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Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg Google announced a series of pledges on Thursday to fund and promote coronavirus vaccines across the globe, including $250 million in advertising grants for pro-vaccination groups. Through its philanthropy arm, Google will pay for 250,000 shots in “low and middle-income countries,” as classified by Google’s partner Gavi, a charity focused on… Source link

The Daily Beast Texas Lifestyle Coach and QAnon-Obsessed Boyfriend Nabbed for Capitol Riot Criminal ComplaintA Texas lifestyle coach and essential oils guru has been charged after storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 with her QAnon-obsessed boyfriend who documented “patriots [going] to war” on his social media.Elizabeth Rose Williams, a Kerrville, Texas resident, and her boyfriend, Bradley Stuart Bennett, were arrested last week for violent entry and disorderly conduct and knowingly… Source link

Vanessa Sierra and Bernard Tomic at the Australian Open. Image: Getty/Instagram Vanessa Sierra has revealed she is the bread winner in her relationship with Bernard Tomic and says it’s “obvious” she’s not a gold digger. The reality TV-turned-Only Fans star claims to be a millionaire thanks to her work selling explicit content to subscribers. ‘NOT OVER’: Roger Federer makes massive retirement statement HUGE: Novak Djokovic’s surprise announcement after Aus Open In a social media chat on Sunday… Source link

Multiple reports have come out detailing Google Stadia’s troubles that include everything from internal struggles on the development team to “tens of millions” of dollars spent on AAA games like Red Dead Redemption 2 to development roadblocks created by Google itself. Bloomberg reported that, despite all the hype built up by Google for Stadia’s reveal, gamers around the world were disappointed. This led to a lackluster launch and Stadia is said to have “missed its targets for sales of… Source link

Bloomberg Buffett’s Berkshire Snaps Up Record $24.7 Billion of Own Stock (Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. bought back a record $24.7 billion of its own stock last year and said there’s more to come, as the conglomerate struggled to find other ways to deploy its enormous pile of cash.The company’s purchase of $9 billion of shares in the fourth quarter matched a record set in the previous three-month period, Buffett said Saturday in his annual letter to… Source link

When the U.S. government bailed out student loan lenders during the Great Recession, legislators unintentionally set off a series of cascading events that has left more than 6 million student loan borrowers locked out of a crucial benefit more than 10 years later amid the coronavirus pandemic. Two consumer advocacy groups are pressing the Biden administration to change that. “The Trump administration exercised executive authority to cancel student loan interest charges and pause loan payments… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Millions of households in Texas are suffering rolling blackouts for the first time in a decade as an unprecedented Arctic freeze sends temperatures plummeting across much of the U.S., roiling energy markets. Large swaths of Dallas, Houston and other cities are being plunged into darkness for an hour at a time — and in some cases longer — as surging demand for heat pushes the power grid to the brink. Outages are expected to continue into early Tuesday, grid operators said… Source link

TipRanks 2 “Strong Buy” Penny Stocks With Over 200% Upside on the Horizon Let’s talk about risk and the big picture. It’s an appropriate time, as the big risk – presented by the COVID-19 pandemic – is finally receding thanks to the ongoing vaccination program. COVID is leaving behind an economy that was forced into shutdown one year ago while in the midst of a great expansion, boosted by the deregulation policies. While the new Biden Administration is busy reversing many Trump… Source link

Texas may pay tens of millions of dollars to outside attorneys hired to handle a major lawsuit against Google — money the state did not plan to spend before a scandal enveloped Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this fall. That’s under agreements signed last month with outside lawyers based in Chicago, Houston and Washington, D.C., including high-profile plaintiffs’ attorney Mark Lanier and the law firm Keller Lenkner, who will lead Texas’ multi-state… Source link

The Telegraph The Brexit Deal gutted: What are the good and bad bits for Britain? Fishing What was agreed The fishing industry will enter a five-and-a-half year transition period, during which the EU will give back 25 per cent of the value of its catch in UK waters. After that period, fishing rights in UK waters will be subject to an annual negotiation process, which must be concluded by December 10 in preparation for the next year. What the Government says: UK officials accepted “fisheries… Source link