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A plastics factory in India where a chemical gas leak killed 12 people and sickened hundreds more last week lacked federal environmental clearance but had been issued state permits to operate anyway.

Fed Chairman Powell is expected to talk down market speculation about negative interest rates, even as President Trump calls them a benefit.

Fei-Fei Li left Google after coming under fire for her comments on a controversial military contract that Google held with the Pentagon.

Barclays' Michael Gapen predicts it'll take years for the U.S. jobs market rebound to pre-Covid-19 levels.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that India would provide 20 trillion rupees ($266 billion) in fiscal and monetary measures to support an economy battered by a sweeping weeks-long lockdown to fight the novel coronavirus.

Taiwan is campaigning furiously to attend the next World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting to be held from May 18 as the island's successful coronavirus containment strategy has attracted the world's attention.

Covid-19 has infected more than 4.2 million people around the world as of Tuesday, killing at least 287,158 people.

Tesla employees went back to work at the company's U.S. car plant on Tuesday as Trump cheered on CEO Elon Musk's defiance of local Covid-19 health orders.

Fauci testified in front of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions about the road to reopening businesses.

Twitter's acceptance of a mostly remote workforce predates the coronavirus pandemic.

"I really hope we have three, four, five vaccines, because no manufacturer can make enough doses for the planet," Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said during CNBC's Healthy Returns Virtual Summit.

Stocks fell sharply, giving back some of their recently strong gains, as investors evaluated the latest attempts to reopen the economy.

Scientists and health officials may find a vaccine that is effective in preventing Covid-19 by the end of this year "if we're lucky," billionaire philanthropist Melinda Gates tells CNBC.

The U.S.-based pharmaceutical giant, which is working alongside German drugmaker BioNTech, last week dosed its first participants in the United States with a potential Covid-19 vaccine.

The Swedish government has pledged to spend an additional 2.2 billion Swedish krona ($226 million) on care for the elderly, as its death toll from the coronavirus continues to rise.

The U.S. should be wary of working too closely with China in order to protect its own democracy, according to billionaire George Soros.

Lambert thinks President Trump should delegate "responsibly" and let the medical professionals "step in."

Boeing's CEO Dave Calhoun told NBC's the "TODAY" show "Traffic levels will not be back to 100%. They won't even be back to 25%. Maybe by the end of the year we approach 50%. So there will definitely be adjustments that have to be made on the part of the airlines."

The U.K. government's new "stay alert" coronavirus safety campaign is being mocked on social media. When Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the new advice on Sunday, which replaced "stay at home," it was met with widespread confusion.

Leaders have had to up their e-commerce nous, work out how to use social media and manage employees whose myriad living situations are broadcast on video calls, training providers told CNBC.