Coronavirus

Nearly two years after the coronavirus pandemic brought much of the U.S. economy to a halt, public companies are recording some of their best ever financial results.

The incentives come amid a swath of flight cancellations during the holiday week as pilots, flight attendants and ground crews become infected with or are exposed to the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

American colleges and universities are shifting to start the spring semester remotely, despite taking millions in government funding intended to help them stay open.

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) technology convention will be shortened to three days instead of four, as COVID-19 cases continue to spike around the U.S.

The latest flight disruptions come amid a time when the Transportation Security Administration projected that travel volume will near pre-pandemic levels.

A dust-up over the reboot of HBO’s "Sex and the City" capped a tumultuous year for Peloton Interactive Inc., which saw its market value tumble as the company’s leaders struggled to gauge demand for its web-connected bikes.

Large and growing numbers of new recruits are applying to nursing programs nationwide. We should be concerned that there won’t be enough faculty there to greet them when they arrive.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is arguing that observers overestimated the impact of the Supreme Court's decision to lift an eviction moratorium.

Walmarts around the country are shutting down retail locations temporarily to clean as COVID-19 cases continue to surge nationwide.

More than a thousand flights were canceled again on Friday as airlines continued to contend with the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

South Africa has lifted a midnight to 4 a.m. curfew on people's movement with immediate effect, believing the country has passed the peak of its fourth COVID-19 wave driven by the omicron variant, a government statement said on Thursday.

JPMorgan Chase & Co has offered its staff the option of working from home for the first two weeks of 2022, with a caveat that all employees are expected to return to office no later than Feb. 1, according to a memo seen by Reuters.

The CDC sounded the alarm on cruises Thursday amid a surge in COVID-19 cases nationwide, raising its travel warning to the highest level and telling Americans to “avoid cruise travel, regardless of vaccination status.”

Flight cancellations will continue into the new year as JetBlue Airways announced it is cutting more than 1,000 flights amid a surge in the number of sick calls from its staff due to the coronavirus' omicron variant.

Jeff Ricchetti, the brother of Biden aide and White House counselor Steve Ricchetti, has been hired by Taiwan-based Medigen Vaccine Biologics to lobby on issues related to "COVID-19 vaccines accepted for foreign travelers to the United States."

Carnival Corp’s Queen Mary 2 cruise ship won’t be returning to New York as scheduled.

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee slams Biden over failed COVID-19 handling on 'Mornings with Maria.'

China's industrial and tech hub of Xian reported on Thursday more than 100 new cases of COVID-19, taking its tally of locally transmitted infections to the highest in any Chinese city this year.

President Biden has inked a deal with pharmaceutical company Millipore Sigma to build a factory making materials for COVID-19 test strips over the next three years.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating or monitoring 86 cruise ships with reported COVID-19 cases on board, according to a list posted on its website Tuesday, as the highly transmissible omicron variant spreads around the world.