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Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine brought in more than $4 billion in second-quarter sales, helping to push the vaccine developer into a profit.
The company also said Thursday an analysis showed that …
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By TOM MURPHY
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8/5/21
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LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England opted Thursday to keep its main interest rate at the record low of 0.1% as it painted a fairly rosy picture about the near-term prospects for the British economy …
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By PAN PYLAS
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8/5/21
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Shares of Robinhood are down more than 10% before the market open on Thursday as the company disclosed in a regulatory filing that it plans a stock offering of up to nearly 98 million …
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8/5/21
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DETROIT (AP) — The Biden administration wants automakers to raise gas mileage and cut tailpipe pollution between now and model year 2026, and it has won a voluntary commitment from the industry …
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By TOM KRISHER
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8/5/21
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany's Siemens AG raised its outlook for the year Thursday, joining other major European industrial companies in signaling that the economic recovery from the …
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By DAVID McHUGH
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8/5/21
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TOKYO (AP) — Nintendo’s April-June profit declined 13% from the same period the previous year, when the hit game “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” dramatically boosted sales.
Nintendo …
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By YURI KAGEYAMA
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8/5/21
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, went into a sixth lockdown on Thursday, with a state government leader blaming the nation’s slow COVID-19 vaccination …
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By ROD McGUIRK
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8/5/21
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TOKYO (AP) — At the Tokyo Games, athletes have taken to social media in trailblazing ways — with high-profile results. Several Olympians from niche sports introduced themselves to America through …
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By SYD FRYER
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8/5/21
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BEIJING (AP) — The delta variant is challenging China’s costly strategy of isolating cities, prompting warnings that Chinese leaders who were confident they could keep the coronavirus out of the …
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By JOE McDONALD and HUIZHONG WU
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8/5/21
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Lawyers for a senior Huawei executive argued in a Canadian court Wednesday that the United States “strategically crafted” a misleading record of the fraud …
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By JIM MORRIS
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8/4/21
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HONG KONG (AP) — Macao authorities on Wednesday ordered the closure of entertainment venues but not casinos, and coronavirus tests for its 600,000 residents, after the gambling city confirmed four …
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By ZEN SOO
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8/4/21
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The future ownership of an Israeli spyware company whose product has been used to hack into the cellphones of journalists, human rights workers and possibly even heads of state …
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By ANDREW SELSKY
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8/4/21
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Investigators say a rain-soaked runway and the pilots' failure to anticipate the poor conditions caused a cargo plane chartered by the Pentagon to slide into a Florida river two years ago.
The …
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By DAVID KOENIG
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8/4/21
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SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Uber’s ride-hailing service is regaining most of the momentum that it lost during the pandemic.
At the same time, its delivery service is still growing at a torrid …
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
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8/4/21
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DETROIT (AP) — Michael Andretti has a 21-year-old son with zero interest in obtaining a driver’s license. Rideshare apps get him where he wants to go.
In New Jersey, the 16-year-old daughter …
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By JENNA FRYER
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8/4/21
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When homeless outreach workers first visited her encampment under a Los Angeles highway overpass last fall, Veronica Perez was skeptical of their offer of not just a bed, but a …
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By CHRISTOPHER WEBER
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8/4/21
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Facebook has shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through political ads on the social …
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY
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8/4/21
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government sued United States gun manufacturers and distributors Wednesday in U.S. federal court, arguing that their negligent and illegal commercial practices have …
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By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO
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8/4/21
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A tuna fishing boat based in the Pacific island nation of Fiji that has been accused of essentially enslaving its crew was blocked Wednesday from importing seafood in the United …
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By BEN FOX
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8/4/21
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As a temporary program associate at Borealis Philanthropy, Adam Fishbein helps track payments the organization makes through its pooled funds. He uses transcription software to identify keywords and …
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By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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8/4/21
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