he global travel and tourism industry is on course to lose 174 million jobs this year if current restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus remain in place, a leading industry group warned Friday.

"It's important to note that we only sell firearms in approximately half of our stores, primarily where there are large concentrations of hunters, sportsmen, and sportswomen," a Walmart spokesperson said in a statement Thursday.

The William Penn High School graduate is retiring from WGAL-TV8 after more than 37 years at the station. His last broadcast will be Nov. 25, PennLive said citing a news release.

Millions of Americans are expected to have scaled-down celebrations amid the pandemic, heeding official warnings against travel and large indoor gatherings. That leaves anxious turkey farmers and grocers scrambling to predict what people will want on their holiday tables.

With enrollment numbers plunging, some colleges and universities are taking an aggressive approach to lure students back.

The Butz Family of Companies, headquartered in Allentown, received two 2020 Construction Management Association of America National Project Achievement Awards for recent construction projects.

Capital BlueCross plans to open a health and wellness center at its offices in downtown Allentown as part of a renovation and expansion project.

"I understand that people are becoming immune to the numbers, but each one of those cases is a person. Each one of those numbers is a human being, someone who might be in ICU.”

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 751,000, the lowest since March, but it’s still historically high and indicates the viral pandemic is forcing many employers to cut jobs.

Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting government contractors and federal agencies from offering diversity training that the president says is "divisive" and "un-American."

Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc., a Wyomissing-based real estate investment trust for gaming properties, is set to acquire two hotel and gaming properties in Indiana and Delaware for $484 million.

Coming off the worst quarter in history, the U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace ever in the third quarter as a nation battered by an unprecedented pandemic started to put itself back together, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. healthcare system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking.

 “It is an honor to once again be recognized as one of the strongest and most innovative programs in collegiate esports,” Harrisburg University President Eric Darr said.