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Pop superstar Taylor Swift is helping out a Nashville record store closed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Grimey's co-owner Doyle Davis said Thursday the store got a call last week from...

Nearly 33,000 Idaho residents filed for unemployment benefits last week as the Idaho economy continues shedding jobs at a record rate because of the coronavirus, state officials said Thursday. The...

Surging layoffs led Kentucky residents to file for unemployment benefits in staggering numbers last week as the coronavirus crisis continued to wreak havoc on the economy. A total of 112,726...

Kansas' top health official faced questions Thursday over the state's monitoring of GPS data gleaned from people's cellphones about how residents have cut down on travel during the coronavirus pandemic....

The Coral Princess cruise ship with 12 COVID-19 cases on board plans to dock at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday. Princess Cruises, owned by Carnival Corporation, said in...

Mississippi residents are unlikely to find out how much medical equipment is available in the state to respond to the coronavirus pandemic because agencies are either choosing not to release...

The Latest on the effects of the new coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Get ready for a full week of the Masters on television. With this year's...

A Texas radio host and financial consultant who admitted to conning elderly listeners out of millions of dollars in a Ponzi scheme was sentenced to 25 years in prison. The...

Kansas coronavirus cases swelled nearly 15% in one day as an outbreak at a nursing home grew and officials urged people to stay away from each other to control the...

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits in Washington set a new record last week, with tens of thousands more people in the state filing new claims as non-essential businesses...

The Zaandam and Rotterdam cruise ships are hovering off the coast of Florida with hopes of docking in Port Everglades to unload more than a thousand passengers, some with COVID-19....

About half of all working Americans report some kind of income loss affecting themselves or a member of their household due to the coronavirus pandemic, with low-income Americans and those...

The popcorn will be bring your own and the barbecue won't be as good, but the Austin, Texas, SXSW Film Festival is moving online after having its 27th edition canceled...

Supporters of a proposed amendment to the California Constitution that would raise property taxes on some businesses by up to $12 billion a year announced Thursday they have collected more...

Andy Reid is like most people these days. The Kansas City Chiefs coach is hunkered down in his basement, trying to avoid going out in public as he works from...

Unemployment claims in Florida continued surging Thursday — as did frustrations among the newly jobless who have struggled for weeks to file for financial relief amidst the coronavirus outbreak that...

Illinois continued to share in the nation's economic pain wrought by COVID-19 with 178,421 unemployment claims filed last week. The 56% jump, from 114,114 a week earlier, was part of...

As the federal government prepares to launch a $349 billion loan program meant to help small businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic, critics have growing concerns that some mom-and-pop shops might...

The number of Floridians applying for unemployment benefits exploded last week. So did questions about how much money workers can get and how they can navigate the state's balky system....

Hollywood's summer movie season is all but finished. “Top Gun Maverick” became the latest would-be blockbuster to be rescheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Paramount Pictures on Thursday announced that...

Postponing the Tokyo Olympics to 2021 will make the event more costly for all parties, the International Olympic Committee acknowledged on Thursday, although it offered few details on what the...

A Florida appellate court upheld a lower court's ruling that a security firm employing the gunman responsible for a gay nightclub shooting can't be held liable for failing to investigate...

With signs France and Italy may be near peak coronavirus, and with warmer weather on the way, the virus may soon run out of steam. The phrase “flattening the peak”...

The man in charge of Florida's broken unemployment website apologized Thursday for the fiasco and said the department is reverting to paper applications for people seeking relief. “From my heart,...

More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — doubling a record high set just one week earlier — in a sign that layoffs are accelerating in...

Before the coronavirus, the protective gear doctors and nurses wear was treated as a “one-time thing.” “In a non-pandemic situation, you go see that patient, you come out of the...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pointed the finger at New Yorkers for the spread of the coronavirus in the state, and required that visitors to Florida coming from New York...

Domestic violence, murders and sex crimes in South Africa are already among the highest anywhere, but are expected to soar during the three weeks millions are confined to their shacks...

World leaders are having their social media posts deleted under the guise of the pandemic, but is this just the beginning of socially destructive subterfuge? A few days ago, Facebook...

Nissan is recalling more than a quarter-million SUVs, trucks and vans worldwide to replace potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators. The vehicles have air bags with volatile ammonium nitrate that...

The South Carolina House and Senate plan to return for one day next week with a limited agenda of passing a resolution allowing state government to continue to spend money...

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...

When a feud between former old-school Broward County judges turned into modern keyboard tough-guy talk, it sent a current judge to the police and, eventually, one of the elder former...

Rick and Wendy de Pinho woke up just before sunrise Thursday morning in Cabin 7018 aboard the Rotterdam cruise ship, one of two ill-fated Holland America ships that have been...

The COVID-19 outbreak has reached into North Carolina's Legislative Building, where a cafeteria employee tested positive for the virus, the building's manager said. The unidentified worker was sent home March...

James Patterson has a history of helping independent bookstores. The best-selling novelist has donated millions in recent years to booksellers, while also giving millions to schools and libraries and literacy...

U.S. business regulators are suing to break up the multibillion-dollar deal between tobacco giant Altria and e-cigarette startup Juul Labs, saying their partnership amounted to an agreement not to compete...

Cruise crew members arrived at MIA on April 1, 2020 to board charter flights to Indonesia amid the coronavirus crisis. … Click to Continue »

Highlights from a survey of more than 100 athletic directors by LEAD1, an association of ADs from Bowl Subdivision schools, and Teamworks: Q: What are you most concerned about in...

The Latest on the effects of the new coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Iowa State coaches and other athletic department staff members are getting pay cuts for...