Overview of Hurricane Zeta
With around two months left in the active Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Zeta has been named the 27th storm of 2020, nearly matching the record of 28 tropical storms during the 2005 season.
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Current Situation with Covid19 in the United States
According to the World Health Organization, so far in the United States, there have been a total of just over 9.2 million cases recorded with a little over 200,000 deaths so far. Graphs within the WHO’s website indicate that the rate of cases continues to climb within the U.S, but that the rate of deaths has stayed very consistent despite the significant increase in cases.
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Obama Campaign Speech for Biden
Back in 2008, Barack Obama and Joe Biden ran together for the offices of president and vice president under the slogan of Hope. Now in 2020 as the country is facing massive amounts of economic turmoil, racial and social injustice, and a pandemic, we are left looking for hope again.
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Chase Elliott Wins 2020 NASCAR Cup Series Championship
The 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season has seen a fair share of drama and storylines. A season that was briefly interrupted due to a global pandemic still saw all 36 points races completed, nothing short of an impressive feat put together by the drivers and their teams.
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NBA Gearing Up for A Unique Season
After a successful 2019-2020 campaign, the new-look NBA is looking to adapt similar COVID-related changes into a 2021 season.
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Can You Identify a Deepfake?
In the era of fake news, deepfakes are the application of artificial intelligence that has spilled into misinformation with the potential to exploit and target individuals online.
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The Opioid Crisis: Another Pandemic Sweeping the Nation
For quite some time, Purdue Pharma has been regarded as a symbol of corporations profiting from America’s deadly addiction to opioid painkillers. Recently, the Justice Department announced a historic $8.3 billion settlement with the company. This fine is the largest such settlement ever reached with a pharmaceutical company. As part of the agreement, Purdue Pharma has agreed to plead guilty to three felonies. However, state authorities and several families who have lost loved ones to killer drugs believe that the Justice Department’s terms, including a $225 million civil settlement with the billionaire Sackler family that once ran the firm, are far too lenient.
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Google’s Antitrust Lawsuit
To many in the public, Google is a company they rely on nearly every day, from their business to personal life. Google has the biggest search engine including YouTube, the most used email service in the world, and finally, more recently a company’s step into the smartphone market. It can be easily said that Google has hands everywhere in the world of tech.
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Goldman Sachs Pleads Guilty to 1MDB Scandal and Pays $2.9B Fine
Last Thursday, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. agreed to pay a $2.9B fine to regulators for raising funds for 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund tied to multiple cases of fraud and corruption. Dubbed as “one of the biggest financial scams in history,” the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has led one of the world’s largest investment firms to plead guilty after further investigations ensued.
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PayPal Sparks a New Cryptocurrency Trend for the Digital Wallet
The digital payment giant PayPal (PYPL) announced on October 21st that it is expanding its market by allowing its 346 million worldwide users to use their digital wallet to buy, hold, and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Starting in 2021, PayPal users will also use their cryptocurrency as a payment method to PayPal’s 26 million merchants.
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