Bonus: An extra week to save on tickets to TC Sessions: Space 2020

When you’re laser-focused on reaching beyond the stars, it’s hard to remember more earthly, mundane tasks. That’s why we’re giving you an extra week to score early bird savings to TC Sessions: Space 2020 (December 16-17).

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Trump Loses String of Election Lawsuits, Leaving Few Vehicles to Fight His Defeat

The president’s efforts to use the courts to delay or block President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory were turned aside in cases in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona.

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Federal Prosecutors Push Back on Barr Memo on Voter Fraud Claims

The prosecutors, assigned to monitor this month’s elections, said they had found no evidence to back any “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities. WASHINGTON — Career Justice Department prosecutors pushed back this week against a memo by Attorney General William P.

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Al Qaeda’s No. 2, Accused in U.S. Embassy Attacks, Is Secretly Killed in Iran

Israeli agents shot Abu Muhammad al-Masri on the streets of Tehran at the behest of the U.S., officials said, but no one — Iran, Al Qaeda, the U.S. or Israel — has publicly acknowledged the killing.

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Watching CNN While Irish

LONDON — As the polls closed on Election Day in America, my family group chat thrummed with anticipation. Maps were shared. Probabilities mocked. We argued over exit polls, safe seats and swing votes, breaking off occasionally to ask what, precisely, the Electoral College was.

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Dominic Cummings: UK PM’s top adviser leaves Downing Street - what now? - BBC Newsnight

Dominic Cummings has left Downing Street after internal battles over his role as Boris Johnson's chief adviser. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog The BBC understands he will continue to work from home, on issues such as mass coronavirus testing, until the middle of December. The prime mi

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NextView Ventures closes its fourth fund with $89 million

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 million fund, according to SEC filings. The firm’s fourth fund, its largest to date, is oversubscribed, with early documents indicating a $70 million goal.

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Secret Service Struck Again by Coronavirus Outbreak

At least 30 officers in the agency’s Uniformed Division have tested positive in recent weeks. Another 60 or so were asked to isolate.

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Mr. President, Pack Your Bags and Be Gone

The ruler broods, alone with his rage and shame, undone by rejection, his mind, like Macbeth’s, “full of scorpions,” plotting to overturn facts and destroy American democracy. His lackeys, and only they remain, try to humor the master in his labyrinth. Mr.

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Google pulls the plug on Expeditions VR app, migrates tours to Arts & Culture

Google today announced that it is ending support for Expeditions. The VR app will also be pulled from its own Play Store and Apple’s App Store in June of next year.

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How to End ‘Women’s Work’

New Zealand is pursuing a century-old idea to close the gender pay gap: not equal pay for equal work, but equal pay for work of equal value. Ms. Sussman is a journalist.

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A Good Deal for California Gig Companies Is Bad for Their Workers

What happened in California? Despite the state’s liberal reputation, voters there last week approved Proposition 22, a ballot initiative exempting many gig companies from state workplace laws and stripping their workers of basic, essential protections.

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Leave Fat Kids Alone

I will remember the pediatrician’s words forever: It’s probably from eating all that pizza and ice cream. It tastes good, doesn’t it? But it makes your body big and fat. There was more: Just imagine that your body is made out of clay.

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What Happens if Trump Doesn’t Concede?

Hosted by Ross Douthat and Michelle Goldberg.

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Uneasy Under Lockdown, Pubs in England Count the Days Till Christmas

LONDON — At the Crooked Well, a neighborhood pub in south London that prides itself on its food, the Christmas menu is already decided. There will be venison and beef stews. But whether the stews will actually be served is another question.

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The Apocalyptic Politics of the Populist Right

By refusing to concede, Trump has sent a message to his fellow strongmen that this is a fight for survival. Mr. Krastev is a contributing Opinion writer.

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Can Trump still win? No. He’s already lost.

Nov. 12, 2020, 1:48 p.m. ETNov. 12, 2020, 1:48 p.m. ETFive days after television networks and other major news organizations called the presidential election for Joseph R. Biden Jr., President Trump continues to maintain that he “will win.”That is false.Mr.

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This fintech-focused VC firm just closed a $75 million debut fund; backers “came out of the woodwork”

It’s no secret that’s a massive digital transformation happening within financial services companies and amid the growing number of non-financial outfits that are also adding financial products to their offerings.

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The U.S. government sends mixed messages about TikTok’s future

The fate of TikTok in the United States got even more confusing this week. The U.S. Justice and Commerce Departments sent conflicting messages today about TikTok’s future, which is now up in the air with the upcoming administration transition.

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Election Officials Directly Contradict Trump on Voting System Fraud

Hours after President Trump repeated a baseless report that a voting machine system “deleted 2.

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