Новости за 23.05.2020

The discount home-goods retailer plans to file for bankruptcy after running into liquidity issues caused by the closure of its stores due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The president is considering establishing a panel to review complaints of anticonservative bias on social media, a move that would likely draw pushback from tech companies.

Legions of foreign workers are leaving Gulf nations amid the coronavirus pandemic, part of a global shift of migrant labor that is depriving their native lands of much-needed remittances.

Stores and schools closed. Families sheltered at home. But the coronavirus pandemic didn’t stop Americans from buying more Crocs.

The Covid-19 pandemic has upended mourning around the world, with many Jewish rituals falling to whomever can perform them.

Nicaragua has become a coronavirus hot spot but its authoritarian leader is endangering public health by ignoring the threat and hiding infection data, according to doctors and relatives of victims.

The prospect of long waits at germ-filled airports makes owning a business jet an attractive proposition right now for executives. At the same time, a sharp recession could drain the corporate treasury of funds to buy one.

As coronavirus restrictions in the U.S. go into their third month and many elderly continuing to stay inside, some may be asking their adult children to help with financial chores. Here’s a guide on how to respond.

From Tanzania to Cameroon and from Somalia to Nigeria, health workers are reporting a reality that bears little resemblance to the official data, with hot spots emerging in countries with few resources to tackle them.

With a rise of home blending kits and “crowd-sourced” labels—made by soliciting drinker input online—whiskey makers around the world are appealing to the quarantined tinker-drinker. How well will it age?

The plane crashed Friday as it reached Karachi, slamming into a residential area on the edge of the airport. Two passengers survived and weren’t badly hurt, an escape described as “miraculous” by the authorities.

More Louisianians are on unemployment rolls and more have died than when Hurricane Katrina hit 15 years ago. And as with that catastrophe, black residents are bearing disproportionate medical and financial impacts.

Kylie Scott Degnan left social work to go back to school just before the pandemic hit. Her new California life includes unexpected TikTok fame.

With the scheduled launch of two NASA astronauts into orbit Wednesday, Space Exploration Technologies aims to propel the U.S. into a historic new era of commercially led space exploration.

Produce boxes have proliferated in recent years. These top options bring the farm to your door.

Job losses were sudden and swift. At first, workers and employers thought they would be temporary. For many, that is starting to look like wishful thinking.

Brazil’s Supreme Court delivered a blow to President Jair Bolsonaro by allowing the airing of a video of a cabinet meeting in which he appears to call on his then-justice minister to interfere in criminal investigations of family members.

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak said the June 4 reopening date is contingent on Covid-19 trends and the results of a Nevada Gaming Control Board meeting scheduled for Tuesday.

Trump or Biden by a whisker, with a million ballots thrown out.

The state university system puts racial politics above merit.

The BlackRock CEO can’t seem to buy progressive absolution.

Here are seven major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news.

Like so many other bad ideas, the IG is a Jimmy Carter legacy.

I visited Bangladesh during its 1971 battle for independence from Pakistan—and again as the pandemic was beginning to take hold.

The #stayhome brigades are shaming travelers, but summer travel may be what this country needs.