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Joe Rogan Can’t Fix Spotify’s Biggest Flaw
Investor expectations are out of kilter with reality.
Evictions are likely to skyrocket this summer as jobs remain scarce. Black renters will be hard hit.
In more than half the country, local courts are reopening and beginning to process a backlog of eviction cases, sparking what economists and housing advocates say could be a historic surge in hom...
How the Pandemic Is Changing the Outlook for Peak Oil
One big question emerging from the pandemic is whether it will speed up the global shift away from oil. Life under lockdown gave a taste of a world that burns less petroleum, with consumption dow...
The Technology 202: The Gettysburg gathering highlights the offline dangers of social media hoaxes
The bizarre event highlighted how apparent falsehoods on social media can catalyze volatile and dangerous offline behavior.
Explore the SBA data on businesses that received PPP loans
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The Swine Flu Virus in China That Has People Worried
The most prevalent strain of influenza spreading among pigs in China has sparked concern among scientists, who say it has certain properties that give it pandemic potential. Chief among them: The...
Uber acquires Postmates, expanding the food delivery business that has surged during pandemic
The $2.65 billion all-stock deal continues Uber’s aggressive push into food delivery.
Treasury, SBA data show small-business loans went to private-equity backed chains, members of Congress
After initial refusals, the federal government released records on small-business loans that it claims supported 51 million jobs.
Companies are hiring their own epidemiologists to help deal with the pandemic
In a sign of how complicated it’s become to navigate the coronavirus outbreak, brands are rushing to hire disease detectives to help guide their reopening and reassure a nervous public.
You might have thrown out your stimulus payment. Treasury is sending a letter to tell you how to get it back.
Treasury is again trying to convince people that their stimulus debit card was not a scam.
You might have thrown out your stimulus payment. Treasury is sending a letter to tell you how to get it back.
Treasury is again trying to convince people that their stimulus debit card was not a scam.
The questions to ask when you’re looking for an eco-friendly apartment
Here's how to evaluate your building's efforts toward environmental sustainability, and how you could improve them.
Changing a home title from ‘tenants in common’ to ‘joint tenants’
Couples typically own a home as tenants in common or as joint tenants with rights of survivorship. In the latter case, when any one of the owners dies, that owner's interest automatically goes to...
Two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo near National Arboretum lists for $389,900
AFFORDABLE HOME OF THE WEEK | The condo is in a nine-unit new building across the street from the National Arboretum grounds and about a half-mile to an H Street NE streetcar stop.
Supreme Court keeps ban on robocalls to cellphones, tosses exception for government debt collection
The bottom line of Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants: The consultants “still may not make political robocalls to cell phones.”
Can video games tactfully handle Nazism and its aftermath? These Czech historians say yes.
Most war games are about combat. These academics are making games about war’s emotional aftermath.
Buying New | Thorburn Estates in Fredericksburg, Va., area
Base prices for the single-family houses range from $500,900 to $586,900.
Facebook, Google, Twitter halt review of Hong Kong requests for data
Facebook, which also owns WhatsApp, said it would pause reviewing such requests from Hong Kong and conduct a human rights review of the new national security law.
Walmart, Target dropping Washington NFL merchandise as the team reviews its name
The moves come amid national protests over racism and equality that have extended to calls on corporate America to change.
Britain may further limit Huawei in 5G, a win for U.S. and blow to China
Britain and China have been clashing over Beijing’s crackdown on political freedoms and a strict new security law for Hong Kong.
Pandemic bankruptcies: A running list of retailers that have filed for Chapter 11
Lucky Brand, Neiman Marcus and GNC are among the national brands that have filed for bankruptcy during the coronavirus crisis. Analysts say many others are likely to follow.
Coronavirus will undermine trust in government, ‘scarring body and mind’ for decades, research finds
Two new studies find that people exposed to pandemics in their formative years carry psychological scars for the rest of their lives.
What Hong Kong Losing Its ‘Special Status’ Would Mean
Under the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992, the U.S. treats Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous part of China with its own legal and economic system, differently than the Chinese mainland in t...
How Disney could be facing a lot more than a lost summer
Can an American institution adapt?
Some jobs are coming back, but economy will need years to heal
Many businesses are still laying off workers and a surge in coronavirus cases has given leaders pause, showing how difficult this crisis is to navigate
The big factor holding back the U.S. economic recovery: Child care
Nearly a third of the nation’s workforce has children at home and they’re struggling. Researchers estimate nearly 10 percent of economic activity won’t happen as long as schools and daycare...
Treasury, SBA appear to miss deadline to disclose small business loan data
Administration officials had told lawmakers that Paycheck Protection Plan data would be released by the end of the week.
Southwest Soda Pop Shop: How a side business became the main attraction
Darryl Jones and daughters Brittany, Andrea, Lena and Brianna are building up a sweet family business.
June’s cautious economic recovery is based in part-time work and vulnerable industries
The recent improvement in the unemployment rate tells only part of the story.
The U.S. economy added 4.8 million jobs in June, but fierce new headwinds have emerged
Many analysts expect the report to lower the official unemployment rate of 13.3 percent. But a coronavirus surge is complicating an already fraught recovery.
The new corporate swag: Branded masks, sanitizer spray bottles and Zoom vanity light rings
For businesses such as Lemonade, whose executives appeared in branded masks for their IPO, it’s a chance to demonstrate their socially conscious identity
How the Fed is driving savers to riskier investments
The Federal Reserve’s efforts to buoy the economy and stabilize financial markets are working nicely for now — but we are in for a bumpy ride.
Four ways for Joe Biden to reset our polarized and dysfunctional politics
Obamacare for All, National Service -- these are ideas from the radical center that could help revive America's broken politics
WeWork proposes post-coronavirus changes to shared-office layouts
The plan calls for “buffer seating," sanitizer stations in common rooms and one-way hallway traffic patterns to avoid “bottlenecks”
The companies that are pledging not to lay off workers amid the coronavirus unemployment crisis
A record 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. But some companies pledged to hold off on job cuts, and are offering workers a financial cushion.
Employers are adding high-tech solutions to solve a low-tech problem: Getting more sleep
Some employers are shifting from simply talking about better sleep — or giving employees tools to track it — to helping them with what to do about it.