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Vacationers are on the road again, lifting company sales and setting expectations for a busy holiday travel season.

Workhorse is the third electric-vehicle company known to have come under scrutiny from both federal prosecutors and securities regulators in the past 14 months.

The drug company plans to seek FDA authorization of a treatment that patients with mild to moderate Covid could take at home to keep them out of the hospital, the latest encouraging performance for an early virus treatment.

The app hurts sleep, work, relationships or parenting for about 12.5% of users, who reported they felt Facebook was more of a problem than other social media. Facebook said it has built tools and controls to help people manage when and how they use its services.

Current and former directors’ insurance companies are expected to pay Boeing about $225 million, while the company will hire an ombudsman and appoint a director with aviation safety experience.

The maker of connected fitness equipment reported its smallest quarterly gain in subscriber growth since it became a public company two years ago, and said that fewer people are joining its online workouts.

A former sales executive at the electric-truck startup, which is seeking a valuation of more than $60 billion, says her concerns were ignored and she faced gender discrimination.

While the Biden administration has said the requirements are necessary to curb the pandemic, they have drawn opposition from many Republicans.

Alphabet’s Google and futures-exchange giant CME Group reached a deal under which the Google Cloud unit will eventually power markets that handle trillions of dollars in trades each day.

The company pulled out of the bidding for a similar project three years ago amid employee complaints about doing work for the military.