Coronavirus

Oregon's new $62 million pandemic relief fund for Black residents will stop allocating grants and deposit the remaining $8.8 million with a federal court while legal challenges against it continue.

A top Republican senator warned the government could briefly shut down over the weekend as top congressional leaders from both parties race to finalize a $900 billion coronavirus relief deal that will be married to the massive omnibus spending measure.

A restaurant owner mocked New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo with an Instagram video showing him and his staff eating outside in a blizzard, as a criticism of the latest coronavirus lockdown.

Negotiations over another coronavirus relief package are poised to spill into the weekend as congressional leaders scramble to overcome last-minute policy disagreements and reach a bipartisan deal on roughly $900 billion in emergency aid. 

Economists trying to forecast what the first quarter will look like have a seemingly impossible task.

Due to Covid-19, the borrowings of U.S. nonfinancial companies were 8.5% higher at the end of September than a year earlier, when they were already above the 2009 peak both in absolute levels and as a percentage of gross domestic product.

On Thursday, stocks rallied to record highs on stimulus hopes

Plowz & Mowz co-founder Wills Mahoney says demand has intensified following Wednesday's winter storm amid the pandemic.

"Our unparalleled Express network was built for time-definite shipments such as these vaccines," FedEx president and chief operating officer Raj Subramaniam told analysts Thursday. "Simply put, a global health of this scale requires a network of our scale to address. This is who we are and what we do."

The Barstool Sports founder has criticized government officials for imposing restrictions that made it difficult for businesses to operate during the pandemic.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin demanding that he stop “sticking it to small businesses” by denying deductibility for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. 

Pfizer defended the rollout of its COVID-19 vaccine Thursday, saying that it currently has millions of doses sitting in a warehouse awaiting shipping instructions after Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said there have been some hiccups. 

An Amazon warehouse worker's complaint that he was illegally disciplined for organizing fellow employees during the coronavirus pandemic was upheld in a National Labor Relations Board investigation.

The panel's recommendation was the final step before senior FDA officials decide whether to approve the vaccine for mass use.

The Army currently leads as the branch with the highest total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases at 34,089, followed by the Navy at 19,773, the Air Force at 17,682, and the Marines at 11,380. 

Congress inches closer to reaching a deal on a COVID-19 relief package.

"We hope our technology can help make the largest-ever global immunization campaign a success and deliver the benefits of the vaccine quickly, effectively and equitably," Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement.

New U.S. Government Accountability Office data revealed this week that more than 4,000 of Amazon's warehouse workers are on food stamps across nine states.

I haven’t given up on New York City, but the cons started to outweigh the pros on staying in the city full time when COVID hit in 2020

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked her millions of Twitter followers whether a $600 stimulus check is enough money for coronavirus relief.