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Trump impeachment trial Day 4: Defense wraps, Saturday verdict likely

Donald Trump's defense team wrapped up its case against conviction at the former U.S. president's Senate impeachment trial on Friday, denying that their client's words incited riots at the U.S. Capit

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A Dallas-based founder looks to tackle the student loan crisis with his startup, College Cash

Demetrius Curry has spent the last couple years chasing a dream.His startup, College Cash, allows brands to petition users to create photo and video marketing content highlighting their product or ser

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' You can only do so much talking' - Has COVID destroyed dating?

Dating apps may be enjoying a boom, but the love lives of singles are suffering in lockdown.

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Tsegay renews women's world indoor 1,500m record

Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia improved the women's world indoor 1,500-meter record by more than two seconds at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Lievin, France on Tuesday.The 24-year-old

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Prevent the next food crisis now

A farmer puts sorted rice seeds into a sack in Mekarsari village in Indonesia. /Getty Editor's note: Mark Lowcock is the United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and eme

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Rising African venture investment powers fintech, cleantech bets in 2020

As a turbulent week in the capital world, we’re taking a look at something a bit slower-moving: venture capital trends in Africa during 2020.The Exchange has long explored quarterly and yearly d

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Levity is a ‘no-code’ AI tool to let anyone create workflow automations

Levity, which has been operating in stealth (until now), is the latest no-code company to throw its wares into the ring, having picked up $1.7M in pre-seed funding led by Gil Dibner’s Angular Ventures

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How Bitcoin is helping middle-class users survive the pandemic

Regulators may still want to imply Bitcoin is merely a tool for criminals, but for many middle-class users, it’s proving to be a lifeline.Even as politicians like European Central Bank President Chris

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Home services platform Porch acquires four companies

Only a few weeks after its SPAC IPO, Porch today announced that it has made four acquisitions, worth a total of $122 million. The most important here is probably the acquisition of Homeowners of Ameri

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The Capitol riot is a collective American failure

Editor's note: CGTN's First Voice provides instant commentary on breaking stories. The daily column clarifies emerging issues and better defines the news agenda, offering a Chinese perspective on

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Apple App Store customers spent $1.8B over the week of Christmas, set a spending record on New Year’s Day

Apple this morning offered an updated look at its App Store business with the release of its holiday sales figures. The company said App Store customers spent $1.8 billion in apps during the week of C

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Senate Probe Finds Obama Admin Signed Off on Grant of Taxpayer Funds to Al-Qaeda Affiliate

The US Senate Finance Committee initially launched an investigation into the relationship between non-profit organization World Vision and Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA)

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The Chat Room: Let's have a virtual year-end party

Holiday season in 2020 comes with many questions and awkwardness attached, since most people around the world are limited by the realities of COVID-19.During the pandemic, many kinds of traditional g

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NHL and players' union approve 56-game season starting January 13

Tampa Bay Lightning players celebrate after defeating the Dallas Stars to win the Stanley Cup at Rogers Place, Alberta, Canada, September 28, 2020. /CFP The National Hockey League has given it

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Chinese experts wait to complete Kathmandu restoration

02:25 Reconstruction halted It's been almost a year since Guo Qianru, a 33-year-old Chinese conservation engineer, was last in Nepal. When she boarded a plane back to China early in Ja

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Canada border official says information shared inappropriately with FBI in Huawei CFO case

A Canadian border official who oversaw staff at Vancouver's airport when Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested two years ago testified on Friday she

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How to find your next VC

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Wan