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Russian President Vladimir Putin for a second time tried to tilt a U.S. presidential election toward Donald Trump, this time by authorizing efforts to attack Joe Biden’s candidacy and influence associates of Trump, U.S. intelligence officials said in an unclassified report. They rejected unsubstantiated claims by Trump and other Republicans that China tried to influence the 2020 election. U.S. officials also reaffirmed that they consider Moscow the biggest threat to national securityDavid E. Rovella

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China President Xi Jinping warned that Beijing will go after “platform” companies that have amassed data and market power, potentially a sign that a crackdown on the country’s internet sector is only just beginning.

 Chinese President Xi Jinping  

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A new, hard-to-detect Covid-19 variant is spreading in a French region where patients developed tell-tale symptoms but tested negative for the virus. European Union leaders are debating the future of the embattled AstraZeneca shot (which the EU still stands by) while two member nations consider reversing themselves and using the drug.

Russia condemned the U.S. for applying diplomatic pressure on Brazil to reject its Sputnik V vaccine, saying that attempts at political meddling were costing lives. Here is the latest on the pandemic.

The White House says a coming U.S. tax plan will raise rates on corporations and the rich while providing relief for households that bring home around $110,000 per year.

The biggest U.S. banks say they will start distributing individual payouts from the third coronavirus bailout on Wednesday. With at least 10 million Americans still unemployed in the wake of a financial calamity second only to the Great Depression, many of those $1,400 deposits (along with now-continued unemployment benefits) will pay for necessities like rent and food. But for recipients who aren’t in dire straits (or interested in boosting the economy), there’s always the option of investing. Here’s how they might want to do that

Despite the accelerating climate crisis, the world’s three biggest consumers of coal are getting ready to boost usage by so much that it’ll be as if the pandemic-induced drop in greenhouse gas emissions never happened.

Smoke rises from the Duke Energy coal-fired Asheville Power Plant in North Carolina. 

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The pandemic has changed a lot of things, many forever. One may be how Americans shop. Those big-box behemoths (Walmart, Best Buy, Target) that kids used to get lost in are becoming fulfillment centers, where workers assemble deliveries and consumers wait outside for their trunks to be filled. Space once devoted to t-shirts and TVs will be used to pick and pack online orders. Stores will be smaller and integrated with digital operations—or risk becoming irrelevant.

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GameStop the Movie. Nine of Them in Fact

Speaking of GameStop, WallStreetBets founder Jaime Rogozinski just signed up with United Talent Agency—home to Kevin Hart and Seth Rogen. He may be looking to capitalize on sudden fame after his Reddit clubhouse launched the video-game retailer skyward. Hollywood can’t get enough of GameStop and its charred short-seller saga—studios have already commissioned nine projects based on it. Nine.

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Premature optimism

Monday, March 15, 2021

Bloomberg Follow Us Get the newsletter New Covid-19 vaccines—including drugs that don't require needles and can be stored at room temperature—may be ready for use later this year, the World Health

Covid’s economic toll

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Bloomberg Follow Us Get the newsletter A year into the pandemic, the US may be close to emerging from the economic hole dug by the coronavirus, and on the path to its biggest expansion in decades.

100 million shots

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Bloomberg Follow Us Get the newsletter The US surpassed a major vaccination milestone, notching 100 million doses. In a national address Thursday night, President Joe Biden pressed Americans to get

Brexit infects the pandemic

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Bloomberg Follow Us Get the newsletter US President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill cleared its last hurdle Wednesday, with the House passing the final version. Biden plans to sign

GameStop’s ‘big sharks’

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Bloomberg Follow Us Get the newsletter Among the known unknowns of the coronavirus pandemic's second year are what effect variants will have on the ongoing effort to successfully vaccinate the

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