The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly rebounded more than 100 points early Wednesday morning amid mounting tensions between the United States and China after the United States ordered the closure of the Chinese Chinese consulate in Houston. Dow Jones shares Pfizer soared in a coronavirus vaccine deal, while Microsoft and …
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The scientists increased the heat above the lethal threshold and waited for the corals to die. “We were heating the water one degree above the maximum summer temperature,” says Anders Meibom, a researcher at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Lausanne. “At the Great Barrier Reef, after …
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(Bloomberg) – Former Wirecard AG chief executive Markus Braun and two other former officials were arrested when prosecutors said the company knew of massive losses as early as 2015. © Bloomberg Markus Braun, CEO of Wirecard AG, pauses during an interview by Bloomberg Television at the Noah Technology Conference in …
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FEar City: New York vs. The Mafia, Netflix’s three-part series about the police’s quest to bring down the New York mafia in the 1980s, begins with a sequence taken from a high-level episode of the Law and Order: “Five untouchable Mafia families hold the city in their hands,” says one …
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