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Day: October 24, 2021

Picasso Artworks in Las Vegas Fetch More than $100 Million

Eleven Picasso paintings and other works that helped turn Las Vegas into an unlikely destination for art were sold at auction on Saturday for more than $100 million.The Sotheby’s auction was held at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas, where the works had …

Brave New World: Atlanta Beats LA 4-2, Heads to World Series

Led by an unlikely hero, the Atlanta Braves are heading back to a place that used to be so familiar to them.The World Series.Eddie Rosario capped a remarkable National League Championship Series with a three-run homer, sending the Braves to the biggest…

New US Justice Department Initiative to Combat ‘Redlining’

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday new measures to fight discriminatory lending practices.The Justice Department’s new Combating Redlining Initiative will redirect federal resources to investigating fair lending concerns, according …

African Effort to Replicate mRna Vaccine Targets Disparities

In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world’…

Report: Global Vaccine Collaboration is ‘Largely Failed’

A Financial Times report says COVAX, the global collaboration established to ensure that poor countries have access to the COVID-19 vaccine, has “largely failed.”“Wealthy countries have received over 16 times more COVID-19 vaccines per person than poor…