Rachel Stevens, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday it would take a few days at least to hear from a safety monitoring panel about its review of the company’s late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trial after announcing that the large study had been paused due to an unexplained illness in one participant. The […]
Rachel Stevens, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected President Donald Trump’s latest offer on COVID-19 stimulus on Tuesday, in the latest sign that a bipartisan deal on coronavirus relief remains unlikely ahead of the November election. In a letter to colleagues, Pelosi laid out what Democrats view as the shortcomings of […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Uber and Lyft together are spending nearly $100 million on a November California ballot initiative to overturn a state law that would compel them to classify drivers as employees. Under the existing law the two ride-hailing companies would each face more than $392 million in annual payroll taxes and workers’ compensation costs even […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Vista Outdoor said late last month it would buy some parts of U.S. gunmaker Remington’s ammunition and accessories businesses for about $81 million dollars. Remington in July filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in two years as it faced financial troubles partly because some retailers placed restrictions on gun […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Over the weekend, residents of coastal Louisiana began repairing the wind and water damage inflicted by Hurricane Delta. This is the second storm to hit the region in two months. Delta made landfall early Friday evening as a Category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 100 mph. The storm […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Huaneng Group, one of five big Chinese state utilities, is building a $1.9 billion 4 gigawatt coal and power project in the northwestern region with the aim of delivering its electricity to the east of the country.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Belgium’s new premier arrived for a European Union summit fresh from his swearing-in ceremony, and said his country finally had a proper government after 652 days. Alexander De Croo, a Flemish liberal who had served as acting finance minister in the caretaker government since an inconclusive election 16 months ago, was sworn in […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] American poet Louise Gluck won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for works exploring family and childhood in an “unmistakable…voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” the Swedish Academy said. Born in New York, Gluck becomes the 16th woman to win the literary world’s most prestigious distinction since the […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reversed a Clinton administration-era policy that required major U.S. sources of hazardous air pollution like arsenic and lead to maintain pollution control technology throughout the lifetime of their operation, enabling them to meet less stringent standards.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Two Americans and a Briton won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine for identifying the Hepatitis C virus, in work spanning decades that has helped to limit the spread of the fatal disease and develop antiviral drugs to cure it. The discoveries by scientists Harvey Alter, Charles Rice and Michael Houghton meant there […]
