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Durant hails Harden for triple-double on Nets debut
Harden joined the Nets from the Houston Rockets on Thursday to reunite with Durant -- his former team mate at Oklahoma City Thunder -- and the duo looked dominant in their first game together with the Brooklyn team. Durant scored a season-high 42 points while Harden, the NBA's MVP in 2018, became the seventh player in NBA history to register a triple-double in his debut with a new team and finished with 32 points, 12 rebounds and 14 assists.
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Associated Press
The Latest: Pakistan approves Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
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Storyful
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Fencing and barricades filled the streets of Washington near government buildings ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president of the United States, amid security concerns following the January 6 storming of the Capitol.Around 25,000 National Guard members from several states were expected to be in the capital to support the security of the inauguration on January 20.This video shows various streets blocked by national guard vehicles and checkpoints built with tall fences and concrete barriers. Credit: @geemanis via Storyful
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Axios
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President-elect Joe Biden will roll back some of President Trump's most controversial policies and address "four overlapping and compounding crises" in his first 10 days in office — the pandemic, the economic downturn, climate climate and racial inequity.Driving the news: That's according to a memo from Biden's incoming Chief of Staff Ron Klain Saturday. Following Biden's inauguration Wednesday, he'll "sign roughly a dozen actions to combat the four crises," Klein said.Be smart: sign up FREE for the most influential newsletter in America.Zoom in: Biden's actions on day one of his presidency will include rejoining the Paris climate agreement, extending a pause on federal student loan payments, reversing Trump's ban on travel to the U.S. from several Muslim-majority countries and issuing a mask mandate in an attempt to curb surging COVID-19 cases. * On Thursday, Biden will sign several executive actions aimed at changing the course of the COVID-19 crisis and safely re-open schools and businesses. * On Friday, the president-elect will "direct his Cabinet agencies to take immediate action to deliver economic relief to working families bearing the brunt" of the coronavirus crisis, Klein wrote. * Between Jan. 25 and Feb. 1, Biden will address the climate crisis, criminal justice reform, take steps to expand access to health care, and move to reform immigration — including reuniting families separated at the border under Trump's immigration policy.For the record: All of these measures were previously announced, but this is the first time Biden's timetable has been revealed.Go deeper: Biden's "100-day challenge"Support safe, smart, sane journalism. Sign up for Axios Newsletters here.
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Grand Slam champions are among the 47 players in hard lockdown after four positive tests for COVID-19 emerged from two of the charter flights bringing players, staff, officials and media to Australia for the first tennis major of the season. Breach quarantine regulations and there’s the prospect of heavy fines or being moved to a more secure quarantine complex with police stationed at their doors. Three cases were announced Saturday and Victoria state’s COVID-19 quarantine commissioner Emma Cassar told a news conference on Sunday that there’d been a fourth positive test involving a person flying in for the Australian Open.
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Trump leaves White House with his lowest-ever approval rating after Capitol riot, impeachment
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INEOS Team UK stay unbeaten, nightmare continues for American Magic
A dramatic shift in the wind had earlier forced organisers to stop the day's opening race with Ben Ainslie's INEOS Team UK aboard "Britannia" leading after four legs at Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. In conditions that were vastly different from the light winds teams experienced on Saturday, INEOS Team UK excelled to seal the win and put themselves in a commanding position. New York Yacht Club's American Magic were denied their first points in the series when "Patriot" capsized in the second race of the day after encountering a huge gust of wind while going into a sharp turn.
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In wheelchair, paraplegic Lai Chi-wai climbs up skyscraper in Hong Kong
Lai Chi-wai became the first in Hong Kong to climb more than 250 meters of a skyscraper while strapped into a wheelchair as he pulled himself up for more than 10 hours on Saturday to raise money for spinal cord patients. The 37-year-old climber, whose car accident 10 years ago left him paralyzed from waist down, could not make it to the top of the 300 metre-tall Nina Tower on the Kowloon peninsula. "I was quite scared," Lai said.
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National media reactions to Bills earning trip to AFC Championship
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Deaths, self-immolation draw scrutiny on China tech giants
E-commerce workers who kept China fed during the coronavirus pandemic, making their billionaire bosses even richer, are so unhappy with their pay and treatment that one just set himself on fire in protest. China’s internet industries already were known for long, demanding days. For white-collar workers in the technology industry, pay is better than in some industries but employees are often expected to work 12 hours a day or more.
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Pep Guardiola reaches 50 with more in store for his Manchester City reign
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Kamala’s Way review: Harris as symbol of hope – and hard politics
A new biography suggests Joe Biden has picked a VP who will not shrink from tackling the toxic legacy of TrumpHistory-maker Harris will wield real power as vice-president Kamala Harris adjusts her mask as Joe Biden announces his science team in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters The president of the United States spent weeks recruiting then inciting a mob to invade Congress and prevent the certification of his opponent’s victory. The intruders killed one police officer and injured more than a dozen, pummeling them with everything from flagstaffs to fire extinguishers. Democratic House members talked openly about feeling threatened in the presence of newly-elected white supremacist, QAnon-friendly colleagues across the aisle, as evidence grew that several such gun-toting Republicans may have directly collaborated with the lovely people who tried to destroy their workspace. All this after the president issued waves of pardons for war criminals and stock manipulators – and, perhaps, just before a new wave of pardons for himself, his family and everyone he incited to destroy the Capitol. After being assaulted for four long years with so much evidence of American venality, now more than ever we need to remind ourselves that a new and hopeful era will begin just three days from now – thanks to the extraordinary hard work of a majority of decent, voting Americans. Yes, 74 million inexplicably voted to re-elect the most corrupt and incompetent president in American history. But surely this is the more important fact: 81 million chose Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, thereby giving us the first woman, the first African American and the first Indian American ever to serve as vice-president. She’s prepared, she’s focused, she’s smart, she’s effective, she does her homework. And that’s the coin of the realm Senator Ron Wyden The good news from the author of this new biography of Harris is that even a former editorial writer who endorsed Harris’ opponent when she ran for California attorney general now recognizes she is supremely qualified to be Biden’s governing partner. “Kamala Harris comes to play … every single day,” said her Senate colleague Ron Wyden, from Oregon. “She’s prepared, she’s focused, she’s smart, she’s effective, she does her homework. And that’s really the coin of the realm of the Senate: who’s doing their homework and who’s just throwing press releases out for a 10-second sizzle.” In this case, heritage is almost as important as talent. The daughter of a Jamaican-born economist and Indian-born cancer researcher, Harris embodies the American immigrant dream – and everything Donald Trump and his disgusting minions have spent four years seeking to destroy. Dan Morain is a former state political reporter for the Los Angeles Times and former editorial page editor of the Sacramento Bee but he doesn’t have any scoops in Kamala’s Way. He has done a workmanlike job of assessing her passions and her accomplishments. But often his best details are lifted directly from her own autobiography, including this description of her life as an undergraduate at Howard University, America’s premier black college in Washington DC: “You could stand in the middle of the Yard and see, on your right, young dancers practicing their steps or musicians playing instruments. Look to your left and there were briefcase-toting students strolling out of the business school, and medical students in their white coats … That was the beauty of Howard. Every signal told students that we could be anything – that we were young, gifted and black, and we shouldn’t let anything get in the way of our success.” One thing Harris doesn’t describe in her autobiography is the jump start her career got from a romance with Willie Brown, the grand old man of California politics, a long-time speaker of the state assembly who became mayor of San Francisco. Harris was just 30 when she was outed as Brown’s girlfriend at his 60th birthday party. The legendary San Francisco columnist, Herb Caen, reported that Clint Eastwood spilled champagne “on the Speaker’s new steady, Kamala Harris”. The political education she received from Brown undoubtedly contributed to her rapid rise, from San Francisco district attorney to California attorney general to United States senator. But even as she enjoyed the usual perks of a California politician, crossing paths with everyone from Elton John to George Lucas and Sharon Stone, Harris was always impressing colleagues with her seriousness – from early advocacy for marriage equality to determination to get $20bn out of the nation’s largest banks as punishment for their abuses of the foreclosure process after the collapse of the housing bubble. Kamala Harris speaks to supporters in San Francisco in October 2008. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images She was also an enthusiastic enforcer of a California law that takes guns out of the hands of convicted felons. By the time she ran her first campaign for DA, eight years after her romance with Brown was over, she didn’t hesitate to call him her “albatross”. In a clever bit of political jiujitsu, she told SF Weekly: “I refuse to design my campaign around criticizing Willie Brown for the sake of appearing to be independent when I have no doubt that I am independent of him – and that he would probably right now express some fright about the fact that he cannot control me. His career is over; I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years.” From the beginning she was a superb networker, becoming one of Barack Obama’s earliest supporters when he ran for president, befriending Joe Biden’s son Beau when both were state attorneys general. In the Senate, she was appropriately abrasive when she interrogated Trump’s cabinet nominees. But she was also careful to be much more respectful of Senate staffers than many other senators. All her life, Harris has made a habit of exceeding expectations. This book suggests she will do that again as vice-president – and that one day she might also excel as America’s first woman, first Indian and second Black president.
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Top Tech Stocks for 2021
In this episode of Industry Focus: Tech, host Dylan Lewis and Motley Fool contributor Brian Feroldi kick off 2021 with their favorite tech stocks for the upcoming year (but really, decade) and take a look back at 2020 -- the biggest winners, regrets, and the lessons from the past year. To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fool's free podcasts, check out our podcast center. Brian, how are you doing?
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10 big things: Affirm leads a feeding frenzy for fintech
Fintech has been a venture capital hotspot ever since the global financial crisis, a calamity that exposed some serious flaws in an industry long dominated by an upper-crust of traditional names. In the ensuing years, a host of new companies pitching upstart technologies have begun to gain ground on the establishment, winning over converts among both users and investors. And this week made it clear just how far some of those companies have come. An eye-popping IPO from Affirm led the way, but more than a half-dozen other fintech startups also made major news. And that's one of 10 things you need to know from the past week: Max Levchin, who co-founded PayPal and now leads Affirm, is no stranger to the power of fintech. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) 1. Money talks Affirm tried its best to avoid a huge IPO pop that would leave money on the table. First, the provider of point-of-sale loans delayed its listing in December, in the wake of intense investor demand when Airbnb and DoorDash went public. (Let's take a moment to appreciate the strangeness of a company being worried its stock might be too popular.) Then, earlier this month, Affirm increased its IPO's initial price range of $33 to $38 per share to a new range of $41 to $44. Ultimately, it priced its shares even higher, landing on a $49 figure for a debut this Wednesday. And yet Affirm still opened trading at more than $90 per share and closed its first day at $96.36, up nearly 100% from that already-elevated IPO price. That resulted in a market cap of some $23 billion for Affirm, which was valued privately at $2.9 billion in 2019. The banner debut is a sign that the IPO market is still going crazy—more on that later in this newsletter. As my colleague James Thorne writes, it could be the first of many significant fintech IPOs to come in 2021, along with names like SoFi, Coinbase and Robinhood. Globally, there were $30.9 billion worth of VC exits in the fintech sector during 2020, according to PitchBook data, the highest total of at least the past decade. Taken in the context of the past seven days, Affirm's warm reception also underlines just how bullish investors are feeling about the future of fintech. Checkout.com, a London-based developer of payments technology, became the most valuable venture-backed company in Europe this week with a $450 million Series C that came at a $15 billion valuation. In Singapore, ridehailing and food delivery giant Grab raised more than $300 million this week for its fintech unit. Financial data specialist MX, payments provider Rapyd and digital lending startup Blend all raised nine-figure fundings this week, resulting in respective valuations of $1.9 billion, $2.5 billion and $3.3 billion. For MX, that marks a 322% valuation step-up over its most-recent venture round, in 2019. For Rapyd, it is a 108% step-up in a little more than a year. And for Blend, it represents a 94% valuation increase in a mere five months. Plaid is one of the biggest VC-backed names in fintech, known for its financial infrastructure tools that connect data to various apps and services. In January 2020, Visa agreed to buy the company for $5.3 billion, in what seemed to be a sign of the old financial establishment trying to absorb this new generation. But the Justice Department objected to the transaction on antitrust grounds. And this week, Plaid and Visa canceled the deal. The fact that Visa isn't paying a termination fee suggests that Plaid is just fine with the acquisition falling apart. Considering the hot state of the fintech market, it seems highly likely that Plaid could fetch a higher price. And indeed, chatter began almost immediately that Plaid will now instead opt to go public. We haven't even gotten to what was probably the wildest part of the week in fintech: the saga of bitcoin. The price of the cryptocurrency has gone crazy since October, rising from less than $11,000 to more than $40,000 last week. Bitcoin then lost nearly 25% of its value between last Sunday and Monday, only to bounce back and regain nearly all that value by Thursday. It's been a good time to be a crypto trader. It also seems to be a good time to be a platform where all that trading takes place. We already mentioned that Coinbase is planning an IPO. This week also brought news that two other operators of crypto exchanges are in talks to go public. Bakkt—which is run by Intercontinental Exchange, also the operator of the NYSE—agreed to merge with a SPAC in a $2.1 billion deal. And Gemini—which is owned by the Winklevoss twins of Facebook fame—is considering an IPO, according to a Bloomberg report. There exists a pretty vast chasm between Affirm and Gemini, or between Plaid and Blend, in terms of what the companies actually do. That demonstrates the breadth of the VC-backed fintech industry that has emerged over the past decade-plus. And the past week demonstrates the depth of investor interest in these different ways of changing how money moves throughout the world. 2. Petco & Poshmark Let us now return to the frothiest of IPO markets, where companies going from private to public continue to see huge first-day gains. Shares of Poshmark, the operator of an online marketplace for secondhand clothing and other goods, closed its initial day of trading up more than 140% after a VC-backed IPO that raised $277 million. And Petco, a retailer of various pet supplies and services, experienced a 63% first-day surge after raising $864 million in its IPO. Existing Petco backers CVC Capital Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board retain a controlling stake in the company. 3. Political pullbacks Fallout from the US Capitol riot continues to spread across the private markets. This week, the American Investment Council (a top private equity lobbying group) decided to pause its political donations, and the National Venture Capital Association suspended contributions to lawmakers who opposed certifying Joe Biden's electoral victory. Meanwhile, Sequoia's Doug Leone publicly renounced his support for Donald Trump, not long after another prominent Trump backer, Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, also condemned the president. 4. SPACs + EVs = <3 Electric vehicle companies have proven an extremely popular target for special-purpose acquisition companies. This week, the love affair continued. Proterra, which makes electric buses, unveiled a SPAC deal that values the company at $1.6 billion. Faraday Future is in talks to go public by merging with a SPAC at a $3 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg. And Bloomberg also reported that Lucid Motors, which is developing electric luxury cars, is in talks to merge with a SPAC backed by Churchill Capital at a potential $15 billion valuation. SPACs can't get enough of the electric vehicle market. (ULTRA.F/Getty Images) 5. Trying again It was a week for second (and third) chances on the merger market. Cisco struck a new deal to acquire optical networking company Acacia Communications for $4.5 billion, mere days after Cisco sought a court order to prevent Acacia from walking away from a previous sale agreement worth $2.6 billion. And Staples, which is owned by Sycamore Partners, made a bid to buy rival Office Depot for $2.1 billion, following previous failed attempts to buy the company in both 2016 and 1997. 6. Boffo buyout funds Silver Lake closed its latest flagship fund this week, with a $20 billion haul that was the largest tech-focused vehicle ever raised by a private equity firm, according to PitchBook data. And Silver Lake had company on the mega-fund front. New Mountain Capital closed its latest fund this week with $9.6 billion in commitments, and The Wall Street Journal reported that TA Associates is seeking $11 billion for its next flagship effort. 7. This week in Blackstone The biggest private equity firm in the world was at it again. Bumble, the dating app backed by Blackstone, filed to go public on Friday. Blackstone was busy in India: Portfolio company Aadhar Housing Finance is reportedly planning an IPO for this year, and the firm agreed this week to sell Aakash Educational Services to Byju's. And in personnel news, Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman and former US Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein have both agreed to join Blackstone as senior advisers. 8. IPO rumblings Bumble is far from alone in planning an IPO to take advantage of investor enthusiasm. The trend also extends to Europe. In Germany, SoftBank-backed online car marketplace Auto1 is preparing a public debut that could raise €1 billion (about $1.2 billion). And shoe retailer Dr. Martens, which is backed by Permira, filed on Monday to go public in London. 9. Bugging out Cockroach Labs closed a $160 million funding round this week that came at a $2 billion valuation, a step-up from an $886 million valuation in May 2020, according to PitchBook data. The database management startup doesn't actually have anything to do with literal bugs. But do you know who does? French startup Ynsect, which uses indoor farming to grow mealworms that it turns into food for animals and plants. This week, the European Food Safety Authority ruled that mealworms are also safe for human consumption, setting the stage for Ynsect to branch into a whole new market. 10. The rights stuff KKR agreed this week to acquire the rights to the music catalog of Ryan Tedder, the lead singer of OneRepublic, with Reuters pegging the price at nearly $200 million. The deal continues a growing trend of major artists selling off their song rights as they continue to adapt to the rise of streaming and the current absence of concerts. Bob Dylan, Neil Young, David Crosby, Stevie Nicks and Shakira are just some of the other names to strike similar deals in recent months.
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