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About half of U.S. deaths tied to poor air quality occur in states where the pollution didn’t originate. New York had the most premature deaths from air pollution created elsewhere in 2018. Wyoming was the main suspect in generating pollution that affected the heath of those in other states. North Dakota and West Virginia were close behind.
Here are today’s top stories
Top U.S. health experts seeking to join an international group heading to the center of the coronavirus outbreak in China said they still have no answer on whether they’ll be allowed into the country.
By now you know that Senator Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary. Nir Kaissar writes in Bloomberg Opinion that, if elected president, the junior senator from Vermont could be the stock market’s best friend.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr unleashed a firestorm with his unprecedented intervention in Roger Stone’s sentencing on behalf of President Donald Trump.
The Fed will be forced to use large-scale asset purchases “aggressively” in a downturn, Chairman Jerome Powell told U.S. lawmakers.
KKR raised $1.3 billion for its first global impact fund, one of the largest of its kind, as the alternative asset manager steps up investments in businesses tackling environmental and social challenges.
Charles Munger, a newspaper company executive as well as a Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman, said U.S. newspapers have no future.
What’s Luke Kawa thinking about? The Bloomberg cross-asset reporter opines that the most remarkable phrase to come out of Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s testimony Tuesday might be his admission that the Fed would “never” say it had accomplished the goal of making sure anyone who wants to work and can work will have a job. It’s a victory, Luke says, for activists who have tried to ensure the maximum-employment component of the dual mandate doesn’t get short shrift to the price-stability part.
What you’ll need to know tomorrow
- GOP senators back vote on bill to limit Trump’s Iran options.
- Italy faces its worst demographic crisis since World War I.
- A global wireless conference was cancelled over the coronavirus.
- Twelve days after Brexit, the U.K. is in trouble with the EU again.
- He was Trump’s biggest fan on steel tariffs. Now he’s suing.
- Harvard and Yale face a U.S. probe over alleged foreign funding.
- A 143-year-old Bangkok hotel is redone for the Instagram era.
What you’ll want to read tonight
In the spring of last year, Victoria’s Secret imposed official rules to protect its lingerie models for the first time in its four-decade history. The new rules included making sure models have private places to change clothes and that they’re never left alone with a photographer, makeup artist or anyone else. Those guidelines are part of a wave of self-reflection in the modeling and retail industries about the treatment of people whose faces and bodies help sell clothes. The question is whether the rules will make a difference.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Joshua Petri at jpetri4@bloomberg.net
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