TALLAHASSEE, Fla.— This was the year Florida’s Democrats spoke ambitiously of ending their 20-year journey in political exile in this battleground state. Instead, election results after a tense and bruising recount showed Republicans coming out on top for governor and even picking up a U.S. Senate seat. After […]
Japan’s politically sensitive trade surplus with the United States shrank further in October, the fourth consecutive monthly decline, official data showed Monday. The figure also showed an overall global trade deficit, as increases in imports of crude oil and liquefied natural gas overwhelmed a rise in exports of […]
They started work in the cool of the morning and moved quickly, uncoiling reel after reel of vicious-looking fencing and tying it with barbed wire to green poles hammered into the ground. Over the course of three days, a gleaming, shoulders-high barrier of concertina-wire emerged like […]
The toll from the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history rose further on Sunday to 77, the sheriff’s office said, after a vigil to honor the victims. “One human remain was located today,” raising the toll by one in the so-called Camp Fire which broke […]
China will expand its ban on imports of solid waste, local media reported Monday, almost a year after its first curbs caused havoc in countries that sent their rubbish to the Asian giant. The regulatory action — which expands the prohibition to 32 categories of solid waste from […]
Three leading Hong Kong democracy campaigners pleaded not guilty on Monday to public nuisance charges over their involvement in massive rallies calling for political reform, as room for opposition in the semi-autonomous city shrinks under an assertive China. The pioneering trio are among nine activists all facing public […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook predicts that new regulations of tech companies and social networks to protect personal data are “inevitable.” In an interview with news website Axios being broadcast Sunday on HBO television, Cook said he expected the US Congress would take up the matter. “Generally speaking, I […]
Florida is filled with strange creatures, but skull-collecting ants are near the top of the creepy list. “In 1958, shortly after this ant was described as a species, scientists reported something weird about it,” Adrian Smith, an entomologist at North Carolina State University, said in a news release. Researchers […]
About 7,400 pounds of cargo are headed to the International Space Station after being launched early Saturday morning aboard an Antares 230 rocket in Virginia. Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft lifted off at 4:01 a.m. Saturday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore after two days of rain delays. […]
Florida’s attorney general is suing the two largest drugstore companies in the United States — CVS and Walgreens — alleging they are contributing to the state and national opioid crisis. In a press release Friday, Pam Bondi said the two companies were being added to an existing lawsuit filed on May […]
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