A view of Lower Manhattan. AFP/Getty Images The middle of New York City remains a ghost town almost six months after the pandemic led throngs of office workers to flee its packed city streets. But dead forever? Not a chance. “Absolutely, positively, not,” said Bill Rudin, a New York City real estate scion and chief […]
Herd immunity — the notion that once a high proportion of a population has contracted or been vaccinated against an infectious disease, the likelihood of others in the population being infected is drastically reduced — is a coveted yet intangible goal in a world without a COVID-19 vaccine. It’s safety in numbers, in other words. […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency-use authorization to Abbott Laboratories for a $5 rapid-response COVID-19 antigen test that is roughly the size of a credit card. The low-cost, rapid-response test could be administered in a doctor’s or school nurse’s office and uses technology similar to home pregnancy tests. It returns results in […]
Sudha Narayanan and Neimat Awadelseid looked forward to Tuesday — the day, after a yearslong process, they would become U.S. citizens. They found out only minutes before the ceremony that President Donald Trump would attend, and they didn’t know it would be aired during the Republican convention that night. Narayanan and Awadelseid said they didn’t […]
Two New Jersey cops admitted to vandalizing the cars of a man who complained about them. Stephen Martinsen and Thomas Dowling pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal mischief and agreed to forfeit any future public employment in the state. The wore disguises to smash the windows and slash the tires of two vehicles in September. Visit […]
Former Ambassador Nikki Haley delivered one of the starring speeches Monday night at the Republican National Convention, putting a softer face of President Donald Trump’s version of conservatism while joining his rallying cry in the culture war. At one point in her speech, she tried to draw a contrast between the GOP and its Democratic […]
Palantir Technologies Inc., a software company founded in Silicon Valley to help governments and companies collect and parse data, used its Tuesday filing for a direct listing to confirm a move away from the California technology hub and declare that “we seem to share fewer and fewer of the technology sector’s values and commitments.” The […]
Palantir Technologies Inc. has created controversy by selling its data software to militaries and government agencies for years, but it has the private sector to thank for revenue growth that is now expected to bring the company to Wall Street. Palantir filed Tuesday for a direct listing, which allows the company’s shares to be sold […]
Securing democracy on social media may be hardest after Americans vote in the presidential election. In what is shaping up as a newfangled nightmare in their efforts to stop election interference, Facebook Inc. FB, +3.47% , Twitter Inc. TWTR, +0.14% and others are as concerned about misinformation and other issues in days after the U.S. […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. business of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. TEVA, -0.93% has been indicted on charges the drugmaker fixed prices on generic drugs, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Justice Department is expected to announce the charges imminently, the person said.