GameStop, Texas storms, and Ted Cruz built information past 7 days

What transpired past 7 days?

NASA’s Perseverance rover landed safely on Mars previous 7 days. Mission command hosted a live broadcast all through the landing. The rover started off beaming back shots, and, in the coming times, it plans to start a small helicopter to analyze the Pink World. You can examine all about the greatest place stories of the 12 months below. 

This is what else took place very last week.

Robinhood and Reddit went (virtually) to Washington

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The Property Committee on Economic Providers past week held its listening to on the GameStop saga, which incorporated an visual appearance from investor Keith Gill, a.k.a. Roaring Kitty and u/DeepFuckingValue.

Gill explained to the committee: “I am not a cat. I am not an institutional investor. Nor am I a hedge fund.”

Robinhood CEO, Vlad Tenev, also appeared. He apologized to the loved ones of a 20-calendar year-previous trader who died by suicide soon after the Robinhood app confirmed a unfavorable harmony of about $730,000. 

Texans shed ability throughout a winter season storm

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A wintertime storm hit Texas, slicing electric power to millions, and creating as substantially as $50 billion in injury. The storm introduced these types of abnormal cold that it perplexed weather satellites. 

As the storm hit, António Guterres, UN secretary-common, explained it was obvious climate change was producing storms worse.

“If you glimpse at hurricanes, if you look at storms, but also if you appear at heat waves and cold waves, they are becoming more excessive since of climate adjust,” Guterres claimed.

Senator Ted Cruz went to Mexico

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As a winter season storm knocked out energy for thousands and thousands of Texans, senator Ted Cruz boarded a plane headed to Cancun, the Mexican vacation resort city.

The forecast known as for small 80s and solar, in accordance to The Weather Channel. But Cruz headed again to Texas a working day right after arriving, amid mounting criticism about the timing of his excursion. 

“With school cancelled for the 7 days, our ladies requested to take a vacation with friends,” Cruz said on Thursday in a assertion.

This is a timeline of how senator political rivals Ted Cruz and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reacted to the catastrophe. 

ICYMI

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Despite the fact that modern reviews mentioned Apple held transient talks with Nissan about creating electric powered cars and trucks jointly, Nissan regularly denied it experienced been in talks with the corporation.

The 7 days right before past, South Korean maker Hyundai denied staying in talks with Apple over the vehicle.

Here is what happened the week in advance of past. See you upcoming week.