Coronavirus

Utah leads states with hottest housing markets

The coronavirus pandemic sent Americans moving amid high unemployment and negative job growth in 2020, propelling some states in the West and Midwest to have the country’s hottest housing markets.

Target, Toyota, GM in Texas to keep wearing masks

Employees at General Motors, Toyota Motor, Target Corp, and Macy's Inc in Texas will keep face masks on at work, the companies said on Tuesday, even as the U.S. state lifted most of its coronavirus curbs allowing businesses to reopen at full capacity as of next week.

NYC comedy club sues Gov. Cuomo to lift COVID-19 shutdown order

An Upper West Side comedy club — whose co-owner declared the Big Apple “dead” in a viral essay last summer — sued Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday, claiming the lawmaker’s executive order to shut down the venue nearly a year ago violated the U.S. constitution.