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Major averages cut gains quickly in the final hour of trading after a report said Pfizer is cutting its coronavirus vaccine rollout plan for this year.

The DC attorney general's office is suing over alleged improper spending by Donald Trump's inaugural committee. Ivanka Trump is upset about that.

It's an example of how AT&T is adapting to the coronavirus pandemic.

Facebook faces a new lawsuit from the DOJ alleging it discriminated against U.S. workers by reserving positions for temporary visa holders.

NASA will pay $1 to a start-up to collect a small amount of material on the surface of the Moon, the space agency announced on Thursday.

OPEC and its oil-producing allies agreed to increase production by 500,000 barrels per day beginning in January.

IBM analysts on Thursday said they discovered fraudulent emails impersonating a Chinese business executive targeting global Covid-19 vaccine supply chains.

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the adoption of online food delivery apps by two to three years, according to Deliveroo CEO Will Shu.

Facebook says it will now "start removing false claims about these vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts."

There are grand plans for the marine based renewables sector, but challenges remain.

Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, said 450,000 Americans could die of Covid-19 before February.

First-time claims for unemployment benefits totaled 712,000 last week, compared with 787,000 a week earlier and the Dow Jones estimate of 780,000.

Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the U.S. is at a "very critical time."

Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have said they will take a coronavirus vaccine to build confidence in its safety.

The U.K. was the first country in the world to approve Pfizer and BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine for widespread use. In a way, that was the easy part.

JD Health, the health-care unit of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, is gearing up for a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) on Dec. 8.

While it's crucial to the global economy, the agriculture sector can affect the environment too.

Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for charges related to an illegal pro-democracy rally in 2019.

Tens of thousands of farmers, mostly from northern states like Punjab and Haryana, have taken to the streets in protest against farm reforms.

President-elect Joe Biden should work to reverse frayed U.S. ties with Asian allies "perhaps sooner rather than later," said Jeffrey Schott of PIIE.