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The BTS Army and K-pop stans are beating QAnon and MAGA supporters at their own game trib.al/NIBCCdm
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This German biotech company has made kits with 4 million coronavirus tests since the outbreak began trib.al/ZQ2bVCU
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NEW: LeBron James is building a new media company that aims to give a voice to Black creators and consumers who’ve been pandered to, ignored, or underserved trib.al/GEiV84T
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Minority Mold-Breakers: In 2016, Trump won 8% of Black voters and 28% of Hispanic voters, outdoing former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s performance among those groups in 2012 trib.al/G139z6z
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1 billion YouTube views. 319.1 million Spotify streams. 192,500 album sales. Blackpink is the biggest pop group in the world trib.al/t4fmbJB
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NEW COVER: David Ho's drug research helped save millions of lives from HIV. Now his lab is racing for a coronavirus cure trib.al/sj2B3IZ
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Confined mostly to tiny cabins, crew members found themselves forced to stay aboard—sometimes without pay—and struggling to cope with a never-ending lockdown trib.al/HHBt5KS
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A growing number of women are choosing not to have kids, and as a result are advancing in their careers and using their wealth to buy property and travel more bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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NEW COVER: Abortion rights under attack, pandemic burnout at work and home, politicians who don't care.
After a series of seemingly non-stop societal attacks against American women, we've hit a breaking point.
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Japan's lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents trib.al/GMK0Eet
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Medical checkup: $30
Teeth cleaning: $25
Mental health counseling: $1/minute
Walmart is making big moves into health care trib.al/9lsMcXW
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Camden, New Jersey, dissolved its police department. Here's what it looks like now trib.al/NWNheUt
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Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine, devised by Sarah Gilbert, is months ahead of the competition trib.al/GeI5KXl
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The world’s major metro areas are working toward a potentially transformative vision: the 15-minute city trib.al/9RaDyYj
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Divorces are spiking in China as couples emerge from their coronavirus quarantines trib.al/7h7i9jO
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NEW COVER: The King and the CEO.
LeBron James and his longtime business partner Maverick Carter are building a new media company that aims to give a voice to Black creators and consumers who’ve been pandered to, ignored, or underserved trib.al/GwujA6p
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Elon Musk, now the richest person in the world, has made millionaires out of Tesla's most loyal fans. Meet one of them trib.al/Cbo2Qmm
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This psychedelic mushroom startup is getting its "breakthrough therapy" closer to FDA approval trib.al/QMp6WPQ
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Voters who hold negative opinions of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are leaning toward the Democrat trib.al/vV1SJbv
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Scientists in Sweden have figured out how to harness solar power, store it and release it on demand in the form of heat decades after it's been captured bloom.bg/2rdAJtB
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Nike executive Ann Hebert abruptly left the company following our report about her son operating a business reselling sneakers and using a credit card in her name trib.al/lsJcJzt
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This spring, Daezy Agbakoba was the first to tweet the hashtag #MatchAMillion, imploring her fellow stans to add another $1 million to BTS’s Black Lives Matter donation.
They did so in a little over 24 hours trib.al/NIBCCdm
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Imma is an influencer with 300,000+ Instagram followers. She’s also computer-generated trib.al/6UnzRpj
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"I would rather have less money to have a better world. But, OK, my punishment is I have more money to have a more f---ed world."
This is how the coronavirus pandemic unfolds when you're a Wall Street billionaire trib.al/68darfr
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"People not money": This island sacrified its economy to stay coronavirus-free trib.al/IwQuX8Z
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A group of DoorDash workers is trying to game the app into paying drivers a $7 minimum rate for deliveries trib.al/DXRFVqy
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Germany has its own Dr. Fauci—and unlike the U.S., government leaders and citizens actually listen to him trib.al/sChM8eA
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About $7.3 billion of the Amazon fortune has been given away.
MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, is responsible for $6 billion of that trib.al/qSI3V3H
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Members of the world's $100 billion club:
1. Jeff Bezos
2. Bill Gates
3. Mark Zuckerberg
4. Elon Musk
5. Bernard Arnault
6. That's it
7. Not you
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Some of the best coronavirus forecasts came from a then 26-year-old hobbyist working out of his parents’ living room trib.al/e5sopMR
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He was the biggest fan of Trump's tariffs. Now, he's suing the administration over them trib.al/uJj53UR
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One economist has quantified the cost of racism in the USA: $16 trillion trib.al/KdznhNC
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NEW: Amateur internet sleuths have turned the Capitol riot into the ultimate online manhunt. Meet the "sedition hunters." trib.al/7zE7iB8
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Nike escalated its legal battle with sneaker marketplace StockX, saying it purchased four pairs of counterfeit shoes on the platform trib.al/J82MOMx
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This guy spent $30 million building a 3-mile stretch of Trump’s border wall. Now he'd like to get paid trib.al/VEIxkZp
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A check from Washington might not arrive quickly enough—or even be enough—to ease the current crisis trib.al/Zj78Dum
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Attack on Titan, Japan’s biggest manga in decades, is nearing its end. Publishers and streaming giants are looking for the next blockbuster trib.al/eDljPBU
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EXCLUSIVE: The Ford Bronco is back, thanks to a team of die-hard employees. Inside their two-decade journey to revive the SUV that O.J. Simpson made famous trib.al/etJqHaW
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Trump's impeachment saga stems from a political hit job gone bad bloom.bg/2oDkpkk
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Bill Gates talks with us about coronavirus vaccines, 5G conspiracy theories, and hydroxychloroquine trib.al/RRyX4NT
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Wuhan's 11 million people are free to dine out. But they aren't trib.al/YFE4ZfQ
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Does money buy happiness? Yes.
More money even buys *more* happiness, a new study finds trib.al/0H5Tkoa
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Amazon has agreed to buy MGM for $8.45 billion, a bet that a nearly century-old Hollywood icon can feed an insatiable demand for streaming content trib.al/BHETAng
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More than 1,500 people on Carnival's cruise ships have been diagnosed with Covid-19, and dozens have died trib.al/5ef8e03
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BTS stans built the trolling blueprint for 4chan types, and they’ve proven they can disrupt it. Read the full story here: trib.al/NIBCCdm
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This is how 3M doubled N95 mask production practically overnight to fight coronavirus trib.al/JXl5dpE
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Dogs are becoming “overly bonded” as we continue to work from home. Here’s why that's a problem trib.al/iwHl3kH
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NEW: Microsoft lost millions of dollars’ worth of Xbox gift cards in an online scheme. Turns out it was an inside job trib.al/j3mg3rb
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"The goals are to get drivers to stop taking lowball offers as a whole."
The #DeclineNow movement is testing whether workers can use DoorDash's software against it trib.al/WFRnSaG
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One trader on Reddit turned $53,566 into tens of millions.
This is the story of how WallStreetBets pushed GameStop shares to the moon trib.al/jgB4WAp
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The Batman of Florida’s animal-slaughter underworld is on a quest to take down America’s illegal horse meat market trib.al/O5oQ7SW
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NEW: Employees say the biggest names in American business have banned them from sharing news of coronavirus cases or even raising concerns. That’s going to get people killed trib.al/eHRxOQf
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Pennsylvania has lost 8,300 manufacturing jobs this year, while Wisconsin has lost 4,000. Factories are slumping in the Midwest and that is bad news for President Trump's reelection chances bloom.bg/2AnNRgQ
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The largest slum in the world contained Covid-19 against all the odds. Now the people of Dharavi need to survive an economic catastrophe trib.al/LerJaqK
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[THREAD] The damage caused by coronavirus can be brutal. And the burden of care will weigh on countries for years to come.
We talked with six Covid long haulers about what it’s been like to live with the mystifying condition trib.al/CzB3cQS
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An Indian racehorse dynasty may be the world’s best hope for producing enough vaccine to end the pandemic trib.al/DrYPx9k
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NEW: Overflowing hospitals. Widespread corruption. And a chloroquine-obsessed populist in charge.
The coronavirus pandemic's worst-case scenario is unfolding in Brazil. trib.al/8N5t0KY
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The Spanish flu taught us a big lesson: shutdowns need to last about 12 weeks to save lives trib.al/b9r2gX7
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Racial Justice Voters: The protests that followed George Floyd’s killing by a police officer in Minneapolis have already changed Americans’ political attitudes on issues of racism and police violence. Will they also activate a new wave of voters? trib.al/G139z6z
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Instead of resting, exercising, or eating right, do one important thing to avoid WFH burnout: work less trib.al/8p28KN4
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The U.S. Catholic Church, in the past 15 years, has shielded more than $2 billion in assets from abuse victims by aggressively moving and reclassifying assets before declaring bankruptcy trib.al/yU3CCIV
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Is Elon Musk the new Steve Jobs? Bill Gates weighs in trib.al/3gbn8sw
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Companies are leaving Argentina en masse, and it’s not just the coronavirus pandemic’s fault trib.al/psBIHDy
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With the number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. now in four figures, public-health experts have harsh criticism for how the White House has responded trib.al/wBu7IEl
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Spanish is the fastest-growing language on Twitch, but Latin America's influencer economy is still in early stages of development trib.al/YLNZ7bm
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THREAD: Bill Gates says climate change is an even harder problem than the pandemic.
He told us about coronavirus vaccines, climate change innovations, misinformation, and how Elon Musk and Steve Jobs are different. Here's what he said trib.al/AKGEzZn
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Jeff Bezos is now worth $202 billion. That's the same as two Elon Musks trib.al/XaoAFjL
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NEW: Australia had seemed poised to escape the worst of the pandemic. Then officials allowed Carnival's Ruby Princess to dock without restrictions trib.al/BCHtELD
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Failures by the US government to guarantee paid family leave or to grant working women breastfeeding protections at work are the byproduct of a system that allows for the employment and economic advancement of women without actually supporting them trib.al/TNubxxH
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The world’s best hope for enough Covid-19 vaccine comes from India.
Here's how the Serum Institute of India is preparing to crank out a billion doses trib.al/Bmsz4Im
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NEW: White social media stars are consistently making far more than their Black counterparts, even in cases where Black influencers have more followers or are doing more of the creative work, dozens of influencers say trib.al/ElpQQmv
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Montana could flip the Senate to the Democrats. Inside the state’s heated race between Senator Steve Daines and Governor Steve Bullock. trib.al/UNloibM
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𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨...
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Ark's Cathie Wood is sticking with her $500,000 target for Bitcoin #TheBusinessweek trib.al/6k3GWuE
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Animal Crossing = around $65 (including tax)
3 barrels of West Texas Intermediate crude = $22.90 x 3
Choices, choices...
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No city hates its landlords like Berlin does trib.al/YeMg6gT
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America’s largest health insurer is giving apartments to homeless people—not as an act of charity, but to drive down the extraordinary cost of caring for them bloom.bg/36EFm06
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NEW: Houston’s response to the coronavirus pandemic was to ignore it. It didn’t work trib.al/9eaFdZU
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The next housing crisis is here, and this time, it’s about rentals trib.al/xaP1x0p
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This Harvard economist proved that the American dream is dead. His latest project shows inequality is getting worse trib.al/bLatIQ4
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NEW COVER: The traders of /r/wallstreetbets, a subreddit that describes itself as “like 4chan found a Bloomberg terminal,” are reshaping the options market and sparking wild rallies trib.al/BLaIcPc
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Attempts to sterilize our surroundings can kill off bacteria critical for human health—or, even worse, inadvertently promote the survival and evolution of superbugs trib.al/Mvd2pdP
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NEW COVER The Bloomberg 50: From finance and politics to tech and entertainment, these are the people who shaped 2018 in unexpected ways bloom.bg/2Ehq3iP
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SPECIAL ISSUE: The 150-year-old periodic table is more important than ever. Our issue explores the connection between the elements and business—and how it's only getting stronger. bloom.bg/2zqbUvf
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America's policing budget is $115 billion. That's:
● 10 times greater than the CDC
● 12 times greater than the EPA
● 38 times greater than FEMA
● 206 times greater than OSHA
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Walmart’s annual revenue increased to more than $500 billion last year. The Walton family’s fortune soared to $250 billion during that period.
Walmart’s minimum wage is $11 an hour trib.al/O33XNjD
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Soaring death rates, overcrowded hospitals, and empty piazzas. This is life in Italy during the coronavirus lockdown trib.al/DhodGSL
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381.5 million Spotify streams. 144.2 million Instagram interactions. 61.8 million YouTube views.
Justin Bieber is once again the world's biggest pop star trib.al/ZTRydoD
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This Virginia city leveraged federal tax breaks to remake itself over seven decades. Now it’s using them to demolish its historically Black neighborhoods trib.al/LpwIwdz
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Coronavirus could permanently shut down some of America’s colleges trib.al/GxKQH1G
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In 2011, this $1 billion solar plant looked like the future of renewable energy. But it was obsolete before it went online trib.al/ghPRSKI
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