Apr 11, 2020 | Finance
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Walt Disney World plans to stop paying wages to 43,000 workers in about a week while allowing them to keep their benefits for up to a year in what is the largest wave of furloughs since the theme park resort closed in mid-March because of the new...
Apr 11, 2020 | Finance
BEIJING (AP) — China’s auto sales sank 48.4% in March from a year ago as the economy reeled from the coronavirus, according to an industry group, adding to strains for the struggling industry in its biggest global market. Sales of SUVs, sedans and minivans totaled...
Apr 10, 2020 | Finance
More than half of a group of severely ill coronavirus patients improved after receiving an experimental antiviral drug, although there’s no way to know the odds of that happening without the drug because there was no comparison group, doctors reported Friday.The...
Apr 10, 2020 | Finance
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An infectious and fatal strain of bird flu has been confirmed in a commercial turkey flock in South Carolina, the first case of the more serious strain of the disease in the United States since 2017 and a worrisome development for an industry...
Apr 10, 2020 | Finance
Apple and Google launched a major joint effort to leverage smartphone technology to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. New software the companies plan to add to phones would make it easier to use Bluetooth wireless technology to track down people for who may have been...
Apr 10, 2020 | Finance
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The names pop up quickly on Whitney Rencountre’s computer screen, and he greets them as he would in person.What’s up, y’all? Shout out to you. How’s it going? Ya’at’eeh. Good to see you, relatives.He spots...
