The French government has launched a crisis distillation scheme to deal with an oversupply of wine. Turkey has new social media laws. Saudi Arabia expects major losses with fewer people at the Muslim hajj pilgrimage.
This Thursday, we’re going to find out what happened to U.S. GDP in the second quarter. Google is adding a new undersea cable network. The Trump administration’s plans to regulate social media. And, Marketplace’s new podcast kids and their families.
We now have two competing bills for COVID-19 relief after Senate Republicans released theirs Monday. Plus, the latest on President Trump’s picks for the Fed. And, a French solution for hand sanitizer shortages.
One mom spotted a lack of diversity in magazines for young Black girls in the U.K. So she started her own. Malaysia’s former prime minister is convicted in 1MDB financial scandal. Google announces a new transatlantic data cable.
A recent study looked at how artificial intelligence is used to determine care. It found that many of the algorithms used in medicine use race as a variable.
Pharmaceutical executives are expected at the White House Tuesday to talk drug prices. What will Fed Chair Jerome Powell have to say about the economy this week? And, in California, Latino communities continue to bear the brunt of the pandemic.
Republicans are expected to roll out their trillion-dollar coronavirus relief package today. A 17% jump in the number of people in the U.S. relying on food stamps. And, how have plant-based meat companies fared during COVID-19?
European travel shares plummet amid concerns of a slow economic recovery from the pandemic. What’s in the Philippines’ COVID-19 recovery plan? Restaurants struggle with an increase in “no-shows” after lockdown.
