Shares ended higher on Wednesday following news that drug maker Pfizer (PFE) – Get report reached a coronavirus vaccine agreement with the United States government. Global coronavirus infections crossed 15 million on Wednesday, according to Reuters, and the US reported more than 1,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Tuesday, the first …
Read More »Disney heiress accuses company of putting workers’ health at risk
“What Disney is doing here is what businesses in general have been doing for far too long. I can’t stay quiet when profits run in front of workers and people,” he said in an interview with CNN’s Richard Quest on Wednesday. Walt Disney’s brother’s granddaughter Roy Disney has become an …
Read More »The Chinese consulate in Houston was a hot spot for spying, US officials say.
The Trump administration’s decision to close the Chinese Chinese consulate in Houston on Wednesday came after years of an FBI intelligence meeting that showed it was a Chinese eavesdropping point in the United States, and President Donald Trump has been briefed on the activities of the consulate since shortly after …
Read More »Dave Grohl, whose mother taught in a public school, says that we must protect America’s teachers as the national treasures that they are.
Why? Because her own mother was a public school teacher. In an essay published in The Atlantic, which was also released in an audio version on the Foo Fighters Soundcloud, Grohl spoke in support of the initiative to continue remote learning for the upcoming school year due to the risk …
Read More »Here’s the latest on some of the possible Covid-19 vaccines in development
A health worker uses a swab to collect a sample at a temporary test center for coronavirus in the Spanish Basque city of Getaria on July 15. Ander Gillenea / AFP / Getty Images Spain registered 730 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the highest number since …
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