Quick Glance: UPS replaces FedEx as U.S. Postal Service's primary air cargo provider
- United Parcel Service (UPS) will become the United States Postal Service's (USPS) primary air cargo provider after rival FedEx walked away pressing for a better contract.
- UPS shares rose 1.4% while FedEx's stock fell 1.6% as financial terms of the contract were not disclosed.
- FedEx will not extend its contract with USPS, resulting in nearly $2 billion annual business loss but pushing the company to reduce its air capacity.
- USPS has reduced payments to FedEx since 2020 when letters and packages were shifted from planes to more economical trucks.
Quick Glance: Tech Giants Unite to Battle AI-Generated Election Deepfakes
- Major tech companies voluntarily commit to combating AI-generated election deepfakes.
- The agreement targets more realistic AI-generated images, audio, and video that deceive voters.
- Companies won't ban deepfakes but will focus on detection and labeling methods.
- The accord emphasizes transparency to users and educating the public about AI fakes.
Quick Glance: Chicago's First Openly Gay, Black Woman Mayor Loses Re-Election
- Rivals chastised Lori Lightfoot for the city's rising crime rates.
- Lori Lightfoot, Chicago's first Black woman and openly gay mayor, became the city's first non-re-election mayor in 40 years on Tuesday, according to US media.
Quick Glance: Amazon plans to lay off 10,000 workers, according to a report.
- According to The New York Times, Amazon plans to fire off around 10,000 employees this week, following in the footsteps of other large digital giants.
- The reported layoffs would affect at least 3% of the company's corporate workforce and fewer than 1% of its global workforce of 1.5 million people.
- Amazon joins other large US tech companies in announcing layoffs, including Meta and Twitter.
- Amazon Keywords Mass layoffs under Jeff Bezos
Quick Glance: Trump, Johnson, and now Bolsonaro are all gone.
- What is astonishing in Brazil is how quickly public discourse was turned upside down in the world's fifth-largest democracy.
- He later deleted the tweet without apologizing or explaining himself, implying that his adherence to truth and "absolutist free speech" may not be that absolute.
- Lula's victory last Saturday was far from certain; he won by less than 2%.
- There's also the reality that when Brazil was on its knees, a very bizarre alliance of anyone-but-Bolsonaro bedfellows banded together under Lula.
Quick Glance: Brazil's flamboyant President Bolsonaro remains silent after election defeat
- Bolsonaro, on the other hand, delayed more than a month to congratulate Biden on his 2020 triumph over Trump.
- Bolsonaro, like Trump, could face legal problems.
- An independent political expert, Thomas Traumann, linked the situation to Biden's victory: Da Silva, like the president of the United States, inherits a very divided country.
- "We faced the machine of the Brazilian state put at his service so we could not win the election," da Silva told the crowd in Sao Paulo during his victory speech.
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Quick Glance: How Bolsonaro established a rightwing movement larger than his presidency
- Cleitinho Azevedo, a 40-year-old YouTuber and former musician from Minas Gerais who joined the president on stage in Montes Claros wearing a camouflage cap and football T-shirt, was among the Bolsonaristas elected.
- The election of President Bolsonaro was the cherry on top."
- Montes Claros and the state in which it is located, Minas Gerais, encapsulate the election's dynamics.
- "Here the same voter who elected Lula [in the past] elected Bolsonaro last time."
Quick Glance: Brazil: Lula defeats Bolsonaro, albeit by a far narrower margin than predicted
- Lula defeats Bolsonaro in the first round of the presidential election, albeit by a far narrower margin than projected.
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won the first round of Brazil's presidential election by a close margin.
- In the first round, polls showed challenger Lula with 50% of the vote, a far wider margin over incumbent Bolsonaro.
- According to Bruna Santos of the Wilson Center's Brazil Institute in Washington, "bolsonarism" won the first round.
Quick Glance: Meloni is "the most dangerous woman in Europe," according to Stern magazine.
- The article appears in a German magazine just days before the Italian elections.
- The contentious headline is part of an article that opens, 'Postfascist Giorgia Meloni can win elections in Italy with the help of Putin's pals.
- "She presents herself as Christian, modern and harmless" the cover story says, "At the same time Giorgia Meloni wants to transform Italy into an authoritarian state, if she wins the elections."
- The item in Stern follows a similar-titled piece in The Spectator in August, which asked "Is Giorgia Meloni the most dangerous woman in Europe?"
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Quick Glance: Brazilian Presidential Election: Dozens Arrested for Electoral Fraud
- In addition, three million reais (571,733.50 euros) were taken in the operation, which began last Monday, according to the Justice Ministry on Saturday.
- Bolsonaro may refuse to accept defeat.
- In the polls, Lula is far ahead.
- The Supreme Electoral Court prohibited individuals from carrying weapons between Saturday and Monday to avert acts of violence during the election.
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Quick Glance: Amazon will pay approximately $3.9 billion for primary health-care provider One Medical.
- The firms announced Thursday that Amazon is acquiring One Medical for $18 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at about $3.9 billion.
- The agreement expands Amazon's footprint in health care, which, according to Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, is "high on the list of experiences that need reinvention."
- "There is an immense opportunity to make the health care experience more accessible, affordable and even enjoyable for patients, providers, and payers," One Medical CEO Amir Dan Rubin said in a statement.
- Rubin will continue to oversee One Medical after the transaction is completed.
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