🇺🇸 U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for Covid-19. He said the couple will begin quarantining immediately.

The announcement came shortly after one of Trump's closest aides, Hope Hicks, tested positive for coronavirus. She traveled with the president this week.

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🇺🇸 Donald Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis dramatically alters the closing weeks of the election campaign, with the president facing an unprecedented health challenge and staffing chaos a month before Election Day. https://bloom.bg/2GiK6A1

🗒 Trump’s age and weight make Covid particularly dangerous, putting him into a higher-risk category of patients and thrusting his health into the spotlight. https://bloom.bg/3cQILMx

📉 Traders have warned of market volatility as a result of the U.S. president’s illness, with investors considering outcomes including a stock slump and more delays on a stimulus package. https://bloom.bg/3l4KyAE

😷 Donald Trump continued with a full slate of events Thursday despite knowing his aid Hope Hicks tested positive for coronavirus that morning, ignoring CDC quarantine guidelines: https://bloom.bg/36ripQb

🤝 Trump’s diagnosis could reenergize stimulus talks between House Democrats and Senate Republicans by emphasizing the severity of the pandemic, Pelosi says: https://bloom.bg/2GkSFtZ

📈Will Trump’s positive test threaten the country’s economic rebound from the pandemic? It depends on how bad his case is: https://bloom.bg/36pZ0Ps

🦠 Donald Trump’s physician Dr. Conley said the president is “doing very well” and his condition is improving while being treated at a hospital for Covid-19: https://trib.al/pGqrQcI 

🦠 Speaking on Saturday, Conley put the timeline of the president’s Covid diagnosis at 72 hours — longer than publicly announced. A White House official clarified the doctor meant it was the third day https://trib.al/cbu2ABN

🦠 Trump’s diagnosis of coronavirus throws even more chaos into an already frenetic election year with a month to go until the vote: https://trib.al/ucaJWYA 

🦠 Follow the latest on Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis here: https://trib.al/eS1yOhb

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💊 President Donald Trump is getting almost every medication available to help him fight off Covid-19. That could do more harm than good. https://bloom.bg/2GCwwaB

🏥 His doctors added a steroid called dexamethasone to his treatment, a drug typically used in more severe patients. It wasn’t clear why they're giving it to him if his medical team is indeed preparing to discharge him as soon as Monday. https://bloom.bg/33wW4P6

🚆 And Japan is struggling to save its beloved bullet trains from running out of passengers. https://bloom.bg/33sAc7J

🩺 How sick is President Donald Trump? His condition remains clouded by confusion over his Covid-19 treatment. https://bloom.bg/33xpsoB

🇹🇷 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is putting his relationship with Russia to the test by ramping up support for Azerbaijan. https://bloom.bg/30BaE6r

👶 Singapore is encouraging people to still have babies during the pandemic with one-off payments, on top of the nation’s existing baby bonus. https://bloom.bg/3isspuJ

🦠 White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany announces she tested positive for coronavirus, adding to the number of Trump aids who have contracted the virus: https://bloom.bg/2F2gbLK

🏫 NYC will close schools in Covid hotspots tomorrow as cases surge in dozens of ZIP codes: https://bloom.bg/36MHYeT

📄Leaked documents show Exxon is planning to ramp up fossil-fuel production and increase carbon emissions despite rivals Shell and BP moving to scale back pollution: https://bloom.bg/33vUFID

🏙 Covid is worsening the homeless crisis in the world’s priciest property market. Housing inequality has long been a fraught issue in Hong Kong, but high rents plus a surge in joblessness are making it harder for many to hold onto even meager living spaces. https://bloom.bg/2GCWEC4

🎧 Apple has stopped selling headphones and wireless speakers from rivals like Sonos and Bose as the company gears up to launch its own new audio products. https://bloom.bg/34thaNJ

🇺🇸 And Donald Trump returned to the White House after three days of treatment at a military hospital. Officials plan to sharply limit access to him as he continues to recover there. https://bloom.bg/2F3SItE

😷 The coronavirus lingers in the air and can infect people separated by more than 6 feet, the CDC says in guidance that raises new challenges for safely re-opening businesses and schools. https://bloom.bg/3no1Avl

🇸🇬 Singapore says it can’t afford to wait for a Covid-19 vaccine and is exploring ways to open its borders. https://bloom.bg/36CDSFO

🚗 If you live in Turkey or Pakistan and are looking to sell your car, the world’s biggest independent oil trader wants to make a deal. https://bloom.bg/3d1d43a

💉 The FDA plans to introduce new requirements for reviewing any Covid-19 vaccine, throwing a wrench in the White House’s plans for a speedy delivery: https://bloom.bg/34nTeew

📃 Only 25 companies that make up the S&P 100 provided a racial breakdown of their workforces. See how each responded: https://bloom.bg/36CkIjr

✈️ San Francisco to Tokyo in 6 hours? Startup Boom Technology is developing a supersonic jet that will fly twice as fast as typical commercial planes: https://bloom.bg/33BPqHz

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🇨🇳 Opinions of China have never been worse. Negative perceptions of the nation reached record highs in the U.S. and other major economies, according to a new global survey. https://bloom.bg/2HU8et5

📱Apple announced that its biggest product launch event of the year will be held on Oct. 13, when it will unveil 5G iPhones with a dramatic new design. https://bloom.bg/2GKr852

🏠 And Japan's middle-aged shut-ins, or hikikomori, are still living with their parents, many of them without jobs. An entire generation of workers has been left behind. https://bloom.bg/3jy4eMV

🇺🇸 President Trump stumps allies with a decision to torpedo fresh coronavirus stimulus, saddling himself with blame for more layoffs and market losses before elections. https://bloom.bg/30GUNn7

😷 Even mild Covid-19 infections can make people sick for months, French researchers find. https://bloom.bg/3lk2ojd

🏢 Dubai real estate stocks fall from grace has been spectacular and shows no sign of reversing any time soon. https://bloom.bg/33AcSox

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🇺🇸 Vice President Mike Pence and Kamala Harris are preparing for a highly anticipated vice presidential debate. Here's what to know: https://bloom.bg/3lkn0ry

💻 Learn more about the Citigroup executive who moonlighted as a high priest for QAnon’s largest news hub: https://bloom.bg/3ll75JA

🛒 The grocery industry has thrived during the pandemic. Unless, that is, you are Whole Foods: https://bloom.bg/36GooAJ

🇨🇳🇹🇼 What could happen if China invaded Taiwan? The Chinese Communist Party has threatened to do so for more than 70 years, and now fears are growing it might actually follow through. https://bloom.bg/3jEA6Q8

🇺🇸 The U.S. vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris just ended. We fact-checked the claims made during their face-off: https://bloom.bg/3iCsQ61

💵 And the Trump administration is exploring curbs on Jack Ma’s Ant Group as well as Tencent over concerns that their digital payment platforms threaten U.S. national security. https://bloom.bg/3dcOJrh

🇺🇸 Details surrounding the next presidential debate have hit an impasse after the Biden and Trump campaigns fail to agree on a date. Follow the latest here: https://bloom.bg/30MfQo4

✈️ There will be no quick relief for airlines, or any other sector of the economy, without a broader stimulus package, Pelosi says: https://bloom.bg/3nyKwmq

💵 The 50 richest Americans now hold almost as much wealth as half of the U.S. We took a look at how this inequality permeates through race, age and class: https://bloom.bg/3jLJcuu

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💉 China joined an $18 billion virus vaccine initiative backed by the World Health Organization that aims to give lower-income countries the same access as wealthier nations. It’s the very program Donald Trump snubbed. https://bloom.bg/3lsckqP

🇮🇳 Mumbai's largest slum contained Covid-19 against all the odds. Now its people need to survive an economic catastrophe. https://bloom.bg/33FXBmg

🇯🇵 And China’s crackdown on Hong Kong could help Japan become a global financial hub. https://bloom.bg/33FvcNc

🕊 The World Food Programme has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and “prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war.” https://bloom.bg/2SFgorr

📡 Apple is set to embrace 5G as one of its most significant additions to this year’s iPhones, but the technology is still not ready for the masses in the U.S. https://bloom.bg/30MhJkG

🏎 Porsches, Ferraris and other luxury cars could face a $59,000 gas guzzler tax under French plans to hike penalties on vehicles that emit the most CO2. https://bloom.bg/3iNcSpw

💵 Donald Trump says he wants a larger stimulus package than the $2.2 trillion House Democrats are proposing, undercutting a White House offer of $1.8 trillion: https://bloom.bg/2I5XNmi

🦠 The CDC is now saying that people who are overweight, in addition to those who are obese, may be at high risk of serious disease from coronavirus infection: https://bloom.bg/3lvIn9k

⭐️ Yelp will begin flagging businesses accused of ‘overtly racist actions’ and alerting users. This comes in response to a rise in reviews of Black-owned businesses: https://bloom.bg/2GKeovA

🦠 Can you catch Covid-19 from cash? The virus may remain infectious for weeks on banknotes, glass and other common surfaces, according to research by Australia’s top biosecurity laboratory. https://bloom.bg/3jTSowW

💹 Hong Kong’s investment bankers are losing jobs to their mainland Chinese rivals, who now hold a majority of senior roles in the city. It’s happening at Western firms as well as Chinese ones. https://bloom.bg/36UczXR

🇹🇼🇨🇳 And China’s insistence that Taiwan isn’t a country is starting to backfire. Before celebrations for Taiwan’s National Day on Saturday, Beijing’s embassy in New Delhi reportedly issued a letter telling India’s media not to refer to it as a country. Indians responded by helping the National Day’s hashtag go viral. https://bloom.bg/2SMSs5u