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   [End Of An Era!]   
   GameStop winners and losers: Small Reddit investors are up while hedge funds   
   face $19B in losses   
   Daily Mail, 30 Jan 2021 03:26Z   
   GameStop shares rose another 70% on Fri, in a staggering rally   
   driven by small investors on the online forum Reddit that has seen the stock   
   surge ...   
      
     AMC, Nokia and other "meme stocks" targeted by Reddit's Wallstreetbets   
     CBS News, 30 Jan 2021 0:38Z   
     GameStop isn't the only struggling company whose stock has surged after   
     retail investors flooded in.   
      
     Short Sellers Face End of an Era as Rookies Rule Wall Street   
     Bloomberg, 29 Jan 2021 21:39Z   
     The latest assault on Wall Street short sellers has a long tradition, dating   
     back to, well, at least Napoleon. "Treasonous," he called them for betting   
     against ...   
      
     AMC Stock Roars Back As GameStop Frenzy Resumes; Silver Lake Sells Entire   
     Stake On Runup   
     Deadline, 29 Jan 2021 23:32Z   
     Shares in top exhibitor AMC Entertainment roared back up 53% on heavy   
     trading volume and SIlver Lake sold its entire stake in the company.   
      
      
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   G.M. Announcement Shakes Up US Automakers' Transition to Electric Cars   
   The New York Times, 30 Jan 2021 01:38Z   
   A new president took office this month determined to fight climate change.   
   Wall Street investors think Tesla is worth more than General Motors, Toyota,   
   ...   
      
   Steve Bannon Cuts Off Rudy Giuliani's Claim That Lincoln Project Helped   
   Capitol Rioters   
   Newsweek, 29 Jan 2021 21:37Z   
   "You can't throw a charge out there like that," Bannon told Giuliani after   
   the attorney claimed an unnamed individual from the Lincoln Project helped   
   plan the ...   
      
   Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill to extend COVID-19 eviction protections through   
   June   
   Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan 2021 21:35Z   
      
   Rocket Report: FAA grounds Starship, Biden's big rocket dilemma   
   Ars Technica, 29 Jan 2021 12:10Z   
   Most of the news this week has happened with bigger rockets, with an   
   especially interesting bit concerning the ...   
      
   Job Seekers With Trump White House on Their Résumés Face a Cold Reality   
   The New York Times, 29 Jan 2021 19:06Z   
   Working at the White House has traditionally been a ticket to a lucrative   
   future. But that hasn't been the case so far for Trump alumni.   
      
   China executes finance official for taking 'especially enormous' bribes   
   ABC News, 29 Jan 2021 14:39Z   
   The former head of a Chinese state-owned asset management company is   
   executed on charges of taking bribes in an unusually severe penalty for a   
   recent corruption case.   
      
   Alabama's coronavirus positivity rate now highest in the nation   
   AL.com, 29 Jan 2021 13:57Z   
   35% of reported virus tests in Alabama are coming back positive. But   
   it depends on which numbers you look at.   
      
   EU places export controls on coronavirus vaccines   
   CNBC, 29 Jan 2021 16:53Z   
   The EU's vaccination program has been sluggish at best, and looking   
   vulnerable to supply shortages.   
      
   [Doom Loop:]   
   GOP Looked Set to Divorce Donald Trump Over Capitol Riot. Now, it's Renewing   
   Vows   
   Newsweek, 29 Jan 2021 09:53Z   
   After the deadly violence of Jan 6, the Republican Party looked set to   
   sever ties with Donald Trump but just a few weeks on signs point towards a   
   renewed ...   
      
     The G.O.P. Is in a Doom Loop of Bizarro   
     The New York Times/Opinion, 29 Jan 2021 15:51Z   
     Here's what we know about American politics: The Republican Party is stuck,   
     probably irreversibly, in a doom loop of bizarro. If the Trump-incited   
     Capitol ...   
      
     McCarthy Seeks Thaw With Trump as G.O.P. Rallies Behind Former President   
     The New York Times, 28 Jan 2021 23:52Z   
     The top House Republican met with former President Donald J. Trump, working   
     to mend fences after saying that Mr. Trump bore responsibility for the Jan.   
      
     Where is the Republican Party of Barry Goldwater when we need it? | TheHill   
     The Hill/Opinion, 29 Jan 2021 14:52Z   
     There's no question that Donald Trump committed impeachable acts that exceed   
     those that prompted the GOP to abandon Richard Nixon.   
      
   Mexico's COVID-19 death toll surpasses India, becomes world's third highest   
   Yahoo News, 29 Jan 2021 03:21Z   
   Mexico on Thu surpassed India in confirmed COVID-19 deaths, giving the   
   Latin American country the third-highest toll worldwide, according to a   
   Reuters ...   
      
   San Francisco will rename 42 schools to end racist associations   
   Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan 2021 23:21Z   
   The San Francisco Unified Board of Education voted 6-1 to change a third of   
   its school names for their associations with racism, oppression and   
   colonization.   
      
   What writers who imagined drowned worlds tell us about the future of   
   sea-level rise   
   Phys.org, 28 Jan 2021 17:20Z   
   Water was traded on Wall Street alongside oil and gold for the first time in   
   early Dec 2020. That might seem bizarre, but there is a grim logic at play.   
      
   Record-Breaking Source for Single Photons Developed That Can Produce   
   Billions of Quantum Particles per Second   
   SciTechDaily, 28 Jan 2021 16:20Z   
   Researchers at the University of Basel and Ruhr University Bochum have   
   developed a source of single photons that can produce bns of these   
   quantum ...   
      
   Growing concern COVID-19 could be in South-East Queensland community after   
   more wastewater testing   
   ABC News, 29 Jan 2021 07:37Z   
   Acting Chief Health Officer Sonya Bennett says positive coronavirus   
   fragments in 2 sewage catchments not fed by hotel quarantine raises the   
   potential there is an undetected case in the South-East Queensland community.   
      
     Coronavirus fragments found in wastewater at 3 Victorian towns   
     ABC News, 29 Jan 2021 06:38Z   
     Residents of 3 regional Victorian towns are urged to get tested for   
     coronavirus after viral fragments were detected in wastewater samples.   
      
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