Investors stay silent as Better lays off 3, 000 more staff members

Pandemic Dogs push Petco Gains, prompting People prospectus

Insert Petco into the brief collection of retail’s large COVID-19 winners only in time for its return into the public stock markets. The pet services and supplies series has ridden a spike of puppy adoptions throughout the ordeal. That, coupled with Petco’s enormous e-commerce investments and save remodels in the past couple of decades, has […]

Toddler dies of Ebola after 3 suspicious deaths in DRC; 148 contacts identified

Enlarge / A World Health Organization worker decontaminates the house of a pastor who tested positive for Ebola in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo. (credit: Getty | Sopa images) Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are racing to investigate a potential Ebola outbreak after a 3-year-old boy died of the disease on […]

As coronavirus variants spread, the US struggles to keep up

Enlarge (credit: Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty Images) Across the US, the coronavirus is in retreat. The pandemic is still raging, mind you, with more than 70,000 new cases still reported each day. But since the post-holiday peak in mid-January, the seven-day average of new cases has fallen by nearly 64 percent. Hospitalizations have […]