MAY 18, 2020
Mark Cuban - Steve Mack/Everett Collection
Billionaire Mark Cuban says it’s time for the government to push “trickle-up economics” to save small businesses, because the Paycheck Protection Program isn’t cutting it.
“The only thing that will save businesses is consumer demand,” he wrote in a series of tweets Sunday. “No amount of loans to businesses will save them or...
MAY 18, 2020
A view of Moderna headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
Moderna, the Massachusetts biotechnology company behind a leading effort to create a coronavirus vaccine, announced promising early results from its first human safety tests Monday. The company plans to launch a large clinical trial in July aimed at showing whether the vaccine works.
The company...
MAY 18, 2020
A railway staff checks the temperature of a migrant worker at a train terminus before he prepares to board a train for his journey back home during a nationwide lockdown, in Mumbai, India, on May 8.
As the third phase of the nationwide lockdown ended on Sunday, the Centre announced an extension till May 31, but listed considerable...
MAY 17, 2020
A member of the U.S. Secret Service wearing a face mask stands guard as President Trump arrives to deliver remarks in the Rose Garden at the White House on May 11.
President Trump has proclaimed the latest phase of pandemic response the “transition to greatness.” But Trump appears poised to preside over the eventual transition more as a...
MAY 17, 2020
Peter Navarro says China underplayed the seriousness of the coronavirus crisis as it imported large quantities of masks from the United States. - Jabin Botsford/WashPost
Tensions between the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spilled out into public view on Sunday as a top adviser to President Trump criticized the public health agency’s response...
MAY 17, 2020
UNSPECIFIED - MAY 16: In this screengrab, Former President Barack Obama speaks during Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 on May 16, 2020. (Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images for EIF & XQ)
Without the springtime rituals of traditional graduation ceremonies, former President Barack Obama delivered two virtual commencement addresses on Saturday, urging millions...
MAY 17, 2020
Cows graze in a field outside of Sneedville, Tenn. on Thursday, May 14, 2020. Hancock County is the remaining county in Tennessee that has no reported cases of COVID-19. - Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
In just four months, the deadly COVID-19 virus has infiltrated every state and major U.S. city. But a scattering of remote counties continue without a single reported case,...
MAY 16, 2020
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell shook markets and alarmed lawmakers this week with a dire warning: The U.S. could suffer through years of sluggish growth and meager job gains well after the pandemic passes without further economic stimulus.
In a speech Tuesday, Powell urged lawmakers to set aside concerns about the mounting national debt and provide the...
MAY 16, 2020
Retail chains from CVS to 7-Eleven are being forced to decide whether and how to enforce rules on masks after a string of attacks on clerks and security guards by patrons who refused to cover their faces.
As more cities, states and businesses require customers to cover up in stores, face coverings have become a flashpoint in the...
MAY 16, 2020
In the recently held press conference, Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister of India has stated that government is working to efficiently utilize airspace over India to reduce flying time of passenger aircrafts, which will benefit both the air carriers and environment.
Currently only 60 percent of the Indian airspace is freely available for passenger aircrafts and rest is...
