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In the years before the coronavirus, some three million white-clad pilgrims from around the world flocked to Islam’s holiest sites to attend Hajj under the scorching sun of Saudi Arabia. With the pandemic making large gatherings impossible, only a few thousand pilgrims, Saudis, and foreign residents in the kingdom can …

NEW YORK – While coronavirus deaths in the United States are rising rapidly, public health experts are seeing good news: The second wave of confirmed cases appears to be stabilizing. Scientists are in no way celebrating, noting that the trend is fueled by four large and affected locations: Arizona, California, …

After In reporting a fiscal third quarter that set a record that shattered Wall Street expectations, Apple had some bad news to announce. During the conference call that followed the earnings report, the company’s chief financial officer, Luca Maestri, said: “As you know, last year we started selling iPhones in …

Text size Packages from Amazon.com Inc. are stacked on the sidewalk in New York, USA, on Thursday, June 11, 2020. Jeenah Moon / Bloomberg With a big boost from accelerated e-commerce adoption amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Amazon. com released second-quarter financial results that dramatically exceeded Wall Street estimates and the …

Holocaust survivors launched a campaign on Wednesday to implore Facebook to rank posts denying the Nazi genocide of 6 million European Jews during World War II as hate speech and to remove them from the networking platform. social. The campaign began the same day that Facebook founder and CEO Mark …