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Summary List Placement The Chinese owner of TikTok rejected Microsoft's offer to buy US operations for the popular video app, according to a statement from Microsoft released on Sunday. The move left Oracle as the sole publicly known contender to purchase the American operations of TikTok.  "ByteDance let us know today they would not be selling TikTok's US operations to Microsoft," Microsoft wrote in...

Dr. Natasha Kathuria, an emergency medicine physician with expertise in public health and epidemiology, has been treating patients at the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Based in Austin, Texas, she described how doctors in the six different ERs where she works have become overrun with both coronavirus and non-coronavirus patients. The ER doctor said the record-high coronavirus case counts don't portray "an accurate...

Top US health infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said it seems "inconceivable" that he is receiving death threats as a result of the "political tone" of the virus. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, serves on the White House coronavirus task force. Fauci's remarks and recommendations have at times been at odds with the president, who has been...

Top US infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said he hopes, but "seriously doubts," that Russia has developed a safe and effective vaccine that is ready for use. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced earlier this week that the country approved of the world's first coronavirus vaccine — months before a vaccine is expected to be available globally. Russia's health ministry intends on mass producing...

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced his much-anticipated pick for his running mate: Sen. Kamala Harris of California. Prominent political figures, including former President Barack Obama, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and a number of other women who appeared on Biden's VP shortlist, congratulated Harris on the selection and praised the choice. Biden's choice of Harris as his vice president makes her...

During an eventful press briefing on Monday, President Donald Trump incorrectly claimed that in 1917, the Spanish Flu "probably ended the second World War." World War II began more than two decades after the pandemic in 1939. The president likely misspoke and meant to reference World War I, the final months of which overlapped with the deadly spread of the flu pandemic, which also...

Microsoft announced in a statement Sunday that it will continue discussions to acquire US operations of the popular video app TikTok. The announcement comes after President Donald Trump told reporters that his administration was looking into banning the Chinese-owned app citing security concerns, sparking widespread concern and panic among creators on the social media platform. The company said in the statement that it is...

The average minimum wage worker in the US would need to work at least two jobs in order to afford rent in any US state, according to the annual "Out of Reach" report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). The minimum wage to afford a two-bedroom rental in 2020 is $23.96 per hour and $19.56 for a one-bedroom rental, according to the...

As the US sees record-high surges in coronavirus cases, the White House is seeking to undercut the country's top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has criticized the US response to the virus. White House trade advisor Peter Navarro penned an op-ed for USA Today Tuesday attacking Fauci and saying the infectious disease expert "has been wrong about everything" — from mask wearing...

Mary Trump, the niece of President Donald Trump, called on him to resign in her first public appearance since publishing a scathing tell-all about the president and the Trump family. Mary Trump spoke in an exclusive interview with ABC News on Tuesday following the publication of her new book, "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man." Three...

In a Saturday afternoon internal memo obtained by Business Insider, Fox News executives said the network condemns the "horrendous and deeply offensive" online activity of host Tucker Carlson's former top writer.  CNN Business first reported on Friday that writer Blake Neff secretly posted racist, sexist, and homophobic messages for years under the pseudonym CharlesXII on the forum AutoAdmit. A Fox News spokesperson previously confirmed...

President Donald Trump has lashed out at his former national security adviser John Bolton over the slew of allegations against the Trump administration in Bolton's coming book. Bolton made various claims about the president, including that Trump showed approval for concentration camps in China and urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to support his reelection. In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Trump accused...

Vice President Mike Pence told governors in a call Monday to cite increased testing as an explanation for the recent spikes in coronavirus cases across the US, The New York Times reported. Data analysis by the Times shows the claim, which has been touted by the Trump administration, is misleading, as "positive case rates are increasing faster than the increase in the average number...

CrossFit CEO and founder Greg Glassman questioned the existence of systemic racism and the intentions of protesters demanding justice for George Floyd in a virtual meeting with gym owners, Buzzfeed News reported. "I doubt very much that they're mourning for Floyd," Glassman said on the call. "I don't think that there's a general mourning for Floyd in any community." Glassman's remarks in the meeting...

More than a dozen former acquaintances relayed encounters with Tara Reade in which she spoke highly of former Vice President Joe Biden, adding that she had lied and took advantage of their goodwill, Politico reported. Kelly Klett, an attorney and advocate for domestic abuse victims, formerly rented a room to Reade in 2018, who told her that she was a domestic abuse victim and...

The House passed a $3 trillion coronavirus bailout, dubbed the HEROES Act, with a 208-199 vote. Spanning 1,815 pages, the bill outlines a list of priorities, including another round of $1,200 stimulus checks, a raise for essential workers, and increased health insurance coverage. Despite passage in the House, it is not likely to be backed by Senate Republicans, who have expressed disapproval of the...

The National Health Service found that type 1 and type 2 diabetes was a leading underlying condition in those who died of COVID-19 in England, according to findings published Thursday by the organization. More than one in four people who died with COVID-19 also had diabetes, according to the report. After diabetes, the most common comorbidities include "dementia (18%), serious breathing problems (15%), chronic...

Former Vice President Joe Biden said he wouldn't vote for himself if he believed his accuser Tara Reade, and encouraged people who did believe her to vote with "their heart." The former vice president and 2020 presumptive Democratic candidate appeared on MSNBC's "The Last Word," on Thursday with Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who is apparently in talks to be his running mate. "If...