China’s Next Economic Transformation: Going Carbon Neutral by 2060 | WSJ
In the biggest climate commitment made by any nation, China pledged to go carbon neutral by 2060. While it will be challenging for Beijing to achieve its goal, China's plan to become a green superpower will have ripple effects around the world. Illustration: Crystal Tai
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October 30, 2020
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How Boeing Suppliers Plan to Survive the Aviation Crisis | WSJ
Boeing’s production cuts have sent shockwaves through the aviation industry, forcing suppliers to lay off thousands of employees. Tool Gauge reconfigured its operations just after opening a new facility in Tacoma, Wash., designed to manufacture Boeing parts. Photo: Joel Winter for The Wall Street Journal
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October 29, 2020
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State Polls Fell Short in 2016. Here’s What Pollsters Learned | WSJ
In 2016, problems with state-level election polls left some voters surprised by the outcome. Since then, many pollsters have made changes in the hope of accurately capturing the mood of the country ahead of the 2020 election. Photo illustration: Laura Kammermann
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October 28, 2020
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How Different Flights Around the World Look During a Pandemic | WSJ
As airports and airlines around the world continue to operate in the midst of a global pandemic, not every flight and region has the same Covid-19 protocols. Three WSJ reporters flew to different regions around the world to look at how air travel has changed.
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October 27, 2020
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A $3.9 Billion Settlement: Timeline of the 1MDB Scandal | WSJ
Billions of dollars that went missing from Malaysia's 1MDB has become one of the biggest financial scandals ever, with Goldman Sachs agreeing to pay the U.S. government more for its involvement than it did after the 2008 crisis. Here’s how the alleged fraud happened and then fell apart. Photo Composite: Adam Falk
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October 26, 2020
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Four Takeaways From the Final Trump-Biden Debate | WSJ
In their final debate, President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden agreed on little but had serious conversations about the coronavirus pandemic and the economy. WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib unpacks the themes that will resonate in the home stretch of the election. Photos: Julio Cortez/Associated Press; Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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October 23, 2020
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Full Debate: President Trump and Joe Biden Square Off for Final Time Ahead of Election
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October 22, 2020
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Full Debate: President Trump and Joe Biden Square Off for Final Time Ahead of Election | WSJ
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October 19, 2020
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What Are ESG Funds and Why Are They Under Scrutiny?
Investors propelled ESG funds to new heights in 2020, and federal agencies are watching. WSJ explains why regulators have ethical and sustainable investment funds under review. Photo Illustration: Alex Kuzoian
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October 22, 2020
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How Airbus’s Home City Plans to Survive the Aviation Crisis | WSJ
A decadeslong aerospace boom suddenly ended in Airbus’s home city of Toulouse, France, as global passenger traffic collapsed. WSJ traveled to the aviation capital, where autonomous vehicles and superfast trains could bring back some of the lost jobs. Photo composite: George Downs
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October 21, 2020
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Why Google Is Being Sued by the Justice Department | WSJ
The Justice Department is filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google. Here’s how the tech giant ended up in the crosshairs of federal regulators. WSJ’s Jason Bellini reports. Photo: Getty Images
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October 20, 2020
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iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro Review: 5G, Cameras and New Design Tested | WSJ
To get those crazy-fast 5G speeds on Apple's iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, you have to find the 5G. So WSJ's Joanna Stern set up on the field at MetLife Stadium to put the new phones -- including their cameras and improved durable body -- through the paces.
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October 20, 2020
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The Stock Market Is Ignoring the Economy. Here's Why | WSJ
Stocks are booming while companies shed millions of workers from payrolls. WSJ explains why the stock market seems disconnected from economic reality in the U.S. Photo Illustration by Carlos Waters/WSJ
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October 19, 2020
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Why Conflicts in Armenia and Other Former Soviet Republics Are Testing Russia's Power | WSJ
From unrest in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, WSJ explores how the crises unfolding in Russia’s backyard mark a turning point in Vladimir Putin’s rule and put him at risk of losing influence in the former Soviet Union. Video/Photo Composite: Michelle Inez Simon
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October 16, 2020
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Inside Wuhan, China’s New Tourism Hot Spot | WSJ
Wuhan, the city at the center of the coronavirus pandemic, had the most tourists of any Chinese city during a public holiday in October. Wuhan is overcoming its pandemic past and benefiting from its hero-city status to become a top travel destination. Photo: Getty Images
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October 16, 2020
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The Best and Fastest Chargers for Your iPhone 12 and Other Gadgets | WSJ
After years of shipping iPhones with a horribly slow charging brick, Apple has finally killed it. WSJ’s Joanna Stern kills it harder, then recommends the best fast chargers and wireless options from Anker, Aukey, Belkin and others. Photo illustration: Preston Jessee for The Wall Street Journal
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October 16, 2020
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Why Tesla Competitor Nikola Saw Its Stock Fizzle Out | WSJ
Nikola was the buzz of Wall Street, trying to cut a path in electric trucking. Now, federal prosecutors are investigating claims that it misled investors. WSJ explains Nikola's roller-coaster summer and what's next for the company. Photo Graphic: WSJ
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October 15, 2020
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What China and Russia Hope to Gain From Sharing Their Covid Vaccines | WSJ
As wealthier countries buy up supplies of Western drugmakers’ Covid-19 vaccines that are still in development, China and Russia are offering their fast-tracked shots to poorer nations. Here’s what they're hoping to get in return. Illustration: Ksenia Shaikhutdinova
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October 14, 2020
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iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Mini: Comparing Apple’s New 5G Phones | WSJ
Apple announced four new iPhone 12 models at a virtual event on Tuesday. They all have 5G, fresh designs and new camera tricks, yet they differ in key ways. WSJ’s Joanna Stern breaks it down. Photo illustration: Laura Kammermann/WSJ
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October 13, 2020
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Election 2020: Pivotal Moments in a Turbulent Presidential Campaign | WSJ
Like so much in 2020, the presidential campaign was thrown into turmoil because of the coronavirus pandemic. WSJ’s political team reviews the critical events of this year’s campaign season and looks forward to what might influence voters on Election Day. Photos: Jim Watson and Saul Loeb/AFP
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October 12, 2020
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Sonia Syngal took over as CEO of Gap four days after the perennially struggling retailer temporarily closed all its North American stores in late March, losing 70% of its revenue overnight.⠀
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She holed up in her San Francisco Bay Area house, working so many hours her children delivered food to her home office to make sure she was eating.⠀
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The pandemic has washed out many companies that were already on shaky ground, especially in retailing. J.Crew, Neiman Marcus and J.C. Penney have filed for bankruptcy protection, and others have lost millions in sales and profits.⠀
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Syngal’s job is to avoid that vortex, in part by fixing Gap, the company’s namesake brand that some financial analysts say is so troubled that it is worth less than zero. ⠀
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“I realized that we had to go on offense, or we were going to go down a very dark road,” said the 50-year-old, who became the company’s fourth chief executive in 18 years. ⠀
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Her first step, like many U.S. retailer leaders, was to go into emergency cost-cutting mode and raise $2.25 billion in fresh capital. With stores closed, she hit on a simple observation: Gap, the company, had a golden, neglected asset in Gap, the brand.⠀
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The company had spread resources into other lines—Old Navy, Athleta, Banana Republic—and Syngal saw an opportunity to focus back on the oldest. The gambit will be a highly visible test of whether a struggling company in an industry highly exposed to the pandemic can right itself in time.⠀
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The coronavirus is roaring back and authorities are ramping up restrictions again, but this time around, everyone is tired.⠀
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Collective exhaustion with Covid-19—known as pandemic fatigue—has emerged as a formidable adversary for governments that are counting on a high degree of public cooperation with the latest rounds of restrictions to flatten the infection curve. Too much pandemic fatigue, authorities say, can fuel a vicious cycle: A tired public tends to let its guard down, triggering more infections and restrictions that in turn compound the fatigue.⠀
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Problems begin when the rules run up against the need for social connection. Weekly Gallup polls in the U.S. showed that the number of Americans avoiding small gatherings with family and friends had fallen from 71% to 45% between May 10 and September 27. ⠀
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Surveys on both sides of the Atlantic show people are better at keeping up with the latest rules and advice when it comes to personal hygiene, like hand-washing and masks. Social situations are different. A government survey in France found that 72% of people said they were avoiding gatherings and face-to-face meetings as of mid-May, right after the country’s lockdown ended. By Sept. 23, that figure had fallen to 32%. ⠀
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The Trump administration is building new sections of a wall on the nation’s southern border wherever it can and as quickly as it can to try to meet the president’s goal of building 450 miles by the end of this year.⠀
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President Trump set the goal about a year ago and, to fulfill it, contractors are building largely on land the federal government already owns, including in areas where illegal border crossings have been relatively low in recent years. In some cases, the new wall is replacing a shorter border fence installed in the late 2000s. In other locations, new stretches of wall are being built where previous administrations opted for barriers designed to stop only cars or where the rugged terrain already serves as a natural barrier.⠀
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In Guadalupe Canyon, a remote, mountainous region that straddles Arizona and New Mexico, construction crews have been using dynamite to level the steep slopes where the wall is being built, as shown in the footage here. Fresh cuts through the dirt and rock mark where a new 4.7-mile span of wall will extend, at a cost of about $41 million a mile.⠀
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By mid-October, the administration had built about 370 miles of border wall, all but 45 replacing existing fencing or vehicle barriers, putting up an average of 10 miles a week.⠀
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In Las Vegas, the cabaret-variety show “Absinthe” became a long-running hit by putting performers uncomfortably close to audiences in a circus tent outside Caesars Palace.⠀
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“There used to be a point where the Green Fairy would stick her fingers in someone’s mouth,” said performer Hazel Honeysuckle, pictured in the first two photos, whose fairy burlesque act kicks off the show. “That’s obviously out.”⠀
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The show, which ran for a decade before closing in March because of the pandemic, aims to reopen Wednesday night, making it one of the first seeking to return to the Las Vegas Strip. It will test whether freewheeling entertainment can conform to pandemic rules and still turn a profit.⠀
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“Absinthe” used to host 660 people packed closely around a small central stage. Producers initially planned for a socially distanced audience of 220 people, but the state also mandated that live performers stay at least 25 feet from the first row of the crowd, meaning further reducing the audience to about 150 people. While the show used to generate $800,000 weekly in ticket sales alone, the producers are now hoping for $150,000.⠀
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“It’s a really distressing thing when you’re in an industry which is so clearly dependent on an audience’s proximity to each other, and then an audience’s proximity to your employees,” said Ross Mollison, the founder of Spiegelworld, which produces “Absinthe.”⠀
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As Americans have taken to the streets this year to protest racism and allegations of police violence, they have been hit by motor vehicles more than 100 times in the process.⠀
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Between George Floyd’s killing in police custody in May and Sept. 5, motorists drove into demonstrators at least 104 times, according to research by University of Chicago graduate student Ari Weil. There have been two reported deaths from such incidents.⠀
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Many are accidental and appear to have happened when motorists were confused, according to Weil. In some cases, drivers have said they were acting in self-defense after having their car damaged by protesters and fearing for their personal safety. Authorities have also charged 39 drivers with crimes ranging from reckless driving to vehicular homicide.⠀
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Several of the incidents have occurred since Sept. 5, when Weil stopped collecting his data, according to Roudabeh Kishi, the research director of the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, a global crisis-mapping initiative. Dr. Kishi’s group counted eight such cases in the week of Sept. 20, and three the first week in October.⠀
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The Trump and Biden campaigns have each developed apps aimed at rallying supporters and swaying votes, but they also collect data on their users and their friends, according to a WSJ analysis.⠀
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The two apps collect and gather information about the people who download them, and about the users’ friends and acquaintances, according to a Journal comparison of their features, some of their code and messages sent. Most of the app activities happen with user consent, although both apps have features that give the campaigns ways to acquire data on users’ friends and acquaintances without notifying those people.⠀
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The Official Trump 2020 app can be used for fundraising and to collect data on users, such as their location, according to the analysis. The campaign app for Biden, called Vote Joe, engages in some data collection, like information about its users’ contacts, for example. A Biden aide said the campaign sees no need to actively track where people are through the app. ⠀
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Vote Joe does users to look up voting records of friends and acquaintances and to report information about those people back to the campaign. Users can report whether an acquaintance leans toward Biden or Trump, whether they will vote by mail or have already voted, or whether they aren’t voting at all.⠀
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For almost three months, thousands of Belarusians from across the social spectrum have joined weekly protests demanding that the president step down after 26 years in power, following an election in August that critics say was neither free or fair.⠀
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The rallies often attract more than 100,000 people, who contend that President Alexander Lukashenko’s victory should have gone to opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. They include a disparate assortment of civil servants, manual laborers, tech professionals, students and pensioners.⠀
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What unites them is growing anger with a leader who they say governs through fear, cronyism and a ruthless determination to stay in power. They say they are willing to take the risk of standing against Lukashenko, despite thousands of arrests, reports of torture and acts of retribution over the past few months.⠀
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The Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice on Monday, as Republicans overwhelmingly backed President Trump’s nominee eight days before the election in the face of Democratic objections.⠀
Trump selected the 48-year-old appeals-court judge to fill a vacancy left by the death of liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September, aiming to solidify the current conservative majority on the nation’s highest court.⠀
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The elevation of Justice Barrett, a protege of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, also handed a victory to Republicans up and down the ballot by adding Trump’s third justice to the high court. ⠀
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The vote to confirm Justice Barrett was 52-48, with only one GOP senator, Susan Collins of Maine, joining Democrats in voting against the nominee.⠀
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Hourslong lines snaked around sidewalks in New York City this weekend as many citizens took advantage of their first-ever opportunity to vote for president before Election Day.⠀
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Mirroring a rush across the U.S. by voters who want to make sure their ballot is counted, voters turned out in the early morning hours Saturday at many of the 88 early-voting locations across the city’s five boroughs.⠀
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Poll workers helped people follow social-distancing guidelines once they entered the buildings, and they also wiped down voting stations. Hand sanitizer was readily available; large stickers were placed 6 feet apart on the floor; and masks were available for those not wearing their own. But poll workers couldn’t do anything about crowds overflowing on sidewalks that they shared with passing pedestrians.⠀
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“The camaraderie in line, regardless of who you’re voting for, was so enthralling,” said Edwin Forman, who said he was willing to wait to vote in person because he worried whether his mail-in ballot would be delivered and counted. “We didn’t talk about who we were going to vote for, but we talked about how important voting is.”⠀
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Early voting in New York state ends on Nov. 1, the Sunday before Election Day.⠀
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Composer Danny Elfman, who has created scores for many dark and unusual films, such as Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” has long been a collector of the weird and the wonderful.⠀
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It all began in Mali, where he bought his first skeleton, carved from a single bone, while on a trip after graduating high school. Now, the longtime Los Angeles home he shares with his wife, actress Bridget Fonda, is packed with such oddities, from 19th-century taxidermy to religious artifacts to bones. ⠀
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“I have so much stuff,” @dannyelfman said. “Every space I have is filled everywhere. I can’t get enough shelf space, table space and wall space.”⠀
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His unusual universe is on display for the first time, as the 1920s mansion in the Hancock Park neighborhood of L.A. comes on the market for $14.6 million. The six-bedroom, 8,346-square-foot home has many original details: elaborate carved-stone fireplaces, decorative columned doorways and gilded coffered ceilings. The piece de resistance: a large ballroom with dramatic vaulted ceilings. ⠀
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Clark Daily, 56, grew up with gearhead brothers who always had a lineup of cars they were working on at their house. The first time he saw an Alfa Romeo was when one of his brothers brought one home when he was a kid.⠀
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"I was smitten. I’m still smitten with Alfas. Even the logo I find fascinating, as it tells a story that goes back hundreds of years," he says. "It has the traditional cross of Milan and the symbol of a ruling family of Milan during medieval times." ⠀
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The 1967 Alfa Romeo Duetto Spider pictured here is one of the most famous Alfa models ever made. It’s the model that Dustin Hoffman drove in the movie “The Graduate.” Around the time Alfa first unveiled this model in 1966, the company had a public naming contest, and the name Duetto won. It means, literally, duet, signifying a car built for two.⠀
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The 3-D graphic artist living in Maitland, Fla. bought his Duetto in 2005 for $3,000 from an older woman who had let it sit in her garage for about 10 years so nothing was really working. He had to rebuild some of the engine, the carburetors, the brakes, the electrical. ⠀
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"One of the things I love about the car is how it represents classic European design from an era before there were so many restrictions," he says.⠀
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Neighbors and friends for 14 years, the Mitchell and Gates families are on opposite sides of the political spectrum. ⠀
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The Mitchells, lifelong Democrats, planted a Joe Biden sign in their front yard in suburban Pittsburgh, while next-door neighbors the Gateses, who are lifelong Republicans, put a Donald Trump sign in theirs. Another homemade sign stands in each yard, reading: “We ❤️ Them” with an arrow pointing to the other house. ⠀
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“There’s so much hate,” says mom Chris Senko Mitchell, who came up with the idea. “We want to send a message.” ⠀
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The Mitchells—Stuart and Chris—and the Gateses—Bart and Jill—met on their street in Mt. Lebanon, Pa., and quickly bonded. Each couple has three children, roughly the same ages, who often walk to their neighborhood schools together and swim in the Mitchell backyard pool. ⠀
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Although the two families generally don’t talk about politics, they know where each household stands. So how do they get along?⠀
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“I think it boils down to respect,” Chris says. “We have no desire or illusion that we are going to change them or each other’s minds.”⠀
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