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"We're ready and anxious to get started" distributing a Covid vaccine, Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen told CNBC.

WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar refused to say if his decision to put all 17 of Warner Bros. movies on HBO Max the same day they hit theaters will go beyond next year.

See which stocks are posting big moves after the bell.

California will impose a limited stay-at-home order on regions of the state where Covid cases place a strain on ICU units, Gov. Gavin Newsom said.

Farah's exit signals acknowledgment that the Trump administration will soon end, but the president still is refusing to concede to Biden.

CNBC's Ylan Mui reports that a Covid-19 vaccine could be cleared for emergency use before states have the money necessary to distribute it to their residents.

An inspector general is looking into whether leaders at the U.S. Agency for International Development possibly violated the Federal Records Act, sources said.

The Microsoft co-founder's comments accompany a corporate push for President-elect Joe Biden to impose policies that address climate change.

Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi spoke Thursday as Congress rushes to strike a coronavirus stimulus deal and avoid a government shutdown.

Major averages cut gains quickly in the final hour of trading after a report said Pfizer is cutting its coronavirus vaccine rollout plan for this year.

Security vendor Zscaler surged on Thursday on better-than-expected earnings, while data analytics software company Splunk plunged after missing estimates.

Timnit Gebru, the technical co-lead of the Ethical AI Team at Google, tweeted on Wednesday that the company fired her after refusing to accede to two demands.

Facebook faces a new lawsuit from the DOJ alleging it discriminated against U.S. workers by reserving positions for temporary visa holders.

It's an example of how AT&T is adapting to the coronavirus pandemic.

NASA will pay $1 to a start-up to collect a small amount of material on the surface of the Moon, the space agency announced on Thursday.

Georgia voters will shape Biden's policy plans, the odds of tax reform and the balance of progressives and moderates in the Cabinet.

Tree sales are up 29% so far in 2020, according to a survey of retailers done by Evercore ISI.

The DC attorney general's office is suing over alleged improper spending by Donald Trump's inaugural committee. Ivanka Trump is upset about that.

Congress must target relief toward the most vulnerable small firms — and that goes beyond more PPP funding, experts said.

Job gains in November are expected to be weaker than in October, reflecting the impact of virus-related shutdowns by states and local governments.