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Jamie Dimon, Kamala Harris cabinet member? There are whisperings afoot that the JPMorgan Chase CEO wouldn’t mind being nominated.

GM is firing on all cylinders. The automaker raised its full-year guidance after a great quarter where it said it might have figured out how to sell EVs.

Boeing has a lot of ‘splaining to do. It presents earnings Wednesday amid a number of troubling narratives.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want people talking about where his plane flies. Threads and Instagram banned accounts that tracked celebrity jets.

The United States is playing computer-chip keep-away. It’s pressuring allies not to sell semiconductors to China.

McDonald’s joins a growing portfolio of Trump-embarrassed firms

After Donald Trump installed himself in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s restaurant and served campaign supporters choreographed through its drive-through, the fast food company had to distance itself from the stunt. It’s not the first company to have to do so.

Goodyear had to downplay its dress code policies after a branch told workers not to wear pro-Trump-sloganed Make America Great Again hats at work; Exxon had to assure everyone in earshot that Trump had not solicited the company for bribes to secure necessary permits. It’s not hard to imagine every press department on pins and needles every time the former president gives a speech.

What other companies have had PR headaches thanks to the Republican presidential nominee? Quartz’s Will Gavin recounts a few recent examples.

BTC x ETH = GOP?

Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have professed their support for America’s growing cryptocurrency industry, but the sector definitely likes its chances under one candidate’s party more than the other’s. Political action committees connected to that corner of the finance world are donating 62% more to Republican campaigns.

Though cryptocurrency users themselves are more undecided in their political preferences, that’s not the case with the companies that support their favorite coins. As Election Day nears, some of that spending could mean the difference in key toss-up states.

How much more do digital currency IRL dollars flow to right-leaning campaign coffers? Quartz’s Vinamrata Chaturvedi digs into cryptocurrency’s political donation divide.

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More than 1.5 million swing-state voters do not live in swing states. Overseas Americans remain a major voting bloc pursued by political campaigners.

The Fall of Saigon was not the last American defeat during the Vietnam War. Dozens of service members died during a merchant ship rescue operation in Cambodia two weeks later.

Tampa Bay’s baseball Rays might play some games at Disney World next season. The team’s looking for new digs after its stadium was damaged during Hurricane Milton.

The next generation of AI tools might surf the internet for you. Anthropic’s new “Computer Use” feature can do all the logistical clicking-around online that customers might find boring. (paywall)

Facebook friends can help determine the course of a civil war. Researchers used the site’s connections as a proxy for remittance flows going to Sri Lanka’s government and its Tamil insurgency toward their conflict’s end.

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