Month: March 2021

For Bessemer Venture Partners, March 1 was a red-letter day. Specifically, the letters S, P, A and C. In separate announcements only minutes apart on that Monday morning, two space companies that Bessemer had invested in, Rocket Lab and Spire, announced deals to go public through mergers with special-purpose acquisition corporations, or SPACs. The mergers would
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Sidney Powell, attorney for President Donald Trump, conducts a news conference at the Republican National Committee on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on Thursday, November 19, 2020. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Lawyers for pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell said that “no reasonable person” would believe that her
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If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Ladee Hubbard’s sophomore novel, The Rib King, may take place a hundred years ago but it touches on just about every pressing
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Beirut; Credit: George Azar A writer reflects on her relationship to home in Beirut. Why the windows of the room did not shatter from the August 4 explosion is still a mystery. The building is only five kilometers away from the port of Beirut, and the windows of the neighbors’ apartment broke. In other buildings
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Warner Bros. will open Cry Macho from Clint Eastwood on Oct. 22. The multi-Oscar winner will star and direct the feature based on N. Richard Nash’s novel. The pic will hit theaters and HBO Max day-and-date as that’s Warner Bros.’ plan for its 2021 slate. Eastwood stars as a one-time rodeo star and washed up horse breeder
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WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab launched six smallsats for a variety of commercial and government customers March 22 on a mission also intended to demonstrate the performance of its own smallsat bus. The company’s Electron rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 1 at Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern. The rocket deployed its kick
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News Bad Bunny Will Wrestle at WWE WrestleMania 2021 It’s Bad Bunny vs. the Miz at the biggest wrestling event of the year By Evan Minsker March 22, 2021 Facebook Twitter Bad Bunny with the WWE 24/7 Championship on SNL (Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Bad Bunny has been a staple
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A Texas Democrat from the border city of Laredo slammed the Biden administration Monday for not efficiently dealing with overcrowded, overwhelmed migrant processing facilities in the U.S. “They’re not moving fast enough, with all due respect,” Rep. Henry Cuellar said. “They should move these kids as soon as possible to Health and Human Services.”  Cuellar
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