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The number of Americans who filed for unemployment benefits for the first time came in above 1 million for a second consecutive week.

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine is suing Instacart, claiming the grocery delivery service deceived customers into thinking that an optional service fee would be used as a tip for workers.

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The samples were collected at the oncology facility during the height of the New Jersey's outbreak. None of the samples returned positive for the coronavirus, the study found.

Amazon will track everything from physical activity to sleep. It is also bringing some new features to the market, including technology to measure users' body fat percentages and emotional states.

"As long as you can reduce fixed costs, this shift to digital can be profitable," Abercrombie & Fitch CFO Scott Lipesky said in a phone interview.

Many retailers say they are still waiting to see strong demand for back-to-school shopping as parents and students put off purchases of fresh outfits, notebooks and glue sticks.

As Hurricane Laura approached the Louisiana and Texas coasts, officials issued dire warnings for people hunkered down at home during the storm.

Hurricane Laura pounded the Gulf Coast for hours with ferocious wind, torrential rains and rising seawater as it roared ashore over southwestern Louisiana near the Texas border early Thursday, threatening the lives of people who didn't evacuate.

CNBC's Jim Cramer said that Powell basically signaled: "'Hey guys, just go. Go get the economy back. I am not going to get in the way of it.'"

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner said Thursday that the NBA players refusing to play in protest of a recent police shooting are lucky to be rich enough to be "able to take a night off from work."

One for Democracy, backed by former hedge fund executive Mike Novogratz, raises money from donors and distributes it to groups that seek to get out the vote.

We've now entered the "virtual experience economy," giving rise to a boom in the use of virtual reality for everything from education to travel says Vikas Gupta CEO of AVARA Media.

A second reading of the U.S. economy in the second quarter reflected the biggest quarterly plunge on record, though the plummet wasn't as bad as initially estimated.

The usual summer slowdown in the housing market is not happening this year. Buyers continue to show strong demand, rushing to take advantage of record low mortgage rates.

"Retail is obviously struggling," Related Companies Chief Executive Jeff Blau told CNBC's "Squawk Box" Thursday morning.

With mounting concerns over mail-in voting, President Trump suggested delaying the election. Experts warn that a postponed election could lead to severe political chaos in Washington and an insurmountable impact on the U.S. economy and the stock market.

School closings and partial reopenings are boosting the online learning trade, and two traders have their sights set on several stocks in the space.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has "done a lot of the right things to make sure that the market was able to get through the crisis," the senior Trump advisor told CNBC on Thursday.

President Trump will cap a 2020 Republican National Convention that blurred campaign and government business with a speech at the White House.