Who wants to be an astronaut? More than 12,000 people do, resulting in NASA's second-largest group of astronaut hopefuls. NASA said Wednesday that Americans from all 50 states, the District...
April 1, 2020
Jason Kilar, the founding chief executive of Hulu and a former Amazon senior vice president, has been named CEO of WarnerMedia, the company announced Wednesday. Kilar takes the reins of...
April 1, 2020
Charlie Campbell, nearly 13 years sober, is feeling tested today more than ever to stay that way. His dad is recovering from COVID-19 in a suburban Seattle hospital. His mom,...
April 1, 2020
UEFA postponed more matches and deadlines on Wednesday without giving any firm indication on when European soccer might be able to resume, as it continues to grapple with the challenge...
April 1, 2020
Allegheny Technologies Inc. has announced plans to shut down a western Pennsylvania plant at the end of June, citing steel tariffs imposed on imports by the Trump administration. About 70...
April 1, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has seen some great and heroic acts of humanity, but we've also seen the re-emergence and mainstreaming of the morally repugnant ‘survival of the fittest' ideology. One...
April 1, 2020
A 30-year-old contract employee who worked on a Lexington city garbage truck was injured on the job and died Friday, but how she was injured four days earlier has not...
April 1, 2020
J.K. Rowling is hoping a dash of Harry Potter will help families confined to their homes during the coronavirus pandemic. The author has launched an online initiative, www.harrypotterathome.com, which features...
April 1, 2020
Grain futures were lower Wednesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for May delivery declined 12 cents at $5.5760 a bushel; May corn fell 3.40 cents...
April 1, 2020
Major League Baseball has canceled a two-game series in London between the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals because of the coronavirus pandemic. The teams had been scheduled to...
April 1, 2020
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ UEFA has postponed the Euro 2020 playoffs for the second time because of the coronavirus...
April 1, 2020
The spread of the novel coronavirus, and its associated COVID-19 disease, is made worse because it is highly contagious. Since vehicle interiors are essentially small contained spaces, it is important...
April 1, 2020
The coronavirus outbreak is ravaging Missouri nursing homes as the number sickened and dead continues to grow. Health officials announced Tuesday that a resident of the assisted living facility Morningside...
April 1, 2020
The US prepares for confrontation with Iranian-backed militias in Iraq while Iran struggles to cope with the consequences of the coronavirus inside its borders. This looks like a good time...
April 1, 2020
The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same methodology...
April 1, 2020
Best known for his aggressive defending on the soccer field, Giorgio Chiellini is proving to be an effective negotiator in the board room, too. The Juventus captain — who has...
April 1, 2020
Health care providers in Kansas are facing financial strains as the coronavirus leads to an increase in the cost for supplies and a sharp drop in the number of patients...
April 1, 2020
It's the first of the month, and everybody knows the rent's due. For millions of Americans, Wednesday is the first time the landlord is knocking on the door since the...
April 1, 2020
A survey of supply managers in a nine-state region of the Midwest and Plains is showing more signs of the coronavirus pandemic's disruptive economic impact. The Mid-American Business Conditions index...
April 1, 2020
As the coronavirus spread across the United States, workers at the lone hospital in one Alabama county turned off beeping monitors for good and padlocked the doors, making it one...
April 1, 2020
Shared ownership communities have heeded the call and have implemented Covid-19 protocol, reshaping their daily operations to better safeguard their residents. In the past few weeks, the governor and Florida...
April 1, 2020
The Rev. April Keech knocked on the door of an apartment in east London, took three giant steps back and made way for other volunteers to lay a bag of...
April 1, 2020
Predicting the future is always notoriously difficult. The unprecedented response to the Covid-19 crisis means most bets are off on what may happen, apart from reinforcing the idea there is...
April 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...
April 1, 2020
Many hardline environmentalists are overjoyed at the atmosphere of fear that Covid-19 has created; for them, it is an instrument for realising the dream of a society that runs according...
April 1, 2020
The coronavirus is guaranteed to throw the world into recession, but economists are becoming less convinced about the potential for a strong snapback in growth. The base case for forecasters...
April 1, 2020
Companies that specialize in moving goods from one place to another are starting to use the technology that powers cryptocurrency to streamline their work, and they say it could help...
April 1, 2020
Three years ago, manufacturing gadgets in China was a given. That's changed fundamentally in the era of trade wars and coronavirus. Under the new reality, the world's electronics makers are...
April 1, 2020
Small businesses shuttered by coronavirus countermeasures can start applying for emergency loans to cover payroll and other costs as soon as Friday, according to Treasury Department guidance. The Treasury published...
April 1, 2020
Each time automotive consultant Sophia Lyu enters or exits the gate to her Beijing apartment building, an infrared sensor posted there measures her body temperature. If it indicates a fever,...
April 1, 2020
The plight of the working class is real, and – it would seem – much talked-about in liberal media. But how often are its heroes allowed to have their say...
April 1, 2020
Asian shares mostly fell Wednesday, on continuing worries about the economic fallout from the pandemic as reports of coronavirus cases keep surging in various regions. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 dropped...
April 1, 2020
It may beggar belief that the UK government took the advice of a professor who's messed up before. But let's not forget that it's our leaders who chose to implement...
April 1, 2020
The biggest collisions of the Australian football season could come after the coronavirus pandemic has passed. And the heaviest impacts could be sports competing for space. There are only so...
April 1, 2020
NFL NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL is gearing up for a normal season and playoffs — with two additional wild-card teams in the Super Bowl chase. NFL team owners...
April 1, 2020
A Southern California nursing home has been hit hard by the coronavirus, with more than 50 residents infected — a troubling development amid cautious optimism that cases in the state...
April 1, 2020
A southeastern airport in the heart of New Mexico's oil region is continuing its expansion despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and drop in gas prices. The Hobbs News-Sun reports officials...
April 1, 2020
With India's 1.3 billion people now on Covid-19 lockdown, the country faces another urgent crisis; the sudden exodus of inter-state migrants, now out of work, desperately fleeing the capital to...
April 1, 2020
They were hungry. Some had not eaten for days. Others survived on water and biscuits. But they walked anyway for hundreds of miles, in groups of families that included men...
April 1, 2020
Crew members still stuck aboard Norwegian Cruise Line's Encore learned Tuesday that a fellow crew member who disembarked a week ago tested positive for COVID-19. The cruise line shared the...
