DAILY DOSE: July 1, 2021

Posted on 07/01/2021

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1. California Secretary of State sets CA Governor Gavin Newsom recall election date for September 14, 2021.

2. The New York City Board of Elections tweeted, “As we conduct various quality control measures; the Board will not release the preliminary RCV rounds for Borough President & City Council today.” Tweet – 1:25 PM · Jul 1, 2021·Twitter for iPhone. NYC Mayoral candidate Eric Adams filed a lawsuit after the election board botched the count and included test votes.

3. The District of Columba Attorney General has subpoenaed Facebook Inc. on COVID misinformation.

4. The White House is to announced the Delta (Indian) COVID variant response teams.

5. Krispy Kreme opened at US$ 16.50, IPO priced at US$ 17 per share.

6. The Observer newspaper reported that the Central Intelligence Agency was bugging the telephone conversations of Britain’s Princess Diana (died at age 36) on the night she died. U.S. officials deny the allegations.

7. Due to unprecedented fiscal and monetary support from many governments over COVID, the IMF raised its U.S. 2021 GDP growth projection to 7% from 6.4%.