The Trump administration has waived certain legal requirements to proceed with the construction of the border wall. Environmental groups opposing the barriers say the exemption from the regulations is at the expense of wildlife in the region and have challenged authorities provided to DHS to do so. The lawsuit filed …
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Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told CNBC on Monday that the coronavirus tracking website he helped build shows troubling levels of spread in many U.S. states. Epidemiologists use something called R0, or R nothing, as a way to measure how a virus is spreading. For example, an R value of 1 …
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The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, attends a press conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019), in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 28, 2020. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating worldwide as many countries that reopened their economies see a resurgence …
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the bars to close before noon on June 26 and restaurants to be reduced to 50% of their occupancy. Sergio Flores | AFP | fake pictures Governors in Washington, California, Florida and Texas are backing off on some of their reopening plans as coronavirus cases …
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General Motors President and CEO Mary Barra tours an April 1, 2020 facility at the company’s Warren, Michigan facility that will produce Level 1 face masks. GM CEOs of the nation’s largest companies hope that the commercial impact of the coronavirus will persist until at least the end of 2021. …
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