Percy L. Lewis III was especially looking forward to this year's Neshoba County Fair, an annual Mississippi event where he races his horses and carries forward a family tradition.

At 42, Lewis has been riding horses since he was 5 or 6 years old. Growing up, Lewis, his brother and a childhood friend would race on a local dirt road. As adults, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- If you had posed the scenario to him as a hypothetical a few months ago -- "Your company will be hemorrhaging cash, and you'll turn to Uncle Sam for emergency funds" -- Jim Brady would've confidently dismissed it.

"Never," he said, "did I think I would need government help."

Brady, 69, started AToN Center, a luxury rehab ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration's move to curtail a program sparing young immigrants from deportation is an effort to "dismantle" an initiative the U.S. Supreme Court just spared, a group of immigrants said in court.

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said last month that the administration would consider ending the Deferred ...Read more

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand on Thursday reported 13 new cases of COVID-19, with health officials linking them to one Auckland family.

Health officials expected further cases to be detected over the coming days, director general of health Ashley Bloomfield told media.

On Tuesday the country reported four cases of COVID-19 all from ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Meghan and Harry have quietly moved up the coast, buying a home in the Santa Barbara area, sources told the Los Angeles Times.

Prince Harry and the former Meghan Markle have purchased a home in the heart of Montecito, according to people familiar with the matter who weren't authorized to speak publicly.

Tabloids first reported ...Read more

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rico's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the votes cast in Sunday's botched primary election are valid and will be counted. The island's highest court ordered the election to be continued this coming Sunday for precincts unable to cast their ballots or precincts that were not open for eight hours.

The results of...Read more

A federal judge late Wednesday denied an attempt by Jeffrey Epstein's alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell to delay the unsealing of potentially embarrassing documents in a now-settled 2017 defamation lawsuit.

U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska earlier this month had ordered unsealed a large batch of documents associated with Maxwell's defamation ...Read more

WILMINGTON, Del. -- The vetting Kamala Harris endured to earn her spot on Joe Biden's presidential ticket was like none other in recent history.

It was at once a public audition and highly secretive. It took sharp turns as the nation struggled with a pandemic and erupted in protest following the killing of George Floyd. In the era of Trump, the...Read more

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The Pine Gulch fire, a lightning-sparked wildfire burning north of Grand Junction, exploded overnight, nearly doubling in size to become the seventh-largest fire in the state's history, fire officials said.

The fire, which started July 31, grew from 36,449 acres Tuesday to 51,455 acres Wednesday morning, according to ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Prosecutors are seeking to try the four former officers charged in George Floyd's killing in one trial.

Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank filed a motion Wednesday requesting to join the trials of Derek Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. A trial date has been set for March 8.

Frank argued that the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Early Wednesday, the morning after Joe Biden asked Kamala Harris to run as his vice president, Republicans blasted her as "A California Progressive Radical."

Hours later, the Trump campaign slammed the first-term U.S. senator from the nation's most populous state as "a California Radical who Completes the Left-Wing Takeover of Joe...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The fundraising email from California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris hit inboxes Tuesday evening with the subject line "Proud to announce." But it wasn't about Harris making history as her party's vice presidential nominee.

"I'm excited to let you know ... that I'm proudly endorsing Cindy Axne for Congress!" read the email, touting...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Morrie Tobin, the Los Angeles financier who tipped federal authorities in Boston to William "Rick" Singer's college admissions scam, was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in prison for selling stock at fraudulently inflated prices to unwitting investors, robbing them of millions.

U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton ...Read more

Georgia high school that drew national attention over masks will reopen part time

ATLANTA -- Students at the Paulding County high school that drew attention nationwide after leaked photographs showed crowded hallways and few masks will return to campus part time under a new plan to control the spread of the coronavirus.

North Paulding High ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Nearly three weeks after ordering the removal of Christopher Columbus statues in Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday announced the formation of a committee to review the city's monuments as part of "a racial healing and historical reckoning project."

The Lightfoot administration also said it will commission "a series of ...Read more

WILMINGTON, Del. -- The Biden-Harris presidential ticket made its pandemic-inflected debut on Wednesday, forgoing the conventional giddiness of an introductory campaign event for a more somber tone centered on the challenges facing the nation.

Instead of cheering crowds and waving campaign signs, there were face masks and temperature checks, as...Read more