coronavirus pandemic

TOKYO—Team USA extended a historic run of championships in Olympic women’s basketball on Sunday, winning the gold against home team Japan in their first-ever medal match. The United States’ women earned their seventh-straight gold in the 90–75 victory at the Saitama Super Arena, north of Tokyo. Brittney Griner, who plays for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, […]

TOKYO—U.S. volleyball star Foluke Akinradewo Gunderson woke up with a vision that her team was poised to make it back to the gold medal game. Five years after Akinradewo Gunderson could only watch the end of a crushing five-set loss to Serbia in the Olympic semifinals because of an injured knee, she helped lead her […]

LOS ANGELES—Tom Cruise let rip over an apparent breach of COVID-19 safety protocols on the London set of the new “Mission: Impossible” movie, telling crew members they would be fired if they don’t obey the rules, Britain’s Sun newspaper reported on Tuesday. In expletive-filled remarks captured on audiotape obtained by The Sun, the star and producer […]

Most brides and grooms-to-be have had to scale back wedding plans as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, with shorter guest lists, canceled venues, and smaller receptions. But Emily Bugg and Billy Lewis of Chicago had an idea to pivot their wedding celebrations to something even better—by giving back to others. Bugg and Lewis had […]

We ask people in three very different industries how COVID has impacted their business. Featuring Monica Quinn, co-director of Moving Parts Film Festival in California; Rogers Healy, owner and CEO of Healy Global Relocation in Texas; and Jennifer Costentino, general manager at Green Granite Inn in New Hampshire.

BEIJING—While China’s coastal provinces and major cities are recovering from the coronavirus pandemic, firms in its poorer western and central provinces are falling well behind in metrics like output and sales revenue, a private survey showed on Thursday. The majority of firms are recovering far more slowly than those in wealthier areas around Beijing, Shanghai, […]

CHICAGO—United Airlines said on Thursday it will need to cut 2,850 pilot jobs this year if the government does not extend an aid package to help airlines cover employee payroll for another six months while they weather the coronavirus pandemic. The job cuts, released in a memo to employees and shared with the media, would […]

Sophia Garabedian had been dealing with a persistent fever and painful headache when her parents found her unresponsive in her bed one morning last fall. Doctors ultimately diagnosed the then-5-year-old Sudbury, Massachusetts, resident with eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a rare but severe mosquito-borne virus that causes brain swelling. Garabedian survived the potentially fatal virus after […]

BEIJING —Two World Health Organization experts were heading to the Chinese capital on Friday to lay the groundwork for a larger mission to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

A gas station in Wisconsin is selling a gallon of regular gasoline for 95 cents as of Monday as prices continue to drop across the United States due to increasing supplies and a drop in demand amid the CCP virus pandemic.

Eleven veterans who live at the Soldiers Home in Holyoke, Massachusetts, have died and five of them tested positive for CCP virus.

Lionel Messi and the rest of the Barcelona squad will take a 70 percent pay reduction in order to help the club financially during the CCP virus pandemic.

Ecuadorean authorities have removed 100 corpses from homes in the city of Guayaquil in three days.

In a seemingly paradoxical turn of events, Mexican protesters on March 25 blocked incoming traffic at the U.S. southern border, demanding their government do more to restrict American travel into their country.

Two U.S. Navy hospital ships sent to ports in California and New York will help ease the burden of hospitals immersed in treatment of CCP virus patients.

Volkswagen may have to cut jobs if the CCP (Chinese Communist Party ) virus pandemic is not brought under control as the carmaker is still spending about 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) a week, Chief Executive Herbert Diess told German TV channel ZDF.

Hospital resources in coronavirus hotspots in the United States are close to breaking point as authorities race to gather what’s needed to meet the increasing demand.