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✈ Cathay Pacific is cutting 8,500 jobs as part of a sweeping restructuring that will also shutter its Dragon airline unit. https://bloom.bg/31r47LX

🤳 Thailand’s protesters are using Facebook emoji and Twitter retweets to plan their rallies — and stay ahead of the police. https://bloom.bg/3mbiOL1

🏙 And it’s time to negotiate your lease. From Singapore to Sydney to New York, downtown apartments rents are plunging. https://bloom.bg/2FQ5qg6

💰 Snapchat founders are billions of dollars richer after the Covid-19 pandemic boosted both usage of their app and company profits. https://bloom.bg/2FN5Nb7

🦄 A former Chinese tech unicorn backed by Goldman Sachs may now sell for just over $100. https://bloom.bg/2IH47B1

🇬🇧 European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier highlights the importance of the U.K.’s sovereignty and says a deal is still within reach. https://bloom.bg/31tEv19

💵 Pelosi and Mnuchin are making progress on a stimulus bill, but it may not come together before Election Day: https://bloom.bg/3ogBI52

💊 Purdue Pharma agrees to settle with the Justice Department over how it marketed OxyContin, the addictive painkiller blamed for sparking the opioid crisis: https://bloom.bg/34gBBP2

🧑‍💼💼 After pledging to expand workforce diversity back in June, Microsoft is still struggling to increase Black and Latinx representation: https://bloom.bg/31urNiA

📩 The U.S. says Iran and Russia are attempting to interfere with the presidential election, allowing the spread of false information to voters. https://bloom.bg/31yo8k2

🎠 A former Chinese tech unicorn, backed by Goldman and Tencent, could now sell for just over $1,000. https://bloom.bg/3dNUADZ

🇺🇸🇨🇳 And the U.S.-China conflict over chips is about to get uglier. The ability to make semiconductors has become a national security issue, and the election won’t change that. https://bloom.bg/3jgWrC9

🇹🇷 Turkey is sticking to its demands that the U.S. transfer missile technology and share production ahead of a NATO meeting. https://bloom.bg/3m9YNo9

⚰️ Protests in Nigeria are increasingly deadly. https://bloom.bg/3jl9i6z

🗳️ In their final debate, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden will face their worst enemies – themselves. https://bloom.bg/2Hg6zOR

💵 Funding for Covid testing and tracing is “just about there,” says Nancy Pelosi, but significant differences remain on other key stimulus issues: https://bloom.bg/2IWoRFb

📄 All 465 pages of Ghislaine Maxwell’s deposition in the Jeffrey Epstein case have been released: https://bloom.bg/35lWZ4V

📱 Robinhood lured millennials and Gen Z with free stock trading. Now the company has to convince users it’s more than just a trading app: https://bloom.bg/31zeOfI

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🇺🇸 Joe Biden opened the final U.S. presidential debate by blaming Donald Trump for the deaths of more than 220,000 Americans in the coronavirus pandemic, saying the president doesn’t deserve re-election. Follow our live updates and analysis here: https://bloom.bg/3oh0xxS

💰 Goldman Sachs racked up over $5 billion in global penalties for its role in Malaysia's 1MDB scandal, staining the bank's reputation once again. https://bloom.bg/2HiDlyR

📱And former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called social networks “amplifiers for idiots” that are likely to result in greater internet regulation in the coming years. https://bloom.bg/3kAFTGZ

🇺🇸 Donald Trump kept his cool in a more composed debate performance, yet gained little ground on Joe Biden. We fact checked both candidates’ claims. https://bloom.bg/3kngsbL

🕵️‍♂️ The U.K. financial regulator is investigating 14 firms and six individuals over their roles in a tax scandal across four countries. https://bloom.bg/3jlFbMg

👚 The heiress to a $2.7 billion fast-fashion fortune is backing a label that turns waste into jackets and blazers, as she tries to make clothing green. https://bloom.bg/3koNGHE

💵 Republicans and Democrats continue to point the blame at each other, putting stimulus negotiations at a standstill: https://bloom.bg/3okaCKv

😷 A new University of Washington study predicts that universal mask-wearing in the U.S. could save about 130,000 lives by March 2021. Only half of Americans say they always wear masks in public: https://bloom.bg/3mlbvRj

🥾 More Americans are buying “tactical apparel” ahead of Election Day as sellers find new markets in major cities: https://bloom.bg/3ksNeIy

🇨🇳 A U.S. arms sale to Taiwan last week has prompted China to plan unspecified sanctions on the defense units of Boeing, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. https://bloom.bg/3miGk8Y

💡 Californian blackouts are really just another stark reminder of the Golden State’s battle with Mother Nature. https://bloom.bg/3e9Al3P

🎧 Apple is planning a smaller AirPods Pro as the earbuds face new competition from Amazon and Google. https://bloom.bg/2HxVU1I

⚖️ The U.S. Senate is set to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court today, making way for a 6-3 conservative majority: https://bloom.bg/2J1mJMg

📮 Slow on-time deliveries by the USPS are prompting advocates to urge voters to drop off ballots in person: https://bloom.bg/3kuR0Ba

💬 Jared Kushner says that Black Americans must “want to be successful” in order for the Trump Administration’s policies to help them: https://bloom.bg/3osVNoR

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⚖️ Judge Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court by the Senate, solidifying a conservative majority just eight days before the election. https://bloom.bg/35BKZfx

💸 Sheldon Adelson’s Sands, the world’s largest casino company, is exploring a $6 billion sale of its Las Vegas properties, sources say. The move would concentrate his portfolio entirely in Macau and Singapore. https://bloom.bg/2Tu7FZu

🇺🇸🇨🇳 And 10 leading investors shared their picks and predictions for trading the U.S.-China clash: https://bloom.bg/37Ljcwa

😷 Lockdown, the drastic step no European nation wanted to consider for a second time, is back. https://bloom.bg/37IXybA

🤝 Hopes that the U.S. will pass a fiscal stimulus package before its elections are dim as an agreement between senators looks almost impossible. https://bloom.bg/3ms7nPg

🌄 Some may say that China is a latecomer to superpower status, but if you ask the Chinese, they’ll say their global rise is only history repeating itself. https://bloom.bg/2G2SNyl

💵 The White House appears to have abandoned hopes on a new stimulus package with just one week before Election Day: https://bloom.bg/3jAc3Rx

🍽 A second wave of food stockpiling is hitting U.S. households. But this time, food makers are prepared: https://bloom.bg/2HECIQa

👕 “Amazon ruined my life.” A retail veteran is fighting the e-commerce giant after his merchandise was suspected of being inauthentic and destroyed: https://bloom.bg/3jysf5Q

🌏 As countries across the globe grapple with the possibility of renewed lockdowns, one city in Australia offers bleak lessons for everyone else: https://bloom.bg/3eaEsfW

📉 The world’s biggest ETF is losing cash faster than any of its peers. https://bloom.bg/2G5GXDF

🇭🇰 And three pro-democracy activists were arrested by Hong Kong police after briefly entering the U.S. consulate on Tuesday, apparently to seek asylum. https://bloom.bg/2HFKQQq

👨🏽⚖️ The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a far-reaching set of opinions that might give President Donald Trump the winning edge in a contested election. https://bloom.bg/3e46AB5

😷 Can you get Covid-19 twice? Read this to find out what reinfection really means. https://bloom.bg/37Pp3jU

🍹 Germany is moving towards shuttering bars and restaurants to check an alarming rise in coronavirus cases. https://bloom.bg/2HxXvVG

📱 Senate lawmakers grilled Big Tech CEOs on abuse of power over political speech, alleging bias and censorship: https://bloom.bg/2Gd9x68

💰A growing number of anti-police violence protesters are suing U.S. cities over excessive force during demonstrations — and the legal costs are adding up: https://bloom.bg/3kDM0dl

🥊 K-pop superfans versus QAnon devotees is the political battle no one could have predicted: https://bloom.bg/3mwqAQ1

Hello 👋 Here's what's making news around the world:

📉 Asian stocks dropped on Thursday after shares tumbled in the U.S. and Europe, and U.S. futures rebounded from the worst of the overnight declines. https://bloom.bg/31SSyxl

🇹🇼 Taiwan hit 200 days without a locally transmitted case of Covid-19, the world’s best virus record by far. Here’s how it hit that milestone: https://bloom.bg/3ecXNNp

💉 Meanwhile, a vaccine won’t be available in the U.S. until January, if then, says the nation’s top infectious-disease doctor Anthony Fauci. https://bloom.bg/37KXCrw

🏦 Gold is hot. Central banks are selling the precious metal for the first time in a decade. https://bloom.bg/2TxDqAT


🚢 Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the practice of breaking apart ships and selling them for parts is on the rise. https://bloom.bg/3kzyk37


🇬🇧 The bright side of Brexit? Whether or not there’s a trade deal, leaving the EU could help some U.K. industries. https://bloom.bg/31Qm0UY

💵 As the U.S. economy continues to reel from a third wave of coronavirus outbreaks, here’s how the winner of the presidential election could shape how Americans manage their finances: https://bloom.bg/35JP2qh

💰A U.S. government aid program for small businesses was overrun with scammers and supplied grants to almost anyone who applied. Now, officials are struggling to track where the money went: https://bloom.bg/31THnEB

👀 New Jersey could be the largest East Coast state to legalize recreational marijuana use: https://bloom.bg/3mFsj5L