Facebook shares fell in pre-market trading on Monday, after Diageo and Starbucks became the latest companies to stop advertising on social media platforms for ineffective surveillance of hate speech. Shares of the social networking company FB, -2.48%, which operates Instagram and WhatsApp, in addition to its eponymous platform, fell more …
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The Florida governor blamed younger people for the dramatic increase in coronavirus cases, saying it’s impossible to keep them from having fun. “If you look at that age group of 25 to 34, that is by far the leading age group on positive tests,” Governor Ron DeSantis said at a …
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Like the number of people hospitalized in Texas since coronavirus exceeded 5,000 on Friday, Governor Greg Abbott He said he shouldn’t have been quick to reopen the bars. The news comes when Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said Friday that Texas is one of …
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Text size Illustration by Mike Haddad. Investors analyzed concerns about the virus midday Thursday, taking advantage of some early gains even amid mixed data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 rose 0.2% in recent trade, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.4%. The latest unemployment figures show that while …
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Walt disney Co. It faces increasing pressure to postpone the reopening of its theme parks in the United States, with union officials and workers saying the recent jump in coronavirus cases makes it too dangerous to return to the Magic Kingdom. Union officials representing workers at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, …
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