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The claims have remained above the pre-pandemic record of 695,000, from 1982, for 35 weeks.

Our boss is inept, but our new organization chief says there's nothing more she can do.

The pandemic has forced retailers to rethink just about every part of the busy shopping season.

Triathlons are slowly lurching to life in the United States. Next month, Challenge Family, Ironman’s main competitor, will stage perhaps the...

Families are gravitating to classics like Care Bears and Jenga, as well as stress-relieving newcomers like Theo the Therapy Dog, this season...

Toilet paper and disinfecting wipes are once again being rationed, but grocery stores aren’t worried about empty shelves like we saw in Marc...

U.S. carbon emissions are set to drop to the lowest level in three decades. A BloombergNEF study says an economic rebound next year won’t co...

Retail experts getting holiday shopping done early, because inventories are going to be light and shipping capacity challenged.

Warner Bros. surprises with a hybrid plan for releasing the much-anticipated film.

A sizable number of the recipients of aid programs like Medicaid and food stamps are employed by some of the biggest and more profitable com...

The 11 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. gave Trump more total votes than all of rural America combined.

With the virus spreading unchecked across much of the country, Thanksgiving gatherings could lead to Christmas funerals.

Evictions, hunger, a spiraling economic crisis: A new study paints a portrait of the staggering toll that congressional inaction will have o...

Shelton’s support narrowed after Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said he would immediately quarantine. Three other GOP senators oppose her...

The Small Business Administration has asked to delay production of SBA small business loan records after a federal judge ordered they be mad...

The government needs talent from wherever it can find it, including outside the tight circle of Clinton-Obama alumni.

Biden's first big economic speech did not urge a compromise with Republicans on stimulus, and he danced around the need for further lockdown...

Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee joins two other Republicans in opposing the nomination.

Amazon chief executive unveiled the first $791 million in donations from his $10 billion Earth Fund devoted to slowing down climate change.

Jay Clayton was thrust into controversy when Trump said he would nominate him to be the next U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New...

Dow futures are pointing to a nearly 500-point jolt at the open after Moderna reported that its experimental coronavirus vaccine was nearly...

The number of 401(k) and TSP millionaires grows even as some workers are forced to tap their retirement account because of economic impacts...

New bloc would be larger than the European Union in both population and economic output.

Many places that prospered under Trump voted for Biden, bucking the standard assumption of how people vote.