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How Michigan is preparing for a potential coronavirus outbreak

The new coronavirus has yet to make a confirmed appearance in Michigan. And while the bigger threat in the state is still the flu, the Centers for Disease…

Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA)

COVID-19 named as main cause of 22.7 percent jobless rate

Michigan’s official jobless rate jumped to 22.7%.The seasonally adjusted number shows Michigan lost more than one million jobs from March to April. The…

Why are some grocery store shelves still empty and what's up with those unfamiliar brands?

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, a typical family’s food budget was pretty evenly split between home and places such as restaurants, convenience stores, or…

Terence Blanchard's <em>Fire Shut Up in My Bones</em>, based on a memoir by Charles M. Blow, is the first opera by a Black composer presented by the Metropolitan Opera in the New York institution's 138-year existence.

Terence Blanchard's Met Opera Debut Is A Singular Achievement And A Shared Success

The composer's magnetically powerful Fire Shut Up in My Bones lands with a force of authenticity, a too-rare window into Black life in an operatic setting.

Pedestrians pass a New York State Department of Labor office June 11 in Queens. The Federal Reserve expects the U.S. unemployment rate to still be more than 9% by the end of 2020.

1.5 Million File For Unemployment, But Continuing Claims Decrease Slightly

Another 1.5 million people file for unemployment benefits for the first time, but the number who are continuing to seek the payments continues to decline as workers return to their jobs.

People wearing face masks walk on a street Sunday in the Hongdae district of Seoul, South Korea.

South Korea Eases Coronavirus Restrictions, Touts 'Exceptional' Success

Churches resume in-person services and stadiums welcome sports fans as the country once again manages to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.

A movie theater is seen closed due to the coronavirus pandemic on July 2, 2020, in Brea, Calif. The U.S. economy shrank at a record 32.9% rate in the second quarter as the pandemic cost tens of millions of jobs.

3 Months Of Hell: U.S. Economy Drops 32.9% In Worst GDP Report Ever

The coronavirus triggered the sharpest economic contraction in modern history in the second quarter as the pandemic hammered the economy, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Detroit police chief back on the job after bout with COVID-19

Detroit Police Chief James Craig is back on the job full-time after recovering from COVID-19.Craig appeared at a Thursday press conference alongside…

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte replies to questions ahead of a confidence vote last week at the Senate at Palazzo Madama in Rome. Conte handed in his resignation Tuesday.

Italy's Prime Minister Quits As COVID-19 Response Splits Coalition Government

Giuseppe Conte handed in his resignation Tuesday following weeks of political uncertainty and the loss of a coalition partner over his handling of the coronavirus' second wave and economic recovery.

Whitmer says she has talked to Biden campaign about VP nomination

Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she has talked to members of former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign team about being his running mate on the November…

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