U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement must release children held in the country’s three family detention centers by July 17 because of the danger posed by the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge in Los Angeles ordered. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee said in a ruling Friday that children held for more than 20 days at ICE
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A man walks past shelves of Coca-Cola bottles and cans at a shopping mall in Lagos, Nigeria November 5, 2019. Temilade Adelaja | Reuters Coca Cola on Friday announced it will be pausing advertising on all social media. The company clarified it was not joining the official boycott, but said “we are pausing.” “There is
There’s just a handful of interventions proven to curb the spread of the coronavirus. One of them is contact tracing, and “it’s not going well,” White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday. Contact tracing occurs when trained personnel contact infected people to investigate where they might have been infected and who they might have
A woman pushes a cart of groceries to her car outside an Albertson’s store in Denver, Colorado. Matthew Staver | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. supermarket operator Albertsons Companies on Thursday sold fewer shares than expected at a lower price than planned in its $800 million initial public offering, according to people familiar with the
John David Washington and Robert Pattinson star in “Tenet,” an upcoming spy film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Warner Bros. Warner Bros. is once again postponing the release of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” as a rise in coronavirus cases threatens the movie theater industry. This is the second time that the studio has been forced
The U.S. reported more new coronavirus cases on Wednesday than on any single day before, according to a tally by NBC News, as the virus spreads to new communities and sparks outbreaks mostly across the American South and West. Almost half of all new cases came from Florida, Texas and California, where the outbreaks appear to
The coronavirus pandemic has upended many consumers’ typical breakfast routines, causing many fast-food chains to lose out on early morning sales as their usual customers choose to eat cereal at home instead. But some consumers are forming new routines and ordering their breakfasts online, through the likes of DoorDash and Uber Eats. Between the weeks
The coronavirus continues to surge in a number of states across the country, mostly the American South and West. Testifying before members of Congress on Tuesday, White House health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said that parts of the U.S. are beginning to see a “disturbing surge” and described the overall situation in the U.S. as a
An American Airlines Group Inc. plane prepares for landing at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, April 18, 2017. Timothy Fadek | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. airline shares fell sharply Wednesday after state officials in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut said they were imposing a two-week quarantine on travelers arriving
Brussels Airport, Belgium. NurPhoto The European Union is currently discussing how to reopen its external borders as the region looks to slowly reopen economies, with visitors from countries like America potentially still being barred from entering the bloc. Thirty European countries decided to close their external borders back in March to contain the spread of
States with growing coronavirus outbreaks might not need to shut down again like many did in March, but they might need to consider pausing or rolling back stages of reopening, White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday. Fauci specifically cited Texas, Arizona, Florida and other states with “a serious problem” as places that
White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, along with three other top U.S. health officials, are slated to answer questions from members of Congress about the national response to the pandemic on Tuesday. Top officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services
A shopper wearing a protective mask walks down an aisle at a grocery store in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Thursday, May 7, 2020. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images The coronavirus crisis has altered consumer behavior, with panic buying, stockpiling and e-commerce becoming the norm this year as people around the world learned to
A sign announces that Phillies Florida Operations and Spectrum Field, spring training home of the Philadelphia Phillies, have been shut down on May 20, 2020 in Clearwater, Florida. Mike Ehrmann | Getty Images The Major League Baseball Players Association has rejected the league’s latest plan to start operations suspended by Covid-19, the union confirmed in
Coronavirus cases reaching record numbers globally are not just the result of more countries testing, the World Health Organization said Monday. “We do not believe that this is a testing phenomenon,” Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s emergencies program, said at a press conference at the organization’s Geneva headquarters. “Clearly when you look at the
People enjoy the beach in Leme, south of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 21, 2020 during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. CARL DE SOUZA A surge in coronavirus cases in the U.S. and Brazil, and further outbreaks in Germany — where the reproduction rate of the disease has risen substantially — are concerning global health experts,
Workers assists guests at check-in during the reopening of Bellagio hotel-casino on June 4, 2020, in Las Vegas. Ronda Churchill | AFP via Getty Images With states continuing to lift coronavirus restrictions, people across the U.S. have felt more comfortable traveling, taking transit, eating out and even moving to a new home. Improvement across the
Nielsen‘s David Kenny in an appearance on CNBC on Friday explained why he embedded the position of chief diversity officer into his responsibilities as chief executive officer of the marketing firm. When asked his motive for leading the company’s diversity and inclusion initiatives, Kenny, who is White, said the top reason was “power.” “There is no more
The U.S reported some 30,000 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest number of daily infections recorded since May 1, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. New cases across the country are surging faster than ever, especially in states in the South, West and Midwest. Officials are warning that some clusters of infections
Attorney General William Barr told the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman, that he is fired in a letter Saturday, amid a power struggle over who will fill one of the most important federal law enforcement positions in the nation. The Trump administration moved Friday night to nominate Securities and Exchange Commissioner Jay Clayton