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Apoorva Mandavilli
– Oct 23, 8:03 AM
Universal mask use could prevent nearly 130,000 deaths from Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, in the United States through next spring, scientists reported on Friday. The findings follow an assertion by Dr. Scott W. Atlas, the…
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Kate Conger
– Oct 23, 2:00 AM
OAKLAND, Calif. — By late August, the urgency was becoming clear. Top executives of Uber, Lyft and the delivery service DoorDash met to discuss a California ballot measure that would exempt them from a new state labor law and save their…
A conference call in which everyone on the line was told they were laid off. An email declaring that a restaurant had served its last meal. A phone call from the boss before work one morning saying to come in — and pack up all your things.
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Kenneth Chang
– Oct 23, 4:38 PM
NASA's effort to grab a piece of an asteroid on Tuesday may have worked a little too well. The spacecraft, OSIRIS-REX, grabbed so much rock and dirt that some of the material is now leaking back into space. The operation some 200 million miles from…
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Joe Coscarelli
– Oct 23, 3:19 PM
Billy McFarland, the disgraced entrepreneur behind the notorious Fyre Festival, and a current federal inmate, has been placed in solitary confinement, his lawyer said on Friday, after Mr. McFarland participated in a new podcast about his crimes…
