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With hiring freezes, furloughs, stay-at-home orders and more than 26 million Americans filing for unemployment benefits over the last five weeks, the coronavirus pandemic may not be the best time...

What's next after work from home? That's the question major office employers and real estate companies all over the country are trying to navigate. Cushman & Wakefield has gone so...

Ravaged by years of conflict, Yemen is facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Its health system has been decimated and many of its people are starving – but the flow...

Everyone wants to know: When, oh when, will it go back to normal? As some governors across the United States begin to ease restrictions imposed to stop the spread of...

Surfers in New Zealand hit the waves at dawn, builders returned to construction sites and baristas fired up their espresso machines as the nation eased a strict lockdown Tuesday amid...

Asian shares are mixed Tuesday as governments inch toward letting businesses reopen and central banks step in to provide cash to economies. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost earlier gains, inching...

In a Dubai industrial park, workers weld, drill and build what one entrepreneur sees as key to the near future of this desert city-state amid the coronavirus pandemic: disinfection gates....

Traffic got a little busier along Main Street, but otherwise, it was hard to tell that coronavirus restrictions were ending in the tiny Montana town of Roundup. That's because it's...

As states gear up to reopen, a poll finds a potential obstacle to controlling coronavirus: nearly 1 in 10 adults say cost would keep them from seeking help if they...

California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is considering a strategy for slowly reopening business in a state divided between rural areas with small numbers of coronarivus cases and urban areas struggling with...

A judge has ruled in favor of tribal nations in their bid to keep Alaska Native corporations from getting a share of $8 billion in coronavirus relief funding — at...

Nearly two years after 17 people died when a tourist boat sank on a Missouri lake, federal transportation safety investigators on Tuesday will release the results of an investigation into...

U.S. government attorneys on Monday sought to put on hold a recent court ruling that canceled a permitting program used to approve oil and gas pipelines and other utility work...

Your daily look at nonvirus stories in the news: 1. FIVE SHOT DEAD IN MILWAUKEE HOME Police find five people shot to death inside a Milwaukee home and arrest the...

President Donald Trump has approved federal aid for Mississippi counties affected by Pearl River flooding in February. The money is to help rebuild or repair public buildings, highways and roads....

Restaurants opened up to dine-in patrons in at least three states Monday and the governor of Texas allowed movie theaters, malls and eateries to start letting customers trickle into their...

Barges hit a 90-year-old railroad bridge over the Mississippi River, and some broke away and drifted back into a parallel newer bridge under which they had just passed on Monday....

Workers at 40 Chicago-area nursing homes announced Monday they have set a May 8 strike date over wages as many of the facilities are treating patients suffering from the coronavirus....

Kyle Palmieri has been trying to keep busy around his Long Island home, doing a lot of painting projects. Walls and ceilings, mostly. As for a bright picture of the...

Idaho nursing homes have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, with at least 150 cases reported at 16 different long-term care facilities in the state. So far, at least...

All inmates and employees in Mississippi prisons have been given masks to try to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, the state Department of Corrections said Monday. Advocates have...

Independent contractors and gig economy workers in Florida are still unable to apply for unemployment assistance amid the coronovirus pandemic one month after President Donald Trump and Congress expanded benefits...

The second round of loan applications for the government's small business relief program has been slowed by computer issues at the Small Business Administration. Lenders complained Monday that they couldn't...

Laremy Tunsil became the NFL's highest-paid offensive lineman by negotiating a $66 million contract extension with the Houston Texans without the help of an agent. As he basks in his...

Four North Carolina nursing homes have each had at least 10 deaths of residents diagnosed with COVID-19, according to data released on Monday by state health officials. The Department of...

The Federal Reserve will allow a much larger number of cities and counties to participate in a lending program that it announced earlier this month. The program initially allowed only...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott outlined Monday a slow reopening of one of the world's largest economies amid the coronavirus pandemic, allowing restaurants, retailers, movie theaters and malls to start letting...

The Los Angeles Lakers have repaid a loan of roughly $4.6 million from coronavirus business relief funds after learning the program had been depleted. The Lakers applied for the loan...

Whataburger will settle an EEOC lawsuit by paying lost wages, damages and legal fees to a former manager who said she refused to hire only white applicants at a Tallahassee...

Ingrid Londoño feels that the coronavirus affects her on all fronts. The 40-year-old nurse started a new job on April 1 and it has been hard for her to learn...

Actress Olivia Cheng was recently volunteering in Vancouver when she says she witnessed a man drive up to an elderly Chinese woman, roll down his window and yell, “This is...

Perry Ellis International, the Doral-based apparel maker that has its roots in an iconic New York fashion brand and a Cuban immigrant's American success story, said it had laid off...

Kansas reported two more coronavirus deaths as state officials work on a way to reopen the economy. As of Monday, the number of deaths rose to 120, and the number...

A ‘Larry King Live' episode that backed up a sexual assault claim against presumed Democratic nominee Joe Biden vanished from Google Play after CNN grudgingly reported on it. Have the...

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ The title sponsor of New Orleans' canceled PGA Tour event is donating $1.5 million to...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday the state will reopen from the coronavirus economic shutdown in “baby steps” and that its regions could reopen at different times and rates. The...

The former CEO of a Kentucky aluminum company planning to build a plant in Appalachia misled potential investors and the company's board and even tried to fool journalists visiting the...

Officials from six rural Northern California counties and 14 small cities have urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to let them reopen their economies, marking the most significant push-back yet from local...

After testing on public roads, Tesla is rolling out a new feature of its partially automated driving system designed to spot stop signs and traffic signals. The update of the...

Gov. Henry McMaster is expected on Monday to extend the state's emergency declaration that allows him to issue executive orders necessary to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. McMaster spokesman Brian...