state or leave Republicans still in control. After weeks of early balloting, voters will finish deciding Tuesday...

The scourge of a global pandemic produced an election season like no other in the U.S., persuading record numbers of Americans to cast their ballots early, forcing states to make...

A national awakening on race has driven a well-funded campaign in California to reinstate affirmative action in public hiring, contracting and college admissions, with voters deciding Tuesday whether to allow...

California voters are behind the wheel as they navigate the employment future for Uber, Lyft and other app-based delivery drivers in the most expensive ballot measure in state history. The...

Election Day was arriving Tuesday in California as most of the votes have already been cast. The coronavirus pandemic has transformed Election Day into election month for many places in...

Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Tuesday as investors watched for U.S. election results, hoping a win by challenger Joe Biden in the presidential race might lead to...

The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local): 9:45 p.m. Joe Biden is predicting a victory in Pennsylvania on the eve of the election. Speaking at a drive-in rally...

The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local): 9:45 p.m. Joe Biden is predicting a victory in Pennsylvania on the eve of the election. Speaking at a drive-in rally...

The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local): 9:45 p.m. Joe Biden is predicting a victory in Pennsylvania on the eve of the election. Speaking at a drive-in rally...

The last evacuation order has been lifted from the Southeast Texas vicinity of a freight train derailment that occurred last week, officials said Monday. Schools near the derailment site will...

U.S. Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama made a flurry of campaign stops Monday as the Deep South Democrat tries to avoid being swept out of office by Republican Tommy Tuberville...

After unprocessed ballots were found at a South Miami-Dade postal facility last week, the U.S. Postal Service is facing increased scrutiny to ensure all mail-in ballots are turned into election...

U.S. pilot unions say the Federal Aviation Administration should improve its proposal for training pilots how to handle a nose-down pitch of the Boeing 737 Max, which was grounded after...

The U.S. Postal Service said in a court filing late Monday that around 180,000 delayed pieces of mail have been discovered at a South Miami-Dade County post office where dozens...

In the final day of a campaign unlike any other, President Donald Trump charged across the nation Monday, delivering without evidence his incendiary allegation that the election is rigged, while...

Boarded-up storefronts. Private security guards. Canceled vacation days. Twelve-hour shifts. Across California, merchants are covering their doors and windows with plywood as police agencies promise a beefed-up presence on the...

A Chinese man has been convicted in Florida in a scheme to buy and ship inflatable military boats from the United States to China. Ge Songtao, 50, pleaded guilty Monday...

Philadelphia Union defender Mark McKenzie is thinking about his grandmother as he participates in his first election. "Going back to my grandma, expressing the importance of voting and how, as...

Just when it looked as though John Elway's latest quarterback undertaking was about to join the long list of flameouts in Denver, Drew Lock suddenly looked like, well, John Elway....

Walmart is laying off the robots it had deployed in about 500 stores to keep tabs on what's on and not on the shelves. The retailer said Monday it has...

AP VoteCast is a survey of the American electorate conducted in all 50 states by NORC at the University of Chicago for The Associated Press and Fox News. The survey...

Stocks closed broadly higher on the eve of Election Day and a potentially turbulent week for markets. Monday's gains came as more companies reported stronger profits for the summer than...

Stocks closed broadly higher on the eve of Election Day and a potentially turbulent week for markets. Monday's gains came as more companies reported stronger profits for the summer than...

AP VoteCast is a survey of the American electorate conducted in all 50 states by NORC at the University of Chicago for The Associated Press and Fox News. The survey...