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Here are five things you need to know before Friday, August 14th: 1. – Futures of the stock market fall as stimulus hopes to disappear Stock futures fluctuated as investors continued to check the stalemate between lawmakers for further fiscal stimulus and looked ahead to retail sales data for signs …

A new study finds that deaths in New York City in the early part of the Covid-19 pandemic were comparable to deaths in the city at the height of what is considered the deadliest pandemic to date – the 1918 flu pandemic . © Topical Press Agency / Getty Images …

He’s known as Dennis Quaid and apparently I’m his cat. Quaid, 66, happy animal lovers everywhere this week with a love story about how he is in the process of adopting a new furry friend after learning that the cat is named after him. The actor, who has starred in …

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will buy potential COVID-19 vaccines from US drugmakers Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) and Novavax Inc (NVAX.O), the companies said on Friday, improving the number of deals it has with drugmakers as the global fax race draws to a close. FILE PHOTO: The company logo for Johnson …

NEW DELHI: Chandryaan-2 has taken pictures of the moon and one of the craters is named after Vikram Sarabhai, the father of the Indian space program, a statement said on Friday. Prime Minister Jitendra Singh’s Minister of State said that as Sarabhai completed his seventeenth birthday on August 12, this …