Unemployment claims in Britain jumped 69% in April, as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold and hit the labor market, U.K. authorities said Tuesday. The Office of National Statistics says jobless...
May 19, 2020
Food waste is taking on a new meaning in the pandemic era. Dumped milk in Wisconsin. Smashed eggs in Nigeria. Rotting grapes in India. Buried hogs in Minnesota. These disturbing...
May 19, 2020
American Airlines has added a 29-mile flight to its schedule between airports that serve the ski communities of Vail and Aspen, Colo. – a route created to fulfill the requirements...
May 19, 2020
American car makers are getting back to work and Europe is continuing to reopen. But while new coronavirus cases have been declining in many countries that were initially hit hard...
May 19, 2020
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will likely come under tough questioning from senators Tuesday about a small business lending program included in the government's $2 trillion relief package. Lawmakers from both...
May 19, 2020
President Donald Trump's declaration that he was taking an antimalarial drug of dubious effectiveness to help fend off the coronavirus will be welcomed in India. Trump's previous endorsement of hydroxychloroquine...
May 19, 2020
Author Neil Gaiman says he's uncomfortable with the media spotlight on his marriage woes, so why is he airing his dirty linen online himself? And what's his real reason for...
May 19, 2020
Asian shares rose Tuesday on optimism about a potential vaccine for the coronavirus after hopes for a U.S. economic recovery in the second half of the year sent Wall Street...
May 19, 2020
The Mediterranean resort town of Ayia Napa is known for its boisterous parties. Each summer, thousands of young foreign tourists pack the dance floors of its nightlife district after a...
May 19, 2020
On a hot Saturday afternoon, Mahrous Mahmoud is busy as can be. The professional soccer player, however, is working up a sweat in a different way these days — as...
May 19, 2020
On the eve of New Mexico's shutdown of bars and restaurants to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the city of Gallup came alive for one last night of revelry....
May 19, 2020
More than three weeks after Brandon Bell stopped showing up at a New York office that serves people with schizophrenia, employees finally located him at a nearby homeless shelter. The...
May 19, 2020
California's second-largest county wants to run through the door opened by Gov. Gavin Newsom to allow faster reopening of the state's economy and might offer itself as a test of...
May 19, 2020
The Oregon Supreme Court halted a rural judge's order which had tossed out statewide coronavirus restrictions imposed by Gov. Kate Brown in a case brought by churches arguing the Democrat...
May 19, 2020
The University of California is imposing a system-wide freeze on salaries of its non-unionized employees due to enormous financial losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic, President Janet Napolitano said Monday....
May 19, 2020
Pubbelly Sushi in Dadeland was ready for business on the first day Miami-Dade County allowed restaurants to reopen their dining rooms on May 18, 2020. It's been two months since...
May 19, 2020
Investigators on Monday began combing the wreckage of a fire and explosion at a downtown Los Angeles vape and marijuana accessories wholesaler to determine its cause as 12 injured firefighters...
May 18, 2020
Furloughs due to the pandemic have been announced by UW Medicine, which has been at the forefront of local and global COVID-19 efforts including the creation of widely used outbreak...
May 18, 2020
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower-court ruling prohibiting the NCAA from limiting compensation for education-related expenses for student-athletes. The decision announced Monday upholds an injunction...
May 18, 2020
Amid growing pressure to end the coronavirus lockdowns, British authorities are being advised by foreign policy ‘experts' to brace for Chinese hegemony or a Russian invasion, with the only cure...
May 18, 2020
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Monday that dentists and doctors' offices can reopen immediately for non-urgent treatment if coronavirus safety protocols are in place, including adequate personal protective equipment for...
May 18, 2020
Three Gulf Coast states are getting more than $88 million in fisheries disaster funds for damage from last year's flooding, which included an unprecedented two openings of a spillway west...
May 18, 2020
A real estate agent who helped Chinese investors buy Southern California homes that were turned into illegal marijuana farms has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge. Lin Li of...
May 18, 2020
For 81-year-old Dell Kaplan, the offer to get calls from a stranger just to chat while staying home during the coronavirus pandemic was immediately appealing. “It gets pretty lonely here...
May 18, 2020
A Texas salon owner who was sent to jail for opening her business during the coronavirus outbreak called Michigan's governor a “tyrant” on Monday as she stood next to a...
May 18, 2020
The NFL is amending the Rooney Rule to require more interviews of minority candidates for head coaching and coordinator positions, two people familiar with the decision tell The Associated Press....
May 18, 2020
The husband of a broadcast journalist who was killed in a Louisiana plane crash along with four others has filed a lawsuit against the aircraft's owners and insurers, as well...
May 18, 2020
TikTok, the popular short-video app that has also drawn national-security and privacy concerns, has a new high-profile CEO from Disney, Kevin Mayer. Mayer will also be chief operating officer of...
May 18, 2020
Dan Reynen reopened his WeBeFit Personal Training gym in Key West on Monday with copper coating the dumbbell grips, the door handles and the front desk. Copper, known to kill...
May 18, 2020
The North Carolina legislature resumed its annual session on Monday after a two-week break prompted by COVID-19, with lawmakers returning in part to address a state economy and government revenue...
May 18, 2020
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott gave permission Monday to reopen practically every facet of daily life in Texas, including bars and child daycare centers, lifting most full lockdown orders as the...
May 18, 2020
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can...
May 18, 2020
Pacific Gas & Electric's plan for getting out of bankruptcy has won overwhelming support from the victims of deadly Northern California wildfires ignited by the utility's fraying electrical grid, despite...
May 18, 2020
California Gov. Gavin Newsom relaxed county reopening criteria on Monday, a move he said will allow most of the state's 58 counties to begin allowing dining in restaurants and other...
May 18, 2020
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will temporarily become chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican leaders announced Monday, taking charge of the panel at a time of turnover and tension in...
May 18, 2020
It took a pandemic to make snagging a good parking spot at Dadeland Mall easy. Two hours after the massive indoor mall's post-coronavirus reopening Monday, only a couple of dozen...
May 18, 2020
Flanigan's Enterprises, owner of Flanigan's Seafood Bar and Grill and Big Daddy's Liquors chains, plans to use $13.1 million in Paycheck Protection Program funds to bring back laid-off staff. In...
May 18, 2020
Self-employed residents will be able to tap into the $300 million in grant money Idaho has set aside to help small businesses financially harmed by the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Brad...
May 18, 2020
The gunman who killed three U.S. sailors at a military base in Florida last year repeatedly communicated with al-Qaida operatives about planning in the months leading up to the attack,...
May 18, 2020
Pennsylvania's death toll from the COVID-19 outbreak has passed 4,500 and about 63,000 people have been infected, the state Health Department said Monday. Officials added 87 deaths to the tally,...
