As cases of the coronavirus continue to climb, nothing feels more surreal than the irrational stockpiling of toilet paper, even though experts tell us it isn't necessary and manufacturers say...
March 17, 2020
The Great Work-From-Home Experiment is upon us. Not just for a day or two, but potentially for weeks, if COVID-19 concerns shut down offices or authorities announce a preemptive lockdown....
March 17, 2020
David Snydacker knew going in that California's Imperial Valley was a "graveyard for lithium-extraction technologies." For years, companies had tried and failed to find a cost-effective way to pull the...
March 17, 2020
When the novel coronavirus started spreading across Asia in January, forcing the world's largest work-from-home experiment, not many knew what to expect, least of all Bloomberg's 400-plus journalists in the...
March 17, 2020
Small-business owners and corporate leaders alike find themselves in uncharted waters in dealing with the coronavirus. They have questions about how to contain the spread of the respiratory illness among...
March 17, 2020
The Pentagon is already helping combat the coronavirus outbreak in the United States and is considering ways to do more. But the military faces limits. Its health care system is...
March 17, 2020
The United States implemented dramatic new restrictions on Americans going out in public and 7 million people in the San Francisco area were put on a near-total lockdown to control...
March 17, 2020
Paul Smith's College in upstate New York's Adirondack Mountains will serve as the eastern education and training center for US Biathlon. The team's athletes will be able to attend classes...
March 17, 2020
With borders slamming shut, schools and businesses closing and and increasingly drastic restrictions on movement, tens of millions of people were hunkered down Tuesday, heeding government calls to isolate themselves...
March 17, 2020
First, people were advised to avoid large gatherings. Californians adjusted. Life went on. Kids went to school, some people worked from home, but mostly it was business as usual. Then...
March 17, 2020
Shares reversed early losses in Asia on Tuesday after the U.S. stock market plunged to its worst day in more than three decades and huge swaths of many economies came...
March 17, 2020
Racing to stall an expected surge of coronavirus cases, the White House released a series of sweeping guidelines that for the next 15 days will temporarily rewrite the norms of...
March 17, 2020
He called on the country to come together. He warned of pain to come. And he deferred to the nation's public health experts while at least momentarily putting aside petty...
March 17, 2020
New measures to seal off borders to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus have left cruise ships stranded in the Caribbean, South America and Europe, with local governments denying...
March 17, 2020
After months of hoarding resources for rebuilding, the Miami Dolphins finally started spending Monday when they sealed deals with four likely starters in the early hours of free agent negotiations....
March 17, 2020
The California Legislature approved up to $1 billion in new spending to combat the coronavirus outbreak, a Monday vote taken without some older members who stayed home rather than risk...
March 17, 2020
Nordstrom Inc. says it will temporarily close all of its stores for two weeks starting Tuesday as it tries to limit the spread of the new virus. The Seattle-based upscale...
March 17, 2020
The NFL has barred in-person interviews with free agents and is requiring local physical examinations for them rather than team-conducted exams. In a memo sent to the 32 franchises on...
March 17, 2020
A lawsuit filed in Miami federal court claims that Norwegian Cruise Line, under the direction of two executives, lied to hide the effects the novel coronavirus would have on its...
March 16, 2020
The coronavirus outbreak has had a severe impact on how we all get around, and several airlines have been forced to change the way they operate. Schedules are shifting by...
March 16, 2020
Gramps owner Adam Gersten scanned the crowd at his popular Wynwood bar on Saturday night and did not like what he saw. The problem wasn't that there weren't enough patrons....
March 16, 2020
Kansas legislators rushed Monday to draft a plan for funding state government after June, launch a new state transportation program and wrap up a few other loose ends so they...
March 16, 2020
The Latest on NFL's free agency. Teams were required to use franchise tags on players by noon EDT Monday. Teams can negotiate with representatives of free agents for the next...
March 16, 2020
Kentucky's legislative session will continue as scheduled but with new safeguards in place to try to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, top Republican lawmakers said Monday. Lawmakers didn't...
March 16, 2020
The Denver Broncos have agreed to a four-year, $44 million free agent contract with offensive guard Graham Glasgow, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Monday. The person spoke...
March 16, 2020
Universal Orlando is closing down Universal CityWalk at midnight Monday and all hotels at Universal Orlando Resort will close as of 5 p.m. on Friday, March 20, the company said...
March 16, 2020
Gov. Kate Brown on Monday ordered the closure of bars and restaurants for four weeks to fight the spread of coronavirus, making Oregon the latest state to make such a...
March 16, 2020
A Pennsylvania distillery owner who grew increasingly angry as he saw the skyrocketing price of hand sanitizer has decided to do something about it: He's temporarily converting his operation into...
March 16, 2020
A California businessman accused of helping a pair of Utah polygamists expand a biodiesel fraud scheme that ended up stealing nearly $500 million in government funds was found guilty Monday...
March 16, 2020
A growing number of governors ordered a partial shut down of their state economies Monday to limit the spread of the coronavirus, mandating that certain retailers cutoff sales, restaurants kick...
March 16, 2020
The Dow Jones nosedived Monday and suffered its worse single-day point drop in history, according to media reports. The record 3,000-point drop was also the second-biggest one-day percentage drop in...
March 16, 2020
The mayor of Dallas issued an emergency order Monday closing bars and entertainment venues, limiting the operation of restaurants and prohibiting gatherings of more than 50 people. Mayor Eric Johnson...
March 16, 2020
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday said he is ordering the temporary statewide closure of all bars, restaurants, gyms and other facilities to fight the spread of COVID-19. Public health...
March 16, 2020
A San Francisco area judge ruled Monday that a transient who fatally stabbed an 18-year-old woman at a commuter train platform was sane at the time he committed the July...
March 16, 2020
Kansas banned public gatherings of 50 or more people for the next two months and blocked utilities from cutting off services until mid-April, as Gov. Laura Kelly warned Monday that...
March 16, 2020
With the lack of a viable third party in the US and no strategy for how to build one, progressive calls to leave the Democrats may amount to little more...
March 16, 2020
Pennsylvania will shut down all of its roughly 600 state-owned wine and liquor stores as part of the state's expanding shutdown as Gov. Tom Wolf's administration tries to slow the...
March 16, 2020
The Dow industrials sank nearly 3,000 points Monday as fears deepened on Wall Street that the coronavirus outbreak will throw the global economy into recession. The 12.9% drop in the...
March 16, 2020
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has asked the federal government's small business agency to declare an emergency because of the coronavirus so merchants and firms can access low-interest loans. Cooper's...
March 16, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed Hollywood, Fla.,-based Silver Airways, a regional airline serving Florida and the Caribbean, has requested immediate federal financial assistance “in order for the airline to survive the...
