Shares of Altimmune (NASDAQ: ALT), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, are on the move following a positive clinical readout. Investors excited about the company's potential new weight loss drug drove the stock 23% higher as of 12:34 p.m. on Wednesday. Altimmune's weight loss drug candidate, ALT-801, is a GLP-1 receptor agonist that also activates glucagon receptors.
The Defence Secretary said there is evidence of ‘potential failings’ of the contractor behind the hacked payroll system, named as SSCL in Parliament.
In sweltering Brazil, worst-ever flooding killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about 4 million people. Voters and politicians in the world's largest election in India are fainting in heat that hit as high as 115 degrees (46.3 degrees Celsius). A brutal Asian heat wave has closed schools in the Philippines, killed people in Thailand and set records there and in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives and Myanmar.
The CEO of the Sydney Airport Authority says he wants direct flights to Halifax to return."That's my number 1 priority and the priority of everyone I speak to in our community. 'Where do you want to go?' It's Halifax. You can connect from Halifax to just about anywhere, so that's what we're primarily focused on," Myles Tuttle told CBC News on Tuesday. Air Canada once offered direct flights between Halifax Stanfield International Airport and the J.A. Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport but officially
Joe Burrow finished last season on injured reserve after wrist surgery.
Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump last April pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment charging him with falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment his then-attorney Michael Cohen made to Daniels in order to boost his electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election. With the judge's permission and the defense's consent, prosecutor Susan Hoffinger stepped out to confer with Stormy Daniels before she was to retake the witness stand.
The College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams this year and gives the G5 conferences access.
Former president back in Manhattan Criminal Court for further witness testimony
Contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries beat estimates for the first quarter and offered in-line to better-than-expected guidance for the current period.
TORONTO — A new season has dawned on Toronto's Professional Women's Hockey League team, but it's one without need for a new approach. Top-seeded Toronto opens the PWHL playoffs against visiting Minnesota on Wednesday at Coca-Cola Coliseum. Toronto went 2-1-0-1 against Minnesota in the regular season, most recently posting a 4-1 win last Wednesday. "It's a whole new season, we're starting fresh," Toronto head coach Troy Ryan said on Sunday after his team's 5-2 win over Ottawa in the regular-seaso
The actor was previously appointed as "a special representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry in charge of Russian and American Humanitarian ties"
Delays in projects have caused clean power installations in the United States to fall behind on their expected start dates, according to a report published by American Clean Power Association on Tuesday. Companies and residents have been looking to capitalize on the IRA, which provides generous tax credits for electric vehicles and clean energy technologies like wind and solar farms. The duration of the project delays varies by the technology involved.
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Britons spend almost five times as much time watching television as socialising, government data show.
TOURMALET PASS, France (AP) — France’s president hosted China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees on Tuesday for private meetings after a high-stakes state visit in Paris dominated by trade disputes and Russia’s war in Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron made a point of inviting Chinese President Xi Jinping to the Tourmalet Pass near the Spanish border, where Macron spent time as a child visiting his grandmother. It is meant to be a reciprocal gesture after Xi took Macron la
Johannes Spors, the global sporting director of 777 Group, is among the names Newcastle United have considered in their search for Dan Ashworth’s successor.
Boyd's long free agency has come to an end.
The rapper named the track "Hind's Hall" after the Columbia University building that was occupied by student protesters.
When summer heatwaves hit, these top-rated picks will blow away the competition.
London club had been unsuccessfully challenged on its men-only rule over the years before finally changing policy
Olympic gold medalist Pat Powers shares 'seven rules of junior sports' so parents, athletes get the most out of competing without heavy expectations.
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