Executives at automakers like Volkswagen AG and General Motors Co. were upbeat about the industry’s recovery in early fall. Demand was recovering from pandemic lows, and its factories were humming again. Then …
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President Joe Biden won’t get everything he wants, but the size of the coronavirus relief spending package likely to come out of Congress is expected not far from his $ 1.9 trillion …
Read More »China Refuses to Provide WHO Raw Data on First Covid-19 Cases
BEIJING – Chinese authorities have refused to provide World Health Organization researchers with raw, personalized data on early cases of Covid-19 that could help them determine how and when the coronavirus began …
Read More »Australian Open Will Close Doors To Fans After New Covid Outbreak
The return to normality of the tennis world will have lasted less than a week. After opening its doors to 30,000 fans a day and rediscovering the sound of a thunderous Grand …
Read More »UK economy suffers biggest decline in 300 years amid Covid-19 lockdowns
LONDON – The UK economy saw its biggest contraction in more than three centuries in 2020, according to official estimates, highlighting the economic cost of the Covid-19 pandemic in a country that …
Read More »Why Alabama Has the Worst Covid-19 Vaccination Rates
In the race for states to administer Covid-19 vaccines to residents, Alabama has consistently lagged behind. Alabama administered 10,013 doses for every 100,000 people through Tuesday, the lowest rate among states, according …
Read More »Dutch speed skaters waited 24 years for the canals to freeze up. Then the pandemic froze his dream career.
Holland has been waiting 24 winters for a cold wave like this one. It’s not very windy, it doesn’t snow too much and temperatures drop like a bike in a canal. This …
Read More »EU Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign, Says Senior Official
BRUSSELS – A senior European Union official said the bloc was slow and unprepared for the problems in launching the Covid-19 vaccine, but that making collective purchases was better than nations competing …
Read More »China’s Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Struggle to Meet Demand
Chinese vaccine makers are racing to meet the needs of China and a growing list of countries, but there are signs that vaccines are going slower than planned. In the Middle East …
Read More »What Delta’s big bet on blocking the middle seats to fly means
The grand experiment of locking the middle seat on airplanes has shown what we’ve known all along about air travel: More people care about a cheap fare than about comfort or even …
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