Biden has told activists to hold off on calls to "Defund the Police" until after the Georgia runoffs, and that he is creating a new commission to study policing. Historically, Democrats have told Civil Rights activists that their calls for justice have cost the party electorially. The recommendations of the 1968 Kerner Commission and Obama's policing commission were hardly implemented, […]

Another big battery project has been announced in Australia, as energy storage developers rush to profit from the nation’s abundant sunshine and wind resources. Origin Energy Ltd. issued an expression of interest to firms to supply and install a 700-megawatt facility near the Eraring coal plant in New South Wales, with the first phase planned to start by the end […]

Condé Nast Entertainment’s new president Agnes Chu has brought over one of her former colleagues from The Walt Disney Co. in a shake-up of the division. As part of the reshuffle, Jennifer Jones has been named head of global business affairs and operations. She joins from Disney, where she was vice president of business affairs for Disney+. There she worked […]

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump signed on Sunday evening a $900 billion pandemic relief bill into law that includes enhanced unemployment benefits and direct cash payments. The measure is the second-largest federal stimulus package after the $2 trillion CARES Act that Congress approved in March. Lawmakers passed the bill last Monday, just in time to get something done before the end […]

In the latest sign of Donald Trump’s plunging stock as a business brand, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city is moving ahead with plans to cancel its business contracts with the Trump Organization. “New York City doesn’t do business with insurrectionists,” de Blasio tweeted. “We’re taking steps to TERMINATE agreements with the Trump Organization to operate […]

Track the forces driving change. Sign up for the Bloomberg Equality newsletter here. Women and workers of color continue to bear the brunt of job losses as the coronavirus rages across the U.S. Unemployment for women and Hispanic workers rose in December for the first time in eight months, eroding recent improvement and capping a devastating year for these groups, […]