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Twitter limits Donald Trump Jr.’s account and deletes his tweet featuring a ‘misleading and potentially harmful’ hydroxychloroquine video with a fringe Houston doctor 

REUTERS/Carlos Barria Twitter has temporarily limited Donald Trump Jr.’s account after posting a hydroxychloroquine video Monday. The company said the president’s oldest son violated its policy on “spreading misleading or potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.” Under the sanction, Trump Jr.’s account would still be visi […]

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British tourists still flying to Spain say it is dealing with Covid-19 better than the UK 

Nigel Hunt, 54, was at Manchester Airport today travelling with his family to their villa in Fuerteventura, He told MailOnline he felt ‘safer’ in Spain because his family have their own holiday home.

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Follow the Money: How Digital Ads Subsidize the Worst of the Web 

From Covid conspiracies to election scams, automated advertising software plays a large—and largely unseen—role.

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CES, the biggest tech show of the year, will be canceled in 2021 and held digitally 

Alex Wong/Getty Images CES, the largest tech conference of the year, will be canceled in 2021 and not held in its usual Las Vegas, the Consumer Technology Association announced on Tuesday, citing the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the event will be held digitally. “With the growing global health concerns about the spread of COVID-19, it is not possible […]

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Jaguar Land Rover names ousted Renault boss as CEO 

Jaguar Land Rover has picked ousted Renault boss Thierry Bollore as its next chief executive, with a mission to return Britain’s biggest carmaker to profit after a big hit from the COVID-19 pandemic. Bollore took over at Renault in January 2019 after the fall of Carlos Ghosn, but was always viewed a close to the French carmaker’s long-time boss and was pushe […]

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Pfizer’s October Goal in Vaccine Race Scrutinized by Street 

(Bloomberg) — Wall Street analysts and specialists are weighing the possibility that Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE may file their Covid-19 vaccine candidate with regulators by October after the pair said a late-stage Covid-19 vaccine study kicked off on Monday evening.Pfizer rose Tuesday on the announcement with its German partner, just hours after similar ne […]

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Stocks shake off US-China tensions, focus on coronavirus vaccine progress 

The U.S. government has reached a $1.95 billion deal with Pfizer and BioNTech for 100 million doses of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine after it receives regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

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Rockets’ Westbrook returns to practice, ‘thankful’ 

Russell Westbrook, who announced last week that he had tested positive for COVID-19, is OK to return to practice with the Rockets.

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Minnesota Reports First Child Death From COVID-19 

The 9-month-old infant was thought to have no underlying health conditions and was not hospitalized.

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Disney theme park staff worry about Covid-19: ‘I can’t bring it back home’ 

Disney’s parks in Florida and California are reopening and tens of thousands of workers returning as cases in the states surge Disney World fully reopened all four of its theme parks within its Florida resort last week, even as cases of coronavirus surged, making it one of the world’s hotspots for daily increases. Related: Florida’s ‘mini-Trump’ Ron DeSantis […]

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How Will Covid Be Remembered? 

Emma Donoghue’s new novel, The Pull of the Stars, shows how pandemics—like the 1918 flu—can be woven into history.

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COVID-19 has driven engagement for an already-thriving gaming industry 

A few days after releasing new figures for the month of June, NPD is offering up some broader trends for the gaming industry at large. It likely won’t surprise you to hear that the industry continues to thrive in 2020, and COVID-19-driven stay-at-home orders have only further contributed to gaming adoption here in the U.S. […]

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UK signs deal for 90 million Covid-19 vaccine doses 

UK government has signed deals for access to around 90 million doses of promising coronavirus vaccines under development, Business Secretary Alok Sharma announced here on Monday.

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COVID-19 vaccine trials from the University of Oxford and Wuhan both show early positive results 

There are more promising signs from ongoing efforts to develop a vaccine that’s effective in preventing COVID-19: Two early trials, one from the University of Oxford, and one from a group of researchers in Wuhan funded in part by the National Key R&D Programme of China. Both early trials showed efficacy in increasing the presence of antibody respons […]

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College Football Playoff staying optimistic, not yet discussing contingencies amid COVID-19, director says 

CFP executive director Bill Hancock is remaining cautiously optimistic about the 2020 season

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