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The offer to the Federal Emergency Management Agency sounded promising: A Silicon Valley engineer said that he could deliver thousands of ventilators from manufacturers across China to help hospitals treat coronavirus patients.

Tesla "must not reopen" its vehicle factory in the San Francisco Bay area as local lockdown measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus remain in effect, the local county health department said on Friday.

Some who set up their own businesses after the ‘08 crash say crisis is a good teacher. ‘I had to grow up a little bit faster...because there was no train track I was on.’

J.C. Penney is preparing to file for bankruptcy protection as soon as next, week with plans to permanently close about a quarter of its roughly 850 stores, becoming the latest major U.S. retailer to succumb to fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, according to people familiar with the matter.

Cruise operator Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings said Tuesday it does not have enough cash to meet its obligations in the next year and raised doubts about its ability to keep running its operations.

The speed and broad reach of the disruption is pitting landlords and mortgage companies against homeowners and renters with each side claiming they need more assistance and fueling calls for billions in new aid for the housing sector.

Some products are already in low supply.

From a regal family estate to a raucous nightclub, the tale behind this abandoned mansion isn’t short of twists and turns.

The latest report from the Labor Department shows that 3.2 million Americans filed unemployment claims last week. That brings the total up to 33 million left jobless since the coronavirus crisis hit. Brown University economics professor John Frieden joins CBSN to discuss the latest numbers, and the economy tracker he has developed with colleagues from Brown and Harvard.