More than 1M Americans seek help as companies cut more jobs

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a million Americans sought unemployment benefits last week. That’s the word from a Labor Department report that indicates companies are cutting more jobs as the coronavirus surges through the Sunbelt and some of the nation’s most populous states. Layoffs in Florida, Georgia and California rose by tens of thousands. The…

In Defeat, Sessions Still Says Trump Right for the Nation

Mobile, AL (AP) — Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has lost the Republican nomination for his old Senate seat in Alabama to former college football coach Tommy Tuberville. The defeat likely ends Sessions’ long political career, a bitter loss egged on by President Donald Trump. Tuberville is familiar to Alabamians from his decade as…