Kevin Mayer is less than four months after taking the job as director of TikTok. While his resignation comes in the midst of the ongoing political unrest caused by the Trump administration, his decision to leave is likely to have less to do with politics and has more to do …
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Senate Democrats press the Pentagon over spikes in military coronavirus cases
Senate Democrats are pressing US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper over concerns over the Pentagon’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter Wednesday to Esper, nine senators called reports of an increase in cases among dissidents in July “concerning.” The number of coronavirus infections reportedly increased by more than …
Read More »Trump must file tax return, does not deserve immunity, says Manhattan’s top prosecutor
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Manhattan top prosecutor told a U.S. court on Thursday that he should be able to get President Donald Trump’s tax return, saying Trump could not immunize himself from a criminal probe into his business practices by pursuing an appeal that ” has no chance of …
Read More »People exposed to virus but without symptoms should be tested, if possible: WHO
By Stephanie Nebehay and John Miller GENEVA / ZURICH (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday reiterated its advice that sources allow people exposed to the new coronavirus to be tested, even if they do not show immediate symptoms of infection. The remarks come after the U.S. Centers …
Read More »Dark Matter Destruction ruled out as source of extra radiation at Milky Way’s Galactic Center
Exhaustive emission modeling by global physicists limits particle candidates. The detection of more than ten years ago by the Fermi Gamma Ray space telescope of a surplus of high energy radiation in the center of the Milky Way convinced some physicists that they saw evidence of the destruction of dark …
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