Four years after the start of Covid, a disturbing pattern is emerging: Not only did it result in the most deaths in a century, but it also triggered deadly waves of heart disease and stroke. Scientists are trying to figure out why.
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Trump fared better with manual laborers, with 84% of donors who reported being ranchers giving to him. The vast majority of donors who work as college professors, deans or otherwise employed by colleges or universities gave to Biden. See the interactive:
Bloomberg is expanding its data journalism and visualization teams globally by hiring approximately 40 new data journalists, data visualization reporters, editors and engineers.
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Russian forces attacked targets across Ukraine after President Putin vowed to “demilitarize” the country and replace its leaders. The government in Kyiv called Russia’s actions a “full-scale invasion” as it declared martial law.
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Since last week, states where at least 10% of the Black population has been vaccinated more than doubled, as the rate of inoculation for people of color improved in the South.
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Thanks to her new single “WAP”, Cardi B is topping this month’s Bloomberg Pop Star Power Rankings, with 115 million streams on Spotify, 225 million views on YouTube and 126 million interactions on Instagram
A 3M factory in Antwerp, Belgium, spewed “forever chemicals” for decades—polluting the land, water, and people living near it. Now a fight is unfolding over how to clean up the toxic mess.
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The U.S. and U.K. will ban imports of Russian oil in an escalation of punitive measures targeted at hobbling Russia’s economy. Other European nations that rely more heavily on Russian fuels have not indicated they will participate.
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The
#Tokyo2020
Olympic Games are now officially over! A total of 340 gold medals have been awarded and the final results are now known:
* U.S.🇺🇸 (39
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* China🇨🇳 (38)
* Japan🇯🇵 (27)
* G.B.🇬🇧 (22)
* ROC (20)
* Australia🇦🇺 (17)
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The U.S. surpassed the important milestone of 200M doses administered today. Currently vaccinating at a rate of 3.35M doses a day, it will take the country three more months to cover 75% of the population
Russia is a commodities powerhouse, exporting huge amounts of materials the world needs to build cars, transport goods, make bread and keep the lights on.
Its invasion of Ukraine is constraining those crucial supplies—and driving up prices in the process
The U.S. government distributed $521 billion in loans to small businesses to help them cope during the pandemic. Here’s a closer look at where the money went.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Explained: The new violence revived calls for diplomacy aimed at a two-state solution that’s hardly popular on either side.
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On Tuesday, the House voted 223-205 to pass the resolution recommending that Vice President Mike Pence and the cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment.
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In Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad demanded to form a new government by 5 p.m. local time after his opposition coalition dealt Prime Minister Najib Razak’s ruling coalition a stunning defeat.
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More than 1.5 million people have crossed from Ukraine to neighboring countries in the past 10 days,
@FilippoGrandi
, the UN High Commissioner for
@Refugees
, tweeted on Sunday.
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🚢📉 The Mississippi River — the immense, quiet highway that courses down the middle of America, moving critical food, wood, coal and steel supplies to global markets — is shrinking from drought, forcing traffic to a crawl at the worst possible time.
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3.3 million shots. This is the new no. of vaccine doses administered around the world, compiled by Bloomberg.
Our last update of the week has the 🇺🇸U.S. at 1.23M, 🇨🇳China at 1M, the 🇬🇧U.K. at 626K and 🇨🇦Canada at 37K.
Boris Johnson promised to supercharge Britain by reducing regional inequalities. Two years on, an exclusive analysis by Bloomberg News shows things are going backwards.
#LevellingUp
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Bad Bunny remains the world’s biggest pop star. The reason: his sold-out tour.
Bloomberg’s Pop Star Power Rankings for April is out. See it in full here:
Overall, Democrats gained the most in the suburbs, which shifted from majority Republican in 2016 to majority Democrat in 2020, according to a Bloomberg
@CityLab
analysis of data for some 2,822 counties
Russia earns more than $1 billion a day exporting its oil and gas. It’s also a giant wheat exporter and a key low-cost shipper of every kind of crop fertilizer
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We just added a historical chart showing the progress of states in the U.S. toward vaccinating their population.
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In
@bopinion
: Hong Kong has had its doomsayers through the last 30 years but 2020 was the one that broke the spirit of a city like no other, says longtime resident
@mbrookerhk
A new projection of Covid-19 deaths predicts that the number of daily deaths in the U.S. could peak on April 12, with an upper bound of around 126,000 deaths—a projection significantly lower than those made last week
Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech SE agreed this morning to supply an additional 100 million doses of their Covid-19 vaccine to the U.S.—here is the situation on pre-purchase agreements around the world:
A Bloomberg analysis of decades of election results across 22 European countries reveals that support for populist radical-right parties is higher than it’s been at any time over the past 30 years
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While we await results, check out our state maps from the 2014 and 2018 elections, to see where the support of each of the candidates tend to come from.
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