The Louisiana coastline devastated by Hurricane Laura began a long and gloomy recovery Friday as hundreds of thousands of people still without water and power
The NBA playoffs will resume Saturday after the league and the National Basketball Players Association detailed the commitments that made players comfortable continuing the postseason.
The Federal Reserve announced a significant change in how it manages interest rates by saying it plans to keep rates near zero even after inflation has exceeded the Fed’s 2% target level.
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CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press/Report for America
Just over 1 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, a sign that the coronavirus outbreak continues to threaten jobs even as the housing market, auto sales and other segments of the economy rebound from a springtime collapse.
A Black conservative running for a Utah congressional seat says America needs more leaders like President Donald Trump who stand by their principles, won’t compromise and who “will stand up to the lawlessness supported by the radical left.”
The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the first time the maximum available sentence has been imposed.
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GERALD HERBERT, MELINDA DESLATTE, and STACEY PLAISANCE Associated Press
Laura has weakened to a Category 2 hurricane as its center moved deeper inland over Louisiana. That's no longer a major hurricane but it still has extremely dangerous winds, hours after striking the coast and pushing what forecasters called an unsurvivable storm surge miles inland.
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ERIC TUCKER and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press
All three NBA playoff games scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed, with players around the league choosing to boycott in their strongest statement yet against racial injustice.
Police say two people have died and one person was injured as shots were fired during the third night of unrest in Wisconsin following the shooting of a Black man by police.
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn is apologizing for overstating the benefits of using convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 patients.
The family attorney for a Black man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, says his client is paralyzed and it would "take a miracle" for him to walk again.
Officials say a young woman who had been declared dead was discovered still alive at a Detroit funeral home. A lawyer hired by Timesha Beauchamp's family says she opened her eyes as she was about to be embalmed.
McDonald's is putting a new spin on an old favorite as it tries to lure customers back during the pandemic. Spicy Chicken McNuggets will hit US restaurants on September 16, for a limited time.
When a massive wildfire swept through California’s oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods — some 2,000 years old and among the tallest living things on Earth — may have finally succumbed.
The hundreds of thousands of bikers who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally have departed western South Dakota. But public health departments in multiple states are trying to measure how much and how quickly the coronavirus spread in the bars, tattoo shops and gatherings before people traveled home to nearly every state in the country.
Laura Stockton, the daughter of retired Utah Jazz great John Stockton, has signed a professional contract to play basketball in Germany, her new club said.
President Donald Trump says the federal government has granted emergency authorization for treating COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma. While Trump is calling the move “a breakthrough" and one of his top health officials says it is “promising,” other health experts say the therapeutic needs more study before it can be celebrated.
