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Saul Loeb | AFP | fake pictures Stock futures rose Thursday night, preparing Wall Street to end the week on a high note as some of the biggest tech stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet and Apple) reported quarterly results that exceeded high expectations. Nasdaq 100 futures were trading 1.2% higher. Dow …

Cases of coronavirus in New Jersey, which had fallen to its lowest levels since the pandemic just a week ago, are on the rise again, fueled in part by outbreaks among young adults along the Jersey shore. In the past seven days, New Jersey has recorded an average of 416 …

Watch now: Analysis: SEC reportedly going to schedule 10-game conference for soccer season (7:21) With college football schedules across the country in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the SEC announced Thursday afternoon that it has moved to a 10-game schedule, conference-only for the 2020 season. The SEC also He …

Former President Barack Obama gave a passionate and deeply political tribute to the late Representative John Lewis (D-GA) at Lewis’s funeral on Thursday. Lewis was one of the nation’s top civil rights leaders beginning in the 1960s, and Obama spoke of how, even when he was very young, Lewis suffered …

August 1, 2020 THe greets of an epidemic tend to increase like a tsunami, slowly, almost surreptitiously, before a sudden increase. In some parts of Europe it is now feared that the covid-19 cases will again be close to a threatening turning point. In Spain, the new daily cases in …