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Oil prices end higher Thursday as Hurricane Delta forced the shut-in of more than 90% of the Gulf of Mexico’s crude output, while the Saudis reportedly consider postponing OPEC plans to raise output, and a strike in Norway threatens production in the North Sea.

Moncef Slaoui, an immunologist by training and a longtime pharmaceutical executive, is running the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed program to spur development of vaccines on the fastest ever timetable.

European health regulator launches a “rolling review” of the coronavirus vaccine being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, as it did for the competing Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

European stocks rose on Thursday, as optimism returned to financial markets on signs there might be some stimulus after all for the world’s largest economy.

‘I took a lower paying job close to home that has allowed me time off so I can be there for my mother. Also, over these last 12 years I have taken very little time off.’

’He pretends to forget to pick up flowers. We have not been to a movie together for the longest time.’

“We are hearing from our constituents right and left,” one lawmaker said at a Wednesday hearing where IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig testified.

Self-employed people who use part of their residence to do business or meet with customers can claim deductions.

Discount days already began last weekend and will continue through December

Research shows men interrupt more often — and they interrupt women the most

Climate change and the environment figured in part of Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate, brought into the clash as its moderator asked Sen. Kamala Harris about the Green New Deal.

Mike Pence and Kamala Harris clashed over the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and President Donald Trump’s tax cuts on Wednesday, as they faced off in the sole vice-presidential debate of campaign 2020.

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President Donald Trump said that contracting the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19 was a “blessing from God” in a new video released Wednesday, as he talked up a treatment from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and suggested it should be free.

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Facebook Inc. on Wednesday said it would halt political ads in the U.S. for at least a week after polls close Nov. 3, the social-media company’s latest move to limit the spread of election misinformation on its platforms.

The famed diplomat warns that rising tensions between the U.S. and China could ultimately lead to a disastrous, kinetic war.

Betting markets give Joe Biden a 63.4% chance of winning the White House race vs. President Trump’s 36.0% , down just slightly from a day ago, when the former vice president posted his best-ever figure for this metric — a 64.0% chance.