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| 15 OCT 2021 |
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Supply chain disruption • Offshore wind farms • Russia-Europe gas lines • Bow and arrow attack • John Deere strike |
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Nigeria's Chinese banks • Universal pre-K funding • Drug dispensing doctors |
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| #1 in U.S. News • 30 articles How are major companies addressing supply chain issues before the holidays? |  | |
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Walmart, FedEx, UPS will increase operations to ease supply chain bottlenecks, Biden says.
NBC News (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 80% • 2 min read
Logistical backups at shipping ports, driven in part by worker shortages and Covid outbreaks, have doubled the time it takes for some products to make their way from Asia to the U.S. The delays, which have persisted for months, have sent retailers scrambling to address the bottlenecks, including by chartering their own private cargo vessels.
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The officials said that UPS and FedEx combined to ship 40 percent of U.S. packages by volume last year and that by taking this step, "they're telling the rest of the supply chain you need to move it, to let's step it up." Other retailers, such as Target, Samsung and Home Depot, will also assist with the backlog, which "paves the way for smaller retailers to also get the goods from a 24/7 model," the officials said.
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Top administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, have said consumers could continue seeing higher prices and product shortages through the rest of the year as the market works through supply chain bottlenecks and worker shortages.
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After warning of a canceled Christmas, Biden demands Wal-Mart, FedEx, UPS work to address global supply chain issues.
Daily Wire (Right) • Factual Grade 63% • 3 min read - Selected long-read
When will supply chains be back to normal? And how did things get so bad? [Free read link]
Los Angeles Times (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 87% • 6 min read
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| 550 votes, 67 comments Context: WHO assembles a new multinational team to investigate origin of coronavirus. HIGHLIGHTED COMMENTS " Yes - If this was a virus that originated in animals and this virus is so contagious, they would have seen multiple other animals already infected or with antibodies. They tested 18,000 animals there and none of them had the virus. How is that possible? This has been known since May, 2020 [Live Science article, May 28, 2020]" " Unsure - While most of these polls are opinion, this one actually has a correct answer: Unsure. A..." " No - Despite what the health expert Jon Stewart says, there is no co..." |
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| #2 in U.S. News • 12 articles How significant are planned additional offshore wind farms? | 
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland outlined a plan to develop seven offshore wind farms along nearly the entire coastline of the continental US. The plan would allow...
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| #1 in World News • 17 articles Why is Russia being accused of artificially restricting its gas exports? |
Gas storage across Europe is well below the 10-year average, with levels currently at about 75% of storage capa...
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| #2 in World News • 15 articles Why is a bow and arrow attack in Norway being considered terrorism? |
Espen Andersen Braathen, a 37-year-old Danish citizen, was arrested after Wednesday evening's attack in the town of Kongsberg, located about 50 miles southwest of Oslo, police said. Authoritie...
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| #1 in Business News • 17 articles Why are over 10,000 John Deere workers striking? |
The workers, represented by nine locals with the United Auto Workers (UAW), voted 99% in favor of a strike authorization in September after receiving the initial...
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