White House seeks additional $30 billion in Covid-19 funding

Top officials with the Department of Health and Human Services laid out the need to lawmakers on Tuesday, according to the source, who requested anonymity to discuss private conversations. The funding would go toward vaccines, treatments, testing and other pandemic

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It’s official: NYC has the rudest Uber passengers in the US, app reveals

Hey, watch where you’re going and get a load of this app! It says New York City has the rudest Uber passengers in the nation.  A new survey from the ride-sharing giant has found that — surprise, surprise — Uber

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Following acquisition by Bowery, Traptic’s strawberry-picking robotics pivot to vertical farming

We’ve been charting Traptic’s progress ever since the South Bay-based startup appeared on the Disrupt Battlefield stage back in 2019. The company carved out a potentially meaningful agtech niche in California’s vast strawberry fields — farmland that accounts for around

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Tara Lipinski And Johnny Weir’s Nearly Silent Protest During Kamila Valieva’s Skate Said It All

Controversial Russian star Kamila Valieva’s turn in the Winter Olympics’ women’s figure skating short program Tuesday was greeted on American TV with the sounds of silence. (Watch the video below.) The normally loquacious NBC commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

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Treasury yields are mixed, with geopolitical tensions and Fed minutes in focus

U.S. Treasury yields were mixed on Wednesday morning, as investor focus remained on geopolitical tensions, along with economic data releases. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note saw little movement, standing at 2.0469% at 4:40 a.m. ET. The yield

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Stronghold launches $100M venture arm to invest in underrepresented founders and fintech

Payments infrastructure company Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to deploy $100 million of its balance sheet capital in startups and funds in three core strategies — underrepresented founders, fintech, and web3, CEO Tammy Camp told TechCrunch in an

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A Conservative Group Pushes Beyond an End to Affirmative Action

“We have so much engagement and community,” said Damilola, 18, describing how the club’s previously sparse membership had grown. Its meetings now include vibrant discussions about current affairs through an African American lens. As a freshman, she met students who

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Man City on brink of Champions League quarters after Sporting rout

Manchester City are on course for the Champions League quarter-finals after Bernardo Silva’s brace inspired a masterful 5-0 rout of Sporting Lisbon in the last 16 first leg on Tuesday. Pep Guardiola’s side produced a swaggering display at the Jose

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African fintech Flutterwave triples valuation to over $3B after $250M Series D

African fintech Flutterwave has raised $250 million in a Series D round that tripled the company’s valuation to over $3 billion in just twelve months. In March 2021, the San Francisco-headquartered and Lagos-based startup raised $170 million in a Series

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House probe of Jan. 6 Capitol riot subpoenas Arizona GOP leader Kelli Ward, 5 others over ‘alternate electors’

Arizona Chairwoman Kelli Ward speaks during the Rally To Protect Our Elections conference on July 24, 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona. Brandon Bell | Getty Images The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot issued subpoenas Tuesday to Arizona

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