10.07.20
Natural gas is the past. Natural gas is also the future.
On Sunday, Virginia-based utility Dominion Energy Inc announced plans to sell almost all of its natural gas pipe...
10.07.20
Six months, six countries, six families - and one unrelenting, unforgiving epidemic
For the rising actress in Hong Kong, who had broken free of the poverty of her peasant parents, 2020 began as a moment of hope. For the window cleaner in New Delhi, finally able to aff...
10.07.20
After covid-19, giant corporations and chains may be the only ones left
Antonio's, my kids' favorite pizza-by-the-slice joint, will be fine. The rest of downtown Amherst, Mass., where I live - I'm not so sure. Antonio's is (or was, before March) perpetuall...
09.07.20
Retail workers are being pulled into the latest culture war: Getting customers to wear masks
It's been nearly a week since the city of Mobile, Ala., began requiring masks in public. But inside the discount store where Kae Palmer works, not much has changed. Most shoppers still...
09.07.20
As economy reels from pandemic, Trump and Mexican president mark start of 3-nation trade pact
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday marked the start of a three-nation regional trade deal in a Rose Garden ceremony with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador tha...
09.07.20
As businesses reopen, many Americans plan to spend less
The novel coronavirus-which has infected almost three million people and killed more than 130,000 in the U.S. alone-has roiled the economy and brought many aspects of American social l...
09.07.20
Puzzling wheat prices raise fears of manipulation in Argentina
Farmers in Argentina are worried that wheat-price anomalies signal the ruling Peronist party is starting to meddle in grain markets just months into its four-year term. The Agriculture...
08.07.20
Facebook met with civil rights groups after hundreds of companies joined ad boycott
Civil rights leaders organizing a major advertising boycott of Facebook said they remained unconvinced that the social network is taking enough action against hate speech and disinform...
08.07.20
Lebanon's economic crisis is spinning out of control
Lebanon's economic crisis is fast slipping out of control, driven by a currency collapse that's decimating businesses and plunging families into destitution. While politicians and bank...
08.07.20
Singapore's staycations can't fill $20 billion tourism gap
In Indonesia, locals can soon fly from Jakarta to the beaches of Bali for a domestic vacation. Tokyo residents can escape the pandemic stress with a hike in the mountains, and New York...
08.07.20
Pandemic set to spark biggest retreat for meat eating in decades
The coronavirus pandemic is poised to usher in the biggest retreat for global meat eating in decades. Per-capita consumption is set to fall by almost 3% in 2020 to the lowest since 201...
08.07.20
Vast phishing campaign hits Microsoft users in 62 countries
Microsoft Corp. customers were targeted in a massive phishing campaign that has sought to defraud users in 62 countries since December. Recently, the malicious emails have evolved to c...
07.07.20
Companies are hiring their own epidemiologists to help deal with the pandemic
Grubhub wasn't sure how to safely deliver meals during a pandemic. The familiar food safety rules of temperature and sanitation were not enough. Did drivers need masks? Hand sanitizer?...
07.07.20
Drawing on grandma's lessons from 1918, a distillery donated 800 gallons of hand sanitizer
Michael Dombrosky's grandmother was a teenage moonshiner who knew survival. A coal miner's daughter, Mary Fellin put herself through nursing school in Allentown, Pa., at the turn of th...
07.07.20
Generation Z is bearing the economic brunt of the virus
Already scarred by the global financial crisis a decade ago, a generation of younger people is bearing the economic brunt of the coronavirus. Even billions of dollars in global fiscal ...