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With election day less than 100 days away, President Donald Trump and his top political advisers are barely lifting a finger to expand their coalition of potential voters. Instead, they desperately try to convert Republicans, prevent their base from fracturing, and avoid conservative defections that would seal their fate as …

Two companies considered advanced in their quest for a coronavirus vaccine, Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX), selected a candidate to advance to a phase 2/3 clinical study. The two companies, which are collaborating on the vaccine effort, said in a joint press release Monday that they had chosen …

Chief infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said Monday that the progression from coronavirus sequencing to Moderna’s potential vaccine in his phase three trial “is the best thing we in the United States have done.” © The Associated Press The Associated Press The first injection for the Moderna vaccine in association …

Hilary Mantel’s “masterful” conclusion to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, has been featured on the long list for the Booker Prize, putting the British novelist on the run to win an unprecedented third time. Mantel’s 900-page novel, which opens after Anne Boleyn has been beheaded in …

That morning, a news anchor at CNN-affiliated OMCC in Savannah, Georgia, Baker became the first volunteer to receive an injection in the first phase 3 clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine in the United States. The many lives lost and impacted by the coronavirus pandemic inspired Baker to volunteer. “This …