The move brings Snapchat more in line with Twitter's approach to the president's rhetoric, while Facebook has maintained it will not take action. | Continue reading
The personal information of high-ranking police officers from cities across the country is reportedly being leaked online as police forces clash with rioters and protesters in the wake of the death of George Floyd.The home addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers of several … | Continue reading
Mexico City officials said Friday that prosecutors are investigating several doctors who allegedly issued false death certificates for people who may have died of the coronavirus. As deaths mount in Mexico, the need to quickly dispose of corpses has apparently led to a black mar … | Continue reading
As workers contemplate taking advantage of flexible work options and cheaper cities, demand — and cost — for housing in the Bay Area may drop. | Continue reading
Student's computer overheated after it was hit with a "crypto-jacking" attack. | Continue reading
On April 24, Georgia became the first U.S. state to initiate the fraught process known as “reopening.” That hasn’t produced a surge of new cases … yet. The answer to whether other states should follow Georgia’s lead and reopen more fully is that it depends. | Continue reading
Georgia officials bungled the data in a way that's hard to believe wasn't on purpose. | Continue reading
Georgia officials bungled the data in a way that's hard to believe wasn't on purpose. | Continue reading
The former pharmaceutical executive tapped by President Trump to lead the federal effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine owns stock options worth more than $10 million in a company receiving funding from that same program, Stat News reports. Until his appointment, Dr. Moncef Sla … | Continue reading
How a young rapper from Siberia became the subject of an FBI probe into global cybercriminals. | Continue reading
Infectious disease experts at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research began designing a vaccine for the coronavirus on Jan. 10, the very day Chinese scientists announced its genetic sequence. | Continue reading
The FBI has accidentally revealed the name of a Saudi diplomat who is suspected of directing support to two of the September 11, 2001, plane hijackers.In a federal court filing by Jill Sanborn, the assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division, the diplomat's … | Continue reading
The FBI inadvertently revealed one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive secrets about the Sept. 11 terror attacks: the identity of a mysterious Saudi Embassy official in Washington who agents suspected had directed crucial support to two of the al-Qaida hijackers. | Continue reading
U.S. and U.K. intel agencies are reviewing the private report, but intel analysts examined and couldn't confirm a similar theory previously. | Continue reading
This report comes as a pair of cases among White House staffers close to Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have put the West Wing’s coronavirus security procedures in the spotlight. | Continue reading
Facebook just revealed all 20 members of new oversight board, which includes a Nobel Laureate and a former prime minister. Here's the full list! | Continue reading
The Trump administration has issued an intelligence analysis claiming China purposely delayed notifying the World Health Organization about the spread of the coronavirus. | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- New York City will close 40 miles (64 kilometers) of streets to cars, mostly near parks, to expand the amount of space that pedestrians have to keep social distance, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.The ultimate goal will be to have 100 miles of “open streets” during the … | Continue reading
Nicotine could protect people from contracting the coronavirus, according to new research in France, where further trials are planned to test whether the substance could be used to prevent or treat the deadly illness. "Among these patients, only five percent were smokers,&q … | Continue reading
The social network accelerated the launch of Facebook Gaming due to the coronavirus lockdown. | Continue reading
Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long under high-temperature, high-humidity conditions, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, providing evidence from controlled tests of what scientists believed — but had not yet prove … | Continue reading
For many Americans, checking the mailbox is a daily ritual, a constant in a quickly changing world that can yield anything from wedding invitations to tax audits to new clothes. "The Postal Service is holding on for dear life," congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, a New York … | Continue reading
Though the the U.S. intelligence community has long since dismissed the notion that the coronavirus is a synthesized bioweapon, it is still weighing the possibility that the pandemic might have been touched off by an accident at a research facility rather than an infection from … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s president is facing threats from some state business chambers to withhold taxes to protest the government’s refusal to provide aid to offset the impact of the lockdown, Reforma reported on Sunday.Business chambers in the states of Tamaulipas, Durango and t … | Continue reading
A new study examining air samples from hospital wards with COVID-19 patients has found the virus can travel up to 13 feet (four meters) -- twice the distance current guidelines say people should leave between themselves in public. The preliminary results of the investigation by … | Continue reading
In Donald Trump’s latest salvo in an ongoing bid to reshape government oversight of his administration, the president fired the Pentagon inspector general charged with overseeing implementation of the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package. | Continue reading
Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Program, defended China on Thursday against accusations that the country has underreported cases and deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak."I think we need to be very careful … | Continue reading
On Saturday the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of two antimalarial drugs, hydroxychloroquine and a related medication, chloroquine, for emergency use to treat COVID-19. The drugs were touted by President Trump as a “game changer” for COVID-19. However, a study just … | Continue reading
Elon Musk's ventilator giveaway may do more harm than good.After weeks of brushing off the COVID-19 pandemic as "dumb," the billionaire Tesla founder earlier this week announced he had 1,000 "FDA-approved ventilators" and ended up donating 40 to New York C … | Continue reading
Google will publish location data from its users around the world from Friday to allow governments to gauge the effectiveness of social distancing measures put in place to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the tech giant said. The reports on users' movements in 131 countries wil … | Continue reading
Vaccines often take years to receive approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Coronavirus researchers seek a fast track. | Continue reading
SoftBank said in a statement it is pulling out of the offer agreed as part of last year's bailout plan of the floundering shared-office operator. The statement cites issues, which include a failure to recapitalize WeWork's struggling joint venture in China, criminal and … | Continue reading
An FBI report about China’s involvement with scientific research in the U.S. has raised alarms. While the report refers broadly to foreign researchers, all three cases cited involve Chinese nationals. | Continue reading
Taiwanese health officials have accused the World Health Organization of failing to communicate the country's warning in December regarding possible human-to-human transmission of the Wuhan coronavirus, the Financial Times reported Friday.The officials said doctors in Taiwan … | Continue reading
A vast and contentious network of facial recognition cameras keeping watch over Moscow is now playing a key role in the battle against the spread of the coronavirus in Russia. The city rolled out the technology just before the epidemic reached Russia, ignoring protests and legal … | Continue reading
A sudden loss of smell or taste could mean you have the coronavirus, even if you have no other symptoms. | Continue reading
A Nobel laureate predicted China's recovery weeks before it happened. Analyzing the numbers, he sees a much brighter global outcome than many experts. | Continue reading
Friday night’s edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight opened with a message from fill-in host David Asman. “Lou is in self-quarantine tonight,” Asman told viewers. “We just learned that one of his team members has tested positive for COVID-19.” After wishing that Fox employee a “speedy rec … | Continue reading
Poland on Friday launched a smartphone app allowing people under a mandatory 14-day quarantine for coronavirus to send selfies to let authorities know they are indeed staying home. "People in quarantine have a choice: either receive unexpected visits from the police, or dow … | Continue reading
Elon Musk's SpaceX will send astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time in May, NASA said, announcing the first crewed launch from the United States to the platform since 2011. The tech entrepreneur's company will launch a Falcon 9 rocket to transpo … | Continue reading
Companies are barred from laying off workers and rents have been reduced under Italy's economic survival plan for life at the European epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte hailed his 25-billion-euro ($28-billion) programme as the "Italian … | Continue reading
Řevnice (Czech Republic) (AFP) - Thousands of Czech women have joined forces via social media to sew face masks at home to help combat the spread of the novel coronavirus amid a dire shortage of medical materials. A Facebook group called "Czechia sews face masks" went … | Continue reading
More than a decade before the coronavirus swept across the globe, the Pentagon quietly conducted an exercise to see how its secret bunker system would be able to stand up to a flu pandemic. | Continue reading
It is clear the United States is going to suffer a full-blown epidemic of novel coronavirus, and quite possibly a financial crisis and recession as a result. The disease is spreading fast in multiple states, and the government's response has fallen far short of the efforts ev … | Continue reading
If you're going to catch coronavirus — as experts believe most of us are — you might as well catch it in Senegal. While delays and limited test kits have left sick Americans in the dark about their COVID-19 status, sometimes for a week or more, the West African nation is test … | Continue reading
For reasons unknown, children rarely have severe symptoms when infected by COVID-19 and may even be a bit less likely to get the disease in the first place, experts told AFP. As of Friday, there were over 140,000 confirmed cases in 124 countries, with more than 5,000 deaths. &q … | Continue reading
A worn-out nurse slumps over her keyboard in a widely shared image symbolic of the extreme fatigue that Italian healthcare workers are facing as they battle Europe's worse outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The picture is of Elena Pagliarini, a nurse in the northern … | Continue reading