About 5,400 Tyson Foods Inc. employees have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or received their first shots since the meat processor last week ordered its entire U.S. workforce to be vaccinated by November, the company said on Monday. Major U.S. …
Insurance has become the top operating cost concern for small businesses in Canada with seven in ten reporting that their premiums have gone up since the beginning of the year, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) in …
A fund to compensate victims of Jeffrey Epstein is concluding its claims process after awarding more than $120 million, its administrator said. The announcement Monday comes one day before the second anniversary of Epstein’s death in a New York jail …
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed Amazon.com Inc’s lawsuit to block New York’s attorney general from investigating the online retailer’s ability to protect warehouse workers from COVID-19. U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan in Brooklyn rejected Amazon’s claim that Attorney General …
Insurance technology company Goosehead Insurance Inc. will launch on Wednesday a web-based service aimed at people shopping for personal coverage online, extending its reach beyond traditional agents now using the system, company leaders said. Goosehead, which went public in 2018 …
U.S. online bank Ally Financial has agreed to backstop home insurance policies provided by Hippo Holdings Inc., providing capital for the latter to generate more business, the companies told Reuters. Hippo will underwrite the policies and sell them to consumers, …
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – A massive wildfire burning for days on the northern tip of Greece’s second largest island continued to devour forests Tuesday, its thick smoke hanging in the streets of a nearby town as hundreds of firefighters battled …
Few paid much attention when she first turned up at the center of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s packed cafeteria on Friday, a stack of leaflets in one hand and a megaphone in the other. It had been more than a …
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont announced he is seeking a disaster declaration from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help farmers whose crops were damaged by heavy rains and wind from last month’s tropical storm. Assessments conducted by the state Department …
The famous islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts are facing serious impacts from rising sea levels and more powerful coastal storms driven by climate change, a new environmental report warns. The “State of the Coast” report by the …
