Reflecting on Pain, Apple Adds to Donations

Apple will be donating money to combat discrimination, CEO Tim Cook said, but that's just the start. "We have to reexamine our own views and actions in light of a pain that is deeply felt but too often ignored," Cook wrote in a memo to employees after protests began in...

Robert Johnson Wants 'Wealth Transfer': $14T in Reparations

The nation needs to act boldly to avoid splitting into two unequal halves, Robert Johnson said Monday. "Wealth transfer is what's needed," the founder of Black Entertainment Television told CNBC , putting a price tag of $14 trillion on the reparations. "Now is the time to go big," Johnson said. He...

Exclusive: Russia, after approving Japanese COVID-19 drug, to roll out 'game changer' next week

Russia will start administering its first approved antiviral drug to treat coronavirus patients next week, its state financial backer told Reuters, a move it described as "a game changer" that should speed a return to normal economic life.

Japan parliament to debate second extra budget for pandemic relief next week

Japan's government will submit to parliament early next week a second extra budget to fund a new $1.1 trillion stimulus package to cushion the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday.

Urban design: Isolation forces rethink on how we live

Al Jazeera takes a look at how health priorities have governments thinking critically about urban design.

Novel coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says

Head of a Milan hospital tells RAI TV that recent swab tests show less viral load compared with previous findings.

2 Cops Fired After Pulling Students From Car, Using Taser

The Atlanta police officers caught on video pulling two college students out of a car amid protests in the city Saturday night, tasing one and arresting both, have now been fired. Investigators Mark Gardner and Ivory Streeter allegedly pulled the man and woman out of the car after first directing...