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When I saw the news reports that Slack had filed a competition complaint against Microsoft in the European Union, I started having flashbacks. Those powerful memories from more than two decades ago became especially vivid when I read the company’s press release announcing the presentation. Slack did not provide a …

According to a new analysis, the cost of preventing more pandemics in the next decade by protecting wildlife and forests would amount to only 2% of the estimated financial damage caused by Covid-19. The researchers said two new viruses a year had spilled from their wildlife hosts to humans over …

The Oregon Health Authority reported 331 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday and two new deaths. The new case totals are well below the record 437 cases announced a week ago, but they are still high relative to daily case counts seen in the past four months. The number of …

For the first time in the history of Major League Baseball, 16 teams will reach the postseason in 2020. MLB and MLBPA agreed on an expanded postseason format hours before Thursday night’s first pitch on opening day. There will be eight teams per league (which reportedly includes each second-place team) …

Pompeo’s remarks at the Nixon Library on Thursday, titled “Communist China and the Future of the Free World,” sparked rumors about Beijing and its relations with the United States, nearly 50 years after President Richard Nixon became the first president of the United States to travel to China. “We must …