REUTERS / Danny Moloshok Bank stocks fell on Friday after the Federal Reserve capped dividends and banned stock buybacks until at least the end of the third quarter. Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo fell more than 5%, while Bank of America, JPMorgan and Citibank fell between 3.9% and 4.4%. The …
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Lockdowns Tamed Road Traffic. This is how cities aim to keep it low.
As coronavirus blockades loosen around the world, city leaders are struggling to tackle a new problem: the possibility of stagnation worse than before the pandemic. From Shenzhen to Milan and Austin, officials are trying to convince people to return to buses and subways and to demand space on the roads …
Read More »Elijah McClain’s family is receiving the investigation into his death that they have been asking for for almost a year.
“Last year, we stood on the steps of the city center demanding an investigation and what do we hear then? Crickets,” a McClain family attorney, Mari Newman, told CNN’s Don Lemon on Thursday. “Why did it take nearly a year, international media attention, millions of people who signed a petition …
Read More »Florida COVID Daily Cases Break Record at Nearly 9,000
STATE – Florida broke its record of new coronavirus cases by the thousands on Friday when the state took steps to mitigate the rapid spread of the virus by banning alcohol consumption in bars across the state. The Florida Department of Health reported Friday that there were 8,942 new positive …
Read More »Scientists say black holes can merge with light from a trillion suns | Black holes
When black holes collide, the resulting cosmic drama was supposed to unfold under the cover of darkness, since both objects are invisible. But now astronomers believe they have made the first optical observations of such a fusion, marked by a glow of light a billion times brighter than the sun. …
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