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The 2021 Summer Olympic Games…now underway in Japan…will be different in many ways from past Games

40% of all new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are coming from Florida, Texas and Missouri, according to White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients.

Google’s parent company Alphabet has launched a robotics software company called “Intrinsic.”

The latest from Morningstar

The nation’s largest wildfire raged through southern Oregon on Friday but crews were scaling back some night operations as hard work and weaker winds helped reduce the spread of flames even as wildfires continued to threaten homes in neighboring California.

Australia on Friday garnered enough international support to defer for two years an attempt by the United Nations’ cultural organization to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status because of damage caused by climate change.

Existing homes sales rose 1.4% last month from May to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 5.86 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday. That’s just under the 5.9 million annual rate economists were expecting, according to FactSet.

The latest from Morningstar

The latest from Morningstar

The vaccines are extremely effective but “breakthrough” infections do occur and the delta variant driving cases among the unvaccinated in the U.S. is not fully understood.