© Reuters. The New York Stock Exchange opens during COVID-19 (Reuters) – US stocks rose to the public on Monday in hopes of a China-led recovery from an economic recession brought on by the coronavirus outbreak, and investors sidelined an internal surge in new COVID cases. -19 during the long …
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Russian court condemns journalist for ‘Justifying terrorism’
MOSCOW – Tightening the bolts of freedom of expression further in Russia a few days after a national plebiscite effectively rooted Vladimir V. Putin as president for life, a Russian military court on Monday sentenced an independent journalist accused of “justifying terrorism “in a 2018 critical text from the security …
Read More »Tropical storm Edouard forms in the extreme north of the Atlantic and enters the books
An area of disturbed weather over the North Atlantic Ocean strengthened in the last tropical storm on Sunday night and hit the record books. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami said a tropical depression near Bermuda strengthened Sunday night in Tropical Storm Edouard. The storm moves rapidly northeast at …
Read More »Are protests unsafe? What the experts say may depend on who protests what
As the pandemic took hold, most epidemiologists have had clear prohibitions to combat it: no students in classrooms, no in-person religious services, no visits to sick relatives in hospitals, no large public gatherings. So when conservative anti-blockade protesters gathered on the steps of the state capitol in places like Columbus, …
Read More »Hubble Space Telescope Detects ‘Feathered Spiral’ Galaxy in Deep Space
Just days after detecting a “bat shadow,” the Hubble Space Telescope found a “feathered spiral” galaxy in deep space. The image, released by NASA and the European Space Agency, is from a galaxy known as NGC 2775. It is 67 million light-years away, in the constellation Cancer. A light year, …
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