The Supreme Court delivered surprising wins to liberals this week in a pair of blockbuster decisions that forbade businesses from firing workers base on their sexual orientation or gender identity and halted the Trump administration’s efforts to end the Obama-era DACA program, which shields the young migrants known as “Dreamers.” But those on the left
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A worker administers a test to a passenger at a drive-through site to collect samples for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic testing in Leesburg, Virginia, May 20, 2020. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters One of the components of contact tracing programs public health experts deem critical to controlling the Covid-19 outbreak includes finding and testing close contacts
The drug hydroxychloroquine, pushed by U.S. President Donald Trump and others in recent months as a possible treatment to people infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is displayed at the Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, May 27, 2020. George Frey | Reuters The National Institutes of Health has halted its clinical trial of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine
Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors. Yuriko Nakao | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted late Friday that the company will have to postpone its annual shareholder meeting which was scheduled for July 7 due to the coronavirus outbreak. “We will have to postpone annual shareholder meeting, as
Arianespace’s rocket Vega lifts off from French Guiana on March 21, 2019. Arianespace A host of small satellites manufactured in the United States are set to launch on a rocket from South America on Saturday, in a mission that represents the foreign competition to U.S. rocket builders like SpaceX and Rocket Lab. The Vega rocket,
American Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft Nicolas Economou | NurPhoto via Getty Images American Airlines is temporarily banning a customer who was kicked off a flight in New York this week for refusing to wear a face mask on board, a requirement on major U.S. airlines that aims to curb the spread of Covid-19. American said crew asked traveler
A customer shops at Cliff’s Variety on June 16, 2020 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The U.S. economy has shown signs lately that it could be snapping back to life more quickly than many anticipated, but there’s still a long way to go. May’s burst of spending from consumers who had
Crosschq CEO Mike Fitzsimmons Crosschq At a virtual board meeting in early March, Crosschq CEO Mike Fitzsimmons told directors of his online recruiting company that he was about to make an unexpected call to Slack. With fears of the coronavirus roiling capital markets and the economy on the verge of shutting down, Fitzsimmons wanted to
Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, October 23, 2019. Erin Scott | Reuters Facebook on Wednesday announced that it will now allow the public to track exactly how much U.S. senatorial and congressional candidates are spending on political ads on the company’s social networks. The company
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the opening keynote introducing new Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram privacy features at the Facebook F8 Conference at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on April 30, 2019. Amy Osborne | AFP | Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced the social network will allow its users
Customers use the digital screen to place an order at a McDonald’s restaurant. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic led McDonald’s to scale back its menu and shelve any menu additions. Now, as the fast-food chain slowly reopens U.S. dining rooms, it’s looking to bring back some menu items, according to CEO Chris Kempczinski. “We will
Proteus Digital Health CEO Andrew Thompson Qin Chen | CNBC Proteus Digital Health has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to a filing late Monday. The Silicon Valley company develops ingestible sensors that communicate when medicines are taken, plus a wearable patch that monitors the response. At one point, the “smart pill” maker was
[The stream is slated to start at 1:00 PM ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] CNBC’s ETF Edge is dedicated to the fastest-growing trend in investing right now: ETFs. Every Monday, Bob Pisani will be joined by a panel of top market participants at the
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the only African-American Republican senator, talks to reporters following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill June 09, 2020 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the Republican leading a group of GOP senators on police reform amid
An Orange County Convention Center employee replaces a sanitizer station ahead of the center’s reopening in July 2020. Source: Orange County Convention Center Today it might be hard to imagine a mass, indoor gathering with thousands of attendees. Yet that is the bread and butter of the convention and events industry, which was brought a
Protestors gather on University Ave near a Wendy’s restaurant, Saturday, June 13, 2020 in Atlanta. Steve Schaefer | Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP The death of a 27-year-old man who died following a police shooting Friday night in the parking lot of a Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta has sparked an investigation and protests. The shooting occurred
Demonstrators gather at the Lincoln Memorial during a protest against police brutality and racism on June 6, 2020 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee The public outcry over the death of George Floyd was sparked by cellphone footage of his brutal treatment by a white police officer who kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
A stack of 60 SpaceX Starlink satellites float in orbit above the Earth. SpaceX SpaceX updated the website for its Starlink satellite internet project on Friday, as the company continues to move closer to its goal of offering direct-to-consumer broadband from space later this year. “Get updates on Starlink news and service availability in your