Advocates for Missouri state workers on Thursday called on Gov. Mike Parson to do more to protect employees from the coronavirus. Union leaders, Democratic state lawmakers and other advocates for...
April 30, 2020
Mississippi processed fewer unemployment claims last week than the week before, but the state is still seeing dramatically more claims than usual as businesses struggle during the coronavirus pandemic. The...
April 30, 2020
The University of Miami stands to lose “hundreds of millions of dollars over the coming year” due to the financial havoc wreaked by the novel coronavirus, according to an email...
April 30, 2020
Desperate for information as coronavirus deaths mounted at the Massachusetts veterans home where her father lived, Susan Kenney drove there with her question written in big letters on her car...
April 30, 2020
Americans are feeling isolated and anxious. They fear they or their loved ones will get sick. They worry about their jobs. As the coronavirus pandemic upends lives across the United...
April 30, 2020
Spirit AeroSystems is offering voluntary layoffs to all its union-covered technical and professional workers in Wichita as the company continues to respond to the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX...
April 30, 2020
ConocoPhillips Alaska will cut production on the North Slope by 100,000 barrels a day, or nearly half its total output, beginning in June but no layoffs were anticipated with the...
April 30, 2020
As parts of the state begin to reopen to commerce and recreation, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott is praising South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster's response to the coronavirus outbreak, measures that...
April 30, 2020
A white man pleaded guilty Thursday to making racist online threats against a black activist in Virginia to deter him from running for office in a city where violence erupted...
April 30, 2020
New York City will shut down its subway system each day from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. to increase cleaning of trains and stations during the coronavirus crisis, Gov. Andrew...
April 30, 2020
Anxious business leaders and lawmakers on Thursday were awaiting details of Gov. Laura Kelly's plan to reopen the state's battered economy despite the ongoing spread of the coronavirus in Kansas....
April 30, 2020
More than 30 Puerto Rican engineers and researchers came together to create an emergency ventilator amid the coronavirus crisis. … Click to Continue »
April 30, 2020
On the day that Colombia announced its first case of the new coronavirus, Astrid Conde's body lay in a morgue with four gunshot wounds to the chest, the latest casualty...
April 30, 2020
A Tyson Fresh Meats beef plant near the Tri-Cities will remain closed for a while longer as county health officials await test results on all the approximately 1,400 workers. Walla...
April 30, 2020
Dr. Beth Oller would like Kansas to remain under a stay-at-home order a while longer, even as some neighbors in her rural northwest county are restless to see business return...
April 30, 2020
The near shutdown of the economy in response to COVID-19 has reduced demand for commodities like oil, lumber and copper and triggered sharp drops in their prices, but some analysts...
April 30, 2020
Tyson Foods said Thursday that it was temporarily suspending operations at a Nebraska beef processing plant that serves as the largest employer for neighboring Sioux City, Iowa, after a surge...
April 30, 2020
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the new coronavirus was “not manmade or genetically modified" but say they are still examining whether the origins of the pandemic trace to contact...
April 30, 2020
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the new coronavirus was “not manmade or genetically modified" but say they are still examining whether the origins of the pandemic trace to contact...
April 30, 2020
More than 432,000 Floridians filed for unemployment benefits last week, labor officials said Thursday, in the latest wave of jobless claims that have swamped the state's beleaguered unemployment system since...
April 30, 2020
Actress Rose McGowan, once a ‘proud Democrat', has tweeted a tearful rebuke of her own party's current values. Her awakening, on the heels of the Joe Biden sex assault claim,...
April 30, 2020
Nearly 91,000 Kentucky residents applied for unemployment benefits last week, down from the prior week but a grim reminder that the coronavirus continues to inflict economic damage even as the...
April 30, 2020
Florida registered the largest increase in initial unemployment claims of any state for the week ending April 25, rising by 326,251 to total of more than half a million, the...
April 30, 2020
The world's economic pain was on full display Thursday with new bleak evidence from Europe and the United States of the mounting devastation wrought on jobs and economies by coronavirus...
April 30, 2020
The Climate Industrial Complex is calling for filmmaker Michael Moore's head after his latest film skewered the hypocrisy of the “renewable energy” industry, exposing its leaders' cozy relationship with the...
April 30, 2020
Cruise companies are allowed to disembark and repatriate people still trapped on ships around the U.S. by private transportation as long as their executives sign an agreement with the U.S....
April 30, 2020
The English Premier League has to decide whether to approve Saudi Arabia's takeover of Newcastle while concerned that piracy of its broadcasts from the kingdom poses a “significant risk” to...
April 30, 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...
April 30, 2020
American Airlines reported a staggering loss of $2.24 billion for the first quarter, when the coronavirus pandemic triggered a sharp drop in air travel. The airline's revenue fell 19% while...
April 30, 2020
The U.S. government is expected Thursday to issue another bleak report on the layoffs that have cut through America's workforce since the coronavirus forced businesses across the country to shut...
April 30, 2020
Over the last week or two, the mainstream media has published a barrage of claims about Kim Jong-un's health and whereabouts. Is there a duty to report rumors, or is...
April 30, 2020
Most McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. and China are now open for drive-thru and delivery, but global lockdown orders still took a bite out of the company's first quarter sales....
April 30, 2020
Comcast's net income slid in the first three months of the year as the coronavirus pandemic forced it to shut down its theme parks and its movies were kept out...
April 30, 2020
With many employees working remotely amid the COVID-19 pandemic, prognosticators have declared the death of the company office. Not so fast. Plantation-based NationsBenefits, a supplemental benefits company, has just signed...
April 30, 2020
Could Model City — Liberty City, as it is better known — be South Florida's next emerging neighborhood? JMS Management Enterprise LLC, paid $3.475 million for four two-story multifamily apartment...
April 30, 2020
If you are intent on buying a home during the pandemic, obtaining an appraisal shouldn't stand in your way. But procuring a home inspection may be another question. In New...
April 30, 2020
A city in Alabama has approved the sale of land to a chemical company planning to build a $2 million factory to support a paper mill. Members of the Prattville...
April 30, 2020
The European economy shrank by a record 3.8% in the first quarter as business activity from hotels and restaurants to construction and manufacturing was frozen by shutdowns aimed at preventing...
April 30, 2020
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ The Diamond League track meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, won't happen as scheduled on Aug. 20....
April 30, 2020
There are going to be lots of retail bankruptcies in the coming weeks and months. Timing is key and having a plan is paramount, experts say, because a crash landing...
