Searching for Pfizer’s Paxlovid Pills When Mom Got Covid
Just after 1 p.m. on Tuesday last week, my phone buzzed with a text message from my mother: “Well, came down with cold, aches, cough etc over wknd.” She had taken an at-home coronavirus test. It was positive. Having spent the past year writing about Covid-19 vaccines and treatments for The New York Times, I knew a lot about the options available More...
Chicago Public Media Is Set to Acquire The Chicago Sun-Times
The hard-hitting tone of tabloid journalism and the measured voice of public radio make for an unlikely combination, but the two are coming together in a novel media deal that is likely to shape how news is More...
Microsoft to Buy Activision Blizzard for Nearly $70 Billion
SEATTLE — Microsoft plans to buy the powerhouse but troubled video game company Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion, its biggest deal ever and one that places a major bet that people will be spending More...
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SEATTLE — Microsoft said on Tuesday it planned to buy the powerhouse but troubled video game company Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion, betting that video games will become an increasingly central More...
Larry Fink’s Letter to CEOs Says Stakeholder Capitalism Is Not ‘Woke’
Laurence D. Fink, the founder and chief executive of the investment giant BlackRock, has become one of the most influential voices in business over the past decade in pushing corporate leaders to think beyond More...
A North Sea Auction Produces Big Plans for Scottish Wind Farms
Ms. Kingham said that there was now “a real opportunity” for Scotland to become a center for renewable energy, including hydrogen, electric vehicle charging and other solutions to climate change. Updated Jan. More...
China’s Economy Slowed Late Last Year on Real Estate Troubles
BEIJING — Construction and property sales have slumped. Small businesses have shut because of rising costs and weak sales. Debt-laden local governments are cutting the pay of civil servants. China’s economy More...
The Week in Business: A Ruling on Vaccine Mandates
What’s Up? (Jan. 9-15) What’s Next for Vaccine Mandates The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration’s mandate for large employers that would have required workers to be vaccinated or More...
How The mRNA Vaccines Were Made: Halting Progress and Happy Accidents
“I said, ‘I am an RNA scientist. I can do anything with RNA,’” Dr. Karikó recalled telling Dr. Weissman. He asked her: Could you make an H.I.V. vaccine? “Oh yeah, oh yeah, I can do it,” Dr. Karikó More...
Michael Parks, Reporter Who Rose to Lead The Los Angeles Times, Dies at 78
Michael Parks, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The Los Angeles Times who went on to become the top editor at the paper, one of the nation’s largest metropolitan dailies, died on Jan. 8 More...