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Top Trump critic will testify before a chairwoman who is a close ally

“Dr. Bright, the partnership with BARDA has been a very important one, and I think that you’re taking it to new places,” Eshoo told him in a June 2018 congressional hearing, calling Bright one of her “heroes.”

Eshoo has rushed to hold Thursday’s hearing over Republicans’ objections since Bright publicly alleged on April 22 that the Trump administration forced him out of his job over his…

UN leads call to protect most vulnerable from mental health crisis during and after COVID-19 |

Spearheading the alert ahead of the upcoming World Health Assembly in Geneva, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged the international community to do much more to protect all those facing mounting mental pressures.

Launching the UN policy brief – COVID-19And The Need for Action On Mental Health – Mr. Guterres highlighted how those most at risk today, were “frontline healthcare workers,…

Why Short Form Copy is Where the Money’s at

So you want to make a great income as a freelancer — but you aren’t interested in writing a 12 or 24-page direct response package. Does this mean you should hang up your shingle and go look for a staff job?

Absolutely not. Just because you’re not interested in writing pages and pages of direct response copy doesn’t mean you can’t make a decent living as a copywriter. In fact, many of my…

Create Events to Gain Customers

If you have ever put on an event, you know that registration can be very tiring and cumbersome. If it is a large event, you will have a computer system that takes care of the registrations. The Web can also be used for registration just as it can be used to have people register for your newsletter. Event registration on the Web enables you to drive people to your site and then navigate to the…

Quibi, Netflix’s weirdest rival, is off to a rough start

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Quibi’s founder, told the New York Times on Monday that he attributes “everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus… But we own it.”

Yet Meg Whitman, Quibi’s CEO, struck a different tone when speaking with CNN Business Monday night. Whitman said she’s happy with the service’s performance so far.

“You have to remember, we’re a new brand with original content, a new tech…

Zuckerberg warns Facebook’s content moderation hurt by coronavirus

Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, October 23, 2019.

Erin Scott | Reuters

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said the company’s ability to moderate content on its social networks has been impacted by Covid-19 limiting its use of human moderators. 

As the coronavirusbegan to spread in the U.S. in…

How to Completely Reset iPhone Settings and Erase iPhone Data

The bigger the memory of your iPhone, the more it becomes useful for you.

If you are using your iPhone for your business and other important things, it becomes more personal and dearer to you. That’s the time when you don’t want others using it especially when you are starting to store personal data such as passwords, email addresses and business-related information. I for myself am guilty of…

Coronavirus, Germany, N.H.S.: Your Wednesday Briefing

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We’re covering new clusters of infections in reopening countries, Britain’s health care system and the origins of saffron.

Six new cases in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the outbreak began, have prompted officials to say it will test all 11 million of its residents. And the northern city of Shulan, near the Russian…

Tesla workers describe factory precautions as Musk, officials fight

Tesla Inc. vehicles are parked at the company’s assembly plant in Fremont, California, U.S., on Monday, May 11, 2020.

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images

Tesla employees returned to work this week at the company’s car plant in Fremont, California, as CEO Elon Musk reopened the facility in defiance of local Covid-19 health orders, bolstered by expressions of supportfrom President…

Adam Zampa: Australia’s T20I focus rewarded by top ranking

Adam Zampa believes that Australia holding the No.1-ranking in T20Is for the first time is the reward for giving the format the attention it needs.

Although Australia’s climb to the top was in part due to the ICC’s annual update of their rankings– which also saw them top the Test ladder – it has come on the back of a very strong run in T20Is with seven wins out of nine matches during the…

Sandeep Mathrani’s first TV interview as WeWork’s CEO on future of work amid crisis

WeWork CEO Sandeep Mathrani joins “Squawk Box” for his first TV interview as chief executive to discuss the future of work during the coronavirus pandemic, how offices may evolve as well as founder Adam Neumann’s lawsuit against SoftBank.

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Tock raises $10 million from Valor Siren as it pivots to food takeout

Nick Kokonas, co-owner and co-founder of the Alinea Group and Tock Inc., speaks during the Bloomberg Year Ahead in Luxury summit in New York, on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018.

Mark Kauzlarich | Bloomberg via Getty Images

As co-owner of the priciest eatery in Chicagoand CEO of an internet start-up focused on restaurant reservations, Nick Kokonas is uniquely exposed to the current economic crisis.

Stocks Fall Amid Concerns Over Recovery: Live Updates

Stocks on Wall Street drop with sell-off that picked up near end of trading.

Stocks fell on Tuesday as reports from China, South Korea and the United States offered sobering reminders to investors of how long and difficult the coronavirus recovery is likely to be.

The S&P 500 dropped about 2 percent, a decline that picked up steam as the day progressed.

Investors had plenty of reasons for…

US crude inventories, coronavirus in focus

An aerial view shows a cruise ship (L) and tanker vessel anchored near the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 28, 2020 off the coast of Long Beach, California.

Mario Tama | Getty Images

Oil prices fell in early Asian trading on Wednesday after industry data showed a rise in U.S. crude inventories and concerns mount about a possible second wave of…