The path to a COVID-19 vaccine has started to come into view this week, following the stock-moving disclosures of early-stage clinical data for two vaccine candidates and a rigorous new regulatory road map from the Food and Drug Administration. On Tuesday, Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. INO, -26.79% shared the first data from the Phase 1 clinical […]
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he’s in favor of providing another round of stimulus checks to Americans, as he discussed what could go in another coronavirus aid package that Washington is expected to deliver around the end of this month. “I support it, but it has to be done properly,” Trump said when asked […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wears a face mask used to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as he attends a press conference after meeting with Senate Republicans on 19 May, 2020: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has split with Donald Trump over the president’s threat to veto the annual […]
More than 300 people have been arrested in Omaha since Friday, May 29, when the city of less than 500,000 was swept up in the tidal wave of protests against police brutality and systemic racism that had erupted in Minneapolis after the brutal killing by police of an unarmed Black man named George Floyd. […]
CARMEL, Ind. (AP) — A bishop suspended a suburban Indianapolis Catholic priest from public ministry on Wednesday for comparing the Black Lives Matter movement and its organizers to “maggots and parasites” in a recent church bulletin. Bishop Timothy Doherty, of the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana, took the action against the Rev. Theodore Rothrock, of St. Elizabeth […]
ALBANY, N.Y. — The 75-year-old man who fell to the ground after being pushed by Buffalo police officers in June was released Tuesday from a local hospital. Martin Gugino sustained a brain injury and a fractured skull related to the June 4 incident that prompted a national outcry, leading to the arrest of two officers on charges of assault […]
Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh held a press conference call with reporters on Tuesday where he said the president is “eager to return to the campaign trail and to keep campaigning and keep connecting with Americans.” The phone call came just as CNN reported that the Trump campaign had canceled plans to hold a […]
It has been the best of times and the worst of times for U.S. equity benchmarks over the past two quarters, and that is, perhaps, why Wall Street analysts are facing their most befuddling challenge yet. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.84% and the S&P 500 SPX, +1.54% just put in their best quarterly […]
FedEx Corp. stock rallied late Tuesday after the deliveries and logistics company reported better-than-expected adjusted profit and sales as the surge in online buying amid the coronavirus pandemic offset higher costs and thinner margins. FedEx FDX, +4.21% reported a loss of $334 million, or $1.28 a share, in the quarter, compared with a loss of […]
Two exchange-traded funds with heavy exposure to Biogen Inc. BIIB, +2.76% were higher Thursday afternoon, even as shares of the pharmaceutical company dropped toward an eight-month low after a court ruling invalidated a patent on its multiple sclerosis treatment. That was just one quirk among many in the popular biotech ETF space, a subsector that’s […]