National Business News

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week by 14,000 to 385,000, more evidence that the economy and the job market are rebound...

Target Corp. is joining a growing list of retailers and restaurant chains offering educational assistance at select online institutions for its front-line em...

U.S. service providers expanded in July at the fastest pace on record as measures of business activity, new orders and employment all improved.

General Motors posted a $2.8 billion second-quarter profit Wednesday, but its cautious outlook for the rest of the year spooked investors.

Amid intensifying drought, state water regulators voted Tuesday to enact an emergency order barring thousands of Californians -- primarily farmers -- from us...

President Donald Trump really got the crowd going last year when he promised them faster dishwashers.

Stocks gave back some of their recent gains Wednesday after a disappointing jobs report stoked worry about the strength of the economic recovery as a highly ...

Spirit Airlines canceled 60% of its flights Wednesday and apologized to customers for severe disruptions in recent days, the latest in ongoing problems for a...

Church's Chicken, with more than 1,500 fast-food locations, is to be sold by one California private-equity firm to another.

Ford Motor Co.'s new-vehicle sales in the U.S. slumped nearly 32% in July compared with the same period last year, reflecting the toll of a global computer-c...

WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration announced a temporary ban on evictions across most of the country Tuesday evening, a move that bent to intense pressur...

WASHINGTON -- With a new surge of covid-19 infections ripping through much of the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has accelerated its timetab...

Tyson Foods is requiring its employees at all of its U.S. office locations to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 1, it announced Tuesday.

For months, most employers relied on information campaigns, bonuses and other incentives to encourage their workforces to get the covid-19 shot. Now, a growi...

m Scarlett Johansson, who's been in nine Marvel movies going back to "Iron Man 2," is suing the Walt Disney Co. over its streaming release of "Black Widow," ...