Nicholas Morgan

Google’s parent Alphabet joined the exclusive club of companies that are worth more than $2 trillion.

Pfizer-BioNTech is expected to seek authorization from the Biden administration to begin supplying booster shots of its COVID-19 vaccine for Americans 18 and older. This petition may arrive as soon as this week. 

Senator Ted Cruz slammed Sesame Street icon Big Bird for a tweet saying the fictional character received a COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday. Twitter users were having none of it.

Regeneron’s CEO says that his company's antiviral cocktail provides protection against COVID-19 similar to a vaccination but more friendly to those with compromised immune systems. 

Research shows that teens who vaped marijuana were at risk of experiencing more serious side effects than those who just smoked it.

Interest in going to a four year university has dropped again among high schoolers in the United States for a second year in a row over concerns about the affordability of attending and the debt burden that follows.

Moose on the loose? Students in Saskatoon, Canada received a surprise classroom visit on Thursday when a moose burst through the window of their classroom. None of the children were seriously hurt and the moose was safely returned to the wild.

The U.S. government terminated its contract with vaccine manufacturer Emergent eight months after a report found that it had tainted doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccines at one of its factories.

House Democrats cut a new deal to raise the cap on state and local tax deductions in their party’s proposed $1.85 trillion spending bill. Its inclusion represents a victory for moderate Democrats, who balked at negotiations on the bill without addressing the SALT caps.

The U.S. has broken its string of recent disappointing job losses with a strong report for October, which found a total of 531,000 new jobs were added to the economy.

SEC head Gary Gensler called the Justice Department's strategy “broadly consistent with my view of how to handle corporate offenders” in the financial sector. 

Life expectancy in the United States has dropped by its highest amount since World War II during the COVID-19, the highest drop in life expectancy among rich countries, second only to Russia. 

On Tuesday, Detroiters voted to decriminalize the possession of magic mushrooms, joining a burgeoning club of states and cities that are legalizing the substance for research or therapy.

Eighteen billionaires were among the 270 ultra wealthy Americans who received $1,200 stimulus checks from the IRS during the COVID-19 pandemic last year.

The U.S. is seeing a continued decline in the initial unemployment claims, but there are still a number of signs that the labor market still has a way to go before it exits recovery mode.

The number of Americans who committed suicide in 2020 fell overall, ending a two decade rise. However younger Americans, particularly people of color, registered higher rates than they had in 2019.

The Federal Reserve announced that it would begin tapering its multibillion-dollar monthly asset purchases starting this month.

The city of West Hollywood in Los Angeles County is set to vote on a measure that will raise the minimum wage to $17.64, up from the state minimum wage of $13. If successful, the city will require the highest minimum wage in the United States.

The U.S. service sector is showing strength in the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, pandemic after-shocks, including supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages, are hobbling a broader recovery.

For the second month in a row, hospitality drove a surge in new hiring as the number of private payrolls rose in October.

The Biden administration put forward a new strategy to address gun suicides with a special focus on gun storage, public education, and preventing suicides among military veterans.

BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink issued a sharp rebuke of oil companies for selling off their most polluting assets to private companies, obscuring insight into how much they may be polluting. 

A large number of the last 100,000 deaths have shared a few traits in common: being younger, white and living in the South.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has unveiled a new plan for tackling greenhouse gas emissions shortly after the U.S. announced it had joined a new global pact aimed at combating climate change. 

The Labor Department will require private employers to allow employees who receive a COVID-19 vaccine to get paid time off and sick leave.

The U.S. government released updated guidelines for how federal contractors adhere to rules on vaccinating their workforces and keeping employees safe from COVID-19.

Americans are growing less confident that 2022 will be a better year for the U.S. economy with 47% believing it will get worse than it is now.

Coca-Cola scored a major share of the sports beverage market with the acquisition of Bodyarmor.

A school district in New York state has banned its students from dressing up as characters from Squid Game, arguing that the violence of the series precludes the school from allowing anything that may imitate the show.