President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump were campaigning on Monday in Georgia, where two U.S. Senate runoff elections on Tuesday are set to determine the balance of power in Washington. Biden spoke at an afternoon event in Atlanta in support of Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, …
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Getty Images “ ‘The United States is at a tipping point in which it could go from manageable internal tension to revolution and/or civil war.’ ” That’s Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, sounding the alarm in his latest LinkedIn post on the class and power struggles that …
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The U.S. is “unlikely” to develop herd immunity to COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday, due to the likely combination of only a partially effective vaccine and the large number of people who refuse to take it. Speaking Sunday night to CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen as part of the Aspen Ideas …
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In the busiest earnings week of the season, Thursday is the biggest act. Two trillion-dollar companies — Apple Inc. AAPL, +3.28% and Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +2.53% — will follow the successes of rivals Alphabet Inc. GOOG, +8.73% GOOGL, +8.89% and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +4.48% and look to prove that the …
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