July 26, 2020

Pandemic breathes new life into house calls

In the middle of May, Ashley Barton sipped a mimosa in her best friend’s apartment in Queens while she enjoyed her first professional manicure and […]
July 26, 2020

New When I Work CEO targets growth, innovation after reduction

Martin Hartshorne, to be announced Monday as the new chief executive of When I Work, said the hourly workforce management technology company is hiring and […]
July 26, 2020

Hilmerson, a Minnesota safety innovator, invents a better way to protect construction sites

Deb Hilmerson has been breaking barriers since she broke into the construction trade after college in 1989. The daughter of a Little Falls, Minn., auto […]
July 26, 2020

Vermont city hit hard by news of immigration furloughs

ST. ALBANS, Vt. — Word has spread swiftly around the small working-class city of St. Albans about looming furloughs at its U.S. Citizenship and Immigration […]
July 26, 2020

Twitter and Facebook become targets in Trump and Biden ads

CHICAGO — Social media has become the target of a dueling attack ad campaign being waged online by the sitting president and his election rival. […]
July 26, 2020

Workers praise Disney virus safety, but will visitors come?

ORLANDO, Fla. — Every week, it seems, Kaila Barker, her husband and their five children change their minds about whether to travel from their home […]
July 26, 2020

Nursing homes eye more private rooms in post-pandemic future

U.S. nursing homes have remained mostly locked down since COVID-19 swept through earlier this year, and it may be a while before that changes. Nursing […]
July 26, 2020

The Latest: 2nd case in Vietnam shuts bars, parks in Da Nang

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam on Sunday reimposed restrictions in one of its most popular beach destinations after a second person tested positive for COVID-19, the […]
July 26, 2020

Car drives through crowd, protester shot in Colorado

AURORA, Colo. — A car drove through a crowd and a protester was shot in the suburban Denver suburb of Aurora during demonstrations against racial […]
July 26, 2020

'What are they waiting for?' Owners of riot-damaged businesses lament aid delays

Two months after the death of George Floyd, construction crews are few and far between in the riot-torn neighborhoods of Minneapolis and St. Paul. A […]