April 10, 2021

Thailand faces growing outbreak ahead of New Year travel

BANGKOK — Thai authorities struggled to contain a growing coronavirus outbreak just days before the country’s traditional Songkran New Year’s holiday, when millions of people […]
April 10, 2021

Biden budget seeks more for schools, health care and housing

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden released a $1.5 trillion wish list for his first federal budget Friday, asking for substantial gains for Democratic priorities including […]
April 10, 2021

Old documents fuel latest bid to halt Nevada lithium mine

RENO, Nev. — Few people had ever heard of Tiehm’s buckwheat when conservationists filed a petition two years ago to list the desert wildflower as […]
April 10, 2021

Feds charge 3 more in massive California unemployment fraud

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Federal prosecutors said Friday that they have charged three Southern California women with using prison inmates’ names to bilk a state agency […]
April 9, 2021

The Latest: US 7th Fleet: 14,000 personnel fully vaccinated

PHILIPPINE SEA — The U.S. 7th Fleet that operates throughout the Indo-Pacific says more than 14,000 of its service members have received their full doses […]
April 9, 2021

Arizona wildfire destroys 12 homes; 200 people evacuated

DUDLEYVILLE, Ariz. — A small community in south-central Arizona remained under an evacuation notice Friday after crews and air tankers stopped the growth of a […]
April 9, 2021

US to keep migrant families in hotels as amid rush for space

Migrant families will be held at hotels in the Phoenix area in response to a growing number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said […]
April 9, 2021

Startup cards can help build credit even in tough times

While major credit card issuers tightened lending standards and slashed credit limits amid COVID-19, some financial technology startups took a different tack. In 2020, young […]
April 9, 2021

ADL: Fox should fire Carlson for white-supremacist rhetoric

The Anti-Defamation League has called for Fox News to fire prime-time opinion host Tucker Carlson because he defended a white-supremacist theory that says whites are […]
April 9, 2021

Line 3 pipeline protesters block entrances to Enbridge offices in Bemidji

According to a statement from activist group Giniw Collective, those present were “protesting the company bulldozing through Minnesota wetlands, watersheds and Anishinaabe treaty territory as […]