Pfizer sold $37.8 billion of its Covid vaccine last year, a small increase of 3% compared with 2021 as demand for the shots slowed. Sales of Paxlovid, however, surged to $18.9 billion in 2022, which was the first full year the antiviral pill was available. Pfizer expec...
I used to work at McDonald's in the days when we had to weigh shakes and they had to be 11 oz. I got so good at it I could feel when it was the right weight. I remember a supervisor coming over to check on me and they were impressed the shakes were the right weight. I think it's all automated now, p...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Alec Baldwin and a weapons specialist have been formally charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a New Mexico movie set, according to court documents filed by prosecutors Tuesday.
I remember my first and only times on a 747 was on an EgyptAir flight to/from Cairo flying out of and back into JFK. I had been on L-1011s and 767s and DC-10s (wide-bodies) but not the iconic 747 until then (1992). While there was also on my first Airbus (I think one of the 300s).
The number of births in the United States increased in 2021 for the first time in seven years, reversing trends that continued during the pandemic, according to new federal data. A report published early Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's N...
WASHINGTON — Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., said Tuesday he will recuse himself from his committee assignments amid multiple ongoing investigations into his finances and other issues. “With the ongoing attention surrounding both my personal and campaign financial inve...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Cindy Williams, who played Shirley opposite Penny Marshall's Laverne on the popular sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," has died, her family said Monday.
Williams died in Los Angeles at age 75 on Wednesday after a brief illness, her childre...
CNN — Two people who found two classified documents in a Florida storage facility for Donald Trump have testified before a federal grand jury in Washington that’s looking at the former president’s handling of national security records at his Mar-a-Lago residen...
CNN — President Joe Biden intends to end the Covid-19 national and public health emergencies on May 11, the White House said Monday. The White House, in a statement of administration policy announcing opposition to two Republican measures to end the emergenci...
Jan 30 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday shot down Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ.N) attempt to offload tens of thousands of lawsuits over its talc products into bankruptcy court. The ruling marked the first major repudiation of an emerging legal strategy with th...
Large number of US citizens demonstrated against the war in Iraq (and the possible war in Iran) during this October weekend. Massive turnout in Boston and San Fransisco, and also in Chicago, LA and DC people took to the streets. The message was: NO more war in Iraq! NO to a war with Iran!
