After weeks of speculation about whether Black Lives Matter protests in all states would lead to an increase in coronavirus infections, a study using data from the country’s largest cities found “no evidence” that the protests caused a increase in the number of new COVIDs -19 cases. in a paper …
Read More »Foreign companies buy more China despite tensions with the United States
A pedestrian with a protective mask walks through the Lujiazui financial district in Shanghai, China on Friday March 20, 2020. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | fake pictures As global uncertainty increases, more foreign companies are buying into China, including deals in the most sensitive finance and technology industries. “In the …
Read More »California can’t force cancer warning labels for Roundup, federal judge rules
Sacrament – California cannot require a cancer warning label on Roundup, the world’s most widely used herbicide, a federal judge ruled Monday. Federal District Judge William Shubb issued a permanent injunction against labeling, saying the state could not meet a legal standard for such a requirement, the San Francisco Chronicle …
Read More »Trump campaigns on the border wall. Not much of that
President Trump, whose plans to campaign in a booming economy was ruined by the coronavirus, traveled to the southern tip of Arizona on Tuesday to highlight the completion of “more than 200 miles of powerful border wall” with Mexico. He did not mention the fine print. Almost all of the …
Read More »Democrats struggle with how difficult it is to go after the Trump scandals
But Democrats may take other steps to try to impose oversight. And the question of how to tackle what they see as Trump’s growing lawlessness has become more difficult as former Trump national security assistant John Bolton raised a series of staggering allegations of Trump’s abuse of power by the …
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