Economy

Hundreds of protesters set two banks on fire and clashed with security forces in Tripoli, Lebanon, on Tuesday, after soldiers shot a man dead during related protests the night before.

State parks and golf courses across New Jersey will reopen this weekend, Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced on Wednesday.

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak announced Wednesday that he would extend the state’s “stay-at-home” order amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

Officials in North Carolina’s Gaston County announced on Wednesday their intention to sign an order allowing businesses in the county to reopen, effective April 29 at 5:00 p.m., despite Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) extended stay-at-home orders.

An anonymous donor paid the grocery bills at all four Kroger stores in Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday morning.

A Washington Post poll shows that Hispanics are the strongest advocates for a near-total lockdown of immigration during the coronavirus epidemic.

The aerospace giant plans to reduce its workforce by 10 percent through voluntary and involuntary layoffs.

The S&P 500 has surged more than 12 percent in April, and is a day away from closing its best month since late 1974

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The United States “must expand use of vote by mail,” according to activist and failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who released an analysis of Wisconsin’s controversial April primary election and concluded that safer in-person voting “depends on reducing crowds by maximizing participation in vote-by-mail” and the addition of ballot harvesting.

A Michigan law firm filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Robert Gordon on behalf of five small business clients regarding the limits of the state’s constitutional power.

A bipartisan coalition of former healthcare officials is pushing a $46 billion plan to reopen the U.S. economy to congressional leaders.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted recently calling on states to “reopen” America in order to revitalize the economy. In one post, Musk simply stated: “FREE AMERICA NOW.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently stated that “a crisis tends to strip away façades and reveal who we are and what we believe. At best, we become stronger as communities and a nation; at worst, we slip into fear and oppression.”

A South Carolina mayor is warning residents to refrain from crossing the Georgia line as Gov. Brian Kemp (R) loosens restrictions in the Peach State.

The Federal Reserve latest meeting concluded with a statement emphasizing the Fed’s commitment to use all of its tools to support the economy.

E-commerce giant Amazon reportedly purchased thermal cameras to monitor workers’ temperatures during the Chinese virus pandemic from a Chinese firm blacklisted by the United States over allegations that it helped China detain and monitor Uighurs and other Muslim minorities.

Rideshare company Lyft said it is laying off 982 employees, or 17 percent of its workforce, and is furloughing hundreds more due to financial pressure from the Chinese virus pandemic.

M.K. Pritzker, the billionaire wife of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D), is reportedly skipping out on her husband’s stringent lockdown orders, jetting off to their $12.1 million equestrian estate in South Florida — a state that has refused to implement what Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) described as “draconian” measures as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.

According to a recent study, nearly 3 in 5 Americans say that they would be unable or unwilling to use the infection-alert apps being developed by Apple and Google to trace Wuhan coronavirus infections.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Wednesday suggested that “far too many” of the individuals who are desperately urging officials to reopen the economy so they can resume earning a living and recover from economic hardship are not actually “workers.”

As states are beginning to slowly reopen amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Wednesday’s “America’s Newsroom” on Fox News Channel questioned why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is yet to bring back Congress to do the work of the American people.

The next economic relief package must “hold communist China accountable,” Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said in a statement on Tuesday, outlining his top priorities for the next bill.

Social media start-up Parler is once again punching above its weight class, saying that Facebook ought to pay more than the $5 billion fine recently approved by a federal judge for the company’s violations of user privacy.

The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing the nation’s many visa-worker programs to ensure that Americans get American jobs during the economic recovery, the agency chief told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade.

Treasury spokeswoman Monica Crowley said that the Paycheck Protection Program was on track to hit the administration’s target to cover half the U.S. workforce.

The coronavirus had an deeper impact on the economy than expected