Biostatistician and epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, MD, PhD, and Dr. Mina Zadeh, ACIP Executive Secretary, CDC, look on as people present their information to members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) advisory panel for vaccines convenes, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. June 25, 2025.Megan Varner | ReutersA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions.A revamped government panel of vaccine advisors with newly appointed immunization skeptics has voted against a mercury-containing shot…
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U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) walks after the Senate passes U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping spending and tax bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 1, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | ReutersRepublican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska cast a critical vote Tuesday for President Donald Trump’s massive tax-and-spending bill, helping to push the controversial legislation through the GOP-controlled Senate.But not before she secured a key carveout for her constituents from one of the bill’s strictest new provisions.”Do I like this bill? No. But I tried to take care of Alaska’s interests,” she told NBC News’ Ryan Nobles Tuesday.”I advocated…
Disposable diapers are a massive environmental offender. Roughly 300,000 of them are sent to landfills or incinerated every minute, according to the World Economic Forum, and they take hundreds of years to decompose. It’s a $60 billion business.One alternative approach has been compostable diapers, which can be made out of wood pulp or bamboo. But composting services aren’t universally available and some of the products are less absorbent than normal nappies, critics say.A growing number of parents are also turning to cloth diapers, but they only make up about 20% of the U.S. market.ZymoChem is attacking the diaper problem from…
A customer tries on the Apple Vision Pro headset during the product launch at the Apple Store in New York City on February 2, 2024. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty ImagesApple has accused a former engineer for its Vision Pro headset computer of stealing company trade secrets before starting a new job at Snap, according to a lawsuit filed in California last week.In the June 24 court filing, Apple accuses Di Liu, a senior design engineer, of downloading thousands of documents in his final days at the Cupertino company last year and saving them to his personal cloud accounts.This lawsuit…
An opportunity is taking shape within the world of tax-free bonds – and it may offer investors some outperformance if they’re careful. Municipal bonds are beloved by high income investors as they spin off interest income that’s free of federal taxes. They’re also tax-exempt on a state basis if the investor resides in the issuing state – a feature that can provide meaningful savings in high-tax locales like New York and California, where top income tax rates are 10.9% and 13.3%, respectively. Retail investors have also been jumping into the space as of late, with Vanguard’s Tax-Exempt Bond ETF (VTEB)…
Clean energy stocks rose on Tuesday after a tax on solar and wind projects was removed from the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.Shares of NextEra Energy, the largest renewables developer in the U.S., rose about 5% after the Senate narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s bill on Tuesday. AES, a leading renewable provider, rose about 2%. The megabill will now go to the House of Representatives, where lawmakers will consider the Senate’s changes.The clean energy industry was surprised and outraged to find over the weekend that a tax on wind and solar projects had been inserted into…
Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, appears at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on May 9, 2024.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDesign software company Figma filed for an IPO on Tuesday, and plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol FIG.The offering would be one of the hotly-anticipated IPOs in recent years given Figma’s growth rate and its high private market valuation. In late 2023, a $20 billion acquisition agreement with Adobe was scrapped due to regulatory concerns in the U.K. That led Adobe to pay Figma a $1 billion termination…
Senate staffers rest on the U.S. Capitol steps at sunrise as Republican lawmakers struggle to pass U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping spending and tax bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 1, 2025. Nathan Howard | ReutersHow to read this guideFollow along from start to finish, or use the table of contents to jump to the section(s) you want to learn more about.Since 2018, the $10,000 cap on the state and local tax deduction, known as SALT, has been a critical issue for certain lawmakers in high-tax states such as New York, New Jersey and California.The SALT deduction…
I believe Shake Shack is on the attack for a continuation to and through all-time highs, possibly once and for all. I last wrote about SHAK in February of last year and first added this company to our growth portfolio on Feb. 2, 2024. It’s been a volatile ride since then, as the company navigates expansion in a competitive fast casual dining space, as well as a rich valuation that has some reluctant to chase into all-time highs. Looking at the weekly chart, first we see a third attempt since 2021 to break through the $140 region. Looking at the…
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on as he attends a press conference to discuss health insurance reform, at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 23, 2025.Kevin Mohatt | ReutersA federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with plans to overhaul the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by reorganizing several of its agencies and substantially cutting their workforce.U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose in Providence, Rhode Island, issued an injunction at the behest of a group of Democratic-led states who challenged a plan…
