May 15, 2020 | Finance, Politics
BANGKOK (AP) — India’s confirmed coronavirus cases have surpassed China’s, with the Health Ministry on Saturday reporting a spike to 85,940 infections and 2,752 deaths.China has reported 82,941 confirmed case and 4,633 deaths since the virus was first detected late...
May 15, 2020 | Finance, Politics
BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. government imposed new restrictions on Chinese tech giant Huawei on Friday, severely limiting its ability to use American technology to design and manufacture semiconductors produced for it abroad.Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Friday that...
May 15, 2020 | Finance, Politics
Defying a wave of layoffs that has sent the U.S. job market into its worst catastrophe on record, at least one major industry is making a comeback. Tens of thousands of auto workers are returning to factories that have been shuttered since mid-March because of fears...
May 15, 2020 | Finance, Politics
BEIJING (AP) — China has gone a month without announcing any new deaths from the coronavirus and has lessthan 100 patients in treatment for COVID-19.The National Health Commission reported four new cases of the virus on Friday, all local infections in the northeastern...
May 13, 2020 | Finance, Politics
MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pledged Wednesday to begin reopening Mexico’s economy next week — under pressure at home and from U.S. officials — even as the country saw its largest one-day jump in coronavirus cases, hospitals are...
May 13, 2020 | Finance, Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday defended the stunning $3 trillion price tag on Democrats’ pandemic relief package as what is needed to confront the “villainous virus” and economic collapse. “The American people are worth it,” Pelosi...