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Jan. 6 committee's lawyer leaving the panel for possible Missouri Senate bid

John Wood, a Republican lawyer and former federal prosecutor who has helped lead the House Jan. 6 committee's investigation, is leaving his role with the panel this wee

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GGV Capital gave this real estate startup founder a term sheet 48 hours after meeting

Realm, which aims to help homeowners maximize the value of their property with its data platform, has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by GGV Capital.Existing backers Primary Venture Partner

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Blue Origin’s New Shepard carries Jeff Bezos and three crew members to space and back

Blue Origin successfully completed its first crewed launch Tuesday, sending four human passengers to space – including the company’s founder, Jeff Bezos. The result of billions of dollars of investmen

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Dataminr’s first ever acquisition is UK-based geovisualization platform WatchKeeper

When it comes to detecting events transpiring anywhere in the world, few companies hold a candle to Dataminr. Founded in 2009, the company has raised more than $1 billion over the past 12 years (inclu

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Biden, GOP senator talk as time drags on infrastructure deal

For nearly an hour, President Joe Biden and the top Senate Republican negotiating infrastructure met behind closed doors — two seasoned legislators engaged in another r

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New voter ID rules raise concerns of fraud, ballot rejection

When voters in Florida and Georgia want to vote by mail in next year’s races for governor, they will have to make sure they take one more step to ensure they receive a

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Wisetack raises $19M as its buy-now-pay-later service for IRL services scales

This morning Wisetack, a startup that provides buy-now-pay-later services to in-person business transactions, announced that is has closed a total of $19 million across two rounds, a seed investment a

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Trump, Biden zero in on swing states that are key to victory

With Election Day just three weeks away, President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden concentrated Tuesday on battleground states both see as critical to

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Kamala Harris brings a view from tech’s epicenter to the presidential race

Joe Biden’s decision to name California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate in the quest to unseat President Trump means that the next White House could be occupied not only by a Black wo

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Beijing 2022 eyes to set gold standard for Green Olympics

Saunter into the lush outlier of the newly-built Winter Olympic Forest Park situated in Beijing's northern district of Yanqing, and the first thing you will pick out is

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Bearish VCs, bullish founders and changing investing trends

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, concern was high, public markets were suffering and it wasn’t hard to find wags on Twitter declaring that the world had changed and startup valuat

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Extra Crunch Live: Join BLCK VC’s Sydney Sykes for a discussion on fostering diversity in venture

Tech has dropped the ball. For an industry that holds so much power, and prides itself on being ahead of the curve, the diversity of venture capital and among tech entrepreneurs leaves so much to be d

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Brazil's Bolsonaro wants borders reopened, says worth risk

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday called for the reopening of the country's borders, as he pushes to restart South America's largest economy, but conceded he may be blamed if the new coron

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S.Korea's ruling party wins landslide victory in parliamentary polls amid COVID-19 outbreak

South Korean President Moon Jae-in's ruling Democratic Party has won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections held amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The governing Demo

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Top congressional Democrats OK with Sanders becoming party's presidential nominee

Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the United States, Feb. 2, 2020. (Photo by Joel Lerner/Xinhua) Having won the nominating contests in New Hampshire and Nevada following a narro