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Summary List PlacementMelania Trump has been shopping a White House memoir, taking meetings with people in the publishing industry, according to a report.  An unnamed source told Page Six: "Melania is in meetings to write her White House memoir. And it would be her money – a chance for her to earn on her own." The report says President Donald Trump is encouraging her...

Summary List PlacementInes Green felt a sense of relief after Sweden announced stricter coronavirus measures for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The 23-year-old supermarket worker, who lives in the capital city of Stockholm, has been watching anxiously as people around her continue to live their lives despite a surge in new COVID-19 cases.   "At my work, I have come...

Summary List PlacementThe government's catalog of cronyism has reached new heights this week, as it emerged that, after a WhatsApp exchange with Matt Hancock, a businessman was awarded a contract to supply millions of vials for Covid-19 tests despite having had no previous experience of producing medical supplies. This follows a string of troubling examples including a jewelry designer middle man paid £21 million...

Summary List PlacementThe UK is likely to miss the mid-2021 deadline for a free trade agreement with the US set by ministers in Boris Johnson's government earlier this year, experts and former US officials in Washington have told Business Insider. In September, Liz Truss, the UK trade secretary, said she wanted to get a deal approved by June 2021, when the Trade Promotion Authority...

Summary List PlacementPresident-elect Joe Biden gained votes in Wisconsin's largest county on Friday after Trump's election campaign demanded a recount earlier this month. The Trump administration spent $3 million to request two recounts in Milwaukee and Dane counties after the president lost Wisconsin to Biden by over 20,000 votes. But county election officials in Milwaukee County completed their recount on Friday and found that...

Summary List PlacementPerhaps the biggest blow a US political party can suffer is having a one-term president — so you may think young Republicans these days are downbeat about the future. But that doesn't seem to be the case. Business Insider recently spoke to the senior members of five college Republican groups across the country on their feelings about President Donald Trump and the...

Summary List PlacementNetflix on Saturday said it would declare more than $1.3 billion (£1 billion) in UK revenue, according to a report, putting tax pressure on other tech firms like Amazon.  "As Netflix continues to grow in the UK and in other international markets we want our corporate structure to reflect this footprint. So from next year, revenue generated in the UK will be...

Summary List PlacementThe coronavirus pandemic has brought painful changes all over the world — and in one Italian city, it has brought a dire situation into even sharper focus. Taranto, on the Ionian coast of Italy's picturesque Puglia region, is home to Europe's largest steel factory, which spews pollutants and has been associated with heightened rates of sickness in the area. The pandemic has...

Summary List PlacementThe UK will break away from the European Union's trading rules in less than five weeks, and significant disruption and economic pain awaits. However, to the frustration of opposition politicians, British business, and Brexit experts, the issue was barely mentioned in Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak's Spending Review this week. The Office for Budget Responsibility — the independent public body that...

Summary List Placement Two days before the US election, Washington DC is holding its breath. The nation's capital is no stranger to seeing demonstrations unfold on its streets, but this time around, the uncertainty and anticipation surrounding the 2020 election outcome feels different. "It feels like the calm before the storm," Taylor Rea, a 27-year-old consultant who lives in Washington, told Business Insider. "I...

Summary List Placement If you've watched "The Holiday" and been jealous of Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz's house swap, you're not the only one. But swapping houses for a week isn't just something that happens in the film – house swap services exist outside of the big screen. You could spend a week living in a castle, an old manor house, or even a...

Summary List PlacementDemocratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris fired back at President Trump and other prominent Republicans who purposely mispronounce her name. In an interview published on Saturday, Harris told PEOPLE Magazine that names are "very important" and should be respected.  "I think that the name that your parents give you, whoever you are, meaning whatever your gender or race or background or the language...

Summary List PlacementTop US infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci contradicted President Trump's repeated claims that the country is "rounding the corner" in the coronavirus pandemic. During a pre-recorded interview with the BBC that was broadcast on Sunday, Fauci said that an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 infections shows the country is "actually going in the wrong direction." Trump has been been making the assertion on...

Summary List PlacementWhite House senior advisors Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have threatened to sue an anti-Trump Republican super PAC for putting up two Times Square billboards showing pictures of them smiling and posing next to figures about the US coronavirus death toll. The two billboards, which were funded by The Lincoln Project, were unveiled Friday. The group was formed late last year by former...

Summary List PlacementRussian extremists could exploit their ties with white nationalist groups in the US to foment violence around the presidential election, terrorism experts have told Business Insider.  They warned that Russia's influence with white nationalists in the US is growing. They say that Russian propaganda and disinformation targeting extremists who believe that progressives are plotting to steal the election could inspire violence. The...

Summary List Placement The UK government hopes that a coronavirus vaccine will be available by December, say reports. England's deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, this week told members of Parliament that the vaccine being developed at Oxford University with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca could be available to high-priority groups in time for the New Year, according to The Times of London newspaper. He...

Summary List Placement China, where the novel coronavirus was first discovered, is now by most measures in the clear, with much of life returning to normal. It is a startling reversal from January and February, where China appeared to be in chaos as the rest of the world looked on. China's recovery was particularly evident over Golden Week, one of China's largest holidays, which...

Summary List Placement A teacher who had shown his class highly controversial cartoons of the prophet Muhammad was decapitated in a Parisian suburb on Friday afternoon, in what President Emmanuel Macron has called an "Islamist terrorist attack."  French police shot dead an 18-year-old man who allegedly beheaded the teacher with a large kitchen knife near a school in a residential suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. According...