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Aug 10 2022
News
Musk sells Tesla shares worth $6.9 bln, cites chance of forced Twitter deal
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk sold $6.9 billion worth of shares in the electric vehicle maker, saying the funds could be used to finance a potential Twitter deal if he loses a legal battle with the social media platform.
"In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close *and* some equity partners don't come through, it is important to avoid
ReutersDec 22 2021
Analysis
The Army May Have Developed a Super-Vaccine. Would America’s Right-Wing Libertarian Gun Guys Actually Take It?
Good news about COVID in December 2021 is hard to find, but Defense One published some of it on Tuesday, writing that scientists at the Army’s Walter Reed Institute of Research in Maryland say they’ve developed a vaccine which proved effective against all strains of the virus, including omicron, in Phase 1 (human) trials. (It still must go through two more trial phases before being approved
SlateMar 31 2021
News
Pfizer Says COVID-19 Vaccine Shows '100% Efficacy' In Adolescents
New clinical trials showed that Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine elicits "100% efficacy and robust antibody responses" in adolescents from 12-15 years old, the drug company announced Wednesday. The trial included 2,260 trial participants; the results are even better than earlier responses from participants ages 16-25.
Pfizer and its vaccine partner BioNTech say they will submit the results "as
NPR (Online News)Sep 19 2022
Opinion
Why the Florida and Texas Social Media Laws Violate the Takings Clause
Yesterday, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld Texas' law banning major social media websites from using most forms of content moderation. The decision is at odds with a recent Eleventh Circuit ruling striking down Florida's similar law (written by prominent conservative Trump appointee Judge Kevin Newsom). In May, the Supreme Court signaled that at least five justices believe
ReasonJan 01 2021
News
Pfizer and BioNTech to offer COVID vaccine to volunteers who got placebo
Pfizer Inc and its partner BioNTech Se plan to give volunteers who received a placebo in its COVID-19 vaccine trial an option to receive a first dose of the vaccine by March 1, 2021, while staying within the study.
The trial's Vaccine Transition Option allows all participants aged 16 or older the choice to discover whether they were given the placebo, "and for participants who learn
ReutersJan 21 2021
News
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she'll send Trump impeachment to Senate 'soon'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused again Thursday to say when she would send the Senate an article of impeachment charging former President Donald Trump with inciting an insurrection, but said it would be soon, as lawmakers grapple with how to hold a trial.
“I’m not going to be telling you when it is going,” said Pelosi, D-Calif. “The other questions are about how a trial would proceed
USA TODAYApr 01 2021
News
Pfizer Covid vaccine is 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variant
Pfizer and BioNTech said on Thursday their Covid-19 vaccine is around 91% effective at preventing the disease, citing updated trial data that included participants inoculated for up to six months.
The shot was also 100% effective in preventing illness among trial participants in South Africa, where a new variant called B1351 is dominant, although the number of those participants was
CNBCFeb 09 2021
News
Impeachment: Republicans say ex-President Trump can't be tried but many experts disagree
When the Senate gathers Tuesday for the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, Republicans are expected to hammer away at a longstanding argument to undermine the case before debate even begins.
Never mind the charges against Trump for his role in allegedly inciting a mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, GOP senators and Trump's lawyers say, because the
USA TODAYNov 22 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Kyle Rittenhouse Drives Us Even Further Apart
From the CenterYou may think of Kyle Rittenhouse as a villain, or as a hero. You might regard him as a vengeful vigilante out to wreak havoc, or a courageous citizen looking to protect a besieged community. I see a frightened and confused teenager who got himself involved in something much bigger and more dangerous than he could have possibly understood, with fatal and tragic consequences
Dan SchnurNov 21 2021
Opinion
In the Rittenhouse Case, the Justice System Worked
Mere minutes elapsed between the end of the Rittenhouse trial and the arrival of the unsolicited hot takes. Responding to the decision, the attorney general of New York, Letitia James, explained that “as a lawyer, I respect jury verdicts,” but confirmed nevertheless that the existence of a jury verdict that she dislikes had convinced her that “our system needs to be uprooted.” On Twitter,
National Review (News)