Aid organizations warned the flooding and mudslides were creating a slow-moving humanitarian disaster across the region.
Erica Nitschke
Columnist
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
AstraZeneca to deliver vaccine trial data by year’s end
The drugmaker is ramping up manufacturing so it can supply hundreds of millions of doses starting in January if approved.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Nation & World
Study: Fix to food climate problem doesn’t require veganism
A new study says how we grow, eat and waste food is a big climate change problem that may keep the world from reaching its temperature-limiting goals.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Federal Reserve signals readiness to do more for economy as virus rages
The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate at a record low near zero Thursday and signaled its readiness to do more if needed to support an economy under threat from a worsening coronavirus pandemic
Posted inNation & World
Officials name new road in Florida after Trayvon Martin
The Black teenager’s 2012 death sparked a movement for social justice.
Posted inLocal & State
Former employees describe toxic culture at NAMI Maine
Fifteen former employees say the nonprofit’s chief executive officer demeaned employees in front of their colleagues and escalated interactions she perceived as challenging her authority.
Posted inNation & World
The Latest: Brazil protesters oppose vaccine mandate
SAO PAULO — Protesters have gathered in Brazil’s two biggest cities to demonstrate against any mandate for the taking of a coronavirus vaccine, supporting a rejection campaign encouraged by President Jair Bolsonaro in opposition to the advice of most health professionals. A small group of people assembled in downtown Sao Paulo on Sunday calling for […]
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China’s new growth plan may push economy past U.S. within decade
If China’s economy – which is already recovering swiftly from the coronavirus shock – can stick to the growth trajectory of recent years, it’ll surpass the U.S.
Posted inBusiness
Lee Kun-Hee, force behind Samsung’s rise, dies at 78
He transformed Samsung Electronics from a small television maker into a global giant of consumer electronics.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
12 things we learned from unpublished 1971 Bob Dylan interview
Although Dylan was known for being cagey with the media, he was very straightforward in a previously unpublished 1971 interview.