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Oct 09, 2020
By Nathan Bomey USA Today The Trump administration said today that it would immediately impose tariffs on aluminum sheets imported from 18 countries after a preliminary investigation concluded they were being "dumped" in th... Read More
Oct 02, 2020
By Dalvin Brown USA Today Shopping on Thanksgiving is set to look a lot different this year. Not only have a growing number of retailers announced plans to be closed on the holiday, but Americans also plan on staying home and beli... Read More
Oct 01, 2020
Chris Woodyard USA Today Airlines, hotels and other travel-related businesses are trying desperately to urge Congress to act on a new relief plan in the wake of mass layoffs. The day the airline industry didn’t want to see i... Read More
Sep 29, 2020
By Kelly Tyko USA Today Costco Wholesale has reportedly removed Palmetto Cheese from store shelves after the owner of the pimento cheese brand called Black Lives Matter a “terror organization.” Brian Henry, the founder... Read More
Jul 24, 2020
By Kelly Tyko USA Today It’s no secret that kids — and cats — like to play with cardboard boxes, sometimes more than with what’s inside. Amazon is introducing boxes with a built-in play factor. Start... Read More
Jul 23, 2020
By Susan Tompor Detroit Free Press As pandemic emergency relief draws to a close for some renters and others, many struggling consumers could be tempted to cover a few bills by pulling out some old, little-used credit cards. ... Read More
Jul 21, 2020
By Kelly Tyko USA Today Southeastern Grocers, parent company of Bi-Lo, Winn-Dixie and Harveys supermarkets, is reversing course and says it will require that shoppers wear masks in its hundreds of stores throughout the Southern ... Read More
Jul 08, 2020
By Dalvin Brown USA Today Videos keep cropping up of anti-mask customers acting irrationally at supermarkets, putting workers and shoppers in awkward or unsafe predicaments. In one of the latest videos, a Costco customer who wasn&... Read More
Jul 06, 2020
By Steve Kiggins USA Today The proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been scrapped after years of legal challenges and construction delays. The project’s developers, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy, announced the pipeline&rsq... Read More
Jul 06, 2020
Dalvin Brown USA Today Kris Christian, a small-business owner in Chicago, was mourning the death of George Floyd when she was hit with an onslaught of online orders that caught her off guard. The owner of Chicago French Press was ... Read More
Jul 06, 2020
Mealand Ragland-Hudgins Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Daily News Journal Home decor retailer Old Time Pottery has started Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in order to restructure its finances. Based in Murfreesboro, Tenn., the company sai... Read More
Jul 02, 2020
By Charisse Jones USA Today Vinny Zuehlsdorff got his CPR certification in January, eager to get a job as a lifeguard this summer so he could sock away money for college in the fall. But with the pool closed because of the COVID-1... Read More
Jul 02, 2020
Fireworks sales booming nationwide because of COVID-19 By Kelly Tyko USA Today The next COVID-19 shortage could end up being fireworks. With cities across the nation canceling public displays this Independence Day, sales of fir... Read More
Jul 01, 2020
By Charisse Jones USA Today Fewer Americans are seeking unemployment benefits, but the number who need help remains high as the country haltingly reopens its economy amid the coronavirus pandemic. Workers filed 1.48 million first ... Read More
Jun 30, 2020
By Nathan Bomey USA Today All those Chuck E. Cheese tokens and tickets you’ve been hoarding are still good for now, but you might not have a local Chuck E. Cheese where you can use them anymore. CEC Entertainment, the pa... Read More
Jun 29, 2020
By Brett Molina USA Today Money spent in restaurants and supermarkets could offer insight into how fast or slow the coronavirus pandemic may spread. According to a note from Jesse Edgerton, an economist with JPMorgan Chase, the le... Read More
Jun 18, 2020
Coral Murphy USA Today Verizon will launch a mentoring program aimed at providing female entrepreneurs and business owners with a network of female business leaders to coach them on navigating a COVID-19 reality. This is according... Read More
Jun 18, 2020
Jessica Guynn USA Today Joel Stallworth is smiling in front of his tiny boarded-up shop in downtown Los Angeles. He’s wearing a black T-shirt he designed not long after looters swarmed through the smashed door and carried o... Read More
Jun 17, 2020
By Jefferson Graham USA Today T.J. Leonard likes to kick off every Monday morning with an all-hands meeting, to keep his 100-plus employees of the Storyblocks video production assistance company up to date on the latest. And even ... Read More
Jun 12, 2020
By Kelly Tyko USA Today Businesses, homes and cars damaged or vandalized in the uprisings and civil unrest after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis will be covered by most insurance policies. With few exceptions, au... Read More
Jun 11, 2020
By Michael Braga USA Today Elizabeth Anderson is the kind of person who goes out of her way to help people in need. Old folks stuck at home? She’ll clean their bathrooms and vacuum their carpets. Neighbors with hungry kids? ... Read More
Jun 10, 2020
By Dalvin Brown USA Today Yelp is making it easier for users to locate black-owned businesses amid renewed calls for racial equality in America. The app known for crowd-sourced reviews is launching a tool within the next two weeks... Read More
Jun 09, 2020
Peter Pham has been calling his contacts lately. He misses his favorite part of attending conferences: working the room. So, in the middle of a pandemic, he’s keeping touch the old-fashioned way — by reachin... Read More
Jun 08, 2020
By Nathan Bomey USA Today A deep dive into the jobs report released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides clues on why the numbers turned out better than expected. The sharp improvement in jobs figures fr... Read More
Jun 03, 2020
By Jessica Menton USA Today Wells Fargo, one of the largest lenders for purchases of new and used cars, is no longer making auto loans to most independent car dealerships, a sign the bank is concerned about defaults in the wake o... Read More
May 26, 2020
By Max Garland Memphis Commercial Appeal FedEx’s business-to-business traffic fell significantly in the U.S. as COVID-19 lockdown measures across the country took effect, Chairman and CEO Fred Smith said in a livestreamed ... Read More
May 22, 2020
By Mitch Albom Detroit Free Press We are facing a new silent enemy. One that could take us down quickly. It is not COVID-19. It is our patience. Americans are not a patient people. Our news cycle is 24 hours; a big story... Read More
May 20, 2020
By Nathan Bomey USA TODAY Handshaking is a key part of Michelle Ngome’s networking game as a marketing professional. Which is why Ngome, president of the African American Marketing Association and host of the “Net... Read More
May 18, 2020
By Jefferson Graham USA Today Your favorite restaurant, now closed or only accepting take out orders due to the coronavirus, may never reopen, according to a top exec with reservation service OpenTable. Steve Hafner, CEO ... Read More