McKinsey Issues a Rare Apology for Its Role in OxyContin Sales
Facing mounting pressure about its role in the opioid crisis, McKinsey has taken the unusual step of acknowledging that its work with Purdue Pharma fell...
Uber Jettisons Flying Car Project
A day after Uber handed its autonomous car project to a Silicon Valley start-up, the company is doing the same with an ambitious and money-intensive...
Britain Begins Coronavirus Vaccine Rollout
Britain’s National Health Service administered the first shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday, making Britons the first people in the world to begin...
FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked by a Nation-State
The Silicon Valley company said hackers — almost certainly Russian — made off with tools that could be used to mount new attacks around the...
Zimbabwe police warn of crackdown on ‘cyberbullying’ of officials
Threat of arrests by police decried as an attempt to muzzle freedom of expression in crisis-hit country.Harare, Zimbabwe – Rights campaigners in Zimbabwe have decried...
Israel: Netanyahu rival bolts to launch leadership challenge
Gideon Saar, senior member of the Likud party, breaks away as Israeli election beckons.Gideon Saar, the leading rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inside the...
Political impetus needed for Brexit talks to make progress -UK source
TipRanksGoldman Sachs Picks 2 Electric Car Stocks to Buy (And 1 to Watch)Reducing carbon emissions is all the vogue among the green policy wonks these...
Citing Trump’s Pardon, Judge Dismisses Case Against Michael Flynn
WASHINGTON — A federal judge dismissed the criminal case against President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn on Tuesday, two weeks after Mr....
For a Nation on Edge, Antacids Become Hard to Find
First it was toilet paper. Then it was meat.Now, it’s antacids.People searching online or in stores for over-the-counter tummy soothers are finding that they can’t...
Germany says attempts to divide the EU over Brexit have failed
Boris Johnson returns to 10 Downing Street in London on December 8, 2020 - DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS /AFPOn Tuesday, Germany claimed attempts to divide the EU...