Facebook critics start rival, independent ‘oversight board’
OAKLAND, Calif. — A group of prominent Facebook critics, including one of the social network’s early investors and a journalist facing jail time in the…
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Fraud, backlogs disrupt US unemployment benefit payments
WASHINGTON — Many American workers applying for unemployment benefits after being thrown out of a job by the coronavirus face a new complication: States’ efforts…
Iowa fines beef plant $957 after huge coronavirus outbreak
IOWA CITY — Iowa regulators have issued their first citation to a meatpacking plant with a large coronavirus outbreak that sickened its workforce — a…
Evel Knievel’s son suing Disney over ‘Toy Story 4’ character
LAS VEGAS — Evel Knievel’s son is on a collision course with the Walt Disney Co. and Pixar over a movie daredevil character named Duke…
Mnuchin and Powell back jobless aid and small business loans
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said today that the government’s top priorities in any new economic relief package…
IPOs head for banner year on stock market’s strength
Companies that cater to the “new normal” of working and shopping from home are rushing to go public. 2020 could turn out to be the…
Apple’s smaller rivals unite to fight iPhone app store rules
WASHINGTON — Spotify and the makers of Fortnite and Tinder are taking on Apple and Google as part of a newly formed coalition calling for…
Sales of new homes surged 4.8% in August
NEW YORK — Sales of new homes rose by a very strong 4.8% in August to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 1.01 million units. The…
Jobless claims at 870,000 as fraud and backlogs cloud data
WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment aid rose slightly last week to 870,000, a historically high figure that shows that the viral…
Jobless claims at 870,000 as fraud, backlogs cloud data
WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment aid rose slightly last week to 870,000, a historically high figure that shows that the viral…