Seizing the power of his podium and his pen, President Donald Trump on Saturday moved to bypass the nation's elected lawmakers as he claimed the authority to defer payroll taxes and extend an expired unemployment benefit after negotiations with Congress on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.

Chinese tech giant Huawei is running out of processor chips to make smartphones due to U.S. sanctions and will be forced to stop production of its own most advanced chips, a company executive says, in a sign of growing damage to Huawei's business from American pressure.

Getting her job back should have been a relief for Leesa Huddleston.

The same reasons his firm liked Chattanooga before the coronavirus outbreak are still in place in the city today, says Alan McMahon of Charleston, South Carolina-based developer The Beach Co.

People have been forced to refocus and simplify their lives during the coronavirus pandemic, and that may ultimately grow interest in the tiny house market, says Paul Beckmann, co-owner of Wind River Tiny Homes in Apison, Tennessee.

Leslie Starritt has joined the Jelks Law firm in Chattanooga as a senior associate attorney. She focuses on wills, trusts, Medicaid and special needs planning.

The nation's leading health insurers are experiencing an embarrassment of profits.

For decades, thousands of vendors have fanned out along roadsides from Alabama to Michigan each summer to haggle over the prices of old Coca-Cola bottles, clothes, toys, knives and more at The World's Longest Yard Sale.

A last-ditch effort by Democrats to revive Capitol Hill talks on vital COVID-19 rescue money collapsed in disappointment at week's end, making it increasingly likely that Washington gridlock will mean more hardship for millions of people who are losing enhanced jobless benefits and further damage for an economy pummeled by the still-raging coronavirus.

U.S. hiring slowed in July as the coronavirus outbreak worsened, and the government's jobs report offered signs Friday that the economic damage from the pandemic could last far longer than many observers originally envisioned.

Tennessee and Georgia has 20 billionaires who collectively saw their wealth increase by nearly $19 billion, or nearly 29%, during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns in the United States.

President Donald Trump said he helped provide "a major victory for the workers" of the Tennessee Valley Authority last week by firing the current and former chairmen at TVA and pushing the federal utility to reverse what he said was "a terrible thing" to outsource information technology jobs.

Nine months after the U.S. government lifted tariffs on some Chinese-made luxury vinyl tiles, the trade tax reprieve ended this week and is likely to push up the price of one the fastest growing types of floor coverings.

Regal movie theaters have been closed for almost five months in the U.S. due to the coronavirus pandemic, but they are gearing up to open on Aug. 21. And this time it might just stick. Exhibitors have postponed plans several times as cases spiked in various cities.

Richard Werhle admits that opening a new entertainment venue during a pandemic is a challenge - even one with a scorecard of fan appeal as Topgolf.

The Tennessee Valley Authority, which settled a lawsuit last year by agreeing to dig up 12 million tons of coal ash previously stored in unlined pits at the Gallatin Fossil Plant, is moving forward with plans to store the plant residues in a lined dry storage landfill near the plant, pending state approval.

The U.S. Postal Service says it lost $2.2 billion in the three months that ended in June as the beleaguered agency — hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic — piles up financial losses that officials warn could top $20 billion over two years.

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Shares of CBL & Associates Properties Inc. on Friday closed out a see-saw week as the company's stock fell 11.75%.

The United States added 1.8 million jobs in July, a pullback from the gains of May and June and evidence that the resurgent coronavirus is weakening hiring and the economic rebound.

An unemployed makeup artist with two toddlers and a disabled husband needs help with food and rent. A hotel manager says his unemployment has deepened his anxiety and kept him awake at night. A dental hygienist, pregnant with her second child, is struggling to afford diapers and formula.

Early in 2020, Apple appeared to be caught in a horrible bind.

Facebook has deleted a post by President Donald Trump for violating its policy against spreading misinformation about the coronavirus.