Flower shows and soccer matches are set to become among the first major outdoor events to return this summer, as the U.K. emerges from months of lockdown restrictions imposed to limit the spread of the coronavirus causing the disease COVID-19. The Royal Horticultural Society has announced that summer shows at …
Read More »The New York Post: Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine neutralizes Brazil COVID-19 variant, study shows
The Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is able to neutralize a rapidly spreading virus variant from Brazil, according to a new laboratory study. Researchers developed an engineered version of the COVID-19 mutation and found that blood samples taken from people who received the vaccine were able to neutralize the variant, according to the …
Read More »In One Chart: This chart shows how ‘The Big Three’ may soon be two
Good things come in threes, it’s often said. But what happens when a formerly tight trio becomes dominated by a power couple? In the asset-manager world, BlackRock BLK, +0.09%, State Street Global Advisors STT, +1.51%, and Vanguard have been known for the past several years as the “Big Three” behemoths, …
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SAN ANSELMO, CA – AUGUST 29: In this Photo Illustration, Twenty dollar bills sit in a wallet on August 29, 2017 in San Anselmo, California. The dollar fell to a two and a half year low to 91.77 Tuesday following the latest missile launch by North Korea. The U.S. dollar …
Read More »The Conversation: This chart shows which of Trump’s Supreme Court possibilities is the one most likely to stay conservative — and it’s not Amy Coney Barrett
AFP via Getty Images As President Donald Trump looks to fill the Supreme Court seatleft open by the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he and other Republicans want to secure a reliable conservative majority on the nation’s highest court for many years to come. They have tried to do this in …
Read More »The New York Post: Video shows CEO of San Francisco tech startup launching racist tirade at restaurant patrons
A Silicon Valley startup founder was caught on camera unleashing a racist tirade on an Asian-American family seated opposite him at a California restaurant, according to report. Michael Lofthouse, the CEO of San Francisco-based IT company Solid8, launched the unprovoked attack on other diners as they celebrated a birthday Saturday …
Read More »CityWatch: Poor, dense neighborhoods in New York’s outer boroughs have highest rate of COVID-19 deaths, ZIP Code data shows
Neighborhoods in southeast Queens as well as Brooklyn have the highest death rates from COVID-19 in the city, according to data New York City’s health department made public for the first time on Monday afternoon. The deaths by ZIP Code offer a new window into how the coronavirus has ripped …
Read More »MarketWatch First Take: AMD shows that it’s not resting on its laurels with ambitious road map
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. showed investors at its big yearly analyst meeting Thursday that it’s not resting on its laurels that made it the best performer in the S&P 500 last year, and presented a convincing case to continue to trust Chief Executive Lisa Su. AMD AMD, -3.99% , which …
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