The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits fell last week amid a rise in COVID-19 infections and new restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the disease. Data released ...

Hundreds of schools across the country have been getting online and phone threats in recent weeks taxing law enforcement resources. Threats to schools have forced lockdowns and canceled classes in at ...

SHORTLY BEFORE the start of the American school year in September 2022 a grim meme began to circulate. Teenagers posted pictures of nooses on social media, calling them “back-to-school necklaces”. For ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s export orders — a bellwether for global technology demand — fell for the first time in 25 months in April, taking a larger-than-expected hit from COVID lockdowns in China ...

Ross, an executive at Credit Suisse, lived in a penthouse with stunning views, but that penthouse felt like a prison in 2020 and early 2021. He was, the Wall Street Journal reported, “stressed about ...

Preliminary demographic estimates indicate the country’s population declined by 76,068 between July 1 and Oct. 1, a drop of 0 ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish brewer Carlsberg said on Thursday it expected operating profit to fall by as much as 15% this year as lockdowns will hurt sales in the second half in key markets of China ...

Long before Covid struck, economists detected a deadly pattern in the impact of natural disasters: if the executive branch of government used the emergency to claim sweeping new powers over the ...

France, Israel and Canada are some of the countries that have barred travelers from Britain in an effort to keep out a highly infectious new strain of the coronavirus that is spreading rapidly in ...

Threats to schools have forced lockdowns and canceled classes in at least a dozen states. This began after the school shooting in Georgia earlier this month. In West Virginia alone, there have been ...