The major U.S. index futures are currently pointing to a sharply higher opening on Friday, with stocks likely to add to the gains posted in the previous session.

The major U.S. index futures are currently pointing to a higher open on Tuesday, with stocks likely to move to the upside after ending the previous session mixed.

The coronavirus pandemic has so far infected 1.07 million people in the United States and has taken lives of more than 62,000.

After a lull in coronavirus-related death toll in the United States since the beginning of this month, the country recorded nearly 2,000 deaths in the past 24 hours. Daily death toll has been moving around 1000 since May 1, but it rose to the 2000 range for the third day in a row. On Wednesday, 1,949 people died of the killer disease in the U.S. The new surge in casualties brought the total numb

BioNTech (BNTX) and its partner Pfizer (PFE) have started a phase I/II clinical trial in the U.S. for their BNT162 vaccine program to prevent COVID-19.

President Donald Trump on Monday announced a strategy to expand coronavirus testing facilities in the United States, which the White House described as a decisive step to ensure States have the testing system required to reopen the nation. The Trump Administration released its blueprint for State testing plans and rapid response programs as a follow up of the "Opening Up America Again" guidelines

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned of a second wave of the novel coronavirus in the next winter, which, according to him, is likely to be even more devastating than the one that is raging across the globe. "We're going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time," CDC Director Robert Redfield said in an interview with The Washington Po

The number of people infected with coronavirus in the United States crossed the dreadful one million mark Wednesday, making up nearly one third of the global cases. With more than 58,000 deaths, more Americans have died of COVID-19 than in the Vietnam War. The pandemic has so far infected 10,12,583 people in the country, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineerin

While reporting its first-quarter financial results on Friday, PPL Corp. (PPL) said that through the end of the first quarter, it remained on track to achieve its fiscal 2020 earnings forecast of $2.40 to $2.60 per share.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks UNC coronavirus researcher Dr. Ada Adimora for the latest information concerning COVID-19.

U.K. stocks advanced on Thursday as the Bank of England maintained its key interest rate and refrained from unveiling additional quantitative easing, despite the coronavirus pandemic taking its toll on the economy.

U.K. stocks rose sharply on Tuesday as several countries tentatively eased restrictions on movement in a bid to revive global economies.

A team of scientists at Oregon State University are trying to measure the true prevalence of the coronavirus in Corvallis, Ore., by taking a random sample of the population.

Cornhole is making a comeback on ESPN. And NASCAR is slated to return to TV, but questions still remain about football, baseball, basketball and football.

The Australian economy is set to log its biggest contraction in the history due to the coronavirus, or Covid-19, pandemic, the Reserve Bank of Australia said Friday. In its quarterly statement on monetary policy, the central bank said gross domestic product is expected to contract around 10 percent over the first half of 2020, mostly concentrated in the June quarter.

German exports declined the most on record in March as foreign demand was dampened by coronavirus, or Covid-19, pandemic, official data showed Friday.

German exports declined at a record pace in March as widespread lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus, or Covid-19, across major economies hurt the demand, official data showed Friday. Exports fell by seasonally adjusted 11.8 percent month-on-month, in contrast to February's 1.2 percent rise, Destatis reported. This was the strongest decline since the beginning of the time series in August

Reflecting the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and efforts to contain it, the Labor Department released a report on Friday showing a record nosedive in employment in the U.S. in the month of April. The report said non-farm payroll employment plummeted by 20.5 million jobs in April after tumbling by a revised 870,000 jobs in March.

Hoewel jongeren weer naar school en sport mogen, blijven de coronavirusrichtlijnen ook voor hen van groot belang. Ze lijken weliswaar minder vatbaar voor het coronavirus, maar kunnen wel anderen besmetten. Maar hoe overtuig je tieners van nut en noodzaak van de beleidsmaatregelen en hoe bevorder je het gedrag dat de besmettingscurve zou moeten afvlakken?

Ik merk iets vreemds. Door het vaak thuis zijn en thuiswerken, maar ook door het wegvallen van de vele reclames van de Unilevers, Burger Kings en Starbucksen merk ik hoezeer ik altijd beïnvloed ben door deze reclame-uitingen van ‘bekende merken’. Ook al heb ik mezelf altijd voorgehouden dat ik daar niet gevoelig voor ben. 

It’s a very good album and the more I listened to it the better it sounded.

The lovely Joel Corry interviewed at MTV after being nominated for the MTV PUSH: Ones to Watch Shortlist for 2020 on November 22nd 2019.

Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary has the coronavirus, the White House says, making her the second person who works at the White House complex known to test positive for the virus this week.

A solid growth in mineral exports in March after Chinese factories reopened following the coronavirus shutdown has driven Australia's trade surplus to a record $10.6 billion, in seasonally adjusted terms.