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Read More »Exclusive: Vaccine Alliance finds manufacturing capacity for 4 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines
CHICAGO (Reuters) – An influential epidemic preparedness and response foundation supporting nine potential coronavirus vaccines has identified manufacturers with the capacity to produce four billion doses a year, the group’s top manufacturing expert told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: This illustration, taken on April 10, 2020, shows small bottles labeled with a …
Read More »NASA will name its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the agency’s first African-American engineer.
“Mary W. Jackson was part of a very important group of women who helped NASA get American astronauts into space,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in the agency’s announcement Wednesday. “Mary never accepted the status quo, she helped break down barriers and open opportunities for African Americans and women in …
Read More »Tucson Police Chief Offers to Resign When Video of Police Custody Death Released
Tucson police officers were called to a home the early morning of April 21 where Carlos Ingram-Lopez, 27, “was drunk, screaming and running naked around the house,” police chief Chris Magnus said at a conference release on Wednesday. The video, which the department first publicly showed today, showed officers battling …
Read More »United States Mobilizes to Protect Lobster Industry, Threatens Tariffs on China
FILE PHOTO: Lobsters seen in a box after being brought in by a lobster fisherman in Stonington, Maine, USA. USA, July 5, 2017. REUTERS / Shannon Stapleton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – United States President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum aimed at protecting American lobster fishermen who have found export markets …
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