Democratic Leaders Renew Call for Pandemic Relief This briefing has ended. Despite the wreckage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic — Disneyland in California has been closed since March, with no reopening on the horizon — Disney shares have declined only 4 percent for the year. Senate confirmation would give Mr. Trump a near total lock on the Fed, with six of the seven seats filled by the president’s picks. It remained to be seen whether the government would act on a different executive order from Mr. Trump demanding the sale of TikTok by Thursday. Moderna, the pharmaceutical firm developing a coronavirus vaccine, said Wednesday evening that it had accumulated enough data to begin the first preliminary analysis of its drug.

Source: New York Times November 12, 2020 11:36 UTC