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WeWork is projecting a rapid turnaround of its business ahead of a merger announced on Friday with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC , that would allow the flexible workspace company to go public at a valuation of around $9 billion. The deal with BowX Acquisition Corp., if successful, would take WeWork ...

For four days, as the country tried to parse the latest mass shooting, pundits and the public finally confronted the increase in anti-Asian rhetoric and hate crimes in an attempt to understand what might have driven a 21-year-old to shoot eight people, six of them Asian women. Then came the police statement: The all...

Summary List PlacementFor years, comparisons between Apple and Tesla haven't merely been commonplace — they've been expected.  Some of this could be chalked up to timing. Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs died in 2011, leaving the tech world with a visionary vacuum. Tesla was on the verge of launching its first original vehicle, the Model S sedan, positioning Elon Musk to assume Jobs'...

Summary List PlacementAfter a politically tumultuous week in his career, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was photographed Friday evening speaking on the phone and walking the grounds of the governor's mansion. The New York governor is facing calls to resign following allegations of sexual misconduct and political fallout over claims that his administration misrepresented the number of COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes. Draped in...

Summary List PlacementWherever a US president goes, a military aide carrying a heavy black briefcase follows. The case is always close by, just in case the president needs to unleash the devastating and destructive power of the US nuclear arsenal while out of the White House. Every US president since Harry Truman, the only leader of a nuclear-armed state to authorize the use of...

Summary List PlacementSenate Democrats want to enact a new $1.9 trillion rescue package within weeks, but one major hurdle stands between them and the bill's final passage: whether it will include a $15 minimum wage increase. Once the House approves the legislation and sends it to the Senate, the wage provision is likely to spark some clashes among Democratic senators. The minimum-wage increase in...

Summary List PlacementAurora Innovation has announced three major deals in the past three months that have given the autonomous-vehicle company access to ride-hailing and vehicle-manufacturing expertise. In December, Aurora partnered with Uber and acquired its automated-driving division. Since then, the Amazon-backed startup has announced it's teaming up with truck maker Paccar and Toyota to develop self-driving trucks and ride-hailing vehicles, respectively. "A global manufacturing...

Summary List PlacementExperts are split on whether governments should delay the second doses of coronavirus vaccines to ensure more people get a first shot.  Countries must decide what to do with their limited vaccine stock: Do they immunize more people with a first dose of a two-dose shot, which doesn't give them full protection against the coronavirus, or do they hold back doses so...

Summary List PlacementRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican from Georgia who two years before winning her first election said Jews were starting wildfires with laser beams from outer space, is sorry about all that — or at least behind closed doors, she was sorry for the controversy she's caused. Privately, on Wednesday, she apologized. According to sources who spoke to The Hill, she told...

Summary List PlacementOn his way out of office, President Donald Trump issued more than 100 pardons, mostly to his personal friends and political allies. A number of those pardons were for people convicted of federal crimes linked to the Mueller investigation — including his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and advisors Roger Stone and George Papadopoulos. Trump was sure...

Summary List Placement"America is back, ready to lead the world," President Joe Biden said in late November as he introduced his foreign policy and national security team. The US is poised to "once again sit at the head of the table," he said. But Biden has been leaning on the tenuous assumption that the US still holds its place as the world's leading democracy,...

Summary List PlacementThe US military will have a larger footprint in the nation's capital by this weekend than the total number of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.  There will be up to 25,000 National Guard troops in Washington, DC, for President-elect Joe Biden's January 20 inauguration. Comparatively, as of January 15 there were roughly 2,500 US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq respectively (about...

Summary List PlacementAs violent Trump supporters raged at the Capitol in what became a deadly insurrection last Wednesday afternoon, JPMorgan's public relations team shared a statement from the bank's chief executive, Jamie Dimon, with reporters. "Our elected leaders have a responsibility to call for an end to the violence, accept the results, and, as our democracy has for hundreds of years, support the peaceful...

Summary List PlacementIn the wake of their defeat in the Georgia runoff elections, when control of the US Senate slipped from their grasp, Republicans will be asking who was to blame. Insider and Decision Desk HQ called the election early Wednesday morning, projecting victory for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock over the Republican incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. And a key factor in the...

Summary List PlacementAs voters in Georgia head to the polls to decide whether Republicans or Democrats will control the US Senate, the GOP is torn by infighting.  Still pursuing his groundless claims that the presidential election was stolen from him as a result of mass fraud, President Donald Trump has turned on the party's leadership in the state and in Congress. While he and...

Summary List PlacementThe outgoing Trump administration's refusal to coordinate the handover of the Pentagon with the incoming Biden team, as well as the last-minute stacking of civilian positions with fringe national security figures, could not come at a worse time. The US and its allies are dealing with the aftermath of wholesale Russian hacking of US government computer systems as well as increased tensions...

Summary List PlacementSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has generally been a steadfast ally of President Donald Trump, voting in line with the commander-in-chief the vast majority of the time and using his immense influence to push his GOP colleagues to do the same.  But in the final weeks of Trump's tenure, McConnell has pitted himself against the president on both the National Defense Authorization...

Summary List PlacementPresident Donald Trump is leaving the White House in less than a month, but you wouldn't know it from his behavior. Beyond refusing to concede to President-elect Joe Biden, the president has continued to threaten Iran with military action and his administration has reportedly discussed potential responses to recent rocket attacks on the US Embassy in Baghdad thought to have been carried out...