(Reuters) – The leading US infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, predicted Wednesday that the country will reach its goal of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year and was not moved by the possibility that China would come first. FILE PHOTO: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the …
Read More »Record floods raise doubts about China’s Three Gorges Dam
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – As China calculates the costs of its harshest flood season in more than three decades, the role played by the controversial and massive Three Gorges dam, designed to help tame the Yangtze River, has come under fire. a new scrutiny. Amid some of the heaviest rains on …
Read More »‘Hands-free’: automakers race to the next level of non-autonomous cars
DETROIT (Reuters) – Autopilot, ProPilot, CoPilot: Carmakers have many names for new systems that enable hands-free driving, but there are no safety or performance standards to follow as they implement the most significant changes in technology of the vehicle in one generation. A GM test driver sits in a 2021 …
Read More »Ivanka Trump tweets support for Goya Foods amid boycott campaign
(Reuters) – United States presidential adviser Ivanka Trump visited Twitter on Tuesday to support Goya Foods after the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States became the target of a boycott campaign in the Social media sparked by the gushing praise of its CEO by President Donald Trump. FILE …
Read More »Wall Street waves, led by energy and materials
(Reuters) – Wall Street rose on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average finishing more than 2% higher when investors bought energy and materials stocks and looked beyond a recent surge in coronavirus cases. In widespread trade, Moderna Inc increased 18% after the biotech company’s experimental vaccine for COVID-19 showed …
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