Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Tuesday said she backed Joe Biden despite new allegations of sexual assault against the former vice president. “I believe women deserve to be heard, and I believe that has happened here,” Abrams told the Huffington Post. “The allegations have been heard and looked into, and for too many women, […]
An earlier version of this article misstated the parent company of Pactiv. The correct parent, Reynolds Group Holding Ltd., has been added. A grocer’s meat section. Getty Images Meat-processing plants aren’t for the faint of heart during the best of times. But after the Trump administration issued a new order Tuesday to keep slaughterhouses open […]
Alphabet Inc. and Snap Inc. have warned about severe downturns in the online-advertising market in the past week, and seen their stocks head higher. Facebook Inc. US:FB can only hope to extend that trend. Facebook has already said that it is experiencing record usage but seeing advertisers slash their marketing budgets — that means more […]
Alphabet Inc. executives are prioritizing share repurchases instead of continuing to spend on new employees and business development during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Wall Street is rewarding Google’s parent company. Alphabet reported worse-than-expected first-quarter earnings Tuesday, with ad sales dropping more than 10% in March as shelter-in-place orders due to the coronavirus began to take […]
AMC Entertainment, the world’s largest movie-theater chain, said Tuesday it will no longer play any movies from Universal Pictures after comments by NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell that the entertainment giant plans to release future movies directly to homes on-demand. A Wall Street Journal report Tuesday detailed how Universal’s decision to make the animated kids movie […]
Is the worst behind the stock market after a coronavirus-induced rout? No one knows for sure as officials attempt to restart economies from a self-imposed period of hibernation to curb the spread of the contagion. However, a chart pairing the infections of the COVID-19 epidemic by growth rate and one of Wall Street’s most closely […]
Doctors in the U.K. are warning that the coronavirus could be linked to Kawasaki disease, a rare but serious illness in children. Dr. Dyan Hes, a pediatrician in New York City, told CBS News she was “not surprised” to hear about the possible link. Normally, “it’s not fatal, it’s very treatable,” Dr. Hes told CBSN […]
WASHINGTON — Jonathan Karl writes in his new book that President Trump is waging “an assault on truth,” but also details the ways in which the celebrity star turned commander in chief strategically baits the press into personal grudge matches that undercut the credibility of the media. “Too often in the Trump era, the press […]
Since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading expert on infectious diseases, has established himself as the authoritative public face of the Trump administration’s coronavirus response. For some, however, he has taken on a different role. In recent weeks, Fauci has emerged as the latest target in the vast […]
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC has warned people to monitor themselves for fever, cough and shortness of breath. That list of warning signs has gotten longer. Six more potential symptoms of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 have been added to the CDC’s list. They range from mild symptoms to severe […]