Good morning! Here are the stories I'm following today, Indigenous People’s Day:
A "divided Senate Judiciary Committee will kick off four days of contentious confirmation hearings on Monday for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, drawing battle lines that could reverberate through the election." nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/…
"At least two members of the Judiciary Committee will participate in the proceedings remotely, after being diagnosed with the coronavirus or to protect themselves from the virus." washingtonpost.com/politics/amy-c…
Democratic Senate candidates are burying Republicans in ad spending after raising historic amounts of money... "Democrats have suddenly expanded the Senate battlefield to a dozen competitive races": politico.com/amp/news/2020/…
Stanford economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in economics for improving how auctions work and designing auction formats for things that are difficult to sell in a traditional way, such as radio frequencies. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/10/12…
Mars is very bright these days, and it will seem bigger and brighter the coming week, as the sun, Earth and Mars line up close to a new moon on the night of Oct. 13. The event that happens about every two years is called "opposition" in astronomy terms. npr.org/2020/10/11/922…
Axios: "Insiders expect the Justice Department to charge Google with violating antitrust laws this week, in what would be the biggest such action against a U.S. tech company in two decades." axios.com/justice-ready-…
One-fifth of the world’s countries are at risk of their ecosystems collapsing because of the destruction of wildlife and their habitats, according to an analysis by the insurance firm Swiss Re, per @dpcarrington: theguardian.com/environment/20…
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