From Jenna Orkin

PUTIN 'TO QUIT' 

PLOT IN PHILADELPHIA TO ATTACK CONVENTION CENTER WHERE VOTES ARE COUNTED

Deep-sea mining is making the seabed the hottest real estate on Earth

Llama 'nanobodies' are powerful new COVID-19 treatment: study

Bill Bonner: One of our favorite studies of investor behavior came from the Fidelity Mutual Funds group. The company wondered which of its customers had made the most money. They separated them by age, sex, and account size.

But what they discovered was that the best performers had none of those things in common. Instead, the distinctive feature common to the best performers was that they all lacked, shall we say, “animal spirits.”

That is, they were all dead. But their accounts had not yet been closed – and often remained open for decades.

Resting among the shades, they were never tempted by TV. No brokers called them with hot tips. No gossip reached them.

The United States announced on Wednesday it has seized 27 domains that were used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to spread global covert influence campaigns.

1. Anti-Murdoch movement in Australia
2. Charlie Hebdo Mocks Terrorism (and France at same time?)

3. NASA Contacts Voyager 2 Using Upgraded Deep Space Network Dish

4. Biden swept battleground states for victory
5. Secret Service dispatches extra protection to Biden
6. Trump aides tell him halting counts would lead to loss

7. LIVE RESULTS: Democrats are losing key House seats to Republicans but look set to keep their majority

• The US surpassed 116,000 daily new COVID-19 cases, again breaking the record for highest single-day count

• Facebook reportedly measures 'violence and incitement trends' — and it spiked by 45% during the week of the election

  
  

  Finland is offering a 3-month all-expenses paid stay in Helsinki to jaded Silicon Valley tech talent