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Researchers work in a lab at Moderna’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 26, 2024.Adam Glanzman Bloomberg | Getty Imagesmoderna announced Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration has agreed to reconsider an experimental mRNA influenza vaccine, reversing the agency’s previous decision to refuse to accept the application, which surprised Wall Street and the medical community. The announcement sheds light on Moderna’s experimental combination coronavirus and influenza vaccination and the path forward for the vaccine, which is key to the company’s goal of achieving breakeven by 2028. The FDA is scheduled to make a decision on flu shots on August…

Jim Cramer’s CNBC Investment Club hosts a “Morning Meeting” livestream every weekday at 10:20 a.m. ET. A recap of Wednesday’s key moments. 1. Stocks rose on Wednesday, led by Big Tech. Nvidia stock rose 2% after the company announced a multi-year partnership with Meta. Under the deal, Facebook’s parent company will use millions of Nvidia chips to build data centers. Meanwhile, WTI crude oil rose 3.4% on concerns about a potential hostile relationship between the US and Iran. Rising oil prices will increase the cost of gasoline, transportation and goods, impacting many club stocks. Financial stocks have seen a nice…

Earthworks near Lock 10 on the C&O Canal helped divert sewage back to the Potomac Interceptor after a portion of the 6-foot-wide sewer pipe between the Clara Barton Parkway and the canal collapsed last month in Cabin John, Maryland, on Feb. 16, 2026.Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesWhite House press secretary Caroline Leavitt said Wednesday that President Donald Trump is concerned that stench from the Potomac River could disrupt America’s 250th anniversary celebrations after a sewer pipe collapse near Washington, D.C., spilled hundreds of millions of gallons of untreated sewage into the river. “The president is concerned about that, and that’s…

As Kyle Goetsch sprints across the Namib Desert, sand flies in every direction, but he only loses his stride for a split second before yelling to the stunned group behind him to start running. All the while, the animal draws closer and closer, its gigantic form silhouetted by the pale moonlight. But all is not as it seems. Even with cameras everywhere, this is not the climax of a blockbuster natural horror movie. Rather, nature photographers are working at breakneck speed toward once-in-a-lifetime photos. Götsch’s breathtaking photo of a giraffe climbing to the top of a sand dune and looking…

Anthony Gordon scored four first-half goals as Newcastle beat Qarabag 6-1 in the first leg of the knockout play-offs, all but sealing a place in the Champions League last 16 against either Chelsea or Barcelona.Gordon scored in the third minute and converted two penalties past goalkeeper Mateusz Kochalski, taking his tally to 10 in Europe this season. The goalkeeper was also brought down by a header from Malik Thiaw in an unusual start and a deflected shot from Jacob Murphy in the second half. Newcastle captain Kieran Trippier and Gordon had to be separated by teammates on the way to…

Amazon has hundreds of thousands of robots in its warehouses, but that doesn’t mean all of its robot efforts are success stories. As first reported by Business Insider and confirmed by TechCrunch, the e-commerce giant has canceled its Blue Jay warehouse robot project just months after announcing the technology. Blue Jay, a multi-armed robot designed to sort and move packages, was announced in October for use in the company’s same-day delivery facilities. At the time, the company was testing the robot at a facility in South Carolina, and Amazon said it took much less time to develop Blue Jay than…

A recent Harris Poll survey of 2,177 American adults found that money is a top priority for daters these days when it comes to finding love.74% say financial security has become one of the most attractive characteristics in a date. And some of their biggest red flags include people who want to consolidate their finances quickly (67%), people who have a lot of credit card debt (63%), and people who send a Venmo or Zelle request right after a date (57%).This focus on money is not surprising, says Jacqueline Combs, a family law and divorce attorney at Blank Rome. “Who…

Meta Platforms’ pledge to spend billions on Nvidia chips is a much-needed shot in the arm for the AI ​​semiconductor giant and its recently middling stock price. Nvidia’s ferocious multi-year rally had subsided in recent months as investor money moved to other hot spots in the chip market, such as memory and storage, and as Google’s superior AI models built on its own chips stoked competition concerns. But now, Meta’s commitment to Nvidia should remind the market of the benefits of Nvidia’s technology and its central role in building AI more broadly. “NVIDIA is such a drag on this market…

Pharmaceutical giants expressed optimism that new influenza vaccines will be released this year, despite approval concerns.listen to this article | 3 minutesinformationby Reuters and Associated PressPublished February 18, 2026February 18, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareThe federal agency responsible for regulating pharmaceutical products in the United States has announced it will review an application for a flu vaccine from pharmaceutical giant Moderna, a week after the company rejected the application in an unusual move.Moderna announced Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted an amended application seeking full approval of its new influenza vaccine for patients…

Washington-born couple Cassandra Trestle, 33, and her husband Alex Ninman, 34, were living with her grandfather in the Czech Republic when their daughter was born in 2020. They were facing a crossroads. Should I return to the US or remain overseas?The couple had been living together since March of that year when they learned Trestle’s grandfather was pregnant, and they used his grandfather’s house as a base when traveling to Europe before Trestle was due to give birth. Trestle said she had told friends she would return to the United States after her daughter was born, but when she started…