WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The sprint to find medical breakthroughs to contain Covid-19 stumbled this week, as a pair of pharmaceutical giants working to develop treatments and vaccines suffered setbacks in the clinic. On Tuesday, Eli Lilly & Co. said that enrolment in a government-sponsored clinical trial of its antibody therapy had been paused out of […]
A 25-year-old man has become the first American to be reinfected with coronavirus. Researchers in the US say it is the fifth confirmed reinfection worldwide, with at least four other cases recorded in Belgium, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Ecuador. The patient, from Washoe County, Nevada, had no known immune disorders or underlying health conditions. […]
RSVP for the free live event on Oct. 20 at 12 p.m. Eastern. There is no route to the White House without Latino support: This year, with about 32 million eligible voters, they make up the largest minority group to ever take part in an election. As a whole, they are more likely to vote […]
Canadians are experiencing the economic effects of COVID-19 very differently — and it largely depends on how vulnerable they were prior to the pandemic, a new poll suggests. The youngest people in the workforce — those in Generation Z — appear to be struggling the most, according to the poll, which was commissioned by insolvency […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Twitter Inc has to pay US$100,000 (S$136,000) to Washington state’s Public Disclosure Transparency Account for multiple political campaign finance violations, the state’s Attorney-General Bob Ferguson said on Tuesday (Oct 13). Twitter received nearly US$200,000 for campaign ads from 2012 through 2019 but failed to follow Washington state disclosure laws, the attorney general’s […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday (Oct 12) said forecasts for the global economy were “somewhat less dire” as wealthy countries and China rebounded more quickly than expected from coronavirus lockdowns but warned that the outlook was worsening for many emerging markets. The IMF forecast a 2020 global contraction of 4.4 per […]
LOS ANGELES (NYTIMES) – The California Republican Party has admitted responsibility for placing more than 50 deceptively labelled “official” drop boxes for mail-in ballots in Los Angeles, Fresno and Orange counties – an action that state officials said was illegal and could lead to voter fraud. The dark grey metal boxes have been popping up […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Almost all documented coronavirus transmissions have occurred indoors, but experts say that wearing a mask outside is justified because there is still a risk of infection. The likelihood of catching the virus increases at events where people stand near each other and talk for long periods of time, such as parties or […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Microsoft and a team of companies and law enforcement groups have disabled – at least temporarily – one of the world’s largest hacking operations, an effort run by Russian-speaking cybercriminals that officials feared could disrupt the presidential election in three weeks. But as soon as Microsoft began dismantling the operations last week, […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Major news organisations in the US have become increasingly wary of sending journalists to travel with President Donald Trump to White House events and campaign rallies, as the president and his aides continue to shun safety protocols after an outbreak of the coronavirus within their ranks. The New York Times, The […]