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 So far, as part of Operation Warp Speed, the federal government has made agreements with a number of pharmaceutical companies that have measured about $10.79 billion. The project aims to include at least 300 million doses of a vaccine against coronavirus by January 2021.  Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and BioNTech, Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline, Novavax and AstraZeneca all provided funding for their vaccines from the surgery. The United States has contributed billions to create a coronavirus vaccine that has infected more than 5.1 million people around the world, locking up at least 800 million doses as soon as the immunizations are approved later this year or early next year. So far, the deal with a handful of pharmaceutical companies has peaked at about $10.79 billion as part of Operation Warp Pace, a initiative led by many federal government agencies to promote the production, produce, and delivery of coronavirus vaccines and treatments. The project aims to include at least 3

 Russia offered a coronavirus vaccine to aid the U.S. but the U.S. refused, Russian officials told CNN Thursday. Russian officials told the network that they had suggested "unprecedented collaboration" with the US Operation Warp Speed, the COVID-19 vaccine production project. Yet officials in Russia have said the "U.S. It's not currently available "to their support. "On the American side, there is a general sense of Russia's distrust and we believe technology — including vaccination, research, and treatment — is not being implemented in the US because of that distrust," a senior Russian official informed. U.S. officials told CNN that the Russian vaccine was not deemed well-developed, with one U.S. public health official stating, "There's no way the U.S. is testing this (Russian vaccine) on animals, let alone on people." The study comes after Russia revealed on Tuesday it had developed a COVID-19 vaccine and Russian President Vladimir

 The country suffered significant damage from the floods. But its leader, Kim Jong-un, says that Covid-19 could bring in humanitarian aid. SEOUL , South Korea — North Korea 's chief, Kim Jong-un, says the nation faces "two crises simultaneously"—fighting coronavirus spread and dealing with severe flood damage. But the state news media announced on Friday that Mr. Kim ordered his country not to accept any foreign assistance for fear that outside support could bring in Covid-19.  Mr Kim, who spoke at a meeting of the ruling Politburo Workers ' Party on Thursday, said he sympathized with the "great suffering" of families who had lost their homes in the flooding, staying in temporary shelters. But he said "the situation in which the spread of the worldwide malignant virus has escalated requires us not to allow any outside help for flood damage but to shut down the border more tightly and conduct strict anti-epidemic research," according to the North &#

A potential stretch of road between Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan, will in potential be home to road lanes specifically designated for self-driving cars.  State and private partner Cavnue announced Thursday the formation of a new public-private partnership to create Southeast Michigan's first form of autonomous car corridor to help speed up testing. Finally, the ultimate aim is to close "long-standing holes" in area transportation access. While the lanes will be a testbed for autonomous vehicles at first, the state and Cavnue want the project to be future-proof. When self-driving cars have become smarter, the lanes can change to handle different types of vehicles, such as large freight movers and more. For first for these lanes, Cavnue mainly pictured smaller people-mover-type vehicles, but the project has already drawn other big names.Ford, General Motors, Waymo, Argo AI, Toyota, Honda, TuSimple, BMW and more have all signaled support for this public-private project. E

 New Zealand has expanded a lockout in its most populated city as the nation is fighting a fresh outbreak of coronavirus in the population that comes after months without any cases being transmitted locally. New Zealand just five days ago marked an enviable landmark — 100 days without any transmission from the world. But this week has shown how easily things can change, even in a country like New Zealand that has been holding up as a global leader for managing the virus. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern revealed on Friday that Auckland — the town of around 1.5 million residents at the center of the latest outbreak — will remain under a level three lockout for another 12 days, while the majority of the country remains under level two limits, meaning that gatherings are restricted to no more than 100 citizens. The rules expand restrictions which entered into force earlier this week. In Tokoroa Under level three limitations, people will be advised to stay away from home for vital personal ac

 We are talking about the Art of the Deal now! Although defining anything as a monumental achievement in political circles isn't uncommon, it's uncommon when the word is justified. Yet that's the best way to characterize the three-way deal Trump White House, Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced Thursday. You may also call this one an earthquake, based on the immediate effects alone. Regional fault lines are redrawn in an instant, and the door is thrown open to normalize Israel's relations with other Arab states. The agreement is also turning the pressure on the Palestinians to make a settlement drastically, lest they find themselves more trapped in their standoff with Israel. "This means they have to either actually come to the negotiation table or continue to go where they've been," said Jared Kushner, the top American official involved in developing the terms. Indeed, the deal targeting the Palestinians is a sweetener. Israel's decision to d

 With Congress and the White House at an impasse, President Trump recently requested an additional $400 a week for people seeking unemployment benefits. The extra funds would be a relief for the more than 15 million jobless Americans who saw a weekly $600 benefit expire at the end of July. Yet the extra money is far from a done deal in the midst of the continuing coronavirus epidemic. For one thing, this week California Gov. Gavin Gavin Newsom pushed back on the aspect of the program that allowed states to contribute $100 of the gain, claiming that this would result in the state facing "huge" budget cuts. And what sort of unemployment compensation Californians will see — and, crucially, when? With Congress and the White House at an impasse, President Trump recently requested an additional $400 a week for people seeking unemployment benefits. The extra funds will be a consolation for the more than 15 million jobless Americans who saw a weekly $600 aid expire at the end of July

 Radio host Jason Rantz told Fox News Radio "Guy Benson Show" Thursday that Seattle's definition of embracing the Black Lives Matter campaign entails laying off Black police officers and forcing the city's Black Police chief to resign. "Welcome to Seattle, where Black Lives Matter means firing all of these Black officers and then throwing out the Black Female Chief of Police in a place typically dominated by White Men," he said. OUTGOING SEATTLE CHIEF SAYS IT'S NOT ABOUT MONEY, Or 'LACK OF RESPECT' Carmen Best, Seattle Police Commissioner, announced her resignation Tuesday saying she can no longer do it and admitting, "I 'm done." "The [city] council has offered us $1.6 million to make sure we recruit the strongest, the brightest and the most diverse to put them on," Strongest said. "And less than a year later, we 're probably going to turn them all away. It looks quite duplicate. My convictions are with me. I rea

President Trump launched a series of personal attacks on influential female lawmakers and an MSNBC host on Thursday, criticizing the language and intellect of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and others in only a few hours' time.  The president has called out Harris, Ocasio-Cortez, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski in tweets and in an interview with Fox Business Network. Trump chastised each in personal terms and launched days of assaults on Harris after she was named the running mate of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. "Here you have a kind of crazy woman I name her because she was so furious and despised Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh," Trump told Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo, complaining for the third straight day about his 2018 Supreme Court pick being challenged by the senator. "She was the group's most anguished and they were all mad." 

 Matthew McConaughey interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci with the fast-talking, Oscar-winning actor on Instagram Thursday getting a chance to quiz the nation's top infectious disease specialist on COVID-19 for 40 minutes.  McConaughey immediately raised questions to the 79-year-old doctor about how worried people should be about catching the virus by touching a door knob (not as much as sharing near physical space with anyone infected, Fauci says) to whether Advil aggravates (it doesn't). "Well, true-false: Will Sunlight destroy the virus?" asked McConaughey.  "It does," responded Fauci, supporting a theory promoted by President Donald Trump. "That really is the truth."  His suggestion of disinfectant 'injection' could be deadly after a backlash, Trump says he was being 'sarcastic'  How about letting us get sick so that we're all safe and the epidemic is dying out?  Fauci said, "No way. That would cause major problems, particular

President Donald Trump demanded a mail-in ballot to vote in Florida's upcoming primary the day before publicly refusing support to meet an anticipated increase in Americans voting by mail at this year's presidential election.  The election website for Palm Beach County, Fla., where Trump is eligible to vote, reveals on Wednesday that the president and first lady Melania Trump were being asked for mail-in ballots. USA Today first published the story. According to the election supervisor of the district, the ballots will need to be picked up in person because the deadline for them to be mailed has already passed. In other states where ballots will be post-marked by election day for counting, the Trumps will return theirs by the primary date of next Tuesday.  Trump railed Thursday against voting-by-mail, claiming he opposes vital U.S. funding. Postal Service is part of a November campaign to deter People from voting by mail. The president has consistently demonized mail-in voting

 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's campaign has raised $48 million in the 48 hours after it called the United States. Senator Kamala Harris the Democratic vice presidential candidate, a spokeswoman for the campaign told Reuters late Thursday.  Biden, himself a former vice president, selected Harris as his nominee for VP on Tuesday, making her the first Black woman on a US presidential major party ticket. With civil protests over racial inequality rocking the nation for months after an African-American man's death in custody, George Floyd was under pressure to pick a Black woman as his running mate after a police officer knelt on his back for about nine minutes.  Harris, a 55-year-old California senator who has made her own bid for the White House, is also the first Asian-American on a big ticket to the presidency. Her parents were immigrants, her Indian mother and her Jamaican father. When elected in 2016, she became only the second Black female U.S. senator in hist

WASHINGTON: There may not be a big trade deal, he won’t be able to buy Taj Mahal, and perhaps only five lakhs, rather than five mil may turn up to greet him in Ahmedabad. US president Donald Trump arrives in India next week at a time when Indians’ opinion of him has never been better. While he feels he hasn’t been “treated very well by India,” up to 56% of Indians are confident about his foreign policy, a Pew Research Center survey shows. In 2016, this figure stood at only 16%. The US think tank’s Global Attitudes Survey was conducted between June 24 and Oct. 2, 2019, through face-to-face interactions with 2,476 people. “Those who associate more with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are more likely than supporters of the Indian National Congress opposition party to voice confidence in Trump,” the research said. Those closer to the BJP are also more likely to offer an opinion, it said. This aligns with Trump’s recent statement

The Glasgow Commonwealth Games proved to be much more than just 'Friendly' as Scottish culture, sport and six-times Olympic champion Usain Bolt combined to create a memorable 11-day event. The success of the Games was assured with the golden seal of approval from Bolt, the world's most recognisable athlete, whose cameo in Jamaica's sprint relay triumph lit up Scotland's biggest city. Inevitably, Bolt stole the show, providing one of the images of the "Friendly Games" as he returned home with a gold medal from his maiden Commonwealth appearance. The Games provided few truly jaw-dropping sporting moments, but they will be remembered for the spirit in which athletes and visitors from the 71 Commonwealth nations and territories were greeted by crowds determined to enjoy the party. "In my view, they are the standout Games in the history of the movement," Commonwealth Games Federation chief executive Mike Hooper said. "The way in whic

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "may never know" how a fairly harmless form of bird flu was cross-contaminated with a dangerous bird flu strain before it was sent to a laboratory outside of the CDC, an agency spokesman said on Monday. That's because most of the materials used in the experiment to culture the virus were discarded shortly after they were used by the scientists performing the work, which occurred in March, CDC spokesman Tom Skinner told Reuters. The CDC disclosed the bird flu incident as part of an internal investigation into the agency's mishandling of live anthrax in June, potentially exposing dozens of its own lab workers to the pathogen. While no humans fell ill as a result of the bird flu breach, CDC Director Dr Thomas Frieden has called it “the most distressing" in a series of safety breaches at the agency because of the public risk posed by the virus. Researchers at a high-security CDC influenza lab learned of their

Two security experts who a year ago exposed methods for hacking the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape say they have developed technology that would keep automobiles safe from cyber attacks. At last summer's Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas, the two researchers, Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller, described ways to launch dangerous attacks, including manipulating the brakes of the moving Prius and the Ford Escape. Valasek, director of vehicle security research at the consulting firm IOActive, told Reuters on Tuesday that he and Miller will show off a prototype vehicle "intrusion prevention device" at next month's Black Hat hacking conference in Las Vegas. They built the device with about $150 in electronics parts, though the real "secret sauce" is a set of computer algorithms that listen to traffic in a car's network to understand how things are supposed to work. When an attack occurs, the device identifies traffic anomalies and blocks rogue activity,

A series of explosions set off by a team of scientists is expected to rattle the Mount St. Helens in Washington State on Wednesday as researchers map the volcano's interior, whose 1980 eruption was the worst in American history. Mount St. Helens, approximately 150 km (95 miles) south of Seattle and 50 miles (80 km) north of Portland, exploded in a hot ash eruption in May 1980, scattering debris over a large area, killing 57 people and causing more than $1 billion in damage. Scientists throughout the United States are seeking to get a better handle on the 8,300-foot (2,530-meter) volcano's magma stores and internal workings to strengthen alert systems before eruption. "Mount St. Helens and other Cascade Range volcanoes challenge metropolitan centers from Vancouver to Portland," said lead scientist Alan Levander of the University of Rice in Houston in a statement.  "We would like to understand better their inner workings to help predict when they could erupt and ho

Paracetamol, a painkiller universally recommended to treat people with acute low back pain, does not speed recovery or reduce pain from the condition, according to the results of a large trial published on Thursday. A study published in The Lancet medical journal found that the popular pain medicine was no better than placebo, or dummy pills, for hastening recovery from acute bouts of low back pain or easing pain levels, function, sleep or quality of life. Researchers said the findings challenge the universal endorsement of paracetamol as the first choice painkiller for lower back pain. "We need to reconsider the universal recommendation to provide paracetamol as a first-line treatment," said Christopher Williams, who led the study at the University of Sydney in Australia. Lower back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide. In the United States alone, costs relating to the condition are estimated to be more than $100 billion a year. Currently, every back pain

Dogs are a man's best friend, and research released on Wednesday says canines want to keep it that way. Dogs are capable of feeling a basic form of jealousy, according to a study published in the PLOS ONE scientific journal. The research, said to be the first experiment on canine jealousy, could redefine the view that the complex emotion of envy is a human construct, said Christine Harris, University of California, San Diego psychologist and an author of the study. The owners of 36 small dogs were asked to do three things in the test - shower affection on a plush animatronic dog, shower affection on a plastic jack-o-lantern pail and read a children's book aloud - while ignoring their pet. Researchers then watched how the dogs reacted. Roughly 80 percent of the dogs pushed or touched their owner when they were coddling the toy, almost twice as often as when the owner played with the pail and about four times as often as when the owner was reading. A quarter of the dogs e

Paracetamol, a painkiller universally recommended to treat people with acute low back pain, does not speed recovery or reduce pain from the condition, according to the results of a large trial published on Thursday. A study published in The Lancet medical journal found that the popular pain medicine was no better than placebo, or dummy, pills for hastening recovery from acute bouts of low back pain or easing pain levels, function, sleep or quality of life. Researchers said the findings challenge the universal endorsement of paracetamol as the first choice painkiller for lower back pain. "We need to reconsider the universal recommendation to provide paracetamol as a first-line treatment," said Christopher Williams, who led the study at the University of Sydney in Australia. Lower back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide. In the United States alone, costs relating to the condition are estimated to be more than $100 billion a year. Currently, every back pain

For the past four months, a team of researchers have been living in a mockup Mars habitat on a Hawaiian volcano practicing isolated living on the Red Planet. For the most part, expedition leader Casey Stedman and his five crewmates have stayed inside their 1,000-square foot (93-square meter) solar-powered dome, venturing out only for simulated spacewalks and doing so only when fully attired in mock spacesuits. "I haven’t seen a tree, smelled the rain, heard a bird, or felt wind on my skin in four months,” Stedman wrote in a blog on Instagram. Stedman is a U.S. Air Force Reserve officer, graduate student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide. “We are simulating a long-duration mission on Mars, with a focus on crew psychology in isolation,” the crew said during an online interview with Reddit on Sunday. Crewmembers, who include a NASA chemical engineer and a neuropsychologist at the Fort Wayne Neurological Center in Indiana, have been isolated from direct human

A pivotal trial of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Inc's experimental drug Zerenex showed that it improved levels of serum phosphorus and iron in patients on kidney dialysis, according to results published on Thursday. _0"> The trial involved 441 patients, according to the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, which published the results. Over the four-week efficacy assessment period, mean serum phosphorus for Zerenex patients dropped by 2.2 milligrams per deciliter compared with placebo patients, the trial showed. Most patients with kidney disease that requires dialysis need chronic treatment with phosphate-binding agents to lower and maintain serum phosphorus at acceptable levels. The study found that, if approved, Zerenex would be the only phosphate binder that also increases iron stores, reducing the need for other drugs to treat anemia. Side effects experienced by patients treated with Zerenex included diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and constipation. Serious adver

Scientists will begin excavation early next week of an ancient Wyoming sinkhole containing a rare bounty of fossil remains of prehistoric animals, such as mammoths and dire wolves, preserved in unusually good condition, researchers said on Thursday.    The two-week dig, set to begin next Monday under the direction of Des Moines University paleontologist Julie Meachen, marks the first exploration of Natural Trap Cave in north-central Wyoming since its initial discovery in the 1970s. At that time, scientists found that the 85-foot-deep cavern formed a natural repository for a rich fossil record that may date back as far as 100,000 years, but a full-scale expedition into the sinkhole has not previously been attempted.   The cave, formed by the collapse of limestone bedrock at the base of the Bighorn Mountains, became a tomb for thousands of ancient mammals that stumbled into the 15-foot-wide mouth of the sinkhole, then concealed by vegetation, and plunged to their deaths.  

German drugmaker Bayer said a Phase III trial of cancer drug Nexavar in patients with advanced breast cancer did not meet its primary endpoint of delaying the progression of the disease. _0"> The study, called Resilience, evaluated Nexavar in combination with chemotherapeutic agent capecitabine, in women with HER2-negative breast cancer. Oral drug Nexavar, which Bayer is developing jointly with Amgen, is approved for use against certain types of liver, kidney and thyroid cancer. Study details are expected to be presented at an upcoming scientific conference. (Reporting by Ludwig Burger ; Editing by Kirsti Knolle)

Babies in the womb show evidence of learning by their 34th week, three weeks earlier than previously thought, new research has found. "It really pushed the envelope" in terms of how early babies begin to learn, lead researcher Charlene Krueger, associate professor at the University of Florida's College of Nursing, said on Thursday. The study, published in the journal Infant Behavior and Development, followed 32 women from their 28th through 38th weeks of pregnancy in an investigation to pinpoint when the ability to learn emerges. Krueger had the women repeat three times out loud a set 15-second nursery rhyme, and do it twice a day for six weeks. The selected rhyme was previously unknown to the mothers. The fetuses’ heart rates were monitored at 32, 33 and 34 weeks as they listened to a recording of a female stranger recite the rhyme. By the 34th week, Krueger said, the heart rates of the tested fetuses showed an overall slight decline while listening to the recordi

For the past four months, a team of researchers have been living in a mockup Mars habitat on a Hawaiian volcano practicing isolated living on the Red Planet. For the most part, expedition leader Casey Stedman and his five crewmates have stayed inside their 1,000-square foot (93-square meter) solar-powered dome, venturing out only for simulated spacewalks and doing so only when fully attired in mock spacesuits. "I haven’t seen a tree, smelled the rain, heard a bird, or felt wind on my skin in four months,” Stedman wrote in a blog on Instagram. Stedman is a U.S. Air Force Reserve officer, graduate student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide. “We are simulating a long-duration mission on Mars, with a focus on crew psychology in isolation,” the crew said during an online interview with Reddit on Sunday. Crewmembers, who include a NASA chemical engineer and a neuropsychologist at the Fort Wayne Neurological Center in Indiana, have been isolated from direct human