U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled sweeping bans on U.S. transactions with owners of WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok, which his administration has called “significant threats”.

A Bethlehem man was sentenced Thursday to serve seven in prison and pay over $10.2 million in restitution for his role in a biofuel scam, the federal prosecutor in the case said in a news release.

The U.S. added 1.8 million jobs in July as payroll growth slowed amid a split-screen economy that had employers stepping up hiring in parts of the country that continued to let businesses reopen.

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Serving his seventh term in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, Rep. Cutler represents the 100th Legislative District in Lancaster County. In June he was elected by colleagues to serve as the 141st Speaker of the House of Representatives, having previously served as Majority Leader.

While urban Airbnb hosts have suffered heavily along with traditional hotels and travel companies, Airbnb hosts in rural areas are seeing huge surges in business.

 President Donald Trump is still trying to overturn “Obamacare,” but his predecessor’s health care law keeps gaining ground in places where it was once unwelcome.

U.S. retail foot traffic is slackening and growth in the number of shifts worked by hourly employees has ground to a halt, a clutch of high-frequency data showed this week, offering the latest evidence the economic recovery that appeared so promising two months ago is rapidly losing momentum.

OraSure Technologies said it expects to launch its COVID-19 rapid antigen in-home self-test by the fourth quarter of this year.

Nearly 1.2 million laid-off Americans applied for state unemployment benefits last week, evidence that the coronavirus keeps forcing companies to slash jobs just as a critical $600 weekly federal jobless payment has expired.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order requiring the U.S. government to buy “essential” drugs from American companies, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro announced Thursday.

The Southwestern Pennsylvania Restaurant and Tavern Association argues that Gov. Tom Wolf should scale back restrictions that he imposed on the food service industry three weeks ago.

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Blackstone Group Inc said on Wednesday it agreed to acquire genealogy provider Ancestry.com Inc from private equity rivals for $4.7 billion, including debt, placing a big bet on family-tree chasing as well as personalized medicine.