The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has changed its rule about who should get COVID-19 testing. Most recently, it backtracked on a rule. For a period, the rules said people who came in contact…
The 22 million active WeChat users in the United States have become a walled garden, which defeats the reasons to have the app at all.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mississippi had the highest level of obesity last year. Most of the states with the highest obesity rates are south of the Mason-Dixon line.
IBM's problem is that it has no convincing case that it can return to the top tier of American tech companies. In fact, its chance to do that recedes with each reported quarter.
The United States appears to be getting safer overall, according to the FBI’s latest violent crime data. Yet the improvement was not uniform across all states.
WeWork may be successful as companies large and small look for places to park workers. Or, like the movie theater business, it could collapse under the weight of the fear people have of enclosed…
The Ford Foundation does provide money to further social justice. The Ford company does make police vehicles. The notion that the two have some connection is false.
The partial sale of TikTok to Oracle, if it goes through, may be the final transaction of real substance in the career Oracle founder Larry Ellison.
Italy, France and Spain rely so much on tourism and the exports of discretionary purchase items that their economies may be ruined as much as in the Great Recession.
While the official poverty rate was 10.5% last year, the level varies sharply from state to state. In Mississippi, the figure was 82% higher than the national average.
Apple has released the new generation of its smartwatch product, but the growth in sales of the Apple Watch is expected to be far below the global increase in smartwatch sales this year.
In 2019, the U.S. level of poverty was the best it has been in decades, but the official rate does not take into account everything.
When 30 million confirmed COVID-19 cases globally are reached later this week, there will be a suspicion that the number is not even close to reality.
FedEx says it will add 70,000 workers to meet holiday demand. The only reason that it would need this army of people is if e-commerce is expected to surge during the period.
Gym chain New York Sports Clubs has filed for bankruptcy, a sign of the toll the pandemic has taken on the business.
Rumors are that the deal primarily allows Oracle to host TikTok on its cloud computing platform. If so, the term "sale" would be out of place.
Amazon.com plans to add an extraordinary number of workers in the United States and Canada. The hiring binge is more bad news for America's brick-and-mortar retailers.
The World Air Quality Index project tracks air pollution in tens of thousands of locations around the world. White Salmon, Washington, now has literally off the charts of air pollution measurements.
The largest aircraft used to fight wildfires like the ones raging in California and Oregon was once the largest passenger plane in the world. The U.S. Forest Service used to break fire fighting planes…
Temperatures have set records around the world recently, and the warmest places are routinely over 110 degrees F during the day. Extreme heat, over 120 degrees, is rare, but in this city in Afghanistan,…
