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How big banks decided the futures of America’s small businesses: The inside story of how $349 billion in government cash was doled out in just 12 days, leaving thousands of entrepreneurs without relief Hurricane

How big banks decided the futures of America’s small businesses: The inside story of how $349 billion in government cash was doled out in just 12 days, leaving thousands of entrepreneurs without relief

This story is available exclusively on Business Insider Prime. Join BI Prime and start reading now. The launch, rollout, and exhaustion of the first round of the Paycheck Protection Program was as high stakes as it was complicated.Banks had to reconfigure how they worked and contend with antiquated government tech.Larger…
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April 25, 2020
Saudi Arabia abolishes flogging Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia abolishes flogging

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment, the supreme court announced, hailing the latest in a series of "human rights advances" made by the king and his powerful son.Court-ordered floggings in Saudi Arabia - sometimes extending to hundreds of lashes - have long drawn condemnation from human rights…
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April 25, 2020
Hour record holder asks for doping test – but is told he can’t have one Doping in Cycling

Hour record holder asks for doping test – but is told he can’t have one

Hour Record holder Victor Campenaerts has requested and been denied a doping test. The Belgian rider said he was keen to be tested in lockdown to show other riders that checks were still being carried out. The Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF), the non-profit organisation that manages the UCI’s anti-doping programme,…
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April 25, 2020
Michigan conservatives hail protest success – and set sights on Trump’s re-election Astroturfing

Michigan conservatives hail protest success – and set sights on Trump’s re-election

Photograph: Seth Herald/ReutersIt started with a Zoom call.Five members of the Michigan Conservative Coalition – a rightwing non-profit with ties to the Trump administration – decided they needed to do something to protest against Michigan’s stay-at-home order, designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus.Related: US anti-lockdown rallies could cause…
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April 25, 2020
Saudi Arabia abolishes flogging Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia abolishes flogging

Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment, the state human rights commission said Saturday, hailing a “major step forward” in the reform program launched by the king and his powerful son. Court-ordered floggings in Saudi Arabia — sometimes extending to hundreds of lashes — have long drawn condemnation from…
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April 25, 2020
Business manager Kaley Chu overcomes shyness to go on 100 business LinkedIn lunches with strangers Sky-Diving

Business manager Kaley Chu overcomes shyness to go on 100 business LinkedIn lunches with strangers

In 2018, business development manager Kaley Chu found herself at a crossroads.Despite being a successful businesswoman, she worried she was boring, had nothing to offer and 'absolutely no stories to share'.Kaley recalled that despite the fact she had moved to Australia from Hong Kong for university, she had since surrounded herself…
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April 25, 2020
Lit Hub Weekly: April 20 – 24, 2020 Catalonia

Lit Hub Weekly: April 20 – 24, 2020

TODAY: In 1938, George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia is published.“Underneath all the trappings of talking animals and fairy godmothers are tough stories about people who are marginal,  undervalued, and isolated.” Rebecca Solnit on how life inside this strange new fairytale doesn’t have to be lonely. | Lit Hub Life in a Pandemic How did writers…
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April 25, 2020
Crypto Industry Divided Over Introducing Circuit Breakers on Exchanges Black Thursday

Crypto Industry Divided Over Introducing Circuit Breakers on Exchanges

Since the inception of Bitcoin, volatility has been a part of the cryptocurrency narrative even before exchanges and the current mainstream mentions. Now that traditional markets are showing volatility further exacerbated than anti-fragile cryptocurrency during the coronavirus pandemic, the community is seeing how traditional marketplaces like the New York Stock…
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April 25, 2020
Mack Horton’s parents were subjected to YEARS of abuse by Chinese activists Doping Test

Mack Horton’s parents were subjected to YEARS of abuse by Chinese activists

The parents of Australian swimming hero Mack Horton have revealed that they have suffered years of abuse at the hands of a gang of mysterious Chinese activists.Horton made headlines around the world after refusing to mount the winner's podium with Chinese drugs cheat Sun Yang at the world championships last…
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April 25, 2020