A family was evacuated from a Southwest flight after their 3-year-old son with autism refused to wear a face mask, as required by airline policy. Alyssa Sadler traveled with her son and 1-year-old daughter from Midland to Houston, Texas. She was visiting her husband who works in Midland, according to …
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Novavax Stock is for sale with SK Bioscience
Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) was up 9.1% in midday trading Thursday after announcing it had signed a development and supply agreement with SK Bioscience, a subsidiary of SK Group, to produce the antigen component of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate . In addition, both companies have signed a letter of intent to …
Read More »Department of Justice says Yale discriminates against whites and Asians
Copyright EPA Image by image Yale University said its admissions complied with Supreme Court rulings The U.S. government says Yale University illegally discriminates against white and Asian-American applicants. The results of a two-year investigation by the Department of Justice found that the Ivy League University has violated civil rights law …
Read More »Blockchain Bites: Coinbase’s Loans, Ethereum’s fees, YAM’s Bug
Ethereum users pay by the nose while miners profit. Coinbase offers loans with bitcoin support and almost a quarter of the Tor Network can be compromised by a crypto-loving scammer. You read Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and why they …
Read More »Women in Belarus lead protests over contested election results
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, the man dubbed “Europe’s last dictator”, seems to underestimate at least two serious threats to his 26-year rule. One is a microscopic infection, the coronavirus, which has killed hundreds of its countrymen. The other: masses of women, many of them dressed in white, join hands in …
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