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Senator Kelly Loeffler dumped millions worth of stocks following a private briefing on the Coronavirus. “Appreciate today’s briefing from the President’s top health officials on the novel coronavirus outbreak. These men and women are working around the clock to keep our country safe and healthy.” Loeffler tweeted on January 24, 2020 — Loeffler reported her first stock sale (jointly with her husband) this very same day.

On Wednesday night Ms. Stewart's attorneys agreed to show additional information to congressional investigators looking into her sale of 3,928 shares of ImClone systems on December 27, 2001. That was the day before the Food and Drug Administration agreed rejected ImClones application for approval of its cancer drug, Erbitux. The news sent ImClone shares tumbling.Ms. Stewart's attorneys had handed over 1,000 pages of documents to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday. But committee staff members complained that some of the documents appeared to have been 'redacted' with important information blacked out.Ken Johnson, committee spokesman, said on Wednesday night...

RealNetworks Inc. will lay off part of its work force this afternoon, according to sources close to the company. The number to be laid off and their positions aren't known.Martine Charles, RealNetworks' vice president of corporate communications, declined to comment.Some in the industry speculated that the company's recently announced foray into open-source software is behind today's layoffs. But the economy is probably more to blame, analysts said.RealNetworks last month announced Helix, an open-source set of software products it said will allow creating digital media files and programs for any format, operating system or device. In theory, the company's move toward...