Here’s what you need to know: Colonial Pipeline fuel tanks in Woodbridge, N.J. The company’s pipeline carries nearly half the fuel supplies for the East Coast.Credit…Colonial Pipeline/Via Reuters Gasoline prices rose as much as 4.2 percent early on Monday after a major petroleum pipeline in the United States was shut down over the weekend because … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Although it is recovering, Uber is still losing money. Credit…Teresa Eng for The New York Times Uber said its business was recovering from the slowdown caused by the pandemic, although it continued to lose money. The company said on Wednesday that revenue was $2.9 billion in the first three months … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: President Biden spoke from the north lawn of the White House on Tuesday.Credit…Erin Scott for The New York Times President Biden is expected to propose giving the Internal Revenue Service an extra $80 billion and more authority over the next 10 years as he looks for ways to raise … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: People comforted a man infected with Covid-19 who was receiving oxygen while he waited outside a hospital for a bed in Delhi on Sunday.Credit…Atul Loke for The New York Times As a second wave of the pandemic rages in India, which set a global record new cases for the … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Bill Gates during the White House climate summit meeting on Friday.Credit…Associated Press Bill Gates on Friday called for huge new public and private investment in innovation to meet President Biden’s and global goals for avoiding catastrophic climate change. “Just using today’s technologies won’t allow us to meet our ambitious … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: A man who died of complications from the coronavirus was being cremated in Mumbai on Wednesday.Credit…Atul Loke for The New York Times India’s rapidly worsening coronavirus outbreak is now expanding on a scale beyond any previously measured in more than a year of the pandemic: The health ministry reported … Read more
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin’s defense is expected to call medical witnesses to the booth as early as Wednesday in hopes of combating claims by previous witnesses testifying that George Floyd died of a lack of oxygen. For the first time in the trial, a witness testified Tuesday that Mr. Chauvin was justified by … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris during a White House appearance on Thursday.Credit…Amr Alfiky/The New York Times President Biden proposed a vast expansion of federal spending on Friday, calling for a 16 percent increase in domestic programs as he tries to harness the government’s power to reverse what … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: The ballots in the union drive at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., are expected to be counted by hand starting either Thursday afternoon or Friday morning.Credit…Charity Rachelle for The New York Times With about half the ballots counted late Thursday, votes against unionization had a more than 2-to-1 … Read more
This week LG confirmed it was pulling out of the cellular industry, but what about the phones it is already making? The company just announced that “all premium LG smartphones currently in use will receive up to three iterations of Android operating system updates from the year of purchase”. The three OS update warranty applies … Read more