Pharrell Williams, Ellen DeGeneres, Kenya Barris and Van Jones are working with Global Citizen and Teneo to help galvanize companies and state governments to recognize Juneteenth as a paid holiday.
The U.S. on Friday reported 45,255 additional coronavirus cases, a record-high number of new daily cases that brought the total cases past 2.5 million across the country. States hit the hardest include Texas, Arizona, Florida, California and Nevada. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar warned Sunday that time was running out for the U.S. to curb the spread of coronavirus as cases rise across the country, particularly in the American South and West.
"People like to say we're not in a second wave. I don't know what a second wave [is] if that's not a second wave," Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told CNBC on Monday.
In an effort to cut costs, Apple may not include a power adapter with new iPhone 12 and iPhone SE purchases, TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a note this week.
The number of new Covid-19 cases per day in the U.S. jumped 42% over the past week to an average of about 38,200 on Sunday, based on a seven-day moving average.
The governor is expected to make an announcement on the current reopening guidelines in New York City and the state's response to the ongoing pandemic.
The Supreme Court on Monday voted 5-4 to strike down a restrictive Louisiana abortion measure in a major win for reproductive rights activists, with Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the court's four liberals.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday partly blamed spikes in the number of coronavirus cases nationwide on demonstrations in support of Black Lives Matter.
The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will not hear an appeal brought by death row inmates seeking to block a lower court order allowing the Trump administration to move forward with their executions.
"We are definitely seeing this affect young people, and they're getting quite ill. So we really need everybody to do their part," Houston Methodist CEO Dr. Marc Boom told CNBC on Monday.
Fair Isaac Corp., the company behind the popular FICO credit score, is launching a new tool that evaluates how successfully consumers are positioned to weather financial downturns.
A group of senators on Capitol Hill are complaining that the debit cards used to give some Americans their stimulus payments come with unnecessarily high fees and could compromise their personal financial information by sharing it with third parties.