Tag Archives: Presents

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky sat down with Yahoo Finance’s Anjalee Khemlani to discuss the CDC’s latest mask guidance, her thoughts on vaccine administration, and the U.S. responsibility to help other countries manage their own surges. Video Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] ANJALEE KHEMLANI: What’s going on with regard to new mask rules that came out last week? And joining me now is CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. Dr. Walensky, thank you so much for joining me today. ROCHELLE WALENSKY:… Source link

The Daily Beast The Fight to Clear a Montana Woman Who Killed Her Abusive Ex Courtesy Rachel BellesenJust before 8 p.m. on Oct. 8, 2020, a 911 dispatcher in Sanders County, Montana, received a strange phone call. The woman on the other end said she was calling from a gas station in Hot Springs—a tiny, rural town located on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Her voice was shaky, her delivery broken. She could not give her exact address. But one thing came through loud and clear: “I need the… Source link

The Telegraph Czech police hunt two men with names matching Skripal suspects The Czech police have issued a wanted notice for Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, the two Russian intelligence agents wanted in the UK for the 2018 attempted poisoning of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury. At the same time the Czech government announced it was expelling 18 Russian diplomats from Prague in connection with two explosions at an ammunition dump in 2014 that killed two people. Although the Czech police only… Source link

The Daily Beast ‘It’s Attack After Attack’: Trans Youth Speak Out on Health and Sports Bills Aimed at Them Marcos del Mazo/GettyWillow Breshears says she has been contacted by several young transgender people in Arkansas over the last few days. “One of them said he was going to kill himself if the bill passed,” Breshears, an 18-year-old community organizer for the Center for Artistic Revolution and a founder of the Young Transwomen’s Project, told The Daily Beast of the… Source link

The Daily Beast Biden’s End to ‘Remain in Mexico’ Was Too Late for 41,247 Migrants Paul Ratje/GettyThe last residents of Mexico’s Matamoros refugee camp crossed the border into the United States on March 5 to request asylum.The migrants—many of them Central Americans fleeing endemic violence, poverty and corruption—will be allowed to stay in the U.S. as their cases move through the immigration court system.The exodus from the Matamoros camp, which once sheltered more than 2,500… Source link

In this episode of Yahoo Finance Presents Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, talks to Yahoo Finance senior reporter Anjalee Khemlani about the company’s new boosters for COVID-19 variant strands as well as the continued rollout of their vaccines. Video Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] ANJALEE KHEMLANI: Joining me now is Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna. Stephane, thank you so much for joining me today. STEPHANE BANCEL: Thank you so much for having us. ANJALEE KHEMLANI: So great news, you have the booster… Source link

The Guardian Claim of anti-conservative bias by social media firms is baseless, report finds New York University study: algorithms amplify rightwing voicesTwitter, Facebook and YouTube banned Trump for incitement Senator Ted Cruz questions Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, CEOs of Facebook and Twitter respectively, on the US Senate judiciary committee in November 2020. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock Republicans including Donald Trump have raged against Twitter and Facebook in recent months,… Source link

The Guardian Biden administration revives plan to put Harriet Tubman on $20 bill Press secretary says change to note that currently shows Andrew Jackson, who enslaved people, is back on treasury menu Harriet Tubman, seen around 1890, led more than 300 escaped slaves to freedom, including her parents, through the Underground Railroad. Photograph: MPI/Getty Images The US treasury is taking steps to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, as was planned under Barack Obama. Harriet Tubman was a… Source link

Yahoo Finance’s Brian Sozzi sits down with Ciara, The House of LR&C Co-Founder, and Christine Day, The House of LR&C President & Co-Founder, to discuss their new venture together as well as what’s driving fashion, and their business goals in the coming years. Video Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] BRIAN SOZZI: Former Lululemon CEO Christine Day has teamed up with Grammy Award-winning artist Ciara to launch a different kind of fashion house. The House of LR&C aims to do good in the business of… Source link

AccuWeather ‘Extraordinary wind gusts’ spark fires, power outages across California The biggest storm to hit California so far in 2021 ramped up on Tuesday, but the storm did not feature much precipitation. Instead, hurricane-force winds lashed the Golden State, causing widespread disruptions and power outages. “We’ve got debris flying right down the road,” AccuWeather National News Reporter Bill Wadell said while in Fontana, California, on Tuesday morning. The strongest winds were clocked… Source link