More than a million people could swamp the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces in the coming months as employers lay off staff during the coronavirus pandemic. The health insurance...
April 3, 2020
Want to see Chance the Rapper prank Hollywood stars? Catch a new action thriller starring Liam Hemsworth and Christoph Waltz? How about a six-minute edition of “60 Minutes”? There's an...
April 3, 2020
A Chicago hospital and its nurses union have agreed on hazard pay for nurses working during the COVID-19 pandemic. The University of Illinois Hospital and the Illinois Nurses Association announced...
April 3, 2020
A California directive that could open the way for some patients sickened with COVID-19 to be sent from overburdened hospitals to nursing homes is being criticized by industry officials who...
April 3, 2020
Small businesses depending on promised federal money to keep them afloat are now finding themselves locked out of much-need support, thanks to bureaucratic government tangles and confusion at the banks...
April 3, 2020
The federal government's $349 billion relief program for small businesses got off to a rocky start Friday as hundreds of thousands tried to apply for desperately needed loans. Many small...
April 3, 2020
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday vetoed hundreds of millions of dollars of spending in hopes of making a dent in the loss of state revenues as the COVID-19 pandemic...
April 3, 2020
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by fantasy sports contestants who claimed they were damaged by sign stealing in Major League Baseball. Five men had sued MLB, MLB Advanced...
April 3, 2020
With gas lines across Venezuela growing, a controversial shipping magnate has stepped in to prevent the country from running out of fuel amid the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press has...
April 3, 2020
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed legislation Friday to launch a new, 10-year transportation program she and other officials see as a $10 billion stimulus to counter the economic damage from...
April 3, 2020
Energizer Holdings is closing a battery distribution site in northwestern Illinois, laying off 125 employees, SaukValley.com reported. Layoffs will begin in May at the Rayovac packaging and distribution center in...
April 3, 2020
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social...
April 3, 2020
Democrat Amy McGrath has punched back at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, accusing him of seeking a political windfall from an economic aid package while the coronavirus crisis worsens. McGrath's...
April 3, 2020
For the first time in more than 70 years, top leaders from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will deliver speeches at the faith's signature conference this weekend...
April 3, 2020
He ran marathons on every continent, including Antarctica — 83 of them in all, many followed by a visit to an obscure craft brewery. Last year, he watched 365 movies...
April 3, 2020
The WNBA season will not start on time next month because of the coronavirus pandemic, and when it begins is unclear. The league announced Friday it will delay the season...
April 3, 2020
A medical marijuana dispensary that opened in North Dakota's largest city a year ago was shut down Friday because of slow sales and regulatory delays due to the coronavirus, the...
April 3, 2020
About 370 players who were at big league spring training with minor league contracts will get advance payments of up to $50,000 each from the Major League Baseball Players Association....
April 3, 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice says a Texas-based organization that runs facilities to hold immigrant children has settled a retaliation claim from an ex-employee. Southwest Key Programs will pay $68,000...
April 3, 2020
The U.S. government has agreed to pay $1 million to a Montana water district to settle a lawsuit over the amount of arsenic coming into its system from Yellowstone National...
April 3, 2020
He ran marathons on every continent, including Antarctica — 83 of them in all, many followed by a visit to an obscure craft brewery. Last year, he watched 365 movies...
April 3, 2020
From finding ways to help others cope to sheltering in place to canceling events, here's a look at some of the ways the entertainment industry is reacting to the spread...
April 3, 2020
The man overseeing Florida's broken unemployment system is under mounting pressure from two Tampa lawmakers from both parties. Sen. Janet Cruz, D-Tampa, is calling on Department of Economic Opportunity Director...
April 3, 2020
Bugbear of the EU, Hungary's PM Viktor Orban, has faced down the bloc over issues like immigration before and a lukewarm reaction from Brussels to his latest ‘power grab' will...
April 3, 2020
Days after the NFL revealed its hopes of conducting a normal regular season and playoffs, its chief medical officer warns that nothing is a certainty during the coronavirus pandemic. Dr....
April 3, 2020
A federal judge on Friday blocked enforcement of provisions in a Kansas law that ban the secret filming at slaughterhouses and other livestock facilities. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil issued...
April 3, 2020
The world is struggling with a Covid-19 lockdown – but there's one place where it has hardly changed a thing. There, a walled-in existence is a decades-old reality, and will...
April 3, 2020
The Preakness is looking for a new date this year and has decided to cancel the infield party that is a staple of the Triple Crown race normally held on...
April 3, 2020
State mental health officials plan to release as many as 60 patients from Washington's largest psychiatric hospital in order to reduce some of the stress that the new coronavirus has...
April 3, 2020
The EU response to Italy's Covid-19 crisis was bungled so shamefully that the bloc apologized as other nations, including Russia, stepped in at Rome's request. Now, journalists are smearing the...
April 3, 2020
The Walt Disney Co. on Friday overhauled its release schedule by moving the dates of half a dozen Marvel movies, announcing a new one for the live-action adaption of “Mulan”...
April 3, 2020
Manufacturing giant 3M pushed back Friday against criticism from President Donald Trump over production of face masks that are badly needed by American health care workers. 3M said the administration...
April 3, 2020
Aerial footage shows the Carnival Corporation's Holland America Line Zaandam and Rotterdam cruise ships before docking in Florida on April 2, 2020. At least nine people on board have COVID-19,...
April 3, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that the next coronavirus aid bill should build on the bipartisan relief bills that Congress has passed so far rather than include broader Democratic...
April 3, 2020
The Coral Princess — with at least a dozen COVID-infected people on board — will not be docking in Port Everglades on Saturday after all. Port spokesperson Ellen Kennedy said...
April 3, 2020
Rick and Wendy de Pinho of New Jersey were among passengers aboard the Holland America Rotterdam who docked on April 2, 2020 in Port Everglades, Florida. They were transported to...
April 3, 2020
A coronavirus outbreak at a San Antonio nursing home has infected more than 60 residents, Mayor Ron Nirenberg said Friday, as the city ordered nursing home operators to stop allowing...
April 3, 2020
North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell has been released from the hospital after what his office said was five days of treatment for symptoms related to the COVID-19 virus. A...
April 3, 2020
An activist doctor who had criticized Russia's response to the coronavirus outbreak was forcibly detained as she and some of her colleagues tried to deliver protective gear to a hospital...
April 3, 2020
The Mississippi River is so high that a spillway west of New Orleans must be opened to safeguard the city's levees, an Army Corps of Engineers official announced Thursday. That...
