The Pennsylvania Department of Health said Thursday that 310 more people with COVID-19 have died, raising the statewide death toll to 4,316. The deaths took place over the last several...
May 7, 2020
South Carolina health officials vow over the next two months to more than triple the number of coronavirus tests performed in the state. The promise comes as state officials lift...
May 7, 2020
A man made to make shoes. The king of the Congolese dance hall. A novelist in exile. In the first of an occasional series, The Associated Press takes a look...
May 7, 2020
Non-profits have outclassed neoliberal governments and the private sector during the pandemic, but society shouldn't have to rely on that. We must end charity and replace it with a fairly...
May 7, 2020
A man driving a stolen car sparked a fiery crash on a major roadway in Philadelphia that left a Florida truck driver dead, Pennsylvania state police said The crash occurred...
May 7, 2020
Key West no longer needs so many cruise ships docking almost daily at the island's three ports, a group of local activists say. The newly formed political action committee called...
May 7, 2020
Novelist N.K. Jemisin was a teenager the first time she read Octavia Butler, and nothing had prepared her for it. It was the 1980s, and the book was called “Dawn,”...
May 7, 2020
California will have a budget shortfall of $54.3 billion because of the economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus, Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration announced Thursday, a stunning reversal for a state...
May 7, 2020
Grain futures were mixed Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for May delivery rose 9.8 cents at $5.31 a bushel; May corn gained 4.6 cents...
May 7, 2020
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday removed jail as a punishment for violating his coronavirus restrictions following outcry by conservatives over a Dallas salon owner who was jailed for...
May 7, 2020
Neiman Marcus, the 112-year-old storied luxury department store chain, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the first department store chain to be toppled by the coronavirus pandemic. The move,...
May 7, 2020
Zoom Video Communications is buying security firm Keybase in an effort to shore up security for its video meetings. Terms of the deal were undisclosed. Zoom has been working to...
May 7, 2020
Hawaii authorities are cracking down on rogue tourists who are visiting beaches, riding personal watercraft, shopping and generally flouting strict requirements that they quarantine for 14 days after arriving. A...
May 7, 2020
There are no tourists anymore on San Francisco's famously twisty and steep Lombard Street. The city's landmark hotels and posh shops are closed up tight. But one staple of San...
May 7, 2020
Regional and political fractures are emerging in many nations over how fast to lift the lid on coronavirus-imposed lockdowns, as worries about economic devastation collide with fears of a second...
May 7, 2020
Initial jobless claims in Florida dropped by more than half last week compared to the prior week, according to figures released Thursday, as unemployed Floridians continued facing problems signing up...
May 7, 2020
Netflix mini-series Hollywood wants to vindicate marginalized strugglers who tried to make it big in the movie industry in the mid-20th century. Instead, its alt-history devalues decades of real struggle....
May 7, 2020
The idea of immunity passports is gaining in popularity among Western governments. But they are fraught with problems, from their implementation to their functionality. Above all, they're a grave threat...
May 7, 2020
About 80,000 Kentucky residents applied for unemployment benefits last week, down from the prior week while showing that economic disruption from the coronavirus continues to spread. The number of laid-off...
May 7, 2020
A cargo transportation company plans to retrieve an unmanned barge that has been floating down an Alaska river since it came loose from ice that trapped the vessel over the...
May 7, 2020
A new work by the elusive street artist Banksy, honoring health workers, has been unveiled at a British hospital. The framed picture, titled “Game Changer,” depicts a young boy sitting...
May 7, 2020
Floridians filed 433,103 new claims for unemployment —the most of any U.S. states for the week ending May 2, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. It is the second...
May 7, 2020
Staff at dozens of Illinois nursing homes called off a strike set to begin Friday after the workers' union reached a tentative deal with nursing home owners that union officials...
May 7, 2020
An Oveido construction company's workers on faced cave-in hazards via safety violations OSHA classified as “Willful.” Cathcart Construction faces fines of $303,611 from nine violations found at worksites in Orlando...
May 7, 2020
An employee of a Missouri pork plant where hundreds of workers tested positive for the coronavirus has died from the virus. The city of St. Joseph announced the death Wednesday...
May 7, 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 7, 2020
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ The International Canoe Federation says it is planning its budget in case the Tokyo Olympics...
May 7, 2020
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has dumped stocks after ‘retail investors' inflated a grotesque tech bubble with stratospheric valuations. Did the Federal Reserve or US Treasury announce they're buying? Each year,...
May 7, 2020
The government is set Thursday to release another dire picture of the layoffs that have pummeled America's workforce, one day before it will issue what is sure to be the...
May 7, 2020
Measures to contain the spread of coronavirus are still shifting by the day — and so are responses by investors, developers, builders, banks and buyers. To track the impact in...
May 7, 2020
Where are the wealthy planning to be a year from now? Miami seems to be the place. The luxury residential 57-story tower Missoni Baia at 700 NE 26th Terrace sold...
May 7, 2020
Some office spaces in South Florida sit empty; new leases and sales have dwindled. While some question the viability of open office plans and co-working post-pandemic, one co-working company is...
May 7, 2020
The question as to what our future will look like post-Covid is becoming a frightful thing to contemplate. And this goes beyond health fears. Will humanity emerge from the current...
May 7, 2020
Housing forecasters are scrambling to adjust their price expectations. Back in January, CoreLogic was predicting a more than 5% gain for nationwide home prices this year. Now CoreLogic researchers are...
May 7, 2020
As governors start to allow businesses to reopen, they're under pressure to clarify whether people can refuse a job offer and stay on unemployment if they're afraid of catching the...
May 7, 2020
Businesses in California may start opening again as soon as Friday. But it won't be business as usual. Social distancing and sanitation protocols are likely to stay in place until...
May 7, 2020
Stuck at home? HGTV and the ever-expanding universe of renovation and real estate shows are happy to accommodate – by serving up even more home time. Since the novel coronavirus...
May 7, 2020
The UK government has rolled out an app to help trace people at risk of developing the virus. But their centralised approach - never mind concerns about the technology and...
May 7, 2020
Asian shares were mixed Thursday as worries about the pandemic's damage to the global economy swirled with glimmers of hope about some regions reopening gradually to business as usual. Comments...
May 7, 2020
China declared its coronavirus risk level is now low and New Zealand was moving ahead Thursday on relaxing its pandemic shutdown even as health experts expressed growing dread that a...
