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A pedestrian wearing a face mask or covering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, walks in central London on December 23, 2020. Tolga Akmen | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON — A second new and potentially more infectious variant of the novel coronavirus identified in South Africa has emerged in the United …

Walgreens Pharmacist Jessica Sahni holds the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at The New Jewish Home in New York, December 21, 2020. Yuki Iwamura | Reuters The U.S. government is close to a deal with Pfizer for an additional 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine, a source told CNBC’s …

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on Friday commented on the cyberattack on the federal government that was revealed earlier this week. In an appearance on CNBC’s “Mad Money,” the chief executive of the cloud cybersecurity provider said it’s one reason his company is shifting towards what he called a “zero-trust architecture” …

The leading lobbying group for the U.S. auto industry is calling on policymakers to help support the adoption of electric vehicles through incentives, infrastructure investment and other regulatory means. Without suggesting a cost for such EV stimulus programs, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation said now is the time for “substantial, …

Commuters walk along the Thames Path in view of Tower Bridge in London, U.K., on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. Hollie Adams | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — London will be placed into England’s toughest tier of coronavirus restrictions from Wednesday, following a rapid rise in Covid-19 infection rates. Health …

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told CNBC that his state “really needs the federal government to step up on the health side and on the economic side” as the coronavirus pandemic barrels into a devastating new phase. “We’re trying to do that as a state, we did a one-time plus up …