UnitedHealth Group is promoting former GlaxoSmithKline leader Sir Andrew Witty to become the health insurance provider’s next CEO immediately. The company said Thursday that current […]

NEW YORK — Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden and an ongoing target for conservatives, has a memoir coming out April 6. The book […]

TOKYO — Japanese space experts said Thursday they will examine soil samples brought back from a distant asteroid in an attempt to find the source […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. productivity fell sharply in the October-December quarter while labor costs rose. The Labor Department reported Thursday that productivity dropped at a 4.8% […]

Merck posted a big fourth-quarter loss due to a hefty charge and higher spending on research, production and overhead. The company also announced Ken Frazier, […]

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits declined to 779,000 last week, a still-historically high total that shows that a sizable number of […]

But the year could have been worse. At the onset of the pandemic, former Duluth Finance Director Wayne Parson predicted that the city likely would […]

TOKYO — Asian shares mostly fell Thursday as caution set in over company earnings reports, recent choppy trading in technology stocks and prospects for more […]

MEXICO CITY — Mexico reported a near-record 1,707 confirmed coronavirus deaths Wednesday, as the country runs out of vaccines. The Health Department reported Mexico’s COVID-19 […]

TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas health department says a more contagious variant of the coronavirus first identified in Great Britain has arrived in the state. […]