American Daily Digest

The coronavirus pandemic took a toll on Comcast in the second quarter as movie theaters closed, theme parks shut down and advertisers cut back By TALI ARBEL AP Business Writer … Read More

Grubhub saw its average daily orders jump 32% in the second quarter but swung to a loss as it spent heavily to prop up restaurants and protect drivers By DEE-ANN … Read More

On an unadjusted basis, 1.2 million people filed first-time claims, down 171,000 from the week before. The seasonal adjustments are traditionally used to smooth out the data, but that has … Read More

A technology research firm says Huawei has overtaken Samsung to become the world’s biggest smartphone seller, as its home market in China emerged from the coronavirus pandemic better off than … Read More

Almost 20 per cent of UK workers are still on furlough and just seven per cent left the scheme and returned to work in first half of July amid fears … Read More

Lift-off! NASA’s $2.4billion Perseverance mission launches successfully on 7-month journey to the Red Planet to hunt for signs of alien life Perseverance was scheduled for take-off atop a United Launch … Read More

I’m NOT hysterical: Matt Hancock denies talking up COVID panic by claiming a ‘second wave is rolling across Europe’ as he defends increase in self-isolation time to TEN days for … Read More

‘Naughty Tory’ Charlie Elphicke is found guilty of three sex attacks on two women: Wife of ‘bondage-loving’ ex-MP watches in court as judge warns he faces jail for groping young … Read More

UPS is reporting a second-quarter profit of $1.77 billion with the pandemic fueling a 21% surge in daily shipping volume, the largest quarterly increase ever recorded by the company By … Read More

The government is poised to deliver a double-dose of sobering news — on the devastation the coronavirus caused the U.S. economy last quarter and the damage it continues to inflict … Read More