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Amazon said it will extend hourly wage increases and double overtime pay until May 31, meaning the policies will go away in June.

After operating its factory in defiance of Covid-19 health orders for days, Tesla HR tells employees in an e-mail Wednesday: "choose not to work, it may impact your unemployment benefits"

Similar mandates have been made in San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Jersey City.

Ford Motor is signaling its return to vehicle production next week with a new ad campaign.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with two cases over whether Electoral College voters have a constitutional right to diverge from their state's popular vote.

Over 45,000 people have signed up for Utah's contact tracing app, Healthy Together, since it was released in late April, representing about 2% of Utah's population, the app's developers told CNBC.

Mester echoed Chairman Jerome Powell's mostly pessimistic view on the economy, telling CNBC on Wednesday that while growth is likely to return by the end of the year, it could be slow.

County health officials said in a statement Tuesday they had reviewed Tesla's reopening plan and "held productive discussions" with the firm.

Another protest is scheduled to take place at the Michigan Capitol building on Thursday.

A NASA presentation published on Wednesday outlined just how much the agency expects the Commercial Crew program will save taxpayers.

"The worst thing that could happen," economically, is that a country reopens and then has to shut down again to respond to a resurgence of the virus, said WHO official Dr. Mike Ryan.

The hackers have been caught attempting to "identify and illicitly obtain valuable intellectual property" and public-health data related to coronavirus research, according to the U.S. government.

Roughly 1.8 million residents struggling with unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic have filed claims, roughly six times the number of claims filed during the 2008 financial crisis, officials said.

Powell noted the unprecedented strength of fiscal and monetary measures already taken but stressed the need to make sure that the deepest slump since the Great Depression does not get out of control.

There are more than 100 vaccines in development globally as of April 30 with at least eight vaccine candidates already in human trials.

The number of news cases of PMIS in the city rose by 30 from the day before. Doctors are increasingly recognizing the symptoms in more children after the illness came to light in the U.K. late last month.

Amazon has struggled to balance demand for essential and nonessential goods at its warehouses during the pandemic.

"Without clear planning and implementation of the steps that I and other experts have outlined, 2020 will be darkest winter in modern history," Bright says in written congressional testimony.

While businesses save money on payrolls, they'll still see anemic demand, prices falling at a record pace and a myriad of other obstacles centering on how they will reopen once they finally can come back online.

Brian Huseman, Amazon's vice president of public policy, said the company 'stands ready' to work with Congress.