Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street, pushing the S&P 500 ever closer to the all-time high it reached back in February, before the coronavirus shutdowns slammed the economy
Anxious residents of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius are stuffing fabric sacks with sugar cane leaves to create makeshift oil spill barriers as tons of fuel leak from a grounded ship
President Donald Trump is teasing the possibility of executive action to require health insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions
President Donald Trump has bypassed the nation’s lawmakers as he claimed the authority to defer payroll taxes and replace an expired unemployment benefit with a lower amount after negotiations with Congress on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed
A former Google engineer who helped steer the company’s self-driving car project has been sentenced to 18 months in prison
Shares have risen across Asia after Wall Street closed broadly higher on encouraging economic reports
A Norwegian cruise ship line has halted all trips and apologized Monday for procedural errors after an outbreak of coronavirus on one ship infected at least 5 passengers and 36 crew members
Microsoft is in advanced talks to buy the US operations of TikTok, the popular Chinese owned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship concerns
Unions are gaining support in Congress for another $32 billion in federal aid to protect airline workers from layoffs for another six months
Holocaust survivors are lending their voices to a campaign targeting Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to take action to remove denial of the Nazi genocide from the social media site
Deutsche Bank made a net profit in the second quarter despite losing more money on loans that aren’t being repaid by businesses hit by the shutdowns and restrictions that came with the virus outbreak
Marlboro-maker Altria said Tuesday that cigarette sales continue to decline as it pushes to expand sales of an alternative heated-tobacco product
Wall Street is retreating in early trading Thursday following a mixed set of reports on the economy, including one showing that layoffs continue across the country at a stubbornly steady pace
As economies around the world reopen, legions of small businesses that help to define and sustain neighborhoods are struggling
President Donald Trump is holding firm on his insistence that coronavirus cases are rising in the U.S. purely because more people are being tested
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