Minor league players shut out of spring training camps will receive allowances from teams through April 8, and a plan is underway to compensate those players during the postponed portion...
March 19, 2020
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 235,000 people and killed more than 9,700. The COVID-19 illness causes mild or moderate symptoms in most people, but...
March 19, 2020
France's Cannes Film Festival, arguably the world's most prestigious film festival and cinema's largest annual gathering, has postponed its 73rd edition due to the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers of the French...
March 19, 2020
A patient as Washington state's largest psychiatric hospital has tested positive for coronavirus, and workers at the facility fear that number will increase due to a lack of protective gear...
March 19, 2020
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he would consider a statewide moratorium on evictions given the effect the novel coronavirus has had on the economy. “I need to see what what...
March 19, 2020
The U.N.'s International Labor Organization estimates that fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic could cause nearly 25 million job losses worldwide and drain up to $3.4 trillion worth of income...
March 19, 2020
A palpable dread has gripped the entire planet as its wired denizens are given a non-stop drip of information on the coronavirus, to the point where there seems to be...
March 19, 2020
Bankers in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states expect the economy to slow down over the next few months as the nation deals with the coronavirus outbreak, according...
March 19, 2020
The Seattle Mariners have shut down their spring training facility in Arizona because of the virus and told their players to view the coming weeks as though they're in offseason...
March 19, 2020
There's an intriguing experiment going on Down Under. The Australian Football League — best known in the United States as an early staple of ESPN programming — eerily launched its...
March 19, 2020
Legislation banning texting while driving but allowing hands-free uses such as talking or using the navigation function of an electronic mobile device headed to the governor on Thursday. The Senate...
March 19, 2020
Amid the backdrop of the coronavirus outbreak, Florida lawmakers have brought their 2020 session to a close after approving a $93.2 billion budget that is on its way to Gov....
March 19, 2020
The Trump administration said Thursday it is seeking $3 billion from Congress to top up the country's strategic petroleum reserves, potentially propping up U.S. oil producers after crude prices crashed...
March 19, 2020
Just a couple of weeks ago, Erika Vega hoped her temp job at a cafeteria would soon become permanent. But instead, the viral outbreak shut down the building where she...
March 19, 2020
Cars lined up for more than a mile outside a Houston hospital Thursday as the nation's fourth-largest city began drive-thru testing for the coronavirus, but officials warned they don't have...
March 19, 2020
The Metropolitan Opera is canceling the rest of its season and stopping the pay of the orchestra, chorus and other unionized employees at the end of March due to the...
March 19, 2020
Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race to endorse her ideological opposite, establishment darling Joe Biden. It's political suicide – for her, and for the...
March 19, 2020
The Department of Veterans Affairs is bracing for a potential surge of 1 million veterans infected by coronavirus and at the same time is preparing for the possibility it may...
March 19, 2020
With no end to the coronavirus shutdown in sight and no certainty about baseball's return this season, the Cleveland Indians will continue to pay minor league players their weekly stipends...
March 19, 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...
March 19, 2020
Hundreds of workers at Philadelphia International Airport are getting laid off from their jobs as flight cancellations soar because of the spreading coronavirus, a labor union official said. Gabe Morgan...
March 19, 2020
A U.S. regulatory agency on Thursday approved a controversial natural gas pipeline and marine export terminal project in Oregon, with one member saying the environmental impacts are acceptable considering the...
March 19, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed Some South Florida casinos have gone dark, by choice or order, in the social distancing era of coronavirus-spread prevention. But Seminole Hard Rock'casino in South Broward...
March 19, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed President Donald Trump said he spoke with Carnival Corporation Micky Arison Thursday morning about the possibility of using the cruise company's ships as part of the...
March 19, 2020
The NFL has changed course and is allowing teams to announce agreements they have reached with free agents as well as trades. Though the league's business year began Wednesday, the...
March 19, 2020
The impossible has happened and the world we knew has stopped turning around. But what world order will emerge after the coronavirus pandemic is over – socialism for the rich,...
March 19, 2020
It has been just one week. That's all. Just one full week since Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19, just one full week before the NBA became...
March 19, 2020
One store advertised hand sanitizer at $60 a bottle. Another was accused of hawking it at $1 a squirt. Chain stores were accused of selling $26 thermometers and face masks...
March 19, 2020
When hospitals need to prep a room for the next coronavirus test, when jetliners discharge their passengers at the gate, when suburbanites start to take sanitary precautions more seriously, the...
March 19, 2020
There's a rare glimmer of hope for the rest of the world as it battles the coronavirus pandemic: Chinese authorities said Thursday that Wuhan, the former epicenter that initially suffered...
March 19, 2020
Pennsylvania reported another big jump in confirmed coronavirus Thursday cases as Gov. Tom Wolf's administration sought to keep child care services open to families of health care workers and first...
March 19, 2020
A NASA astronaut who's about to leave the planet for six months will blast off without any family or fanfare because of the coronavirus. Chris Cassidy said Thursday that he...
March 19, 2020
The first federal checks to families could be $3,000 for a family of four under the White House proposal to unleash $1 trillion to shore up households and the U.S....
March 19, 2020
The coronavirus delivered a pair of gut punches to Theodore Peck, owner of a coffee shop and bakery in Brooklyn. When his 8-year-old son came down with symptoms that prompted...
March 19, 2020
A former library director has sued the city of Lewiston over her termination two years ago, alleging sexual harassment, a hostile work environment and other charges dating back to when...
March 19, 2020
With iPhones and Skype, Conan O'Brien is going back on the air. The late-night host said he will resume putting out new episodes of TBS' “Conan” on March 30. His...
March 19, 2020
Georgia's death toll from COVID-19 has risen to four as more than 50 state lawmakers remain in self-quarantine and churches are told to halt worship services. The most recent death...
March 19, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed Elbow bumps edged out the traditional hand shakes and hugs among dozens of mourners at a recent wake and service in Hollywood. And this was two...
March 19, 2020
Grain futures were higher Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. 0 Wheat for May delivery was up 18 cents at $5.24 a bushel; May corn gained...
March 19, 2020
Sports are on hold, theaters are closed and so are amusement parks, a disaster-movie scenario that has Hollywood reeling. But Americans held captive at home by the coronavirus can turn...
