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American Airlines says it plans to fly 55% of its domestic schedule in July, up dramatically from May when it flew 20% of its schedule from a year earlier.

Ponzi scheme kingpin Bernie Madoff said he deserved to be set free early from 150-year prison sentence because he is dying from kidney disease.

CDC Director Robert Redfield said Thursday that he's "very concerned" the agency's public health message on the coronavirus isn't "resonating" with the public as the number of cases continues to rise across the U.S.

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The Lancet, one of the world's top medical journals, on Thursday retracted an influential study that raised alarms about the safety of the experimental Covid-19 treatments chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine amid scrutiny of the data underlying the paper.

"I do think there is a potential, unfortunately, for this to be a seeding event," CDC Director Robert Redfield says.

Each team will play eight regular season games before entering a full four-round playoff bracket. The season will end no later than Oct. 12. The deal must still be approved by the players and is contingent on a deal with Disney to use the Disney World resort to host games and practices.

Without adequate testing, universities "can't function at all," Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told members of the U.S. Senate.

Ford had planned that salaried workers would return to offices late this month.

New York is expanding its testing facilities to the thousands of people who participated in recent George Floyd protests, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday.

Trevor Milton's newfound fortune is the latest vindication for the Utah-born college dropout, who founded Nikola at the age of 29 after talking to truckers in the North Dakota oil fields.

The U.S. needs to ramp up "equitable access" to testing for the coronavirus, the government's top testing official said in a briefing with reporters Thursday.

CNBC sports business reporter shares his experience after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minnesota.

Simon Property Group said Gap has failed to pay more than $65.9 million in rent and other charges during the coronavirus pandemic.

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker says more has to be done to combat racial inequality in the workplace.

The funding was raised at a U.K.-hosted summit, which saw world leaders pledge billions of dollars to global vaccine alliance Gavi.

The government should be making efforts to test "medically and socially disadvantaged people" who are more likely to contract Covid-19, but still don't have access to testing, Dr. Scott Gottlieb said.

"I know a lot of the protesters are so annoyed they don't want to hear about Covid anymore," Cuomo said on Tuesday. "Covid is yesterday's news.' No, Covid is still a problem. Covid still kills also, so be mindful and respectful of that."

The CDC's new guidelines for returning to work during the coronavirus pandemic sparked some backlash and raised major concerns of what could be unbearable congestion and a surge in carbon emissions from vehicles.

Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and member of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force, speaks before the House Appropriations Committee.