A county in South Carolina is hiring someone else to take over part of the job of its elected treasurer, who failed to deliver a $1 million payment to a...
May 1, 2020
Ford's Q1 sales plummeted to a paltry 1.1 million cars. While that's still more than the total ever sold by Tesla, Elon Musk is recording magic profits, while the multinational...
May 1, 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 1, 2020
Profits fell at Exxon Mobil during the first quarter as the global pandemic began to erode oil demand. The Irving, Texas oil giant lost $610 million in the first quarter,...
May 1, 2020
Joe Biden denied a former Senate staffer's allegation of sexual assault on Friday, saying the accusation is “not true.” "This never happened,” Biden said in a statement. It's Biden's first...
May 1, 2020
Chevron turned a profit in the first quarter. But the company warned its financial picture is likely to be depressed in the future because of reduced demand caused by the...
May 1, 2020
Texas charged toward reopening Friday despite the grim milestone of the state's deadliest single day since its first coronavirus case in March, raising new worries at a moment when Republican...
May 1, 2020
Maybe the moment has come to take a step back from our exclusive focus on the pandemic, to allow ourselves to consider what coronavirus and its devastating effects reveal about...
May 1, 2020
The rent is due again for more than 30 million people around the U.S. who have filed for unemployment benefits after losing work in the coronavirus pandemic. Jason W. Still...
May 1, 2020
The developer behind the Porsche Design Tower and one of the heads behind Residences by Armani/Casa is banking on the future of the South Florida hotel industry. That's despite plunging...
May 1, 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 1, 2020
CEOs were asked: In two or three sentences, what does the “new normal” look like for your business now? == The new normal for the businesses I am involved with...
May 1, 2020
Huge cruise ships sadly tied up at the PortMiami or treading water outside Government Cut with no guests and nowhere to go. Lincoln Road in Miami Beach so shuttered-up and...
May 1, 2020
There is little doubt the coronavirus will cost more American jobs than the housing collapse. The depth of the drop in work will be deeper in the week ahead when...
May 1, 2020
Puerto Rico, which has been on lock-down since March 16, will begin allowing some businesses to reopen Monday as it tries to pull off a “slow and gradual” economic reactivation,...
May 1, 2020
Take a deep breath: After weeks of enduring the pandemic's economic challenges, middle-market leaders should take a step back to consider the transition to the new normal. Whether we see...
May 1, 2020
Two of India's most beloved movie stars, Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor, died within a day of each other this week, and though they came from two very different worlds...
May 1, 2020
Shares dropped in Europe and Asia on Friday after the latest data drove home the extent of economic carnage from the coronavirus pandemic. Many world markets were closed for May...
May 1, 2020
As America tentatively emerges from weeks of lockdowns, the pandemic has taken its toll on workers who have been on the front lines all along. They have been packing and...
May 1, 2020
May Day usually brings both protest rallies and celebrations rallies marking international Labor Day. This year, many in Asia are shut up at home, riding out the coronavirus pandemic. Among...
May 1, 2020
Chicago's aviation department insists the coronavirus pandemic won't curtail its $8.5 billion expansion plan for O'Hare International Airport, but there are growing signs the city will have no choice but...
May 1, 2020
In San Diego's South Park neighborhood, the doors of small shops are typically thrown open. Dogs strolling past tug their humans into the open doorways, collecting treats from the business...
May 1, 2020
The evidence shows that other countries' healthcare systems have been vastly more effective in the fight against Covid-19, but our fawning, misplaced adulation for the NHS blinds the press and...
May 1, 2020
The pandemic has transformed Christina Blanch, owner of Aw Yeah Comics, into a nightly TV host. Nine times a week, Blanch leads a livestream from the store she lives above...
May 1, 2020
It doesn't matter how much misery and economic hardship is caused by the coronavirus pandemic, there are always people out there who always find a way to benefit. And guess...
May 1, 2020
AUTO RACING CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR plans to restart its engines with a flurry of races at two historic tracks. NASCAR said it is set to return May 17...
May 1, 2020
The Navy destroyer USS Kidd was heading east across the Pacific from Pearl Harbor when it added an unusual twist to its transit — a quarantine-and-isolation drill. The practice was...
May 1, 2020
Shares fell in Asia on Friday after a crush of dismal data about the economy sent markets lower overnight in a meek ending to a historic, juggernaut month for stocks....
May 1, 2020
May is bringing cautious reopenings from coronavirus lockdowns, from Beijing's Forbidden city to shopping malls in Texas, as the grim economic toll from the pandemic ticks higher. Many communities around...
May 1, 2020
Essential workers will strike nationwide on May Day to demand safer conditions during the coronavirus outbreak, while other groups plan rallies against tight stay-at-home orders they say are crippling the...
May 1, 2020
The coronavirus shutdown killed oil prices. That could be a killer for local governments in large swaths of Kansas, places long addicted to the tax money that's been lost as...
May 1, 2020
Colorful cloth masks are being tied to tree limbs, set out in boxes on sidewalks and left on porches in Ziploc bags. Behind them is a legion of residents putting...
May 1, 2020
For days after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the all-volunteer California Health Corps, he provided updates on how many retired medical workers had signed up and marveled at the numbers —...
May 1, 2020
Beijing's parks and museums including the ancient Forbidden City reopened to the public Friday after being closed for months by the coronavirus pandemic. The Forbidden City, past home to China's...
May 1, 2020
Will Florida's hotel industry, which powers so much of its economy, face the same devastation its real estate industry suffered during the Great Recession? At the moment, hundreds of regional...
May 1, 2020
The Illinois Gaming Board has decreed the state's casinos will remain closed and its video gambling terminals will remain dark ``until further notice” was the state fight to prevent the...
May 1, 2020
Fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has delayed by two years what likely would have been one of the most expensive California ballot battles leading up to this November's election, initiative...
May 1, 2020
The state of Alabama sued Tyson Foods on Thursday over a 2019 wastewater spill that caused the largest recorded fish kill in the state. The Alabama attorney general's office filed...
May 1, 2020
The Republican-led Michigan Legislature refused Thursday to extend the state's coronavirus emergency declaration and voted to authorize a lawsuit challenging Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's authority and actions to combat the...
May 1, 2020
Seattle University will begin mandatory and voluntary pay reductions of up to 20% and furlough nearly 80 staffers to handle some of the economic damage caused by closing campus during...
