For as long as there have been cities, their residents have agreed to an unwritten contract.They tolerate cramped living quarters, noise and pollution. In exchange, they get the vibrancy that rural towns often lack. The pandemic has broken that contract.…
Walmart will stay open later at most of its stores in the United States, joining other large chains that have started to stay open longer than they did during the early days of the pandemic.The retailer in recent weeks has…
A former talk radio host who regularly promoted conspiracy theories about former President Barack Obama and officials in his administration is now serving as an adviser at the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), a source familiar told CNN.Frank Wuco's…
The race for a successful coronavirus vaccine is heating up in labs around the world — and on Wall Street. Germany's CureVac, a biotech with the backing of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, more than tripled in its first…
Major league baseball is back, albeit with some coronavirus-induced game cancellations, and the NBA and NHL are starting playoffs in bubble cities as a preventive measure. That should be great news for DraftKings -- but shares tumbled 5% Friday on…
Millions of Americans remain unemployed during the coronavirus pandemic and many are struggling to pay their bills. But despite devastation in other parts of the US economy, American consumerism has staged a rapid comeback.US retail sales rose 1.2% in July…
Missing out on college football games is more than just a bummer for die-hard fans of the sport. For university towns and the local businesses that rely on college football to generate revenue, it's yet another 2020 economic disaster on…
College football fans were devastated by the news this week that many of the nation's top teams will not be playing this fall. The budgets of their schools' athletic departments could also be decimated.College budgets face a potential $1.6 billion…
(CNN) -- CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich speaks with two people who have struggled to collect unemployment benefits and hears the hardships they have endured.
Efforts to restart Europe's mammoth travel and tourism sector have suffered another major setback, after the UK government added the world's most visited country to its quarantine list.Travelers arriving from France will have to quarantine for 14 days starting on…
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has called his arrest a "symbolic exercise" by local authorities to demonstrate that the sweeping national security law imposed by Beijing last month has "teeth."Lai was arrested Monday on suspicion of colluding with foreign…
Nazis and white supremacists have been using TikTok to spread hate speech and recruit followers, the Anti-Defamation League said in a report Thursday.Extremists have used hashtags, captions and in some cases even manipulated video to spread their message, the ADL…
(CNN) -- Retail sales data from the world's two largest economies could set the tone on Wall Street on Friday. The first round, from China, suggest the coronavirus recovery could take longer than expected. Retail sales in China…
For the past four years, tech giants including Facebook, Google and Twitter have invested massively in beefing up their election security efforts — creating new rules for political advertisers, hiring thousands of content moderators and building ties with law enforcement.…
Investors are getting nervous about iQiyi, the online streaming provider often referred to as the "Netflix of China," as regulators examine allegations of inflated earnings.Shares of the Nasdaq-listed company fell 11.6% in pre-market trading Friday after iQiyi revealed that the…
In 2018, Twitch streamer Ryann Weller played a 30-second snippet of 50 Cent's "In Da Club" on one of his livestreams. He showed viewers an animated e-card featuring his fans' faces dancing to the 2003 hit song. It became one…
Huawei recently became the world's biggest smartphone maker, beating Samsung and Apple at their own game by offering consumers state of the art phones with amazing cameras at competitive prices.All that is now at risk after the latest US sanctions…
The maker of Fortnite is suing Apple after Apple blocked the wildly popular online video game with hundreds of millions of registered players from its app store Thursday.Apple said it had removed Fortnite from the platform as Epic Games was…
When former IBM cloud leader Arvind Krishna took over the company's top job earlier this year, the move sent a clear signal about where the company sees its future.Big Blue is making a big bet on cloud computing as it…
Pro skating legend Tony Hawk is formally changing the name of an iconic skateboarding move in order to honor the deaf skater who created it.The mute grab, which involves a rider using their front hand to grab the toe side…
One of Meghan Markle's first public appearances since stepping back from the British royal family in January will be as an interviewer.In effect Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Sussex will be giving a stamp of approval to The 19th,…
It's the beginning of the end for office culture.Outdoor retailer REI is selling its newly completed -- and currently unused -- 8-acre corporate campus in Bellevue, Washington, instead shifting to a "less centralized approach to its headquarters presence in the…
The pandemic is shining a harsh spotlight on the issue of accessible child care in America. Schools and day cares have remained mostly closed.For parents, this has presented a dilemma. Those who can do their jobs remotely are often juggling…
Emirates and Siemens have pledged to help the people of Lebanon recover from the cataclysmic explosion that rocked Beirut last week and pushed the country's crisis-ridden economy towards the abyss.The flag carrier of the United Arab Emirates committed on Thursday…
The Clorox wipes shortage continues to hog the attention, but there's another product that's been hard to find on store shelves over the past four months because of coronavirus: sewing machines.Sellers are doing everything they can to keep up with…
