Here are the news items:

• The Mayo Clinic is forming two companies to collect and analyze round-the-clock data from patients connected to monitoring devices.
• On a per capita basis, Canada’s seven-day average of confirmed COVID-19 cases has surpassed the US’s.
• President Biden announces the U.S. will pull virtually all troops from Afghanistan by September 11th, 2021.
• How one Shanghai hedge fund manager went all in on leverage (and is criticizing Ray Dalio's winning investment strategy).
• The Suez Canal blockage showed us just how opaque the shipping industry really is. 

PLUS: John interviews Jeb Bush, his cousin and former governor of Florida, about how the state has changed since his two terms in office.

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Here are the news items:

• DARPA has selected General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, and Blue Origin to develop concepts for a nuclear-powered space rocket. It hopes to reach orbit in 2025. 
• Domino’s is launching an autonomous vehicle program to deliver pizzas in Houston.
• Democratic polling firms analyze their “major errors” in 2020.
• Coinbase will be the first major cryptocurrency company to go public on Wednesday.
• Germany’s nationalist, right-wing party has come out in support of leaving the European Union.

PLUS: John interviews journalist and documentary filmmaker Chris Isham about the ongoing efforts to find the origins of COVID-19.

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Here are the news items: 

• An influential analyst is extremely bullish on Tesla’s energy generation and storage business. 
• Microsoft will spend about $16 billion acquiring Nuance, the voice tech company behind Apples’s Siri. Its big focus: health care.
• A former US commander says Russian provocations at the Ukrainian border are all about taking control of the Black Sea. 
• The Biden administration proposes a budget windfall for federal science agencies. 
• Artificial intelligence may soon surpass our understanding of the cellular processes that lead to brain disease. 

PLUS: Rebecca interviews oil and gas industry expert Andy Lebow about the the oil market’s wild ride and how China’s sanctioned purchases of Iranian oil may affect the global market.

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Here are the news items:

• JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sent out his annual letter to shareholders, and in it he warns that fintech firms pose big risks – not only to traditional banks' business model, but also to the American economy itself.
• A Thomas Edsall column looks at the perception of many white voters that they are on their way to minority status and analyzes how that might affect upcoming elections.
• Peter Thiel says Bitcoin may be "a Chinese financial weapon against the U.S."
• The percentage of Americans using YouTube is way higher than any other social media platform. 
• A new study finds that feeding malnourished children in a way that helps develop the microbiome leads to more weight gain.

PLUS: Rebecca interviews Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Newell, the director of the Naval X SoCal TechBridge, about the future of 5G.

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Here are the news items:

• Greenlanders have voted for a new left-wing parliament that may stop plans to mine rare earth minerals.
• Topps, the 83-year-old bubble gum and baseball card company, is going public via a SPAC.
• A Gallup poll shows Democrats have the biggest numerical advantage over Republicans since 2012.
• Iran is speeding up its production of highly enriched uranium even as the country engages in talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.
• Brazil continues to struggle with a huge surge in Covid-19 deaths.

PLUS: Rebecca interviews entrepreneur and best-selling author Bob Rice, who explains the deflationary power of technology.

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Here are the news items:

• Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wants a global minimum corporate tax rate. 
• Russia has sent about 4,000 additional troops to the Ukraine border in what amounts to a test for the Biden administration.
• When it came to Archegos, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley tried to have their cake and eat it, too – and they might have pulled it off.
• A new Covid-19 vaccine that could be mass-produced via chicken eggs enters clinical trials. 
• A study published in Nature Medicine analyzing bloodstream protein levels suggests humans age in three big shifts. 

PLUS: John and Rebecca discuss the new election law in Georgia.

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Here are the news items:

• The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is threatening Mexico's federal government in ways the Sinaloa cartel never dared to. 
• A parliamentary election in Greenland could have big implications for the superpower contest over the most valuable resources in the world: rare earth minerals.
• A new poll suggests Scottish nationalist parties may win a "supermajority" in next month’s election, and that could lead to second independence referendum in only seven years.
• Yet another Facebook leak was reported over the weekend.
• Scientists at CERN have successfully cooled the temperature of antimatter to near absolute zero for the first time.

PLUS: John talks with CNBC’s Jim Cramer about China’s ambitions in Taiwan, and the case for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as an unsung hero of “the left.”

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Here are the news items:

• China has stepped up its incursions into Taiwanese air space in recent days, which has Taiwan, the US, and its allies in the region on edge.
• The NCAA has long avoided paying student athletes – even as coaches and the schools themselves land massive paychecks – and now the Supreme Court is weighing in on non-remunerative compensation.
• Mergers and acquisitions are flying high, with more dealmaking in the first quarter around the world than in any quarter since 1980.
• Noble laureate Hamilton Smith, the scientist who discovered "molecular scissors," retired last year and we give him his due.
• The legacy of this year's Turing Award winners.

PLUS: John interviews "Media Equation" columnist Ben Smith about The New York Times' business model and free speech in the era of social media.

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