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As Biden and Trump split over the circumstances of their next presidential debate, vice-president Mike Pence initially rejected a plexiglass divider in tonight’s face-off with Democrat candidate Kamala Harris, before eventually relenting.
Dexamethasome, the steroid drug included in Trump’s Covid treatment, has shown promise in decreasing the risk of death for patients with more severe coronavirus infections. But it’s not without side effects.
“What the president is doing is once again patently false, it’s morally wrong and yes, it’s racist.” Former First Lady Michelle Obama issued a passionate rebuke of the Trump presidency and its record on handling several crises, from the pandemic, to the California fires and police brutality.
Since Palantir’s IPO, cofounders Peter Thiel and Alex Karp have sold a combined 41.45 million shares, for more than $400 million—a big payday for both billionaires, but the story behind the numbers is a little more complicated.
Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook shares were down on Tuesday anticipating the release of a long-awaited House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee report which, as expected, recommended breaking up the tech giants.
Senior officials with the Trump administration unveiled new wage rules related to the H-1B visa program that, they said, were aimed at ending “abuse” of the system and would force employers to prioritize American workers.
Ten days since the conflict in a contested border zone between Armenia and Azerbaijan reignited, the fighting shows no sign of slowing down, inflicting casualties and destruction upon civilians living in nearby crowded urban communities.
French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and U.S. biochemist Jennifer Doudna became the first two women to share a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing. Yesterday, three scientists—a Brit, a German and an American—were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in discovering black holes.
A small unmanned vessel washed up off a remote Scottish island a week ago—its owner remains a mystery, but the craft’s configuration suggests it was on a secret mission.
In a sad day for music, guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen died of cancer at 65. The death of another music legend was announced a few hours later—Johnny Nash died at 80, his son confirmed.
The remains of a luxury Roman villa, hidden for some 2,000 years until it was discovered under a 1950s apartment block in Rome, will open to the public next month.
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