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It's the idea that just won't die.

The worker shortage has been a hallmark of the pandemic economy. In February, US businesses had 11.3 million job openings to fill, slightly more than economists had predicted.

Home prices continued to surge higher in January.

The highly contagious Omicron subvariant BA.2 is now the dominant strain of the coronavirus in the United States, causing an estimated 54.9% of all new Covid-19 infections last week, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

First, it was a smaller hospital with fewer than 200 beds in Farmington, New Mexico, where the high desert borders the Navajo Nation. Then, it was a massive university hospital in bustling Salt Lake City, Utah, with about 800 staffed beds.

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah hasn't yet made up his mind over how he will vote on President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as he undertakes an in-depth review of her record.

On the morning of its annual meeting earlier this month, Starbucks made a surprising announcement. After a five-year break, the coffee chain's founder Howard Schultz will return as CEO in April, filling the position for the third time.

The world loves cheese: last year, more than 21 million metric tons of it were produced globally. But to make cheese, you end up with a lot of whey, and that can be a problem.