By Kara Swisher After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Microsoft temporarily paused political contributions following revelations that the tech giant’s corporate PAC had previously made donations to members of Congress who voted to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. On Feb. 5, the company announced further changes to its approach to […]

Troubling results for AstraZeneca. By Natasha Frost Good morning. We’re covering a halt to vaccinations against the coronavirus in South Africa, mass protests in Myanmar and the results of the Super Bowl. South Africa halts use of the AstraZeneca vaccine In a devastating blow to its efforts to combat the pandemic, South Africa on Sunday […]

Facebook’s Oversight Board, the handpicked band of outsiders charged with ruling on thorny issues at the company, handed down its first opinions after months of deliberation late last month. The results were underwhelming. The board, which some have likened to a Facebook Supreme Court, ordered the company to restore four posts it said shouldn’t have […]

AUBURN, Ala. — About three weeks ago, I received my first dose of the Moderna Covid vaccine. I sat in the cavernous upper floor of the old basketball arena at the university where I teach and waited for 15 minutes afterward, along with colleagues and friends I barely recognized because we were masked. My husband […]

Senate Republicans are likely to block Biden’s proposal, so let’s concentrate on protecting as many people as possible without a comprehensive bill. By Jorge Ramos Mr. Ramos is a contributing opinion writer and an anchor for the Univision network. MIAMI — It was 5 a.m. on Jan. 20. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hadn’t even […]

By Kara Swisher As stock markets boom and online forums like Reddit’s WallStreetBets drive up GameStop shares, Mark Cuban feels like he’s been here before. The “Shark Tank” venture capitalist sold his company to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in the first tech bubble. Now, Mr. Cuban says, day trading seems to be as hot as […]

I am online with eight members of the family of my client, a nursing home resident dying of Covid-19. The camera is inches from her mouth as she takes her last labored breaths. Her daughter speaks in a voice as flat and exhausted as her eyes: “I knew this would happen.” The family tells me […]

A Russian court sentences Aleksei Navalny. By Natasha Frost Good morning. We’re covering the sentencing of Aleksei Navalny, promising news about the Sputnik V vaccine and dueling impeachment filings in the United States. Navalny to spend two years in prison A Moscow court sentenced Aleksei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s loudest critic, to more than two […]

The recent discovery of a massive, highly sophisticated hack, almost certainly by Russia, of key U.S. technology companies and government agencies puts the new Biden team in a real quandary: How, when or even whether should they retaliate against Russia’s president? I have a lot of sympathy with that quandary — because Vladimir Putin has […]

Readers disagree about whether the president should seek a less ambitious bipartisan bill, as Republican senators urged at a meeting with him. To the Editor: Re “Biden and G.O.P. Hunt for a Path to a Relief Plan” (front page, Feb. 2): At last, the closest thing we have seen to a negotiation in years. If […]