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• How Disney's growth plans compare to Netflix

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  Hi! Welcome to the Insider Advertising daily for December 14. I'm Lauren Johnson, a senior advertising reporter at Business Insider. Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every weekday. Send me feedback or tips at [email protected]: We want to hear from public relations executives. Please take our anonymous survey and tell us what you want to read about the PR industry in in 2021.Today's news: How Disney's growth plans compare to Netflix, Lululemon gets shoppers ba
  
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• LGBTQ candidates made history in 2020, but what's most 'earth-shattering' about their record is its standout diversity

  13-12-2020 23:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The White House is blanketed in rainbow colors symbolizing LGBT pride in Washington on June 26, 2015.
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  In the November general election, a number of LGBTQ candidates won races across the US in a phenomenon that's been dubbed the "rainbow wave."
  Several winners made history, including the first Black gay members of Congress, the first transgender state senator in Delaware, and the first nonbinary state legislator. 
  Andrew Reynolds, a professor at Princeton Un
  
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• Biden gives a nod to environmental 'activists' but doesn't mention Green New Deal in message commemorating Paris Agreement

  13-12-2020 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020.
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  President-elect Joe Biden appeared to acknowledge environmental "activists" in his statement commemorating the Paris Agreement but did not mention the Green New Deal.
  "We'll listen to and engage closely with the activists, including young people, who have continued to sound the alarm and demand change from those in power," Biden said in a statement on Saturday.
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• Chris Christie criticizes the Trump campaign's legal approach as 'an absurdity'

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  Former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.
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  Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday criticized President Donald Trump's legal team, calling their approach to overturn the election results "an absurdity."
  "It's an absurd idea to think that any state, or any number of states, no matter how good they are, can challenge another state's right to run the election as they see fit," he said. 
  In an unsigned order issued on December 11, the Supreme Court
  
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• CNN's Jake Tapper thanks Trump for 'exposing' Republicans who supported Texas' 'un-democratic, un-American, mendacious joke of a lawsuit'

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  CNN anchor Jake Tapper didn't mince words on Sunday as he offered a blistering assessment of Texas' "insane," "clownish," and "mendacious joke" of a lawsuit seeking to overturn the election results.
  Tapper thanked President Donald Trump for "exposing" the Republicans who supported the lawsuit, which was brought by Texas' attorney general and backed by 18 other GOP attorneys general and a majority of the House Republican caucus.
  "They are, definitionally, people who sign
  
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• Photos show the COVID-19 vaccine packaging, loading, and shipping process at Pfizer's Michigan facility

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  Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Michigan, December 13, 2020.
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  On Sunday, workers at Pfizer's Michigan warehouse began packaging and loading COVID-19 vaccines onto trucks.
  The process includes covering vaccines in dry ice, labeling them with VIP tags, and loading them into freezers before drivers and security escorts took them to their final locations.
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• Trump claimed that COVID-19 vaccine would have taken 'five years' to develop if he weren't president

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  Trump claimed in an interview with Fox News that aired on Sunday that a COVID-19 vaccine wouldn't have been developed for "five years" if he weren't president.
  Trump has repeatedly praised his administration's Operation Warp Speed, which has a total budget of $18 billion to spend on helping the US develop, purchase, and distribute vaccines, according to Bloomberg. 
  But Pfizer, which along with BioNTech developed the first COVID-19 vaccine given emergency use authorization by the FDA,
  
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• Sen. Lamar Alexander says that Trump should put 'the country first' and accept Biden's election win

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  Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee).
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  Retiring GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said on "Meet the Press" that President Donald Trump should put "the country first" and congratulate President-elect Joe Biden on his election win.
  "The states have counted, certified their votes," he said. "The courts have resolved the disputes. It looks very much like the electors will vote for Joe Biden."
  Alexander is among the few Republicans in Washington DC who have publicly stated that Bi
  
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• Sen. Manchin says he hopes coronavirus relief bill will come by tomorrow, but there's 'no guarantee' it will get passed by Congress

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  Sen. Joe Manchin said on Sunday that he hoped the coronavirus relief bill will be available by tomorrow, but added there would be "no guarantee" on whether it would be get passed in congress. 
  In an interview with "Fox News Sunday," Manchin said, "the plan is alive and well, and there is no way we're going to leave Washington without taking care of the emergency needs of our people."
  Congress passed a spending bill on Friday to earn another week to negotiate a
  
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• The US 'could have every nursing home patient vaccinated' by Christmas, Azar says

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  FILE PHOTO: Alex Azar speaks during a news briefing on the administration's response to the coronavirus in Washington
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  Alex Azar, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said during an interview Sunday that the Trump administration "could have every nursing home patient vaccinated in the United States by Christmas."
  The first batches of the vaccine, approved by the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use on Friday, left a Pfizer facility in Magician earlier S
  
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• Alan Dershowitz says Texas lawsuit tossed by Supreme Court should tell Trump's allies that they 'can't count on the judiciary' to invalidate election results

  13-12-2020 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alan Dershowitz listens to President Donald Trump speak during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in December 2019.
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  Alan Dershowitz on Sunday said that the Supreme Court's decision to toss the Texas election lawsuit signaled a message to President Donald Trump's camp that they "can't count of the judiciary" to invalidate the election results, according to The Hill.
  Dershowitz said that Trump's campaign needed a "perfect storm" in order to invalidat
  
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• Former Cuomo staffer says the New York governor sexually harassed her 'for years'

  13-12-2020 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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  A woman who was once an advisor to Andrew Cuomo said the New York governor sexually harassed her for years.
  "Yes, @NYGovCuomo sexually harassed me for years," said Lindsey Boylan, who worked for him between 2015 and 2018.
  Boylan, who is a Democratic candidate for Manhattan Borough President, was an aide to Cuomo, as well as the deputy secretary for economic development, according to her LinkedIn profile.
  In a series of tweets last week, Boyla
  
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• Operation Warp Speed's top scientist says Moderna vaccine will 'likely' be approved by end of week

  13-12-2020 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dr. Moncef Slaoui, chief adviser to Operation Warp Speed, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, November 13, 2020.
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  In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Moncef Slaoui, the head of the federal vaccine initiative Operation Warp Speed, said Moderna's vaccine would "likely would be approved by Friday." 
  On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the two-dose vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech for emergency use. 
  Slaoui repeated his prediction
  
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• After a difficult pregnancy with twins, I negotiated a flexible work schedule with my boss - here's the script I used to frame it as a win-win

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  Jolene Cramer thought she had it all - career, motherhood, marriage - until she realized she was hitting a breaking point.
  Jolene Cramer
  Jolene Cramer is a senior marketing director at Limeade and coauthor of "Take Care", a book for working parents and their kids about the importance of care in the workplace.
  After a difficult pregnancy and giving birth to twins, Cramer says she found herself overwhelmed, distracted, and exhausted with the high demands of her work and home lives.
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• Here are all the losses Trump's campaign has faced since Election Day

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  As the Electoral College gets ready to cast its votes for President-elect Joe Biden, President Donald Trump continues insisting the race was rigged and stolen from him by nefarious forces.
  "The people of the United States were cheated, and our Country disgraced. Never even given our day in Court!" he tweeted on Saturday.
  In addition to being on track to lose the Electoral College, Trump has lost the national popular vote; multiple state recounts; nearly 40 lawsuits from h
  
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• How a 23-year-old hedge fund wunderkind blew a $350 million opportunity

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  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 how a hedge fund wunderkind blew a $350 million opportunity, why 2021 is going to be a great year, and accusations of racism, exploitation, and discrimination at celebrity church Hillsong.
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• The COVID-19 vaccine has to stay ice-cold, so it's being shipped in retrofitted tuna freezers

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  Thermo King's freezers, which are typically used to ship fresh tuna to Japan, will keep COVID-19 vaccine doses at freezing-cold temperatures as they travel overseas.
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  Industrial freezers first created to ship perishable foods like fresh tuna to Japan have been retrofitted to ship the newly-approved Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
  The doses can be transported in freezers like those from Thermo King, which have been proven to keep supermarket- and restaurant-grade tuna at -76 degrees F
  
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• Trump wants Congress to approve stimulus checks for 'more money than they're talking about'

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  President Donald Trump.
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  As his time in office nears its end, President Donald Trump is once again asking Congress to include another round of stimulus payments in the next federal coronavirus relief package.
  "Right now, I want to see checks — for more money than they're talking about — going to people," Trump said in a Fox News interview that aired Sunday.
  Members of Congress are discussing a $908 billion bipartisan relief package that does not include any money for a new roun
  
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• Officials apologize for UK ad showing Santa Claus with COVID-19, saying it wasn't meant for children

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  Santa Claus being wheeled into a hospital in "The Gift," an ad from the NHS.
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  NHS Charities Together officials apologized for a Christmas ad showing Santa Claus nearly dying from COVID-19 in hospital, saying the spot wasn't meant for children. 
  The charity scrubbed "The Gift" from its YouTube channel, as did those involved with the making of it. 
  A top YouTube comment on the video read: "Absolutely disgusting. Total misstep. As if kids have not been through enough. S
  
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• FDA commissioner says he hopes the first coronavirus vaccine in the US could be administered on Monday

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  President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Stephen Hahn speaks during a media briefing in the James Brady Briefing Room of the White House, August 23, 2020.
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  Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said Sunday the first COVID-19 vaccinations could occur as soon as Monday following the agency's emergency approval on Friday.
  Trucks carrying the vaccine could be seen pulling out of Pfizer's facilities in Michigan earlier Sunday as they make their way to
  
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• Jay-Z's new cannabis line Monogram just launched - take a look

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  Monogram
  The Cannabis brand Monogram, created by Jay-Z, is now available to purchase.
  The brand has four strains, with three different levels of THC, depending on how high the user wants to be.
  Products range from $40 to $70.
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  In October, Jay-Z announced he would be partnering with cannabis brand Caliva to create his own line called "Monogram."The Grammy-award winning rapper has been with the brand since 2019 as their Chief Visionary Officer. Mo
  
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