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• US Senate votes 51-48 to advance the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court before final vote on Monday

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  The US Senate on Sunday advanced the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, setting up a final confirmation vote Monday evening.
  The GOP defeated a Democratic filibuster by a 51-48 vote.
  If confirmed, Barrett would cement a 6-3 conservative majority on the high court.
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  In a rare weekend session, the US Senate on Sunday advanced the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, setting up a final conf
  
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• AOC says if Biden is elected he should appoint progressive leaders when asked if Bernie Sanders should get cabinet position

  25-10-2020 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, July 17, 2019.
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  Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden should appoint progressive leaders should he win the presidency in November.
  "I believe that it's critically important that the Biden administration appoint progressive leaders," Ocasio-Cortez said on CNN Sunday when asked if Biden should appoint Sen. Ber
  
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• Outgoing Virginia GOP congressman says 'the two-party system is really failing the American people right now'

  25-10-2020 18:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Virginia) speaks at a press conference on Capitol Hill.
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  US Rep. Denver Riggleman of Virginia on Sunday lamented the state of American politics on NBC's "Meet the Press," questioning the effectiveness of the current two-party system.
  "I believe duopoly is really, the two-party system is really failing the American people right now," Riggleman said.
  Riggleman, a Republican, has been highly critical of the QAnon movement and
  
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• I'm a hoarding technician in Florida who faces everything from clutter, lice, and bed-bug infestations to rotting food and animal waste. Here's what my job is like.

  25-10-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Fiona Mills has been working as hoarding technician in Tampa, Florida since 2018.
  Fiona Mills.
  Fiona Mills is a 31-year-old based in Tampa, Florida who became a hoarding technician in 2018 after 12 years of working in the medical field.
  To most people, a hoard just looks like a bunch of trash — but to the hoarder, it's organized chaos where each item has a perceived value. 
  The job is physically and emotionally taxing. Most days, Mills has to lug away mattresses, sofas, and refrigera
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is heavily favored to win her reelection race. Her challenger has still raised $10 million because Republicans are desperate to beat her.

  25-10-2020 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the overwhelming favorite in her reelection race in New York's 14th Congressional district.
  Her Republican opponent, John Cummings has still raised $9.6 million — seemingly a sign of how keen conservatives are to challenge her.
  "I guarantee you 75% of his contributors don't know anything about him," a Republican strategist told The New York Times.
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• 15 current and former yacht crew members describe rampant harassment in one of the world's most glamorous industries

  25-10-2020 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hello everyone! Welcome to this weekly roundup of Business Insider stories from co-Editor in Chief Matt Turner. Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every Sunday.Read on for more on the dark secret at the heart of the yachting industry, a profile of playboy turned pragmatic media mogul Jay Penske, and an interview with Nxivm survivor India Oxenberg. Samantha Lee/Business InsiderHello!I want to start by highlighting three in-depth stories we published in the past 24 hours
  
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• White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows says 'we are not going to control the pandemic'

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  White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said that the US would not "control" the coronavirus, in the face of rising infections across the country and over 225,000 deaths from the highly contagious disease, according to CNN.
  "We are not going to control the pandemic," Meadows said. "We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation areas."
  Meadows made his comments after a week that saw some of the highest numbers of new COVID-19
  
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• More than 57 million Americans have already voted, suggesting a huge voter turnout for 2020. But it's not clear who that would favor.

  25-10-2020 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Voters stand in line for the first day of early voting at the Metropolitan Multi-Services Center in Houston, Texas on October 13, 2020.
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  More than 57 million Americans have already voted as of Sunday, according to the US Elections Project.
  The Florida professor who runs the US Elections Project said it suggests a total turnout of 65%, which would be the highest since 1908.
  Of those to vote early, almost twice as many are registered Democrats th
  
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• I'm a Black founder. Here's how I'm practicing self-care during the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

  25-10-2020 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jasmine Crowe is the founder and CEO of Goodr.
  Jasmine Crowe
  Jasmine Crowe is the founder and CEO of Goodr, an Atlanta-based company that fights food waste and hunger by picking up surplus foods from local restaurants and stores and delivering them to hungry families.
  During the pandemic, Crowe has been busier than ever expanding Goodr to help more people who are facing food insecurity.
  She says in order to better serve others, she's adopted several daily rituals to prioritize her own ment
  
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• Dr. Fauci contradicted Trump's repeated claims that the US is 'rounding the corner' on COVID-19. It's 'actually going in the wrong direction'

  25-10-2020 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci (L), director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic, in the press briefing room of the White House on March 24, 2020 in Washington, DC.
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  Dr. Anthony Fauci shot down President Trump's repeated claims that the country is "rounding the corner" in the coronavirus pandemic.
  Trump has asserted over and over that the US is overcoming COVID-19,
  
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• Samsung's billionaire chairman died on Sunday. He once counted Warren Buffett as a shareholder

  25-10-2020 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  AP Images; Steve Marcus/ReutersSamsung's chairman, Lee Kun-hee, died on Sunday at age 78.The boss of the South Korean conglomerate once counted Warren Buffett as a shareholder.Buffett, a billionaire investor and the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, made "hundreds of millions" from a rare overseas bet on Samsung, he revealed in a CNBC interview in 2018."It was a big, strong, good company," he said.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Samsung's billionaire chairman, Lee Kun-hee, died on Su
  
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• Pence to continue campaigning despite a COVID-19 outbreak that has hit at least 4 of his staff

  25-10-2020 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence on the campaign trail in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania on Friday, October 23.
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  Vice President Mike Pence will continue campaigning even after at least four of his staff tested positive for the coronavirus, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told CNN on Sunday.
  Marc Short, Pence's chief of staff, and Marty Obst, a top advisor to Pence, have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to Bloomberg News.
  Short's positive result wa
  
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• Joe Biden is doubling down on raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour despite the economic downturn. It could bump paychecks for over 27 million workers.

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  Biden is pushing ahead with raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour even as the downturn takes a toll on small businesses.
  The Biden campaign hasn't laid out a timeline to implement it, and it did not respond whether it supported a House bill that would raise it to that level by 2025.
  Congress last raised the federal minimum wage in 2009. It's the longest stretch without a wage hike in US history.
  Republicans oppose it, arguing it hurts employers and cause
  
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• Cries for more stimulus are overblown and stock investors should stop throwing ‘tantrums’ about it, says a Wall Street chief strategist

  25-10-2020 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Getty/Brendon HoffmanCalls for another round of stimulus are overblown, and investors should simply stay the course for historically strong gains, James Paulsen, chief investment strategist at The Leuthold Group, said Thursday."Regular temper-tantrums on Wall Street" have convinced investors that failure to pass a near-term bill will tank stocks, but many are ignoring the massive stimulus already passed, he added.The policy response to COVID-19's economic fallout dwarfs those used in the four ot
  
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• The stock market has historically performed better when the incumbent president wins reelection, according to one analysis

  25-10-2020 15:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  AP/Kathy WillensStocks perform better in the one year following a presidential election when the incumbent wins reelection rather than when a new president comes into office, according to LPL.Stocks returned an average 10% and were positive 71% of the time in the one year following a president winning reelection, LPL observed.Comparatively, stocks returned an average of 5% and were higher 50% of the time in the one year following a new president winning the election, according to LPL."Usually wh
  
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• Harry Reid says that Biden should spend 'no more than three weeks' testing Republican cooperation before eliminating the Senate filibuster

  25-10-2020 15:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Former Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) in his Las Vegas office.
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  Former Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada said that if Joe Biden captures the White House and Democrats win control of the Senate, then the former vice president should spend "no more than three weeks" testing the waters for bipartisanship before eliminating the filibuster, according to the Associated Press.
  Reid, a 30-year veteran of the Senate and for Majority Leader, said that Democrats will have big pieces of legislation
  
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• The election is no longer all 'about the economy, stupid'

  25-10-2020 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The successful investor doesn’t get carried away with the positive or negative events but continues with patience and discipline over the long-term,” Andrew Neligan of Neligan Financial said.
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  The strength of the economy is typically one way to gauge how well an incumbent president might do in their reelection campaign.
  But this time, partisan divide is more intense than ever, and voters' favorability of their preferred candidates' may trump the sate o
  
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• Biden's 'seize the center' campaign strategy may just deliver him the White House

  25-10-2020 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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  A recent poll shows more Democratic-leaning independents plan to vote for Biden than Republican-leaning independents plan to vote for Trump.
  Despite the leftward shift of the Democratic party, Biden has pushed back against the most extreme progressive policies and pursued persuadable voters in the middle of the road. 
  A decisive Biden victory could increase the likelihood that future campaigns make more concerted attempts to reach the middle.
  Daniel Cox is a research fellow for pollin
  
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• 3 ways to fix big tech's empathy problem, according to a former executive who wrote a book on it

  25-10-2020 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some might consider Facebook an unempathetic company.
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  Maëlle Gavet is a former Priceline executive and the CEO of Ozon, who disagrees with the idea that showing empathy is a sign of weakness in business.
  She argues that many of the tech industry's faults are caused by a lack of kindness among the ranks of company executives and leaders.
  Companies can be empathetic and capitalistic at the same time, Gavet says, like Nike — which in September used employee
  
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• The one good thing in 2020 was suddenly cheap rent in Manhattan and San Francisco — but the bill could be up for cities soon

  25-10-2020 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over 100,000 Manhattan residents left amid the pandemic — five times the city's loss in a typical year.
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  Rents in both Manhattan and San Francisco, the two most expensive cities in the US, have been plummeting amid the pandemic.
  It's a sign of mass outbound migration. Tens of thousands of residents have left cities for greener pastures, with "no incentive to return," according to Miller Samuel's CEO.
  This trend has been happening for years, according to experts. Th
  
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• 3 things you should know if you're thinking of a starting a business right now, according to a business coach

  25-10-2020 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Find fun ways to set yourself apart.
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  Kimberly Lucht is a business coach who helps women make their first six figures doing what they love. 
  During the pandemic, more budding entrepreneurs have decided to finally start their own businesses.
  It can be a great time to get a business started, provided you dodge common pitfalls.
  Ensure you're providing people with the things they need, create a seamless experience, and be sure to add value — and bring some surprise &mda
  
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• 4 ways parents and kids can stay focused together while studying and working from home

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  Providing small rewards and incentives to your kids when they're learning remotely can help you free up time and help them focus.
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  If you're working from home with children, finding your own space to concentrate and be productive might feel like an impossible task.
  Setting up designated workspaces and meeting rooms within your home can help you separate work hours from family time.
  Delegate childcare tasks with your partner by sharing calendars and checking in regularly
  
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• 3 stunning 1950s-era concept cars have hit the market and are expected to rake in up to $20 million at auction

  25-10-2020 13:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alfa Romeo Berlina Aerodinamica Tecnica concepts.
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  Three beautiful midcentury concept cars are expected to rake in as much as $20 million at auction later this month. 
  Alfa Romeo commissioned the BAT 5, 7, and 9d as studies in aerodynamic efficiency and revealed them in 1953, 1954, and 1955, respectively. 
  A collector bought all three cars in 1989 and will sell them as a package October 28 through RM Sotheby's.
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• Singapore Airlines doesn't want to dethrone its original world's longest flight even though the new one is 3 miles longer – here's how the two will differ

  25-10-2020 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Singapore Airlines is launching a new route to New York in November.
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  Singapore Airlines is launching a non-stop flight between Singapore and New York City in November, its first flight to the region since March.
  The route will be the longest in the world at 8,287 nautical miles – two nautical miles longer than the Singapore-Newark route – but that's not how the airline sees it.
  Flights will operate using a similar aircraft type, with seats available
  
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• An Italian company created the world's first 3D-printed fiberglass boat — take a closer look at the sleek 'Mambo'

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  MAMBO by Moi Composites.
  Moi Composites
  Startup Moi Composites built a striking vessel it's calling the first 3D-printed fiberglass boat. 
  The firm built its Motor Additive Manufacturing Boat — MAMBO for short — to showcase its 3D-printing abilities. 
  Moi says its "continuous fiber manufacturing" process lets it create unusual shapes that aren't possible with traditional methods. 
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• Airbus created a remote-controlled aircraft with flapping wingtips to see how much it could increase efficiency

  25-10-2020 13:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Airbus' AlbatrossONE.
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  Airbus created the AlbatrossONE, a small-scale remote-controlled aircraft with wingtips that can flap like a bird during turbulence to better handle the strong gusts of winds.
  These hinged, flapping wingtips help reduce drag, therefore saving fuel and consequently decreasing carbon dioxide emissions.
  Airbus has completed two flight tests of the AlbatrossONE, and the most recent test in July used wingtips that were 75% longer than the ones used during the initial tes
  
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• Egypt just unveiled the first restaurant at the Great Pyramids ever as it doubles down on tourism to lure travelers back

  25-10-2020 13:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Waiters and employees during the opening of the 9 Pyramids Lounge on October 20, 2020.
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  Egypt has added upgrades to its historical Great Pyramids of Giza and Great Sphinx tourist sites by opening a new restaurant and unveiling a fleet of electric buses amid the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reported.
  The country started reporting monthly losses of tourism to about $1 billion following coronavirus-related shutdowns earlier this year.
  The new 9 Pyramids Lounge restaurant
  
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• Billionaire James Dyson just sold his Singapore penthouse at a massive loss a year after his company scrapped plans to design an electric vehicle in the city

  25-10-2020 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wallich Residence.
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  Dyson founder James Dyson just sold Singapore's most expensive penthouse at a loss.
  He purchased the home in 2019 for $54.2 million after announcing Dyson was moving its headquarters to Singapore.
  Since then, Dyson cancelled its hyped electric car project because it was not commercially viable.
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  James Dyson, billionaire inventor of the Dyson vacuum, just sold the largest and most expensive penthouse in Singapore. He
  
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• Business Insider spoke to more than 30 insiders about how Rolling Stone owner Jay Penske dodged controversy to quietly amass a media empire

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  Michael Kovac/Getty ImagesHe has movie-star good looks, a former Victoria's Secret model wife, and a billionaire father.Now Jay Penske can lay claim to the second-largest audience in digital publishing in the US.On September 23, Penske Media Corporation, or PMC, which owns Rolling Stone, Variety, and Women's Wear Daily, announced it would take control of The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, and Vibe as part of a joint venture with the entertainment company MRC. The new entity will be called PMRC.
  
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• The operator of this Boeing 767 private jet says the plane has an air system so advanced it kills pathogens so passengers don't need to wear a mask onboard – see inside

  25-10-2020 13:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Comlux's Boeing BBJ767 "SkyLady."
  Comlux
  European aircraft operator Comlux just welcomed back its second-largest plane, a Boeing Business Jet 767, that underwent a four-month refurbishment in the US.
  The 51-seat aircraft serves the wealthy as a flying apartment with amenities including an ultra-king-size bed and walk-in shower.
  A new onboard ionization system kills pathogens in the air so passengers don't have to wear masks.
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• Burger King's new 2021 restaurants will have food lockers, conveyor belts that deliver Whoppers to your car, and modern, minimalist dining areas. Take a look inside.

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  Burger King
  Burger King is rolling out new-look restaurants from 2021.
  The sites focus on minimizing contact through new collection and delivery options. 
  You'll be able to pick up your burgers from lockers — or, in some locations, have them delivered to your car via a conveyor belt.
  The first new-look stores will open in Miami, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
  Read on to view pictures of the new-look stores.
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  From 2021, your local B
  
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• The new Centurion Lounge at JFK airport blows every airline lounge I've been to during the pandemic out of the water – here are its 9 coolest features

  25-10-2020 13:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Inside the Amex Centurion Lounge at JFK Airport.
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  American Express' newest Centurion Lounge at JFK Airport is chock full of amenities that are completely free to visitors. 
  Hot food buffets serving gourmet meals, carefully curated cocktails, and an Equinox Body Lab are just some of the features open to passengers.
  Hidden within the lounge is also a prohibition-themed speakeasy that's only accessible through a secret door. 
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• Atari is opening gaming-inspired hotels around the US, with vintage arcades and pop culture nightclubs. See what they will look like.

  25-10-2020 13:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Atari.
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  An Atari themed hotel is planned in Arizona, with more locations to come.
  Atari is behind hundreds of iconic games, including Pong and Centipede.
  New renders show what the gaming inspired hotel could look like.
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  Atari, the brand forever linked with iconic games like Pong and Centipede, will soon be a theme for a gaming-inspired hotel in Arizona and Las Vegas.In January, strategy organization GSD Group
  
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• Trump kept on declaring the US is 'rounding the turn' on COVID-19, even as it recorded its 2 worst-ever days of infections

  25-10-2020 13:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at the Waukesha County Airport on October 24, 2020 in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
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  President Donald Trump again asserted that the US is overcoming the coronavirus on Saturday — despite data showing the opposite.
  "Now we got to have spirit, our country. We're rounding the turn, our numbers are incredible," Trump told rallygoers in North Carolina, repeating a phrase he has used often.
  On Friday and Saturday
  
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• I wouldn't have insurance without the Affordable Care Act. Now Trump is working to deprive millions of struggling Americans health insurance.

  25-10-2020 12:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hundreds of people line up for assistance with their unemployment claim. Because of the pandemic, millions of Americans are out of work and don't have health insurance.
  Bryan Woolston/Reuters
  Many Americans lost their jobs and/or their health insurance this year, leading to a surge in applications for medical coverage through Healthcare.gov and other government programs. 
  People suffering from COVID-related medical issues during and after the pandemic will need the Affordable Care Act (ACA
  
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• NASA will share an 'exciting new discovery' about the moon on Monday. Listen to the announcement live.

  25-10-2020 12:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine at NASA Headquarters in Washington, November 29, 2018.
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  On Monday, NASA will share "an exciting new discovery" about the moon.
  The space agency has not revealed any details about the discovery, but said it could support "deep-space exploration."
  NASA TV will stream live audio of the announcement. You can listen via the embed below.
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  NASA made a cryptic announcement this week: It has "an exciti
  
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• How Hollywood app Quibi collapsed after raising $1.75 billion in one of the biggest business flops ever

  25-10-2020 12:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Quibi CEO Meg Whitman.
  Robyn Beck/Getty ImagesWith just a few weeks to go until one of the biggest product launches in their careers, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman met alone for several hours. The two veteran business executives, representing the top echelons of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, were suddenly forced to discuss the future of the project they'd worked on — and promoted — almost constantly for the past two years. Their vision for a game-changing streaming vi
  
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• Japan's unique heated tables may be the solution to winter outdoor dining for Chicago restaurants

  25-10-2020 12:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ellie Henderson adapted the traditional Japanese kotatsu for use in outdoor dining.
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  Across the country, restuarants have relied on outdoor dining to compensate for losses due to COVID-19, but the businesses face uncertainty as the weather turns cold. 
  Chicago announced a design competition in August to find possible solutions.
  One of the contest's winners took inspiration from an age-old Japanese design: the kotatsu, a special heated table.
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• 3 key tips to help you shop for car insurance in a smart way

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  "Generally speaking, female drivers aged 25 to 65 pay the least for insurance," Kacie Saxer-Taulbee, a data scientist at insurance comparison shopping website Insurify, told Business Insider.
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  The best way to get a good insurance rate for yourself is to shop around and do research, according to a data scientist at car insurance shopping comparison site, Insurify.
  Buying an older, less flashy car and driving safely can also reduce your rate.
  Mileage-based insurance is also
  
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• Stimulus checks could take weeks or months to arrive as Pelosi and Mnuchin remain locked in negotiations

  25-10-2020 12:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steven Mnuchin at his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in 2017.
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  A second round of stimulus checks could take weeks or months to arrive as Democrats and Republicans remain at odds over the details of another trillion-dollar stimulus bill.
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin have struggled to agree on items such as financial aid for state and local governments and protection from COVID-19 liability for employers.
  "The speaker, on a number of
  
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• The first satellite with AI onboard is now in orbit, and its tech could completely change how we respond to wildfires

  25-10-2020 12:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Researchers inspect the computing and camera assembly of the FSSCat/Phi-sat-1 satellite.
  Tim Herman/Intel Corporation
  This week the European Space Agency (ESA) and Intel announced they had successfully put the first satellite with on-board AI-processing into space, PhiSat-1.
  The PhiSat-1 uses Intel's Movidius Myriad 2 chip, which was not originally designed for space travel.
  PhiSat-1's on-board AI is able to select and automatically delete photos of Earth if they are too obscured by cloud.
  AI h
  
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• The public health director for Illinois broke down in tears while announcing a new state record for COVID-19 infections

  25-10-2020 11:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dr. Ngozi Ezike, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, cries during the daily news briefing in Chicago on October 23, 2020.
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  The Director of the Department of Public Health in Illinois broke down in tears while announcing a new state record for coronavirus infections on Friday.  
  Dr. Ngozi Ezike was brought a box of tissues, took a moment to compose herself, apologized, and continued. 
  As of Sunday morning, there have been at least 376,034 cases and 9,
  
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• Trump will take advantage of the UK's 'weakness' after Brexit if re-elected, warns Britain's former ambassador to the US

  25-10-2020 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President Donald Trump at the final presidential debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 22, 2020.
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  Exclusive: Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Britain's former ambassador to the US, tells Business Insider that President Trump will try to 'take advantage' of the UK's weakness after Brexit if re-elected.
  Boris Johnson enjoys a warm personal relationship with the president, but the White House has adopted an increas
  
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• Police in Ohio are reportedly investigating a group that recruited for a plot to arrest Gov. Mike DeWine for tyranny

  25-10-2020 02:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Republican Gubernatorial-elect Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine on November 6, 2018 in Columbus, Ohio.
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  Police say they are investigating an alleged plot to arrest Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine for tyranny, local news station WSYX reported.
  The plot reportedly came to the attention of law enforcement when a man contacted them to say someone had called him in an attempt to recruit him to the plan.
  On Thursday, a group gathered in front of the Ohio statehouse as a woman swore
  
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• Biden says he won't return Trump's attacks on his children because 'it's crass' to target a political opponent's family

  25-10-2020 01:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump.
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  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden criticized attacking a political candidate's children as "crass."
  Biden said he had made a "specific decision" to not mention President Donald Trump's children through his campaign, despite the president's repeated criticisms of Hunter Biden's personal history and business relationships. 
  "Look, I'm running against Donald Trump,
  
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• Trump campaign files lawsuit requesting Nevada court to block election officials from counting early votes

  25-10-2020 00:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Vote stickers are seen at a satellite election office at Temple University's Liacouras Center, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, in Philadelphia.
  AP Photo/Matt Slocum
  President Donald Trump's campaign and the Nevada Republican Party filed a lawsuit asking the state court to temporarily stop the counting of early voting ballots.
  The judge denied the request for an immediate restraining order and scheduled a hearing for next week, according to The Nevada Independent. 
  Though mail-in voting has been p
  
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