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Summary List Placement This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. A recycled SpaceX rocket has launched a multinational crew of four astronauts into Earth’s orbit, kicking off a NASA mission called Crew-2. The engines of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket roared to life precisely two seconds after 5:49 a.m. ET on Friday, […]

Summary List Placement Congress is likely to settle on a much more modest increase in capital gains tax than President Joe Biden would like, according to analysts at Goldman Sachs, with the eventual figure likely to land at around 28%. Biden is set to propose a sharp increase in capital gains tax to 39.6% from […]

Summary List Placement Robinhood said on Thursday it has appointed a chief operating officer to oversee its cryptocurrency division.  Christine Brown, who joined Robinhood as a senior product manager in 2017, will oversee all crypto operations and compliance, the company said. Robinhood’s team tripled in size this year as surging interest in cryptocurrencies among young […]

Table of Contents: Masthead StickySummary List Placement  Some mortgage and refinance rates have decreased since last Friday, while others have increased. All rates are down since this time last month, though. Marvin Loh, Senior Global Macro Strategist at State Street, told Insider he expects mortgage rates to stay pretty steady until at least fall 2021. Mortgage […]

Summary List Placement Good morning and welcome to Insider Finance. I’m Dan DeFrancesco, and here’s what’s on the agenda today: Family offices are preparing for more regulatory scrutiny in the wake of the Archegos blowup. JPMorgan just tapped a former Lyft executive to lead tech for its corporate and investment bank. Dan Sundheim’s D1 Capital […]

Summary List Placement Former President George W. Bush told People magazine that he wrote in Condoleezza Rice’s name when voting in the 2020 presidential election. He said he had told Rice, his former secretary of state, about it too. “She knows it,” he said. “But she told me she would refuse to accept the office.” […]

Summary List Placement Tesla is tweaking the prices on its Model 3 and Model Y cars for the fifth time this year. The electric carmaker has bumped up the prices on some models of its Model 3 and Model Y cars by $500, as first reported by Electrek on Thursday. Tesla has bumped the price […]

Summary List Placement US futures edged up on Friday, regaining some stability, after President Joe Biden proposed a sharp increase in capital gains tax for the wealthiest Americans, which hit investor sentiment and triggered a sell-off in cryptocurrencies. Stock-index futures largely shook off any overnight weakness, but the mood remained cautious. Dow Jones futures rose […]

Summary List Placement A New York man was arrested in connection with the Capitol insurrection after bragging on social media — and to a potential Bumble date — that he’d been a part of the mob that day. Robert Chapman of Yonkers, New York, was charged with two counts of trespassing, and two counts of […]

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Summary List Placement Indonesia’s navy said on Friday that it had found an object emitting a “strong magnetic resonance” during the search for its missing submarine. The navy dispatched search crews to find the KRI Nanggala 402 Wednesday morning after it missed a routine check-in following a torpedo drill that was being conducted near the […]

Summary List Placement Good morning! Welcome back to 10 Things in Politics, your weekday look at the biggest stories in DC and beyond. Sign up here to receive this newsletter. Send tips to bgriffiths@insider.com or tweet me at @BrentGriffiths. Here’s what we’re talking about: All signs point to DOJ Trump investigation taking a backseat to […]

Summary List Placement With the global rich list dominated by founders and entrepreneurs, starting your own business can look like an appealing route to wealth. But entrepreneurship is no walk in the park.  A new TV series hopes to teach would-be founders the ropes of entrepreneurship from a panel of successful execs and investors, Insider […]

Summary List Placement Bitcoin slid below $50,000 on Friday, extending losses for a seventh day in a row, while simultaneous drops in other digital currencies erased $260 billion off the total value of the cryptocurrency market. The world’s most widely traded digital asset fell 4% to around $49,130, ether fell 7% to around $2,220, Dogecoin […]

Summary List Placement As India’s daily COVID-19 cases surge to global records, the UK has added the country to its “red list” of places from which travel is banned to to prevent the spread of coronavirus and its variants. The red list could be compared to “Level Four: Do Not Travel” advisory issued by the […]

Summary List Placement Robert C. Hampshire is filling a job in the federal government that’s been empty since the Reagan era.  Department of Transportation officials on Wednesday reported that they hadn’t had a chief science officer for more than 40 years — which means Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s newest advisor has a lot to catch up […]