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
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
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
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/…
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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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
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
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
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
"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
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
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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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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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