FOX Business’s Edward Lawrence reports on the Trump administration’s agreement with companies like Fujifilm to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Then, The Wall Street Journal editorial page deputy editor Dan Henninger looks at investing in biotech companies and the upcoming presidential election. Johnson & Johnson announced Thursday that the first human …
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Execution date set for the only Native American on federal death row
The only Native American on federal death row is slated to be executed in late August, the United States government announced Wednesday. Lezmond Mitchell, who is a Navajo, had been among the first of a handful of prisoners to be executed after the Trump administration restored federal executions after an …
Read More »Sleeping microbes wake up after 100 million years buried under the seabed.
Microbes were found buried in the earth 101.5 million years ago, even before Tyrannosaurus rex when Earth’s largest carnivorous dinosaur, called Spinosaurus, roamed the planet. Time passed, continents changed, oceans rose and fell, great apes emerged, and eventually humans evolved with curiosity and the skills to unearth those ancient cells. …
Read More »Injury update on 2 notable Phillies: Seranthony Dominguez and Mickey Moniak
Major League Baseball increased testing in the Phillies in the wake of the Miami Marlins’ COVID-19 outbreak and so far so good. Not only did the Phillies players test positive this week, but neither did the Phillies players test positive “from our admission selection process at the start of our …
Read More »Shares plummet on worst GDP data on record, rising unemployment
Stock markets opened significant losses Thursday morning on the news that the United States experienced the worst quarterly economic contraction on record earlier this year and an increase in weekly jobless claims. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 300 points, or 1.1 percent, and the S&P 500 fell 31 points, …
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