Apple will close 30 additional stores in the United States by Thursday, the company said, bringing the total number of reclosures in the United States to 77 as Covid-19 cases rapidly rise in several regions around the country.
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released the minutes from its June 9-10 meeting, during which it held interest rates steady and said it expects loose policy to prevail until the economy gets back to normal.
"It isn't too late to turn it around. It isn't too late to get the infrastructure in place, to work on that and to use it appropriately," Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO's emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said.
The 781,000 total deaths in the United States in the three months through May 30 were nearly 19% higher than what would normally be expected, the study said.
A potentially historic heat wave is expected to hit more than two-thirds of the continental U.S. in the first several weeks of July, according to the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center.
"States like Texas and Florida, they're falling behind on testing right now because the testing isn't evenly distributed across the country," former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said.
NPC joins a host of other companies that filed for bankruptcy during the pandemic, including Chuck E. Cheese's parent company CEC Entertainment, rental car company Hertz, and retailers J. Crew and J.C. Penney.
For low-income students from Black, Hispanic and other minority communities, the sudden, remote work success story is anything but: it risks creating a new digital divide in career opportunities.
Even without an undergraduate degree in "STEM" — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the increasing popularity of coding programs and boot camps makes it possible to switch careers to tech.
Hong Kong's status as a world financial hub looks to be under threat. Beijing has expedited a new national security law, which some experts warn has the potential to erode the very structure that grants the region major privileges on the international stage.
Cases of positive and potentially a false positive coronavirus test result at the PGA Tour's Travelers Championship are raising questions about diagnostic testing.
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