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Founded in 2003, Palantir has been among the most highly valued venture-backed companies with about $2.6 billion raised and a roughly $20 billion valuation five years ago during a fundraising round in 2015.

Uber and Lyft got their way on Thursday when an appeals court ruled to extend a stay on an order requiring them to reclassify drivers.

Another round of retail bankruptcies and liquidations could be coming if a second wave of infections run smack into the holiday shopping season.

At least 90% of Americans need to wear masks, social distance and wash hands regularly, the head of the CDC said.

A little-known not-for-profit run by Steve Bannon, and now linked to the $1 million in fraud charges against him, made loans and payments to Bannon, his son and other family members but made few grants, according to IRS filings.

"To say there will be no further changes will not address the past changes that have taken place over the last couple weeks," NAACP chief Derrick Johnson told CNBC.

In prepared remarks, DeJoy said "a false narrative has developed" that his changes at the post office "are somehow designed to harm the ability of voters to use the mail to vote."

"Really, an outbreak can happen anywhere," former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said.

A former Navy SEAL who said he shot Osama bin Laden is reportedly one of about 130 people banned by Delta Air Lines for failing to wear a mask on a flight.

California residents and business owners are facing the horror of a pandemic and wildfires that are blanketing the state in smoke.

Sales of existing homes soared 24.7% in July from June, according to the National Association of Realtors. The median price of a home sold in July rose 8.5% annually to $304,100.

U.S. government debt prices were lower on Friday morning, as investors monitored flash readings of purchasing managers' index data.

Outside of Joe Biden's nomination acceptance speech, remarks from Mike Bloomberg and 13-year-old Brayden Harrington were among the Democratic convention highlights.

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include Deere, Foot Locker, GE, Pfizer, Tesla, and more.

Joe Biden on the final night of the Democratic National Convention will officially accept his party's nomination for president.

Joe Biden capped an unprecedented, virtual Democratic National Convention by accepting the party's 2020 presidential nomination.

Iran's show of force comes as a U.N.-imposed arms embargo is set to expire in October.

The cities were selected because they have attracted little demand and aren't likely to rebound soon, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The final night of the DNC will also feature speeches from former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, former Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg and entrepreneur Andrew Yang.

Pfizer and BioNTech surprised many industry watchers on July 27 when they announced they would conduct a large-scale study of a vaccine for Covid-19. The surprise? The vaccine that would be tested in a 30,000-patient trial wasn't the one for which the companies had presented data on July 1.