China ordered its largest cities to step up preparations for future medical emergencies by building leisure and recreational facilities that can be used for quarantine during a pandemic, several months after the leadership abandoned its zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19.
Chilean police are investigating the robbery of computers and a safe from a government ministry caught up in a corruption probe, captivating national attention and adding to President Gabriel Boric’s woes.
Temperatures were so extreme in Death Valley National Park this week that a medical helicopter was unable to respond to the scene when a 71-year-old man was dying.
The Senate adopted an amendment Thursday that blocks China from purchasing oil from the US’s emergency stockpiles.
The US Department of Justice intends to appeal Purdue Pharma LP’s opioid settlement to the Supreme Court, an effort that could further delay payments to victims, a lawyer representing the drugmaker said on Thursday.
The Federal Reserve debuted a new payments system designed to speed up the movement of money among banks around the US, the central bank’s first new network in decades.
Just before US stocks faltered on Thursday, the level of optimism among retail traders soared to the highest level in 27 months, when the market was notching all-time highs.
A Pfizer Inc. plant responsible for making a quarter of the company’s sterile injectables used at US hospitals suffered heavy damage from a tornado in North Carolina, potentially worsening an already deep drug shortage across the nation.
SAP SE shares fell in New York after second-quarter sales in its cloud unit missed analyst estimates.
AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. is dropping a plan to charge more for the best theater seats after moviegoers showed little interest during a test.
