A woman receives an injection during phase 3 testing for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine candidate. Johnson & Johnson via AP Johnson & Johnson has paused clinical trials for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate after an unexplained illness by a participant The drug maker announced Monday night that the 60,000-patient, late-stage trials have been put on […]
A Nevada man became the first published case of COVID-19 reinfection in the U.S., adding to a growing number of examples worldwide signaling that patients who have recovered from the viral disease may still be at risk of getting it again. In a paper in the medical journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, a group of authors […]
MarketWatch illustration/iStockphoto The demands of at-home schooling and work amid the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the personal-computer market to its strongest growth in more than a decade, according to third-party analyses released Monday. Gartner Inc. and IDC reported that PC shipments enjoyed their second consecutive quarter of strong growth after years of struggle for a form […]
With just weeks to go before the November election, a sleeper U.S. Senate race in a deeply Republican state is starting to garner some attention. A poll released on Sept. 28 showed Alaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan with a razor-thin 1 point lead over his main challenger, Al Gross, an orthopedic surgeon. While Gross is […]
Why do Joe Biden and Kamala Harris refuse to give a straightforward yes or no answer when asked whether they intend to “pack the Court” and expand it to a number larger than the nine justices that have been on the Court for the past 150 years? Because a considerable portion of the Democratic Party […]
iStockphoto “ ‘Within 18 months, it’s going to crack pretty hard. I think that you want to be avoiding it for the time being. When the next big meltdown happens, I think the U.S. is going to be the worst performing market, actually, and that’ll have a lot to do with the dollar weakening.’ ” […]
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has submitted a request for emergency authorization to the FDA for its experimental antibody treatment for coronavirus. Getty Images/iStockphoto illustration President Donald Trump has called the antibody cocktail he received to fend off the coronavirus “a cure,” but the chief executive of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Sunday that Trump’s case is merely “a […]
Bill Burr Getty Images “I’ll probably get canceled.” Yes, Bill Burr saw the backlash coming early in his opening monologue on “Saturday Night Live.” In retrospect, it wasn’t really that hard to be prophetic, considering his material touched on everything from masks and assault to gay pride and race. He even made a crack about […]
EU flags fly in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. iStock/Getty Images European regulators are reportedly preparing a “hit list” of up to 20 big tech companies that would be subject to strict new rules. The Financial Times reported Sunday that the list of large internet companies — which likely would include […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks on Capitol Hill on July 31. Associated Press Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that a new Trump campaign ad took his words out of context and without his approval. “ “In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never […]