In two weeks from Thursday, the National Basketball Association is scheduled to resume the season that it abruptly suspended in March. All sorts of other businesses are watching closely — because if the NBA can't control infections inside of its Disney World bubble, then it increases concerns for everyone outside the bubble.
Axios Re:Cap digs in with The Washington Post's Ben Golliver, one of 10 NBA beat reporters currently on the inside.
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German publishing giant Axel Springer has acquired Politico, according to a news release out Thursday.
Why it matters: The deal is valued at about $1 billion, per CNN, making it one of the most expensive media merger deals of late. Axel Springer also acquired the remaining 50% of the two companies' joint venture, Politico Europe, and the tech news website Protocol from publisher Robert Allbritton.
All the muscles of the Democratic Party are engaged in selling President Biden's COVID-19 relief bill just days after it was signed, with Democrats treating the $1.9 trillion package like a candidate.
Why it matters: The efforts underscore how closely Biden himself — and the broader Democratic machine — have tied the popularity of his first major piece of legislation to the success and ultimate survival of his presidency.
The election is just eight days away, and it’s not just the candidates whose futures are on the line. Political pollsters, four years after wrongly predicting a Hillary Clinton presidency, are viewing it as their own judgment day.
Axios Re:Cap digs into the polls, and what pollsters have changed since 2016, with former FiveThirtyEight writer and current CNN politics analyst Harry Enten.
