11:55
Finland to deploy coronavirus-sniffing dogs at Helsinki Airport
BERLIN - Finland is set to launch a coronavirus-sniffing-dog pilot program at Helsinki Airport on Wednesday, hop...
10:40
Stephen Cohen, historian of Soviet Union whose revisionist views influenced Gorbachev, dies at 81
Stephen Cohen, a scholar of Russian history whose ideas influenced the reform-minded Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as he sought to introduce new democratic norms, and who was later s...
09:50
Tesla's latest big unveil isn't a car or truck: It's the battery tech that could power its future
SAN FRANCISCO - Tesla has focused on squeezing as much energy as possible out of its batteries, with industry-leading range figures that have bested its competitors by dozens of miles ...
22.09.20
World Health Organization unveils plan for distributing coronavirus vaccine
The World Health Organization on Monday will announce which countries have signed on to its vaccine plan - and provide more details about how a vaccine, when it is developed, will be d...
21.09.20
Movie theater popcorn sales have tanked, prompting American popcorn farmers to find new markets
Public popcorn has been canceled. The pandemic shut down movie theaters. It put the kibosh on many summer sporting events, state fairs and concert series. Even car dealerships enticing...
21.09.20
China threatens U.S. companies with sanctions following Trump's WeChat ban
TAIPEI, Taiwan - American companies including Apple and Google could land in Beijing's crosshairs after the Chinese government responded to President Trump's WeChat ban by pointedly an...
21.09.20
Donald Kendall, who built PepsiCo into a soda and snack-food giant, dies at 99
Donald Kendall, a former fountain-syrup salesman who engineered the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay, then built PepsiCo into one of America's largest companies while selling soda to...
20.09.20
'Ratched' is a mighty strong dose of Ryan Murphy, with sometimes sluggish side-effects
Netflix's "Ratched" isn't the Ryan-Murphiest thing Ryan Murphy has ever produced, but it sure wants to be. From a bloody opening scene in which a deranged man (Finn Wittrock) kills a r...
20.09.20
A pandemic surge in food delivery has made ghost kitchens and virtual eateries one of the only growth areas in the restaurant industry
Like most restaurant groups around the country, BBQ Holdings' four restaurant brands got hit hard by the pandemic - shelter-in-place orders and limitations on dining-room occupancy mea...
19.09.20
An American in Germany broke quarantine to barhop, officials say. Then her coronavirus test came back positive
U.S. Army officials in Germany are investigating reports that an American working at an Army hotel in Bavaria broke covid-19 quarantine orders amid an outbreak of "several" cases at th...
19.09.20
A new view for design flexibility emerging from pandemic
Six months ago the coronavirus pandemic turned the entire nation into homebodies. Now architects, builders and interior designers are addressing the pain points that emerged when our h...
19.09.20
Expecting little, our TV critic finds 25 shows worth watching this fall (yes, really!)
My suggested marketing slogan for this fall's TV season: Not as bleak as you expected! While the prime-time broadcast schedules must wait for a safe return to normal shooting schedules...
18.09.20
Vaccine companies reveal their study designs, even as Trump sows confusion
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump stood before a televised audience Wednesday and proclaimed that "results are very good" for vaccines targeting the novel coronavirus. A day later, M...
16.09.20
Trump's China tariffs violate global trade rules, WTO says
President Donald Trump's "America First" policy drew strong pushback on two fronts Tuesday, as the World Trade Organization sided with China in a legal challenge to U.S. tariffs and Ca...
15.09.20
This woman was barred from a museum until she covered her cleavage. She protested - and sparked a national outcry
Jeanne Huet and Marion Canneval had planned the perfect Tuesday. The two best friends would meet up for lunch at a cafe, stroll through the Tuileries Garden and end up at an art museum. They decided on the Musée d'Orsay. Huet, a 22-year-old univers...