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Summary List Placement BlackRock has likely scored a 700% gain on GameStop this month, thanks to day traders boosting the stock. The world’s largest asset manager owned 9.2 million shares worth $174 million at the end of 2020. BlackRock’s 13% …

Summary List Placement President Joe Biden has removed Dr. Sean Conley, a Trump appointee, from his role as head of the White House Medical Unit, the Associated Press reported Monday. Biden has named Dr. Kevin O’Connor as the chief White …

Summary List Placement Bill and Melinda Gates on Wednesday urged wealthy nations to share their COVID-19 vaccine doses, research findings, and health funding with the world, saying in their annual Gates Foundation letter that the coronavirus pandemic will be the …

Summary List Placement Nearly 32 million Americans would earn more under President Joe Biden’s proposals to more than double the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, according to calculations by thinktank Economic Policy Institute (EPI). This is around 21% …

RENO, Nev. — The Nevada Highway Patrol is investigating a bizarre road rage incident that left two California men dead after they were struck by vehicles on Interstate 80 just west of Reno near the California-Nevada line. The patrol identified …

Summary List Placement S&P Global Ratings has put some of the biggest oil companies in the world on notice that it could soon downgrade their credit ratings thanks to heightened concerns about climate change and a global push towards greener …

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, California lawmakers and regulatory agencies spent much of 2020 passing legislation and issuing regulations to prevent and address the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. Many of these laws and regulations went into effect …

The former assistant and ex-girlfriend of Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. alleges in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that he coerced her into performing sexual acts while at work, stalked her at home when she tried to end their affair …

Summary List Placement A Seattle hospital emailed its donors offering invite-only COVID-19 vaccination slots as the public waiting list ran through to March, The Seattle Times reported.  The Overlake Medical Center & Clinics told the paper it offered the appointments …

Tim Zook’s last post on Facebook brimmed with optimism. “Never been so excited to get a shot before,” he wrote on Jan. 5, above a photo of the Band-Aid on his arm and his COVID-19 vaccination card. “I am now fully …

Summary List Placement Only about one in 10 companies expect all their employees to go back to the office once the pandemic has subsided, according to a new report by the National Association for Business Economics (NABE). NABE’s January 2021 …

Summary List Placement GameStop surged as much as 130% higher in early pre-market trading after Elon Musk’s “Gamestonk!!” tweet. Chamath Palihapitiya has also tweeted excitedly about subreddit WallStreetBets’ favorite stock. The online stock-investing chat group now has over 2.4 million …

At just over 4,000 feet, Highlands, N.C. is the highest incorporated town east of the Rockies. Local lore has it that in 1875, two developers drew one line between New York and New Orleans, and another between Chicago and Savannah, …

Summary List Placement Google has shut down its development of 3D painting app Tilt Brush, marking the latest in a string of virtual and augmented reality disappointments for the firm.  The tech giant acquired the firm behind Tilt Brush, Skillman …

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Summary List Placement A popular Mexican TV host Juan José Origel, 73, has been heavily criticized for traveling to Miami, Florida, over the weekend to get a coronavirus vaccine shot. Origel, who hosts daytime TV shows in Mexico, boasted about …

Summary List Placement It was a meeting that Jon Gray couldn’t miss. So when his transatlantic flight touched down in the early hours of a September 2019 morning, the president and chief operating officer of the nearly $600 billion alternative-asset …

Summary List Placement Elon Musk came after Amazon in a tweet on Tuesday, accusing it of trying to “hamstring” his aerospace company, SpaceX. SpaceX and Amazon both have high-speed internet satellite projects: Starlink for SpaceX, Project Kuiper for Amazon. SpaceX …

Summary List Placement Google hired a lawyer to probe bullying concerns about a cofounder of its British AI portfolio firm DeepMind, the company confirmed to Insider. The firm moved Mustafa Suleyman from DeepMind in late 2019 to another role inside …

Summary List Placement AMC stock surged as much as 160% in premarket trading on Wednesday. Day traders also sent GameStop shares up as much as 132%, and BlackBerry and Bed Bath & Beyond up about 30%. Amateur investors are targeting …