Dr. Moncef Slaoui, vaccine expert, delivers an update on “Operation Warp Speed” in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on November 13, 2020. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s coronavirus vaccine czar said on Sunday that he will meet with President-elect Joe Biden this week to discuss
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A waitress serves guests as people dine outdoors in Pasadena, California, the only city in Los Angeles County still allowing that service on December 2, 2020. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Two regions in California, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California, have triggered the state’s new stay-at-home order after capacity in their
El Paso County detention inmates, also known as ?trustees? (low level inmates) and Sheriff officers and morgue staff help move bodies to refrigerated trailers deployed during a surge of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) deaths, outside the Medical Examiner’s Office in El Paso, Texas, U.S. November 14, 2020. Ivan Pierre Aguirre | Reuters The number of people
The co-founder and CEO of charity Tusk has told CNBC that the shutdown of the tourism industry in Africa due to the Covid-19 pandemic has caused an economic crisis which is impacting conservation in the region. Charles Mayhew, who is based in the U.K., co-founded the charity in 1990, with a mission to “amplify the
The stock market’s next move hinges on the state of coronavirus stimulus talks in Washington, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. “If the Democrats and Republicans in Congress can make a stimulus deal over the weekend, this market can indeed keep running,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Without some progress in Washington, though, next week could
A protester outside the White House urges the United States to take action to stop the oppression of the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples, on August 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images A Chinese dissident has targeted three American corporations after a report alleged that they lobbied
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday endorsed CIIG Merger, the U.S. blank-check company set to take U.K. electric-vehicle maker Arrival public next year, as a speculative stock for investors to play. “As much as I like this story, I think you can be patient,” the “Mad Money” host said. “But given how much this one already
Joachim Kuhn, chief executive officer of Vac-Q-Tec, looks at global distribution screens at the company’s factory in Wurzburg, Germany, on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. Alex Kraus | Bloomberg | Getty Images IBM cyber security analysts on Thursday said they uncovered an email phishing scheme targeting global coronavirus vaccine supply chains, and urged cold-chain companies to
linephoto | E+ | Getty Images A team in Denmark has developed a sensor-based system which could help to tackle air pollution by detecting ammonia and other gases emanating from the agriculture sector. Alongside chemical engineers and chemists, researchers from Aarhus University and the Technical University of Denmark worked on the technology as part of
Source: BioNTech The U.S. should be able to distribute enough coronavirus vaccine doses to immunize 100 million people by the end of February, President Donald Trump’s Covid-19 vaccine czar said Wednesday. That will be enough doses to protect a “significant portion” of the most at-risk Americans, which are the elderly, health-care workers and people with preexisting
A worker passes a line of freezers holding coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine candidate BNT162b2 at a Pfizer facility in Puurs, Belgium in an undated photograph. Pfizer | via Reuters The U.K. became the first country in the world to authorize the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, making it available from next week. “The Government has today accepted
The Sephora shops will be about 2,500 square feet in size, offering the same services found at Sephora today, staffed by Sephora employees, and located at the front entrance of Kohl’s. Source: Kohl’s Sephora will open hundreds of beauty shops inside Kohl’s stores in coming years in a deal that rivals Target‘s recent partnership with
A person wears a face mask while carrying shopping bags in Columbus Circle on November 28, 2020 in New York City. Noam Galai | Getty Images Fewer holiday shoppers bought gifts during the five-day holiday shopping period from Black Friday to Cyber Monday and those who did spent less as the sales season started early
President-elect Joe Biden’s Covid advisory board member Dr. Celine Gounder told CNBC that she is “relieved” upon hearing news that President Donald Trump’s special advisor on the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Scott Atlas, formally resigned from his post. “I am relieved that in the future that people who are qualified, people who are infectious disease specialists
Shares of Nikola plunged by as much as 25% in trading Monday morning after General Motors announced that it is giving up an equity stake in the electric truck start-up and the two said they are dropping plans to build the Badger, Nikola’s pickup truck for consumers. In September, the automakers announced a $2 billion deal that
An exhibitor shows inactivated COVID-19 vaccine candidate from China National Biotec Group of Sinopharm Group during the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services at the Beijing Olympic Park on September 5, 2020 in Beijing, China. Han Haidan | China News Service | Getty Images SINGAPORE – Developing countries may face a long wait
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wears a protective mask during a news conference in the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. Chris Kleponis | Bloomberg | Getty Images Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said on Sunday that the U.S.
Shoppers walk past an Apple Store at Franklin Park Mall during Black Friday. Shoppers go to stores to take advantage of Black Friday sales during the COVID-19 pandemic. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Traffic at stores on Black Friday fell by 52.1% compared with last year, as Americans by and large eschewed heading
Hardly any lines. Empty parking lots. More employees than customers in stores. These are just some of the scenes playing out across the United States the morning of Black Friday 2020, a shopping holiday that in the past has drawn hoards of people to stores to score doorbuster deals before daylight even breaks. But this
People visit at the Shops at Hudson Yards during early opening for the Black Friday sales in Manhattan, New York, November 27, 2020. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters Spending online on Black Friday this year surged nearly 22% to hit a new record, according to data from Adobe Analytics, as the Covid pandemic pushed more people