Summary List Placement Former Vice President Joe Biden had no role in a proposed investment venture in China, according to corporate records, emails, and text messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. At Thursday night’s debate, President Donald Trump repeatedly asserted that Biden was involved in his son Hunter’s business dealings, specifically accusing him of […]
Barclays swings to profit with 3rd-quarter earnings, beating expectations as UK consumer business picks up
Summary List Placement Barclays reported a return to profit in the third quarter of the year on Friday, beating analyst expectations, after an improvement in its lending business allowed it to set aside less cash to deal with bad loans than it had earlier in the year. Barclays recorded a profit of £610 million ($796 […]
Barclays swings to profit with 3rd-quarter earnings, beating expectations as UK consumer business picks up
Summary List Placement Barclays reported a return to profit in the third quarter of the year on Friday, beating analyst expectations, after an improvement in its lending business allowed it to set aside less cash to deal with bad loans than it had earlier in the year. Barclays recorded a profit of £610 million ($796 […]
10 things in tech you need to know today
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As one PSPS comes to a close, another looms
SAN FRANCISCO – Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Thursday said essentially all customers affected by its most recent public safety power shutoff should have their service restored by late Friday, but the utility warned another planned outage could be just around the corner. The shutoff started Wednesday night and ultimately affected 31,000 customers in […]
‘Anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy’: Expensify’s CEO tells us why the company emailed 10 million customers urging them to vote for Biden
Summary List Placement Expensify’s approximately 10 million customers received an email Thursday evening from CEO David Barrett with the subject line: “Protect democracy, vote for Biden.” “We are facing an unprecedented attack on the foundations of democracy itself. If you are a US citizen, anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against […]
Carson Wentz rallies Eagles to 22-21 win over Giants
PHILADELPHIA — Carson Wentz threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to Boston Scott with 40 seconds remaining and the Philadelphia Eagles overcame an 11-point deficit in the final seven minutes to beat the New York Giants 22-21 on Thursday night. Daniel Jones shook off a stumble that prevented him from an 88-yard touchdown run and had […]
Trump was his own worst nightmare at the final debate: low energy and boring
Summary List Placement President Donald Trump’s greatest strength as a campaigner has always been his ability to project the confidence to dominate any room by sheer force of personality. After 11 Republican primary debates and three debates against Hillary Clinton in 2016, plus two 2020 debates versus Joe Biden, we know the technique by now. […]
Why Joe Biden won the final debate
In Nashville on Thursday night Donald Trump and Joe Biden fought to a draw on the debate stage — which means that Biden won, and won big. That’s because he holds a national polling lead of nearly ten points, he’s been leading solidly on every day of the campaign from the beginning, the election is […]
Trump has less than 2 weeks to turn around dire numbers and Biden didn’t do him any favors in the debate
Summary List Placement President Donald Trump had his final outing on a debate stage, and while pundits will argue about his performance the only real question worth asking is this: Did anything happen on that television broadcast that will ding Democratic challenger Joe Biden’s 9.9 percentage point lead within the next 12 days? Did Biden […]
Trump is wrong that windmills ‘kill all the birds,’ but Biden’s nonexistant ‘tiny, small windows’ plan would help
The final 2020 presidential debate spent a good deal of time on climate policy, and President Trump added some color with a few out-of-left-field claims. Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s climate policy, Trump claimed, was really written by “AOC-plus-three,” a reference to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y) and the three other congresswomen in “the Squad.” Under their […]
Trump and Biden stepped it up, but where is their vision for the country?
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden answers a question as President Donald Trump listens during the final presidential debate Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. | Morry Gash, Associated Press A true debate should be an opportunity to explore powerful ideas and empowering principles that unleash the potential of the American […]