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Democrats start reining in expectations for immigration bill

It’s taken only days for Democrats gauging how far President Joe Biden’s bold immigration proposal can go in Congress to acknowledge that if anything emerges, it will l

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In 2020, VCs invested $428M into US-based startups every day

Despite a pandemic that sparked a global recession, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups.According to data shared by PitchBook and the National Venture C

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The best thing about 2020 is we survived it. No need to say what the worst thing is, it’s hands down our collective stupidity in the choices we’ve made. That reality has forced us to refactor what we

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Weber acquires smart cooking startup June

Outdoor cooking industry leader and famed Kettle grill-maker Weber has acquired June, the smart cooking startup founded in 2013 by Matt Van Horn and Nikhil Bhogal. While financial terms of the deal we

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Bills beat Colts 27-24 for first playoff win in 25 years

Quarterback Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills has the ball in the NFL American Football Conference (AFC) Wild Card playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts at Bills Stadium in Orchard Park, New

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Mixtape podcast: Behind the curtain of diversity theater

It’s fair to say that most people have heard about diversity reports. And it’s probably also fair to say that most of us have watched, sometimes with a metaphorical bucket of buttered popcorn, as comp

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Bernie Sanders says he AGREES with Trump's calls for $2,000 checks

Bernie Sanders has voiced his support for President Trump's demands to increase COVID-19 stimulus checks to $2,000, as he revealed there are 'at least five' Republican

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Music made 2020 better, but we failed to make 2020 better for musicians

“Are you okay?”I don’t have a good answer to the question. Knowing full well that I’m talking back to an algorithm — even one asking the same question of everyone with a different band mad-libbe

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Fluent Forever raises $4.9M for its language learning system

Fluent Forever, a startup that uses a novel learning system to help its users master a new language faster, has raised a $4.9 million funding round led by Denver-based Stout Street Capital. Other inve

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Top-ranked Ko Jin-young powers to victory in LPGA Tour Championship

Ko Jin-young of South Korea plays a shot from a bunker on the ninth hole during the LPGA Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, December 19, 2020. /CFP World No.1 Ko Jin-yo

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Bills beat Broncos, clinch 1st AFC East title since 1995

Quarterback Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills celebrates after their 48-19 victory over the Denver Broncos at Empower Field in Denver, Colorado, December 19, 2020. /CFP Donning gray caps that de

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Chinese tech companies need to go truly global

06:49 Editor's note:China's 2020 Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing December 16-18. The annual conference reviews China's economic performance of the past year and ou

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ClickUp CEO talks hiring, raising and scaling in the white-hot productivity space

Few young software companies have had as great a year as San Diego-based ClickUp. The company, which makes business productivity tools for task management, goals and docs, raised its first bit of outs

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A handful of GOP lawmakers acknowledge Trump's loss after Electoral College vote, with an even smaller number calling Biden 'president-elect'

On the day that Biden has officially been certified by the Electoral College as the president-elect, most of the GOP apparatus has not publicly changed its tune.However

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Inside Zoox’s six-year ride from prototype to product

Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company that was acquired this year by Amazon, revealed this week the product of six years of work: A purpose-built self-driving vehicle designed to carry people — and som

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The 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E disappoints in our first drive

This is not a review of the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E Sport SUV.A few weeks back, I spent two short hours in Ford’s upcoming EV. I don’t feel comfortable declaring a conclusion with just a

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Investors double down on tech stocks in massive DoorDash, Airbnb, C3.ai IPOs

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here.Maybe it is a stock market bubble, or a tech-stock bub