Coronavirus

Discount chain Dollar General Corp, one of the few U.S. retailers thriving during the COVID-19 pandemic, is taking steps to find a potential successor to Chief Executive Todd Vasos, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.

Movie theaters can reopen in New York City at limited capacities next month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday, in the latest step back to normalcy amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The House Budget Committee on Monday cleared the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, which is expected to send it to the chamber floor for a vote.

U.S. equity markets finished mixed Monday as tech shares pulled back on valuation concerns and cyclicals gained.

Publix is taking a shot at incentivizing the coronavirus vaccine for employees, offering $125 store gift cards to associates who receive the full inoculation.

Former Walmart U.S. CEO Bill Simon said Kohl's will come back in the second half of 2021.

The IRS said last week that it had officially finished issuing all of its first and second round economic impact payments, with the intent of turning its full attention to tax season.

The program, which is overseen by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Treasury Department, reopened in January after Congress in December authorized its relaunch with $284 billion in funding.

With vaccine rollouts delayed in some places and new virus strains appearing, it is looking more likely that international travel could be stalled for years.

The Biden administration announced Monday plans to deliver “equitable relief” to small businesses impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, with a focus on minority-owned businesses.

As airlines slashed flights and furloughs appeared inevitable in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Mike Catania sensed there would be little need for a service that helped airline crews find short-term housing.

Nearly one year after the COVID-19 pandemic hit New York, parts of the Big Apple look more like ghost towns, lined with shuttered storefronts, empty office buildings and businesses teetering on the edge of closure.

Nearly half of Americans are reportedly ready to return to movie theaters, according to Deadline.

COVID-19 survivors who have gotten a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine are generating immune responses that might render a second shot unnecessary, potentially freeing up limited vaccine supply for more people, several new research papers suggest.

Two small business owners fighting to survive after a tough year of closers and restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic shared on Sunday how they have adapted to the current situation.

The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine no longer needs to be kept at ultra-freezing temperatures and can be safely stored inside normal medical freezers — making distribution easier, the firm said in a report Friday.

The tech billionaire joined with researchers to track infections. The effort explored coronavirus immunity

The House version of the coronavirus stimulus bill contains more than $100 million for an underground rail project in Silicon Valley for which planning started in 2014 but hasn't yet broken ground. 

Scientists say high rates of viral spread in a partially immunized population could encourage mutations that make virus harder to contain.

The Transportation Security Administration announced it is hiring screening officers for 430 U.S. airports.