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United dismissed the effectiveness of blocking middle seats on board, calling it a "PR strategy"

"States like Texas and Florida, they're falling behind on testing right now because the testing isn't evenly distributed across the country," former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said.

Republicans are trying to hold off Democratic Senate challengers across the country as they look to keep their majority in the chamber.

NPC joins a host of other companies that filed for bankruptcy during the pandemic, including Chuck E. Cheese's parent company CEC Entertainment, rental car company Hertz, and retailers J. Crew and J.C. Penney.

United is increasing its flights in August with an eye on leisure destinations but its schedule will be just 40% from a year ago.

The ISM Manufacturing index recorded a 52.6 reading in June, better than the 49.5 that economists had expected.

The Democrats' bill serves as an opening offer in negotiations with Republicans on another coronavirus relief plan as the benefit is set to expire.

Trump gets poor marks for his handling of the coronavirus in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

For low-income students from Black, Hispanic and other minority communities, the sudden, remote work success story is anything but: it risks creating a new digital divide in career opportunities.

Even without an undergraduate degree in "STEM" — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the increasing popularity of coding programs and boot camps makes it possible to switch careers to tech.

Luckin Coffee said Wednesday that it has "substantially" completed its independent internal probe into sales fraud.

Hong Kong's status as a world financial hub looks to be under threat. Beijing has expedited a new national security law, which some experts warn has the potential to erode the very structure that grants the region major privileges on the international stage.

Cases of positive and potentially a false positive coronavirus test result at the PGA Tour's Travelers Championship are raising questions about diagnostic testing.

Private payrolls grew by 2.369 million for the month, a bit lower than the 2.5 million expectation from economists surveyed by Dow Jones, according to a report Wednesday from ADP and Moody's Analytics.

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include Macy's, United, FedEx, Boeing, Facebook, and more.

The virus, which scientists are calling "G4 EA H1N1," has not yet been shown to infect humans but it is exhibiting "reassortment capabilities," Dr. Anthony Fauci told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee during a hearing Tuesday.

"We are now having 40 plus thousand new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around, and so I am very concerned," Fauci said.

Beyond Meat announced Tuesday that Alibaba's Freshippo grocery stores would start selling its meatless burger patties.

Texas reported more than 6,900 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, a record daily increase that brings the state's total to nearly 160,000 cases, according to the state's department of health.