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Ashley Carman / The Verge : Amazon acquires Art19, a major podcast hosting and monetization platform, for an undisclosed sum   —  Art19 goes to Amazon Music  —  Amazon Music is getting more serious about its podcast endeavors.  Today, the company announced that it's acquiring Art19, a major podcast hosting and monetization platform for an undisclosed sum.

Jonathan Greig / ZDNet : Amazon launches AWS BugBust, a competition to let developers find and fix 1M+ bugs and reduce technical debt by $100M+; top ten will get AWS re:Invent tickets   —  Participants in AWS BugBust can win a free trip to AWS re:Invent 2021 in Las Vegas.  —  Amazon announced a new global competition …

The actress and the car expert supposedly met while filming the Discovery+ series “Celebrity IOU: Joyride."

During a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on the priorities of the Department of Education, Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., asked Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about an educational material disseminated to students and their families entitled “Confronting Anti-LGBTQI+ Harassment in Schools.”

The National Sheriffs’ Association called Thursday for Vice President Kamala Harris to spend time with local residents and law enforcement officers contending with unsafe conditions at the southern border during her upcoming visit to El Paso, Texas.

House Republicans on Thursday demanded that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hold hearings to investigate the origin of the coronavirus, saying at a press conference that they plan hold their own hearing on the topic since Democrats won't.

California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner on Thursday said she could cut the salaries of California's elected leaders “in half” if elected.