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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats are holding firm in their negotiations with the White House over coronavirus relief.

The breakdown in negotiations for a new coronavirus relief bill in Congress means help won’t be coming anytime soon for budget-strapped state and local governments across the U.S. Governors, mayors and educators have been asking Congress to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars to help them deal with a sharp drop in tax revenue caused by t...

One month into the season and the WNBA bubble seems to be working.

Prime Minister Hassan Diab said he would resign Monday. The resignation comes after a deadly blast killed almost 160 people in Beirut.

A Brooklyn man was arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS and distributing bomb-making instructions, according to federal prosecutors.

Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases burned out, dozens of state and local public health officials around the country have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak, a testament to how politically combustible masks, lockdowns and infection data have become

The family of a Florida man who disappeared in 1997 and who appeared on the hit TV series “Tiger King,” has hired a lawyer and is offering $100,000 in exchange for information to help solve the case

Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia announced Monday that his stepfather died due to complications from COVID-19, one day after the family held a memorial service for the mayor’s mother. “We are incredibly saddened to share that my stepfather, Greg O’Donnell, has passed away due to complications from COVID-19,” Garcia said in a s...

After Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on the details of another stimulus package last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Saturday that gives people with student debt another three-month break from their bills, during which interest will not accrue.  As a result, more than 35 million people with federa...

The World Health Organization said Monday there are glimmers of hope in the fight against the coronavirus, even as global cases from the virus near 20 million and deaths approach 750,000.  “I know many of you are grieving and that this is a difficult moment for the world,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a...

A gas explosion in a Baltimore neighborhood killed a woman, left others seriously hurt and flattened three homes, firefighters said.

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab says he and the rest of his government is stepping down in the wake of the catastrophic explosion in Beirut last week that triggered public fury and mass protests

Even as President Donald Trump pushes out a payroll tax holiday via executive order, there’s no guarantee workers will pocket any money. Congress has been hashing out the details of the next coronavirus relief package, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been cool to the payroll tax cut idea. Payroll taxes are shared by workers and......

Social media posts that followed a police-involved shooting in Chicago encouraged looting as “tempers flared, fueled by misinformation,” Police Supt. David Brown said after an evening of unrest led to more than 100 arrests and left downtown businesses damaged for a second time this summer.

Puerto Ricans demanded answers Monday after botched primaries forced officials to reschedule voting at centers lacking ballots, an unprecedented decision being called a blow to the U.S. territory’s democracy. The island’s elections commission remained silent as anger and embarrassment spread across Puerto Rico one day after hundreds of voters...

A volcano in Indonesia is erupting, sending smoke and ash 16,000 feet into the sky and forcing about 30,000 people to evacuate from their homes.

McDonald’s is suing Steve Easterbrook, the CEO it ousted last year over an inappropriate relationship with an employee, alleging he covered up relationships with other employees and destroyed evidence