Novavax said on Friday its experimental Covid-19 vaccine showed immune response and protection against the highly contagious coronavirus variant originally identified in South Africa in a clinical trial. The vaccine, NVX-CoV2373, is being tested in multiple trials but has yet to be authorized for use in any country. In this […]

"For the past couple of weeks, housing has been hot instead of blazing hot," Redfin's Glenn Kelman told CNBC on Friday. "Sometimes you'll hear an agent say, 'Well, we only got five or 10 offers on this property instead of 15 or 20,'" said the CEO of the real estate […]

The claim: Coke wrote ‘Try to be less white’ on its soda cans  A widely shared image of a Coca-Cola can with the words “Try to be less white” printed on its side is drawing online criticism. Several posts encouraged followers to boycott Coca-Cola products. “I’m not buying anymore Coke products,” claims a […]

Darnella Frazier, the teenager who recorded George Floyd’s murder, was honored with a Special Citation by the Pulitzer Prize board on Friday, illustrating the sweeping role citizens can play in journalism through social media. Publications in Gannett’s USA TODAY Network also won a Pulitzer Prize award for journalism on Friday and […]

Alabama Montgomery: The state told a federal judge Tuesday that it has nearly finished construction to use nitrogen gas to carry out death sentences, an execution method authorized by state law but never put into use. The court filing did not describe how the proposed execution system would work. When […]

New York (CNN Business)Government data help policymakers find and fix problems for people in need. But that’s tricky if some groups aren’t represented in the stats. This is the case for the LGBTQ+ community, and it’s a huge problem. Here’s an example: The government’s monthly jobs report shows how many […]

The seven-day average of daily coronavirus deaths, cases and hospitalizations in the United States has declined to a new low, as per the U.S. Government’s official data. At a routine press briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials Thursday, CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky presented a […]

As a leading hub for cutting edge technology and innovation, Asia faces the same debate: Can technology work for all? Developing economies are more vulnerable to the inequities of access that exist within technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) said Kay Firth-Butterfield, head of AI and machine learning, at the World […]

A third member of a key Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has resigned over the agency's controversial decision to approve Biogen's new Alzheimer's drug, Aduhelm, CNBC has learned. Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, said the agency's decision on Biogen "was probably the worst […]