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U.S. daily COVID-19 cases could exceed 200,000 in coming weeks

People walk on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., August 13, 2021. Louisiana holds one of the U.S.'s lowest vaccination rates with just 38 percent of its residents fully vaccinated.

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The 2022 Toyota GR 86 brings performance to the people

The sports car market can seem like an exclusive club, one reserved for those with enough extra cash and garage space to make such a highly impractical passion purchase.More often than not, these pres

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Democrats look to state courts as redistricting battle heats up

Democrats are expected to lean heavily on state Supreme Courts in the upcoming fight over redistricting after key pathways to fighting maps gerrymandered by Republicans

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Afghan president leaves country, Taliban forces enter Kabul

Taliban members are seen in Mehtarlam, capital of Laghman province, eastern Afghanistan. /Xinhua Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani left the country on Sunday night, while the Taliban orde

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Daily Crunch: 3 US Senators ask Amazon how biometric payment system will handle customers’ palm prints

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch fo

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McConnell slams Biden's 'reckless' Afghanistan strategy and urges more military support

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell decried President Joe Biden's strategy in Afghanistan as "reckless" and urged the commander in chief to commit more military supp

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Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 review: Getting out of their own way

Earlier this year, Nothing launched the Ear (1) with a grand idea: earbuds as fashion accessories. Sure, the company talked a lot about the non-invasiveness of transparent design, but at the end of th

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3 lies VCs tell ourselves about startup valuations

I’m frequently asked by journalists whether I think venture capital valuations are too high in the current environment.Because the average venture capital fund returns only 1.3x committed capital over

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Discovery suggests 40% of wild deer in U.S. have had the coronavirus

A white-tailed deer photographed in Cliffside, New Jersey, U.S., June 26, 2020. /CFP A recent study found neutralizing antibodies for SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, in 40 perc

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Venmo to allow credit cardholders to automatically buy cryptocurrency with their cash back

PayPal-owned Venmo is expanding its support for cryptocurrency with today’s launch of a new feature that will allow users to automatically buy cryptocurrency using the cash back they earned from

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$100M donation powers decade-long moonshot to create solar satellites that beam power to Earth

It sounds like a plan concocted by a supervillain, if that villain’s dastardly end was to provide cheap, clean power all over the world: launch a set of three-kilometer-wide solar arrays that be

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America's ongoing debt trap

Credit cards and U.S. dollar notes. /Getty Editor's note: James Rae is a professor at California State University Sacramento. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Beijing Foreign Studies Univers

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Lyft reaches adjusted profitability milestone despite continuing net losses

Today after the bell, U.S. ride-hailing company Lyft reported its second quarter financial performance. In aggregate the company’s performance was a rebound from the year-ago second quarter, whi

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The next generation of global payments: Afterpay + Square

Sunday was a big day in fintech: Afterpay has agreed to merge with Square. This agreement sets two of the most admired financial technology companies in recent history on a path to becoming one.Afterp

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Central China's Zhengzhou launches citywide nucleic acid testing

01:46 Not yet having completely recovered from record-breaking torrential rains last week, Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, is facing the challenge

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HKSAR govt 'deeply' regrets U.S., EU officials' remarks on court decision

The law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region took effect at 23:00 local time on Tuesday.En

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Deliveroo could leave Spanish market ahead of on-demand labor reclassification

Deliveroo announced today that it is considering leaving the Spanish market, citing limited market share and a long road of investment with “highly uncertain long-term