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More than 250 homeless people were moved out of New York City subway trains, as the city's subway system closed early Wednesday to begin its first scheduled shutdown to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that German regions with higher mortality rates from the virus had a higher vote share for the Nazi Party in the elections of 1932 and 1933.

Business owners, the unemployed and recipients of stimulus checks are among the targets of financial thieves trying to access trillions of dollars in federal coronavirus relief.

United is walking back some worker schedule cuts, making them voluntary, after a lawsuit from the employees' union

About 90 United Auto Workers union members have assembled more than 10,000 respirators at a Ford plant near Flat Rock, Michigan.

The drugstore chain's stores have remained open as an essential retailer during the coronavirus pandemic, and it's also opened drive-thru testing sites.

The supermarket chain executive said Kroger is working with new meat suppliers and diverting meat that would have gone to restaurants to try to stay in stock.

Consumers stocked up on board games, not Barbie dolls, amid the coronavirus pandemic, sending Mattel's sales in the first quarter tumbling.

"This is not blockbuster drug, but watch this trend. I think it's very exciting for investors," CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 321,100 people across the state as of Wednesday.

Putin's approval rating fell to 59% in April, down from 63% in the previous month, according to a poll carried out by the independent Levada Center.

More than just another billionaire divorce spat, the Bosarge case offers a rare window into the highly secretive world of asset trusts in South Dakota, a state whose highly secretive and protective trust laws have made it a haven for billionaires and wealthy families around the world.

WHO is holding a briefing on the Covid-19 pandemic.

Company says Covid-19 pandemic will affect results from second quarter of 2020.

Oil prices moved lower on Wednesday, snapping the longest daily winning streak since July.

The year 2020 was supposed to be a good one for American milk producers, but the coronavirus might push many of them out of business for good.

"When the transactions are completed, the additional liquidity alleviates management's concern about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern for the next 12 months," Norwegian said in a statement Wednesday.

"We will want, if we possibly can, to get going with some of these measures on Monday," Johnson told Parliament.

Wendy's reported that its U.S. same-store sales are rebounding after plunging in March and the first half of April.

Obamacare's contraceptive coverage mandate returns to the Supreme Court in a high-profile case that will force the justices to once again consider which businesses may refuse to provide their employees access to free birth control.