Australia has been among the world's most successful countries in containing its coronavirus outbreak — with one exception. The southeastern state of Victoria had some of the nation's toughest pandemic...
July 7, 2020
The government's small business lending program has benefited millions of companies, with the goal of minimizing the number of layoffs Americans have suffered in the face of the coronavirus pandemic....
July 7, 2020
Churches connected to President Donald Trump and other organizations linked to current or former Trump evangelical advisers received at least $17.3 million in loans from a federal rescue package designed...
July 7, 2020
Florida's largest county is again severely limiting its restaurants and fully closing gyms and other indoor venues weeks after they reopened because a spike in coronavirus cases is creating a...
July 7, 2020
Rapper Ice Cube, Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and longtime boxing promoter Bob Arum led a cavalcade of sports leagues, federations, businesses and teams that navigated a federal loan program...
July 7, 2020
Vice President Mike Pence will travel again to Pennsylvania this week, dropping in on an important presidential battleground state on Thursday. Pence will take a bus tour from Lancaster to...
July 7, 2020
The Seattle City Council on Monday approved adopting a new tax on large businesses, two years after the council repealed a big business tax amid pressure from corporations such as...
July 7, 2020
The Trump administration on Monday formally authorized exports from a proposed Oregon natural-gas terminal, the first on the U.S. West Coast. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette signed the order for the...
July 6, 2020
The number of COVID-19 patients in Alabama hospitals rose to a new high of 1,000 Monday as health officials continued to urge people to wear masks and take precautions amid...
July 6, 2020
More than 100,000 Paycheck Protection Program loans made to South Florida car dealerships, private schools, white-shoe law firms and nonprofits rescued more than more than 800,000 local jobs, according to...
July 6, 2020
A dairy owned by Illinois Republican congressional candidate Jim Oberweis received a loan worth $5 million to $10 million from the federal rescue package aimed at helping small businesses weather...
July 6, 2020
Falsely accusing someone of a hate crime should be a serious matter, especially in a time as tense as this. The eagerness with which everyone involved in the fake NASCAR...
July 6, 2020
An additional 450 people in Pennsylvania have tested positive for the coronavirus, with nearly half the new cases coming from the Pittsburgh area, state health officials reported Monday. There were...
July 6, 2020
The government's small business lending program has benefited millions of companies, with the goal of minimizing the number of layoffs Americans have suffered in the face of the coronavirus pandemic....
July 6, 2020
Two storied magazines that focus on news and culture in the Black community, Essence and Ebony, are in the midst of turmoil at their top levels. Ebony late last week...
July 6, 2020
The governing board of North Carolina's largest county by population voted on Monday to make Juneteenth a paid county holiday for its workers. The Wake County Board of Commissioners voted...
July 6, 2020
A 6-year-old computer whiz. A young mother working for a better home for her kids. An 8-year-old who loved to make dance videos. From San Francisco to South Carolina, a...
July 6, 2020
Texas Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who launched his political career on conservative talk radio, received a government small business loan for his Houston broadcasting company as the coronavirus pandemic...
July 6, 2020
The second and third largest cruise companies in the world are teaming up to figure out how to safely resume operations. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings...
July 6, 2020
At least $25 billion in interest-free government loans from the Paycheck Protection Program went to Florida small businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic, according to data released Monday by the...
July 6, 2020
Businesses tied to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and two of the state's legislative leaders were among those that received federal loans aimed at keeping small businesses...
July 6, 2020
The National Hockey League and NHL Players' Association announced a tentative agreement Monday to return to play this season and extend their collective bargaining agreement by four years. The CBA...
July 6, 2020
Dana Canedy will take on one of the biggest roles at Simon & Schuster. The New York-based publishing house announced Monday that Canedy has been named as senior vice president...
July 6, 2020
A Seattle City Council member is introducing legislation to redirect money from the police budget to creating a new mental health and substance addiction first-responder program. The proposal from council...
July 6, 2020
A few days of the silence and solitude of quarantine was all that Marcela Álvarez could stand. She went to the balcony of her house in Buenos Aires' Villa Devoto...
July 6, 2020
The number of COVID-19 patients in Georgia hospitals rose to nearly 2,000 on Monday, as the number of cases statewide approached 100,000. The increase in hospitalization continued even though the...
July 6, 2020
Governors who ordered shutdowns as their states responded to the coronavirus pandemic were among millions of beneficiaries of the loan program created to help small businesses weather COVID-19's effect on...
July 6, 2020
The national labor union representing stage actors and managers has given the go-ahead for two Massachusetts theaters to resume theatrical performances, offering potential road maps for the national return to...
July 6, 2020
Four employees of a Georgia sandwich shop were fired after making a noose out of bread dough and filming themselves playing with it. A video posted to social media of...
July 6, 2020
Lawrence Journal-World, July 4 Hopefully you haven't become confused and placed your political yard sign on your face and your face mask in your yard. It seems to be an...
July 6, 2020
Kansas City Star, July 5 We all join Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas in his heartbreak and disgust over the violence that's so out of control that three kids were...
July 6, 2020
Newly formed “strike teams” of state inspectors contacted thousands of California businesses over the long Independence Day weekend but issued citations to a relative few as they enforced coronavirus restrictions...
July 6, 2020
If South Carolina's coronavirus infection and hospitalization numbers continue rising at their current rates, hospitals will likely have to implement a medical surge plan to add 3,000 more beds for...
July 6, 2020
Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Monday, reflecting investor optimism that the economy can continue its turnaround despite all the challenges ahead of it. Technology companies accounted for a...
July 6, 2020
A casino operator has reported plans to lay off nearly 1,150 workers at Louisiana locations next month, the latest job losses to hit casinos in the wake of coronavirus-related economic...
July 6, 2020
Several Native American leaders and organizations sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday calling for the league to force Redskins owner Dan Snyder to change the team...
July 6, 2020
Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery fell 2 cents to settle at $40.63 a barrel Monday. Brent crude oil for September delivery rose 30 cents to $43.10 a barrel....
July 6, 2020
Organizers of the 2022 World Cup have become the latest Qatari state entity to make staff redundant. The World Cup organizing committee did not directly cite the financial impact of...
July 6, 2020
Social media platforms and messaging apps including Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, Google and Twitter will deny law enforcement requests for user data in Hong Kong as they assess the effect of...
July 6, 2020
Hospitals were fast approaching capacity in Florida and Texas, and the Miami area closed restaurants again Monday because of the surging coronavirus, as the U.S. emerged from a Fourth of...
