Home for sale sign in Boulder, Colorado. Helen H. Richardson | Denver Post | Getty Images It is a lot harder to find an inexpensive home to buy and flip in today’s ultra-competitive housing market, but those who can will make a hefty profit. While home flipping activity overall dropped in the third quarter of
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Former Health and Human Services official Dr. Mario Ramirez told CNBC that he was “concerned” about equitable access to Covid-19 resources around the globe, and criticized the Trump administration for not participating in the multilateral COVAX facility. “One of the things that was unfortunate about the Trump administration’s approach to the pandemic, was that they
Dr. Scott Gottlieb expressed concerns Wednesday about the smooth administration of Covid-19 vaccines next year, when shots become available for Americans who are not health-care workers or residents of long-term care facilities. The former Food and Drug Administration commissioner pointed to the challenges that have been reportedly experienced around administering antibody drugs to Americans, suggesting those
Peter Endig | AFP | Getty Images Amazon is encouraging front-line employees in California to get weekly Covid-19 tests, as the state rolls out new emergency workplace protections for the coronavirus. “In accordance with Cal/OSHA’s new Covid-19 emergency regulations, we encourage all Amazon employees to get tested for Covid-19 at least once a week starting
Mitch McConnell speaks with Nancy Pelosi following an on Dec.8, 2016 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee | Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited her fellow congressional leaders to a meeting Tuesday to try to strike deals to fund the government and send another round of coronavirus relief, a source familiar with her outreach said.
Heinrich van den Berg | Getty Images Apple’s Siri assistant can now quack like a duck if you ask it nicely. To try it out, users have to update to iOS 14.3, the newest version of the iPhone operating system, and say, “Hey Siri, what does a duck sound like?” In response, Siri will play
New sneakers, a MacBook, a Peloton — you can pay for almost anything in installments these days. Like the layaway plans of old, but now called point-of-sale loans, “buy now, pay later” lets shoppers break their purchases into equal installment payments without interest or fees, even using a debit card, which can make even the
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at a daily briefing during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the State Capitol in Albany, New York, April 29, 2020. Mike Segar | Reuters WASHINGTON – A former staffer for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that he sexually harassed her for years. The explosive
Matthew Prince, co-founder and chief executive officer of Cloudflare Inc., speaks during the Wall Street Journal Tech Live global technology conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. The event brings together investors, founders, and executives to foster innovation and drive growth within the tech industry. Martina Albertazzi | Bloomberg | Getty
US President Donald Trump joins West Point cadets during the Army-Navy football game at Michie Stadium on December 12, 2020 in West Point, New York. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump did not wear a mask for some time while standing closely to West Point cadets and Naval Academy midshipmen —
Virgin Galactic’s carrier aircraft releases its spacecraft Unity during a glide flight test. Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic confirmed its latest spaceflight test was cut short after its SpaceShipTwo Unity vehicle attempted to launch above New Mexico on Saturday. An unofficial webcast hosted by space enthusiast forum NASASpaceflight appeared to show the spacecraft’s engine aborted after
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer and BioNTech‘s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, a monumental turning point in the once-in-a-century pandemic that has taken nearly 300,000 American lives in less than a year and wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy. The FDA’s emergency use authorization will now kick-start the federal government’s distribution of
President Donald Trump’s “desperation” to avoid the justice system “is a sign of weakness and fear,” a lawyer for writer E. Jean Carroll on Friday told the judge presiding over her rape defamation suit against Trump. Carroll’s attorney, Joshua Matz, delivered the critique as he urged Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan to reject Trump’s latest effort
President-elect Joe Biden’s Covid advisory board member Dr. Atul Gawande told CNBC that the Covid-19 vaccine rollout “is a Herculean operation” with potential hitches along the way as Pfizer’s Covid vaccine just took a big step toward FDA approval for emergency use. “The biggest challenge is going to be both production and then getting it into
Scarlett Johansson stars as Natasha Romanoff, AKA Black Widow, in Marvel’s “Black Widow.” Disney | Marvel It’s been a week since AT&T’s WarnerMedia shocked Hollywood with its plan to release its entire 2021 movie slate on HBO Max at the same time the movies hit theaters. Don’t expect other streaming services to follow suit —
President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in Washington. Evan Vucci | AP The White House Coronavirus Task Force has recommended to President Donald Trump that the United States begin allowing travelers into the country from Brazil, the United Kingdom and the 27 countries in the
Mellody Hobson and George Lucas attend the 2017 LACMA Art + Film Gala Honoring Mark Bradford and George Lucas presented by Gucci at LACMA on November 4, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. JB Lacroix | WireImage | Getty Images Starbucks said Wednesday that Mellody Hobson will serve as the next non-executive chair of its board.
The chief medical officer at Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Dr. Jason Mitchell, told CNBC that doctors are doing “everything we can do” to prevent rationing care as his state’s governor signed an executive order that moved New Mexico a step closer to rationing care at any place where patients are being treated for coronavirus. “It’s really