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Updated: 1 hours ago
|By Associated Press
With America's list-leading 160,000 dead, politicized resistance to masks and rising caseload, European nations have barred American tourists and visitors from other countries with growing cases from freely traveling to the bloc.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By Shawn Householder
The office located at 148 W. Washington Street will be the local headquarters for various Republican activities.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By Associated Press
Bypassing Congress, President Donald Trump on Saturday signed executive orders deferring payroll taxes for some Americans and extending unemployment benefits after negotiations on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By Associated Press
The fourth COVID-19 test result for Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine came back negative Saturday after he received conflicting positive and negative results two days before, ahead of a scheduled meeting with President Trump.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 9:39 PM EDT
|By Roxanne Reid
WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows discusses Trump's acceptance speech, negotiations on the next relief bill, and mail-in voting
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 8:38 PM EDT
|By ANDREW TAYLOR
A breakdown in the talks would put at risk more than $100 billion to help reopen schools, a fresh round of $1,200 direct payments to most people and hundreds of billions of dollars for state and local governments to help them avoid furloughing workers and cutting services as tax revenues shrivel.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 4:45 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Kanye West's unlikely White House bid is getting help qualifying for presidential ballots in key states from Republicans around the country, fueling suspicions he's being pushed to run by allies of President Donald Trump hoping to siphon support away from Joe Biden.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 4:16 PM EDT
|By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
The United States added 1.8 million jobs in July, a pullback from the gains of May and June and evidence that the resurgent coronavirus is weakening hiring and the economic rebound.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 3:46 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
U.S. intelligence has assessed that China is hoping President Donald Trump does not win reelection, while Russia is working to denigrate Democrat Joe Biden.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 1:41 PM EDT
|By MATTHEW DALY
The U.S. Postal Service says it lost $2.2 billion in the three months that ended in June as the beleaguered agency — hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic — piles up financial losses that officials warn could top $20 billion over two years.
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Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 1:02 PM EDT
|By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
Brent Scowcroft, who played a prominent role in American foreign policy as national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and was a Republican voice against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has died. He was 95.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 12:47 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The announcement by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo clears the way for schools to offer at least some days of in-person classes, alongside remote learning.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 11:18 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
The matter now returns to the panel for consideration of other legal issues.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 9:37 AM EDT
|By WBAL Staff
People in Maryland have been waiting for hours - day after day - trying to get mail that was never delivered.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 10:11 PM EDT
|By JONATHAN LEMIRE
President Donald Trump is engaging in a deeply personal attack on Joe Biden, even questioning without foundation the former vice president's faith in God.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 10:06 PM EDT
|By SARAH SKIDMORE SELL and PAUL WISEMAN
An unemployed makeup artist with two toddlers and a disabled husband needs help with food and rent. A hotel manager says his unemployment has deepened his anxiety and kept him awake at night. A dental hygienist, pregnant with her third child, is struggling to afford diapers and formula.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 9:50 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Both sides have set a goal of reaching a deal by week’s end.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 8:47 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Since the day Trump took office, the ACLU has filed 237 lawsuits against the administration and about 160 other legal actions.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 8:24 PM EDT
|By MATTHEW DALY
A Democratic senator said Thursday he is launching an investigation into changes at the U.S. Postal Service that are causing delays in mail deliveries across the country just as big volume increases are expected for mail-in election voting.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 7:55 PM EDT
|By Kyle Midura
States struggle to balance books with primary revenue streams running dry. Congress is split on whether to bail them out.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 3:59 PM EDT
Dismukes said he maintains his innocence regarding allegations of stealing money from a former employer.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 2:13 PM EDT
|By WPBF staff
Three teenagers are accused of jumping a wall to get into President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Palm Beach Police say they had an AK-47 with them.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 2:07 PM EDT
|By MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press
New York Attorney General Letitia James said Thursday her office is suing to dissolve the National Rifle Association, saying its leaders exploited it for personal gain.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 12:12 PM EDT
|By Gray News Staff
David Nagy, 79, of Jefferson, Texas,died a needless death, his family pointed out in his obituary.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 9:31 AM EDT
|By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
President Donald Trump is still trying to overturn “Obamacare,” but his predecessor’s health care law keeps gaining ground in places where it was once unwelcome.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 9:59 PM EDT
|By ANDREW TAYLOR
After more than a week’s worth of meetings, at least some clarity is emerging in the bipartisan Washington talks on a huge COVID-19 response bill.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 9:16 PM EDT
|By Associated Press and AMANDA SEITZ
The State Department says Russia is using social media, state-funded media and a loose network of proxy websites to amplify conspiracy theories and misinformation, most recently around the coronavirus.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 5:09 PM EDT
|By Kyle Midura
President Donald Trump will visit a Whirlpool factory in Clyde, Ohio Thursday. There, he'll propose new steps to bring American jobs back on-shore, and tout his record revitalizing manufacturing during.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 2:09 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Trump also called for the first formal presidential debate, scheduled for Sept. 29, to be moved up on the calendar because early voting will have already begun in some states.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 1:59 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The free Covidwise app is available in Apple and Android app stores as of Wednesday.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 1:00 PM EDT
|By BILL BARROW Associated Press
Biden's exchange was part of an interview conducted with the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 12:40 PM EDT
|By MATTHEW LEE
The State Department’s acting inspector general resigned abruptly on Wednesday following the firing of his predecessor in circumstances now being investigated by Congress.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 12:36 PM EDT
|By BILL BARROW
Joe Biden will not travel to Milwaukee to accept the Democratic presidential nomination because of concerns over the coronavirus, party officials said Wednesday, signaling a move to a convention that essentially has become entirely virtual.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 12:29 PM EDT
|By MATTHEW PERRONE, NICKY FORSTER and MICHELLE LIU
An Associated Press analysis found that the number of tests per day slid 3.6% over the past two weeks to 750,000, with the count falling in 22 states. That includes places like Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri and Iowa where the percentage of positive tests is high and continuing to climb.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 8:13 AM EDT
|By KEVIN FREKING
In an abrupt reversal, President Donald Trump is encouraging voters in the critical swing state of Florida to vote by mail after months of criticizing the practice — and while his campaign and the GOP challenge Nevada over its new vote-by-mail law.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 12:21 AM EDT
|By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the two sides set a goal of reaching an agreement by the end of the week to permit a vote next week.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 11:01 PM EDT
|By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and COREY WILLIAMS
With the coronavirus pandemic still raging, the primary election was marked by a surge of mail-in absentee ballots.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 9:26 PM EDT
|By Alissa Pietila
UpperMichigansSource.com has updated results from county clerks across Upper Michigan.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 9:08 PM EDT
|By Jacqueline Policastro
In a broadcast exclusive, the president says he wants to extend the $600 weekly benefit to unemployed Americans.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 8:28 PM EDT
|By Jacqueline Policastro
The state plans to allow all active voters to vote by mail.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 5:16 PM EDT
|By PHIL MARCELO, CARLA K. JOHNSON and LISA MARIE PANE
Big house parties, no-mask weddings, crowded bars and restaurants — there are reasons the U.S. has racked up more than 155,000 coronavirus deaths, by far the most of any country, and is fast approaching an off-the-charts 5 million confirmed infections, easily the highest in the world.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 4:21 PM EDT
|By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law legislation that will devote nearly $3 billion annually to conservation projects, outdoor recreation and maintenance of national parks and other public lands. The measure was overwhelmingly approved by Congress.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 4:06 PM EDT
|By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer
Microsoft is in talks to buy parts of TikTok.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 1:52 PM EDT
The comments came in a wide-ranging, contentious interview with Axios that aired Monday on HBO.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 12:36 PM EDT
|By MIKE SCHNEIDER
The U.S. Census Bureau is cutting its schedule for data collection for the 2020 census a month short as legislation that would have extended the national head count’s deadlines stalls in the U.S. Senate.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 7:11 AM EDT
|By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
The Trump administration’s plan to provide every nursing home with a fast COVID-19 testing machine comes with an asterisk: The government won’t supply enough test kits to check staff and residents beyond an initial couple of rounds.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 6:27 AM EDT
|By REGINA GARCIA CANO and MICHAEL CASEY
Some 23 million people nationwide at risk of being evicted, according to The Aspen Institute, as moratoriums enacted because of the coronavirus expire and courts reopen. Around 30 state moratoriums have expired since May, according to The Eviction Lab at Princeton University.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 7:38 PM EDT
Nevada state lawmakers passed a bill Sunday that would add the state to a growing list of U.S. states that will mail active voters ballots ahead of the November election amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 7:17 PM EDT
|By ANDREW TAYLOR
Both the Trump administration negotiating team and top Capitol Hill Democrats remain far apart, and talks since Saturday — when the combatants announced modest progress — have yet to lend momentum.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 5:37 PM EDT
Only the lower level of city hall will be open Tuesday for city voters in Precincts 1, 2 and 3.