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BREAKING: China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report trib.al/m5xhKRh
Cannabis compounds prevent the virus that causes Covid-19 from penetrating healthy human cells, according to a lab study
What happens if Trump tests positive for coronavirus?
Elon Musk, the outspoken entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX, is now the richest person on the planet
Big Hit, the manager of K-pop boy band BTS, is looking to raise as much as $812 million in an IPO
Elon Musk says he will donate $6 billion if the World Food Programme proves to him that amount would solve world hunger
Patagonia will provide bail for employees who are arrested while protesting after the US Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion
JUST IN: Pfizer's Covid vaccine stopped 89.4% of transmission in Israel, the first real-world sign that immunization will curb the spread of coronavirus trib.al/JJhiJ8U
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Vaccinated people are just as likely as unvaccinated people to spread the delta variant to contacts in their household, a yearlong study found
South Korean K-pop boy band helped its manager more than double its revenue in 2017 bloom.bg/2ptIoPQ
Bloomberg 50: Guy Fieri (aka the Mayor of Flavortown) raised more than $21.5 million in seven weeks to assist unemployed restaurant workers trib.al/z3o76xh via
BREAKING: The Chinese city where the coronavirus outbreak started, Wuhan, reports zero new infections for the first time trib.al/sfkDLC1
Andrew Yang files paperwork to explore running for mayor of New York City trib.al/88T6wVO
A double rainbow appeared over Buckingham Palace as members of the public gathered outside to pay their respects to the Queen trib.al/TmUMWzV
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is in talks to raise funds valuing the rocket-launch and satellite company at more than $150 billion
Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours
Nike’s Vaporfly Next% sneakers have been described as a “supershoe.”
For Japanese shoemakers Asics and Mizuno they are something else: trouble
Trump says that he’s open to an election debate between him and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, moderated by Joe Rogan
A campaign on TikTok urged users to submit the song, Baraye, for one of the show’s new special merit awards. It’s received over 83% of the 115,000 nominations
WATCH: New York City reacts across its boroughs after learning Joe Biden has been projected to become the 46th president of the United States trib.al/v2SW1Ni
JUST IN: Microsoft is in talks to acquire Discord, a video-game chat community, for more than $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter
MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos's ex-wife, announced that she's donating about $1.7 billion to causes related to racial equity, climate change and public health
BREAKING: WTI crude oil futures trade at negative price for first time trib.al/wzIc6mY
Senators Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey became the first major Republican elected officials to criticize President Donald Trump‘s decision to commute the prison sentence of Roger Stone
JUST IN: Twitter permanently suspends Donald Trump from its network
Elon Musk used an upside-down smile emoji on Saturday in a response to a tweet he sent more than four years ago about how much it would cost to buy Twitter trib.al/qqwB1Uv
Lindsey Graham: "Trump and I... we've had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way. Oh my god, I hate it... but today, all I can say is 'Count me out. Enough is enough. I've tried to be helpful.'" bit.ly/2L7ORyN
South Korean K-pop boy band helped its manager more than double its revenue in 2017 bloom.bg/2pvHsdO
This Japanese TV idol's Instagram account is heralding an advertising shift in the country bloom.bg/2ETMhbx
Trump’s estranged niece in her new book depicts a man trained in deception and braggadocio by a distant and dysfunctional father
Coronavirus couldn’t stop this black female director’s first summer blockbuster
Elon Musk recently polled his more than 80 million followers on Twitter, asking them whether the social media platform adheres to the principles of free speech.
Now, he's taken a 9.2% stake in the company
Turkey's leading anti-immigration politician Umit Ozdag’s tweets are more popular than President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's for the first time trib.al/caya3Ys
Turkish soccer fans threaten to boycott broadcaster BeIN Sports after Istanbul-based club Fenerbahce clashed with authorities over spending limits on player transfers
It keeps getting worse for billionaire Carl Icahn
BREAKING: White House and Republican negotiators have reached a tentative deal to raise the US debt ceiling and avert a default
Twitter will stop counting photos and links in a 140-character limit bloom.bg/1TgUF0v
Elon Musk says he will donate $6 billion if the World Food Programme proves to him that amount would solve world hunger
Mattel's stock climbed around 9% after signing a licensing agreement with the South Korean boy band bloom.bg/2FgTrpe
BREAKING: Electoral College members in all six battleground states where President Donald Trump most fiercely contested the results cast their ballots for Democrat Joe Biden, effectively cutting off the president’s path to overturning the election trib.al/agshAOG
1 billion YouTube views. 319.1 million Spotify streams. 192,500 album sales
NEW: A firm belonging to the son of Nigeria’s president-elect bought an $11 million London mansion that his predecessor’s government was seeking to confiscate as part of a corruption probe, documents show
Puerto Rican pop star Bad Bunny is the biggest artist of the year — and no one else comes close
NEW: The Qatari group led by Sheikh Jassim is increasingly confident it's won the bidding war for Manchester United, thwarting a rival offer from British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe
JUST IN: Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine was 100% effective in a trial for kids aged 12 to 15, potentially paving the way for shots for teens and pre-teens before the next school year
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez invites Elon Musk to visit the country after the world’s richest man tweeted that it could power all of Europe with solar energy
BREAKING: Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine prevented more than 90% of infections in a study of tens of thousands of volunteers trib.al/1HoNzWc
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WATCH: The U.S. Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court trib.al/Q14ZiIJ
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Solar surpasses gas and wind as the biggest source of new power in the U.S. bloom.bg/2LH46JC
JUST IN: #BTS record label Big Hit Entertainment will raise about $820 million from its IPO after pricing shares at the top end of the range.
The listing is set to make founder Bang Si-hyuk a billionaire while turning the singers into multimillionaires.
Russia's billionaires have lost $39 billion in the last 24 hours
At $28 billion so far, the farm rescue is more than twice as expensive as the 2009 bailout of Detroit’s Big Three automakers, which cost taxpayers $12 billion bloom.bg/30G2RS9 via
The Trump campaign told TV stations they could lose their licenses for airing an ad criticizing the president’s actions in the coronavirus crisis
Downbeat, measured and businesslike: This is not the Elon Musk you see on Twitter
Read the latest Big Take here ⬇️ trib.al/m8lmVlT
In his first face-to-face interview since revealing his identity, YouTube star Dream talked about Minecraft, showing his face, and what’s next for his content
Imran Khan won the majority of seats in Pakistan's by-elections, building momentum in his campaign to pressure the six-month-old government into calling an early national vote
BREAKING: The U.S. enters a pact with Pfizer for 100 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine which Americans will receive for free trib.al/TVw9xV8
BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi calls for the 25th Amendment to be invoked by Mike Pence to remove Donald Trump from office.
She says Congress is prepared to proceed with impeachment if it is not bloom.bg/39c4P2J
K-pop group 's agency, Big Hit, soars up to 160% more than its IPO price, giving it a market value of around $10 billion, reporter tells . The founder is now one of South Korea's richest people. trib.al/PeKjx1C
There’s growing concern that vaccinated people may be more vulnerable to serious illness from the Covid delta variant than previously thought trib.al/9ckEJJ7
Readers added context
In the article itself it debunks the tweet they put out. The article states the vaccinated are less likely to need hospitalization or suffer serious illness.
An American Bar Association panel that gave Ketanji Brown Jackson its highest professional rating for the Supreme Court said reviewers found no evidence she’s soft on crime
Elon Musk is traveling to Brazil to meet with Jair Bolsonaro just five months before the right-wing president seeks a second term in national elections
Boy band and Netmarble join forces for first major mobile game featuring K-pop stars bloom.bg/2NpRyMH
Pakistan orders an investigation into an alleged leak of confidential tax documents after an online news portal published a report about the army chief's family wealth
BREAKING: Bannon removed from National Security Council bloom.bg/2oC7Pko
Elon Musk says his Starlink satellite service is up and running in Ukraine, responding to a plea from the deputy prime minister to supply satellite-based communications to help resist Russia’s invasion of the country
BREAKING: Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter, Bloomberg News reports trib.al/8ZJlhlW
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"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed," Joe Biden says #InaugurationDay bloom.bg/2M9aM8M
Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) asks TikTok CEO Shou Chew: "Does TikTok access the home WiFi network?" trib.al/LXt3GbT
Elon Musk says the Optimus Human Robot is the most important thing Tesla will be working on this year and has “the potential to be more significant" than its car business
Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, argues the focus should be on government spending rather than taxing billionaires
Zack Tahhan, a 21-year-old man from Syria, recounts how he called police in an effort to catch the Brooklyn subway shooting suspect in the East Village trib.al/CFR0J4i
Big Hit created the world's most tweeted-about boy band #BTS. Now, it's about to create a billionaire and seven multi-millionaires
BREAKING: Twitter says it will lock Donald Trump's Twitter account for 12 hours and says future violations of its policies will result in permanent suspension of his account trib.al/Va2yLqr
"We should call out hypocrisy when we see it."
speaks out against the GOP, saying the party likes to "cloak itself" in the language of religion, and yet supports the detention of migrant children #DemDebate bloom.bg/2NkvnY1
Water is joining gold, oil and other commodities traded on Wall Street, highlighting worries that the life-sustaining natural resource may become scarce across more of the world
EXCLUSIVE: The SEC is likely to allow the first U.S. #Bitcoin futures ETF to begin trading next week, in what would be a watershed moment for crypto
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The FDA says it has not approved Chloroquine for Covid-19 use, contradicting the president's statement trib.al/5IiFM9G
Donald Trump is succeeding in making China pay most of the cost of his trade war
"I'm surprised that Elon's so gung-ho on Doge coin," says Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, world’s largest #cryptocurrency exchange by volume, which launched futures for $DOGE. But he notes that 's Tesla bet $1.5 billion on #Bitcoin, not Dogecoin trib.al/mKN4s9v
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Tesla Model 3 sedan aces all of U.S. safety agency's crash tests
JUST IN: Pakistan’s former premier Imran Khan says that police have surrounded his house in Lahore to possibly arrest him again
K-pop boy band #BTS helps manager Big Hit more than double its revenue ahead of a possible IPO, reports bloom.bg/2puiyv4 via @tictoc #tictocnews
People who recovered from a bout of Covid-19 during one of the earlier waves of the pandemic appear to have a lower risk of contracting the delta variant than those who got two doses of the vaccine from Pfizer
Donald Trump may soon have to utter these words. "I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
Harvard researchers say people around the world might need to practice some level of social distancing intermittently through 2022
BREAKING: Attorney General Barr says he sees no reason to appoint special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden and says he won't appoint one trib.al/LapAfY9
Hong Kong banks urge staff caution amid protests: cancel meetings, watch your families, be safe
BREAKING: Twitter is in the final stretch of negotiations about a sale to Elon Musk and could reach a deal as soon as Monday trib.al/M3dVfZn
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Jon Stewart to Congress on the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund:
"Behind me [is] a filled room of 9/11 first responders and in front of me a nearly empty Congress. Sick and dying, they brought themselves down here to speak to no one. Shameful."
bloom.bg/2R9vtQz @TicToc
Peter Obi, a third-party candidate, is the top choice to become Nigeria's next president, according to a new opinion poll
