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NEW YORK — New York City will set up checkpoints at entry points to the city to find travelers from states with high coronavirus infection rates and order them to quarantine for two weeks, officials said Wednesday. The new checkpoints at bridges and tunnels wi... More »
Well-read, well-rounded and very well connected, Hamill was at ease quoting poetry and Ernest Hemingway and dating Jacqueline Onassis. More »
Sight Diagnostics, the Israel-based health-tech company behind the FDA-cleared OLO blood analyzer, today announced that it has raised a $71 million Series D round with participation from Koch Disruptive Technologies, Longliv Ventures (which led its Series C ro... More »
Instagram Reels, the company’s significant effort in challenging TikTok on short-form creative content, is launching globally, starting today. The feature is being made available across 50 countries, including the U.S., as TechCrunch had previously reported. T... More »
The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis welcomed its Class of 2024 on June 29 in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Following a two-week mandatory quarantine, training for the new appointees, or “plebes,” kicked off on July 20. CQ Roll Call spent a day at the... More »
Bank and insurance fraud are also a focus of the drive to obtain the president's tax and business records, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance says. More »
The media offensive comes after the president’s campaign went dark on television airwaves last week amid a reevaluation of advertising strategy. More »
Some of the contenders are in the dark about their interviews with Biden — including whether they will be done in person or virtually. More »
Nearly 500 pages of evidence were made public during the House Judiciary’s marathon hearing this week on potential anti-competitive actions by Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple. We’ve collected them here with added context and an omnibus, searchable version f... More »
Disney Plus is an on-demand, ad-free streaming service with a growing collection of movies and shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and 20th Century Fox. The streaming platform costs $6.99 a month or $69.99 a year. You can als... More »
Tan-Luxe's Wonder Oil features a roller-ball applicator to give you a more even tan. The oil doesn't feel sticky or uncomfortable. To be honest, I don't think I could ever go back to a mousse because of the sticky, residue-like feeling it leaves behind. Whi... More »
Phillip Guttmann is a writer, producer and licensed therapist who lives in Los Angeles. He traveled to New York City back in March and contracted COVID-19. He remembers calling his family to say his final goodbyes before being placed in a medically induced com... More »
