YouTuber MrBeast, in the video's foreground. MrBeast/YouTube YouTube star MrBeast launched a campaign in October to raise money to plant 20 million trees in honor of reaching 20 million subscribers on the video-sharing platform.The #TeamTrees campaign surpassed its goal in under two months, and raised $20 million (at a dollar a tree) with support from…
In declining to say when she might send the articles of impeachment to the Senate, Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested she might keep them as leverage for negotiations on the rules for a trial. Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, and other Democratic representatives after the impeachment vote on Wednesday. Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York TimesPublished…
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The cannabis-tech startup Green Bits is bringing in Barry Saik, a tech-industry veteran, as its new CEO. He'll be taking over from cofounder and longtime CEO Ben Curren.Green Bits is a Silicon Valley-based software platform that provides point-of-sale and retail-management services to cannabis dispensaries in California and other states where cannabis is legal.The company is…
ZHENGZHOU, China — China is ramping up its ability to spy on its nearly 1.4 billion people to new and disturbing levels, giving the world a blueprint for how to build a digital totalitarian state.Chinese authorities are knitting together old and state-of-the-art technologies — phone scanners, facial-recognition cameras, face and fingerprint databases and many others…
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Harvey Weinstein in 2018. Stephanie Keith / Getty Powerful and famous people, including athletes, film stars, movie executives, and bankers have lost power and many people's respect over the last decade.For many, household names like Harvey Weinstein, Roseanne Barr, and Lance Armstrong no longer evoke the clout they used to.Here are some of the famous…
The child tax credit, begun in 1997 as a tax cut, has become an anti-poverty program. But more than a third of children don’t receive it because their parents earn too little. Christina McKeigan, a divorced mother of three, earned $23,000 last year and was eligible for about half the maximum credit.Credit...Andrea Morales for The…
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Boeing will temporarily suspend production of the 737 Max as the plane remains grounded into 2020.The decision was first reported by The Wall Street Journal following a meeting of Boeing's board on Monday.Boeing's Renton, Washington, factory, which produces the 737, employs about 12,000 workers.Sign up for Business Insider's transportation newsletter, Shifting Gears, to get more…
