U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced Friday its new COVID-19 pill showed an 89% reduction in risk of COVID-19-related hospitalization or death in clinical trials and they plan to submit the drug to U.S. regulators for emergency use approval.
MoreColin Powell, the former U.S. secretary of state and chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, was remembered Friday as both a skilled military leader and diplomat and a warm and thoughtful colleague, friend and father during a memorial service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.
MoreThe U.S. economy created 531,000 jobs in October, more than the 450,000 economists had forecast, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
MoreU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has appointed senior deputy Jonathan Moore to lead the State Department’s task force on the mysterious Havana Syndrome that has sickened U.S. diplomatic and other personnel overseas.
MoreChina now depends almost entirely on its own online content providers, as the number of big foreign companies in the market, such as Yahoo and LinkedIn, keeps dwindling, giving the government a boost in controlling the internet, analysts say.
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MoreEmail is 50 years old, and still where it’s @
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50 years ago this month, Ray Tomlinson sent the very first email.
MoreWill Smith is sharing a more vulnerable side of himself in his new memoir Will, including how he "fell in love" with his Six Degrees of Separation costar Stockard Channing during his first marriage
MoreA self-described hacking group calling itself Edalat-e Ali (Ali’s Justice) has leaked confidential documents to RFE/RL’s Radio Farda that appear to reveal the plight of prisoners at Evin prison, Iran’s most notorious facility.
MoreExtreme weather events are occurring more and more frequently, with severe consequences for people and the environment.
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