President Joe Biden announced Tuesday a doubling of US government purchases of new Pfizer therapeutic pills designed to combat the worst effects of Covid-19. At a meeting with his White House pandemic response team, Biden said the new order will take the stockpile to 20 million from 10 million pills. “These pills are going to …
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Low-cost airline Ryanair said Wednesday that the Omicron coronavirus variant would have a strong impact on its financial performance as it more than doubled the forecast for its annual loss and cut back flights. The Irish airline now expects a loss of between 250 to 450 million euros ($283-510 million) in its financial year that …
April 19, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s second-largest bank VTB more than doubled its net profit in the first quarter compared with a year ago as it cut provisions against non-performing loans, the state-run lender said on Monday. VTB’s financial performance took a hit in 2020 from the need to increase provisions against bad loans …
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Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday renewed his criticism of the recently enacted set of election reforms in Georgia, saying the new law failed to eliminate no-excuse mail-in voting and did away with signature verification, among other issues. “Georgia’s election reform law is far too weak and soft to ensure real ballot integrity! Election Day …
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The White House on Thursday defended President Joe Biden’s inaccurate critique of Georgia’s newly passed election reform law. Biden has claimed that the law requires polls to close at 5 p.m. but it does not. He also said the bill bars people from providing voters who are in line with water or food. It does, …
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FILE PHOTO: Instacart employee Eric Cohn, 34, searches for an item for a delivery order in a Safeway grocery store while wearing a respirator mask to help protect himself and slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Tucson, Arizona, U.S., April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Cheney Orr March 2, 2021 (Reuters) – Instacart has more …
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FILE PHOTO: GameStop logo is seen near displayed stock graph in this illustration taken February 2, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration February 25, 2021 By David Randall and Sinéad Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) – GameStop Corp shares more than doubled in afternoon trading on Wednesday, surprising those who thought the video game retailer’s stock price would stabilize …
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FILE PHOTO: A logo of Brazil’s state-run Petrobras oil company is seen at its headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes/File Photo February 22, 2021 By Sabrina Valle and Gram Slattery RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Petrobras shares plunged 21% on Monday, wiping out 70 billion reais ($12.7 billion) in market …
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In this image taken from video, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Albany, N.Y. (Office of the Governor of New York via AP) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 3:25 PM PT – Friday, February 19, 2021 Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) pivoted from spinning the news about his nursing home …
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President Donald Trump insisted that he wants to send $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans who are impacted by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. “I simply want to get our great people $2,000, rather than the measly $600 that is now in the bill. Also, stop the billions of dollars in ‘pork,’” he wrote in …
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