As most of California has moved into Phase 3 reopening, the state is once again seeing COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations increase dramatically. COVID-19 RISK CALCULATOR: Ask yourself about the safest and most dangerous things you can do when California reopens The Department of Public Health has a watch list of …
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Fed suspends share buybacks and limits dividends for big banks after stress test results
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Federal Reserve on Thursday imposed new restrictions on the US banking system after its annual stress test showed that some banks may approach minimum capital levels in certain coronavirus pandemic scenarios. Banks must suspend the buyback of shares for the third quarter of the year, …
Read More »White House games on annexation of Israel; more planned conversations
President Donald Trump’s top national security advisers have been unable to make a decision on whether to support an Israeli plan to annex important parts of the land that the Palestinians claim for a future state. By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer June 25, 2020 6:40 PM 5 min read …
Read More »DC delegate in confrontation with Trump for removing statues of Lincoln and Jackson
President Donald Trump has said removing the statues of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson in Washington, DC “is not going to happen” while he is around, but the delegate representing the city in Congress is trying to do that. Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton, who is black, said she will …
Read More »Why the plants are green? The research team’s model reproduces photosynthesis.
The UC Riverside-led research team’s model to explain photosynthesis presents the next challenging phase of research into how green plants transform light energy into chemical energy. Credit: Gabor Laboratory, UC Riverside. When the sunlight shining on a leaf changes rapidly, plants must protect themselves from the sudden sudden surges of …
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