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Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Singapore and Vietnam next month to strengthen the U.S.’s relationship and economic ties with the Indo-Pacific region, the White House said on Friday.

World Health Organization officials said they are still trying to understand why the delta variant is more transmissible and potentially makes people sicker than the original coronavirus strain. “We’re really trying to get a better handle on why the delta variant is more transmissible,” said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’S technical lead on Covid-19, said at a press briefing...

The U.S. GAO denied a protest by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin that NASA wrongly awarded a lucrative astronaut lunar lander contract solely to Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

The CDC data published Friday was based on 469 cases of Covid associated with multiple summer events and large public gatherings in July in Massachusetts.

“Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen,” Trump reportedly instructed the DOJ officials.

The DOJ sued Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott to block a state order aimed at restricting the travel of undocumented migrants who could potentially transmit Covid. 

The rare protests, the largest the communist country has seen since the 1990s, come as the government struggles to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

David Friedberg, an early Google exec, reunited with Larry Page to start The Production Board. He’s now got $300 million from Alphabet and other investors.

Shares of Dole slid 9% in afternoon trading Friday as the company made its return to the public markets.

States with the worst Covid outbreaks are those seeing the largest jumps in vaccination rates across the U.S.

The main UN compound in Herat, Afghanistan was attacked by “anti-government elements” on Friday and at least one security guard was killed, according to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA.

Amazon’s disappointing results on Thursday pushed down shares of top U.S. e-commerce companies.

Investors acknowledged the slower growth could put Amazon’s stock under pressure in the near term, but said they remain positive about the e-commerce market.

Amazon urges drivers not to “operate any unsafe vehicles” but drivers say managers encourage them to ignore safety hazards during daily inspections.

U.S. Treasury yields fell Friday after a key inflation reading came slightly below expectations, indicating inflationary pressures may be ebbing slightly.

Neoen said a Tesla Megapack caught fire at their Victorian Big Battery site in Australia.

Spirit Airlines CEO Ted Christie also told CNBC on Friday that leisure travel rebounded “quite quickly,” saying the low-cost carrier has had a “very, very busy summer.”

After rising in May, signed contracts on existing homes fell in June due to sky-high prices.

MLB’s announcement did not give any details on the allegations against Castro, a four-time All-Star.

The procedural vote on the infrastructure bill continued Democrats’ push to pass a sweeping economic agenda.