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Celebrity Cruises’s CEO Lisa Lutoff-Perlo Navigates COVID-19, Vaccine Wars, as Travel Rebounds

(The interview below was delivered to the inbox of Leadership Brief subscribers on Sunday morning, June 20. To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.)

Moments after two passengers on Celebrity’s Millennium cruise ship tested positive for COVID-19 in early June, the phone of Celebrity’s CEO, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, rang. It was her senior vice president of operations who was onboard carefully monitoring the company’s first cruise from a North American port in 15 months. “When I saw his name come up I said ‘‘This can’t be good,’ says Lutoff-Perlo. “He said ‘We have two positive cases.’”
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Few industries have been hit harder by COVID-19 than the cruise business. One of the first enduring images of the pandemic was of the Diamond Princess ship, quarantined off Japan in early 2020 as more and more of its thousands passengers and crew got sick. (HBO just released a documentary, The Last Cruise, on the plight of the ship.) Cruise lines took on billions in debt to make it through the shut down. Royal Caribbean Group, the parent company of Celebrity, reported a net loss of $5.8 billion for 2020 and its net debt rose to $16.45 billion, according to S&P Global Ratings. After suspending operations in March 2020, the company estimated it burned through $250 million to $290 million a month in cash in 2020.

Now, as the nation reopens and people resume traveling, the industry has been caught up in the culture war surrounding vaccines. Celebrity and other cruise lines are requiring that passengers provide proof of vaccines before boarding a vessel. The CDC issued guidelines in April that allowed cruises to sail without preliminary test cruises if the crews and passengers were largely vaccinated, but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis passed a law barring businesses from requiring proof of vaccines and the state of Florida sued the CDC and the U.S. government in federal court, challenging the cruise guidelines and on June 18, a federal judge sided with Florida, granting the state’s request for a preliminary injunction barring the CDC from enforcing its rules. The judge said that starting on July 18, that they will be only a nonbinding recommendation. Celebrity is planning its first departure from a U.S. port, from Fort Lauderdale in Florida, on June 26. After the ruling, the company said that it was reviewing the order but that it continues to move forward with plans for the June 26 departure. Prior to the Friday ruling, Celebrity had been asking whether booking passengers were vaccinated, versus requiring proof, as in the case of the St. Maarten cruise. The vast majority of customers were reporting that they had been vaccinated, according to Celebrity.

Lutoff-Perlo and her team had spent much of the 15 months they were closed down planning how to reopen safely and when the positive tests came back, Celebrity’s safety protocols kicked in. To start with, the ship was only at 30% capacity as the company tiptoes back to sea. The positive pair, who were asymptomatic, were placed in an isolation cabin, which was connected to a medical facility. Through interviews and reviewing onboard security camera footage, Celebrity identified other passengers and crew that had been in contact with the infected pair, including the other 19 people that had taken an excursion with them. No additional cases were detected and the cruise finished on schedule. Two days after our interview, Royal Caribbean announced it was postponing a cruise scheduled for July after eight crew members tested positive for COVID-19, underscoring the challenges of restarting the industry.

Lutoff-Perlo, who acknowledges that cruising may not be at the top of everybody’s list of reopening activities, recently joined TIME for a video conversation on the pent-up urge to travel, cruise resistors and the current consumer mindset. “People are just going to go for it,” she says.

 

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(This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.)

How quickly were you informed of the positive tests?

Immediately. Immediately.

What was your initial response when you got the call about the positive tests?

“Oh, shit.” I was disappointed, but I wasn’t freaked out or upset by it because it was bound to happen. It might have been nice if it didn’t happen on the first cruise but it did, and we had done everything right.

Let’s talk a bit more about safety and perception issues: This is just my own personal focus group but when I mention this story to people, the universal response has been ‘That doesn’t sound safe. Going on a cruise is the last thing I would want to do right now.’

Listen, I’ve been in this business for 36 years and long before COVID, people said “Oh, I don’t think cruising is for me,” so I’m not surprised when people say that cruising might not be at the top of their list of vacation choices. But my response to that is being on a Celebrity cruise ship is probably the safest place you can be on the planet right now. So I would take exception to that comment. If I’m traveling, or if I’m going out to dinner and I’m sitting in a crowded restaurant with no social distancing and no requirements for vaccinations and I don’t know who I’m sitting next to. I would feel much safer on a cruise ship right now then I would just about anywhere else, including traveling on an airplane. So I think that people that say that are mis- or ill-informed.

Is there a certain segment of the population that is just not in your total addressable market?

There have been cruise rejecters since the beginning of time. There will be cruise rejecters long after I retire from this business.

Are you highlighting your safety protocols in your marketing?

We’re not. Our message is not going to be about that. Our message is about getting back to our normal lives. People want to get back to traveling, people want to get back to doing the things that they haven’t been able to do in a really long time. The vaccine for the vast majority of the people that we talk to is liberating. We are appealing to the place that the consumer is and their mindset right now is they want to get back to reconnecting with their families, to reconnecting with other people, to reconnecting with the planet and traveling again. Anything that they want to know about health, and our protocols, and our vaccination requirements is available on our website.

Does the debt that your parent has taken on inhibit your ability to operate and do everything you want to do?

It doesn’t. We need to get people back on cruise ships. That’s how we’re going to be successful in paying back our debt, but our long-term strategy has not changed. We continue to build ships. We are taking delivery of Celebrity Beyond in April 2022 . Our chairman is over visiting the shipyards we’re all of our ships are being built this week.

What does a new cruise ship cost?

The ships are over a billion dollars to build.

What is your view of the protests and proposed bans by cities like Venice that object to the stresses these huge cruise ships put on a location.

Part of our opportunity is to work with all of the destinations that we visit in a more meaningful way to understand what they’re worried about. We are partners in this and we certainly want to be helpful. But the one thing that this pandemic has proven is that the cruise industry plays a very meaningful role in the financial health and economic success of so many different places around the world, and those places far out number some of the places that get the most publicity around how they feel about cruise ships visiting, whether it’s Venice or Havana. What I see mostly is legislation being passed so that ships can go back to Alaska, because Alaska is hurting so badly because cruise ships have lost two seasons there and their economy is in really big trouble. I see how happy and how welcomed and well received we were in these Caribbean islands because we were the first cruise line to come back in North America and how happy these islands are that our guests are back. Their economy suffered so greatly because we weren’t there for 15 months. There are so many positive things that we do for economies and people. We can always focus on the ones that stand out that are the most problematic, but they are the exception not the rule.

How has the pandemic changed you?

I’ve learned a lot about being grateful and appreciative for the people that I work with every day to a degree that I probably never would have had the opportunity to do if it were not for this crazy pandemic that we’ve been living through. I’m a pretty hard driver as anyone that knows me will tell you and I know I still have that in me because that’s just who I am. But I really tried to think about what’s important and what’s not important and what to emphasize and what not to worry about emphasizing. Perspective and appreciation has risen to the top of the things that I learned to accentuate that I probably didn’t accentuate enough prior to this. And so I think we’ve all come out of this differently and hopefully better.

There are a lot of predictions that travel is going to come roaring back: what is your sense?

We’re seeing levels of bookings at 2019 levels, which is really, really encouraging. We can see that people are booking their vacations but they’ve been putting off now, really for two seasons. People have money now because they haven’t been able to do anything for so long.

It’s the return of the big spender?

We find that people are treating themselves to better accommodations. We find that they’re spending a lot of money on board because they just want to enjoy themselves. They want to go to the casino. They want to get a massage. They want to go to a specialty restaurant. So I agree with that statement that it’s going to come roaring back. People are just going to go for it because it’s been quite a long time since they’ve been able to. They’re really, really having a great time and getting back to enjoying their lives. I think that goes back to what people have learned during this time—they’ve learned that they miss travel and they learn that they miss connecting with other human beings. We humans were not meant to live the way we’ve been living.

 

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McDonald's to open 50 new restaurants and hire 20,000 staff as lockdown eased - The Mirror

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Afghanistan Running Out of Oxygen as COVID-19 Surge Worsens

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s is racing to ramp up supplies of oxygen as a deadly third surge of COVID-19 worsens, a senior health official told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday.

The government is installing oxygen supply plants in 10 provinces where up to 65% of those tested in some areas are COVID positive, health ministry spokesman Ghulam Dastigir Nazari said.

By WHO recommendations, anything higher than 5% shows officials aren’t testing widely enough, allowing the virus to spread unchecked.

By WHO recommendations, anything higher than 5% shows officials aren’t testing widely enough, allowing the virus to spread unchecked. Afghanistan carries out barely 4,000 tests a day and often much less.
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Afghanistan’s 24-hour infection count has also continued its upward climb from 1,500 at the end of May when the health ministry was already calling the surge “a crisis,” to more than 2,300 this week. Since the pandemic outbreak, Afghanistan is reporting 101,906 positive cases and 4,122 deaths. But those figures are likely a massive undercount, registering only deaths in hospitals — not the far greater numbers who die at home.

Meanwhile, Afghanistan received 900 oxygen cylinders from Iran on Saturday, part of 3,800 cylinders Tehran promised to deliver to Kabul last week. The shipment was delayed by Iran’s presidential elections, said Nazari.

Afghanistan has even run out of empty cylinders, receiving a delivery of 1,000 last week from Uzbekistan.

Meanwhile hospitals are rationing their oxygen supplies. Afghans desperate for oxygen are banging on the doors of the few oxygen suppliers in the Afghan capital, begging for their empty cylinders to be filled for COVID infected loved ones at home.

Abdul Wasi, whose wife has been sick for nearly 10 days, has been waiting four days for one 45-liter cylinder to be filled at the Najb Siddiqi oxygen plant in east Kabul. Scores of mostly men were banging on the 10-foot steel gate of the oxygen plant. Some rolled their empty oxygen cylinders up against the gate, while others waved small slips of paper carrying the number of their cylinder inside the plant, waiting to be filled.

Wasi said there were no hospital beds for his wife, whose oxygen level hovers around 70-80%. They are rationing her, he said giving her small amounts of oxygen when it drops to around 45 -50%.

“How can I do anything else? I have been waiting four days for my cylinder to be filled,” he said. The oxygen plant refills cylinders for 400 Afghanis (roughly $5), while in the market it costs 4,000 Afghanis (roughly $50).

For the country’s poor — over half of Afghanistan 36 million people according to World Bank figures — the situation has become desperate.

Wasi said on Friday as he waited outside the oxygen plant that a patient on a stretcher was carried to the door while the family begged for oxygen. The patient died.

“Right there,” he said pointing to the gate. “I saw them carrying the patient. They were crying and begging and then he died.”

Barat Ali had arrived at the plant at 6 a.m. Saturday. It was his third day waiting for his cylinder to be filled.

“The poor people in this country have nothing. I have been standing in the sun for eight hours,” he said clutching his small piece of paper that contained his cylinder number. The government “has eaten all the (international) donations.”

Necephor Mghendi, who is the Afghanistan delegation head for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, told the AP in an interview in Kabul that the groups are working to get an oxygen generation plant into the country. The Afghan Red Crescent runs a 50-bed hospital devoted to COVID patients and uses roughly 250 cylinders a day, but in recent days it has been receiving barely half that many.

The needs are critical he said, offering as an example one patient currently at the Red Crescent hospital who needs one 45-litre cylinder every 15 minutes to stay alive, he said.

“The situation is very concerning,” he said.

Inside the Najib Siddiqi oxygen plant dozens of cylinders were being filled, but owner Najib Siddiqi said he can’t keep up. He supplies hospitals but has cut output to them by half, with the other half going to the crowds banging on his gates. He even fills smaller cylinders for free, but he has only the capacity to fill 450-500 cylinders a day.

“It’s not enough. They are outside like this all day,” he said.

Sakhi Ahmad Payman, chairman of the Afghanistan Chamber of Industries and Mines, who was inside the plant having made a tour of the oxygen plants in the city, said all nine facilities in Kabul were overwhelmed. Countrywide he said Afghanistan has 30 oxygen producing plants, and all are unable to keep up with demand.

Payman blasted the government.

“They knew we were in the middle of a crisis and didn’t do anything until it was too late,” he said.

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Associated Press writer Tameem Akhgar in Kabul, Afghanistan contributed to this report.

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Guinea Declares End to Latest Ebola Outbreak That Killed 12

DAKAR, Senegal — Guinea has declared an end to an Ebola outbreak that emerged in February and killed 12 people, according to the World Health Organization.

The latest outbreak was the first to emerge in Guinea since a deadly outbreak from 2014 to 2016 killed more than 11,300 people in West Africa. That originated in the same region before spreading to neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Guinea’s latest outbreak was declared Feb. 14 after three cases were detected in Gouecke, a rural community in the southern N’zerekore prefecture. There were 16 confirmed and seven probable cases.

“I commend the affected communities, the government and people of Guinea, health workers, partners and everyone else whose dedicated efforts made it possible to contain this Ebola outbreak,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.

“Based on the lessons learned from the 2014–16 outbreak and through rapid, coordinated response efforts, community engagement, effective public health measures and the equitable use of vaccines, Guinea managed to control the outbreak and prevent its spread beyond its borders.” The U.N. said it will continue to provide post-illness care.

WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti also said that lessons learned from the past outbreak meant that Guinea managed to contain the virus in only four months. But, she warned that vigilance must remain.

“We are getting faster, better and smarter at fighting Ebola. But while this outbreak is over, we must stay alert for a possible resurgence and ensure the expertise in Ebola expands to other health threats such as COVID-19.”

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4. Coelacanths may live nearly a century, five times longer than researchers expected  Phys.org
5. Mysterious 'living fossil' coelacanth fish can survive for 100 YEARS, study finds  Daily Mail
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Why intermittent fasting may not be the magic bullet for weight loss

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Italy at crisis point as Mediterranean migrant numbers surge nine-fold

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SC Attorney General investigating police handling of Mallory Beach boat crash, sources say

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Moment mother is dragged out of car by three knife-wielding men with SECONDS to grab baby - Daily Mail

Moment mother is dragged out of car by three knife-wielding men with SECONDS to grab baby  Daily Mail

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SC’s most shocking crimes throughout history now include mysterious Murdaugh killings

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E3's Biggest Next-gen News Got Buried - Next-Gen Console Watch - IGN

E3's Biggest Next-gen News Got Buried - Next-Gen Console Watch  IGN

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Iranians vote in presidential election marred by disqualification row - BBC News

1. Iranians vote in presidential election marred by disqualification row  BBC News
2. Iran's 'next president' Ebrahim 'The Butcher' Raisi 'tortured & threw people off cliffs'  The Sun
3. Low election turnout could spell trouble for Iran regime, experts say  The Guardian
4. It’s time for Tehran to start listening to ethnic minority groups  Al Jazeera English
5. Opinion | Iran Activists Urge Election Boycott. Raisi Likely Winner.  The New York Times
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Man pleads guilty to hate crime after stabbing of Black man at Oregon Arby’s, feds say

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Dominic Cummings calls Boris Johnson 'gaffe machine' and 'clueless' in latest attack - The Times

1. Dominic Cummings calls Boris Johnson 'gaffe machine' and 'clueless' in latest attack  The Times
2. NHS chief dodges Matt Hancock 'hopeless' spat after bombshell Cummings claims  The Sun
3. Boris Johnson is as hopeless as Matt Hancock after border policy failure, says Starmer  The Independent
4. Why it suits Boris Johnson to have a cabinet of all the hopeless  The Guardian
5. Why do our current leading politicians seem like such a feeble bunch? - Joyce McMillan  The Scotsman
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Covid: Israel to send one million vaccines to Palestinians in swap deal - BBC News

1. Covid: Israel to send one million vaccines to Palestinians in swap deal  BBC News
2. Israel launches new airstrikes on Gaza in response to incendiary balloons  The Guardian
3. Israel to send 1M coronavirus vaccine doses to Palestinians  The Independent
4. Israeli forces attack Al-Aqsa protesters during Prophet rally  Al Jazeera English
5. US Palestinian business owners speak up for Gaza amid swell of support  The Guardian
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Blow for Brussels as EU loses court case against Oxford vaccine maker – live updates - Telegraph.co.uk

Blow for Brussels as EU loses court case against Oxford vaccine maker – live updates  Telegraph.co.uk

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Harry Richford: East Kent NHS Trust fined for failures over baby's death - BBC News

1. Harry Richford: East Kent NHS Trust fined for failures over baby's death  BBC News
2. Harry Richford: NHS trust fined £761k over avoidable death of baby in landmark prosecution  The Independent
3. NHS trust fined £733,000 over death of baby Harry Richford  Evening Standard
4. Harry Richford: NHS trust fined £733k over avoidable death of baby  Metro.co.uk
5. NHS Trust fined £773,000 over death of newborn baby  ITV News
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Supreme Court foster care ruling likely to prompt more tests of religion vs. LGBTQ rights

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Euro 2020: Uefa 'confident' over Wembley games but has 'contingency plan' - BBC Sport

1. Euro 2020: Uefa 'confident' over Wembley games but has 'contingency plan'  BBC Sport
2. Making Headlines: Euro 2020 final 'could move from Wembley to Hungary' & Over 18s can book Covid jab  Evening Standard
3. VIPs ‘to be let into England without quarantine to keep Euros final at Wembley’  The Guardian
4. UEFA hopeful of quarantine concessions from British Government for overseas fans  The Independent
5. Furious MPs blast 'deeply irresponsible' UEFA over Covid threat to strip the UK of Euro 2020 final  Daily Mail
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Man pleads guilty to hate crime after stabbing of Black man at Oregon Arby’s, feds say

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On Juneteenth, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 'Fight the Power' tackles the history of protest

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2 people dead, 2 more injured after overnight shooting in Durham

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Trump's former physician sent a letter to Biden asking him take a cognitive test - and more than a dozen Republicans signed it

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Caroline Crouch death: Husband placed baby next to British wife he murdered in effort to fake crime scene, say Greek police - Sky News

1. Caroline Crouch death: Husband placed baby next to British wife he murdered in effort to fake crime scene, say Greek police  Sky News
2. Greek husband 'CONFESSES to murdering British wife Caroline Crouch' sources say  Daily Mail
3. Caroline Crouch: Five clues that exposed killer husband's lies from fitness tracker to Brit wife's pulse monitor  The Sun
4. Greek husband of British mum murdered in front of daughter confesses, say police  Mirror.co.uk
5. Caroline Crouch murder: Husband hugs her mother at memorial before confessing to killing  Daily Mail
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'The worst-case scenario for the third wave is worse than last winter,' warns Mark Drakeford - Wales Online

'The worst-case scenario for the third wave is worse than last winter,' warns Mark Drakeford  Wales Online

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Apple Daily: Hong Kong police raid sparks rush on newspapers

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Idaho school facing federal civil rights complaint flunked state audit months earlier

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Man convicted of murders of two women in Yorkshire, 21 years apart - The Guardian

1. Man convicted of murders of two women in Yorkshire, 21 years apart  The Guardian
2. 'Despicable' man guilty of murdering two women 21 years after acquittal  Evening Standard
3. Gary Allen: Killer guilty of two murders 21 years apart  BBC News
4. Yorkshire man Gary Allen found guilty of murdering two women 21 years apart  The Yorkshire Post
5. DPP personally applied for 'evil' Allen re-trial over concerns  ITV News
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Moneysupermarket and Ikea climb down over GB News boycott - Telegraph.co.uk

1. Moneysupermarket and Ikea climb down over GB News boycott  Telegraph.co.uk
2. Vodafone 'was boycotting GB News because channel was "promising to combat so-called cancel culture"'  Daily Mail
3. 'Bought Specsavers glasses for 10 years - No MORE!' Britons furious at GB News ads pulled  Express
4. As ads are pulled on new TV channel GB News, it is basking in the glow of the woke’s campaign to silence it  RT
5. GB News falls victim to prank viewers using X-rated fake names  Yahoo News UK
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Minneapolis has 100 National Guardsmen on standby as new gun evidence emerges in Winston Smith shooting

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Supreme Court Backs Catholic Agency in Case on Gay Rights and Foster Care

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A bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday clears the Senate.

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Victoria's Secret swaps Angels for new faces

Lingerie firm hopes partnerships with the likes of football star Megan Rapinoe will revamp the brand.

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US supreme court upholds Obamacare, preserving healthcare for millions – live - The Guardian

1. US supreme court upholds Obamacare, preserving healthcare for millions – live  The Guardian
2. Supreme Court dismisses challenge to Obama health law  Daily Mail
3. US Supreme Court throws out challenge to Obamacare  Financial Times
4. Biden news - live: White House celebrates after Supreme Court rejects GOP effort to throw out Obamacare  The Independent
5. Obamacare survives third US Supreme Court challenge  Al Jazeera English
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Republican Congressional Committee to Accept Cryptocurrency Contributions

(Bloomberg) — The National Republican Congressional Committee will begin accepting campaign contributions via cryptocurrency, the party announced Thursday.

The NRCC, House Republicans’ campaign arm, said the move would allow it to use new technology to support the party’s House candidates.

“We are focused on pursuing every avenue possible to further our mission of stopping Nancy Pelosi’s socialist agenda and retaking the House majority, and this innovative technology will help provide Republicans the resources we need to succeed.” NRCC Chairman Tom Emmer said in a statement.

The NRCC will accept cryptocurrency using Bitpay, a provider of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment services.

Bitcoin, the most well-known cryptocurrency, has had a wild year. It doubled in value over four months to more than $64,000 in April, before pulling back to about $39,000 currently.

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Spurs open talks with Gennaro Gattuso after Paulo Fonseca move breaks down - The Guardian

1. Spurs open talks with Gennaro Gattuso after Paulo Fonseca move breaks down  The Guardian
2. Paulo Fonseca: Tottenham will not appoint former Roma boss after financial issues arise  Sky Sports
3. "MAN UNITED ARE IN MORE DEBT!" Simon Jordan claims Man United's debt will be much worse than Spurs  talkSPORT
4. Paulo Fonseca made to wait for first Tottenham signing as 'agreement' made for striker  The Mirror
5. Paulo Fonseca has already told Tottenham players and Daniel Levy exactly what they want to hear  Football.London
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No breakthrough during 'exhausting' online climate talks

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Hiker calls for help after being chased by bears — then vanishes, Alaska officials say

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Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic charity that wouldn't allow same-sex foster parents

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Stacey Abrams says she supports Manchin's voting rights compromise

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Supreme Court rejects Republican challenge to Affordable Care Act

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Covid: Employers can put self-isolating staff on furlough - BBC News

1. Covid: Employers can put self-isolating staff on furlough  BBC News
2. Fury after Tory government 'hides' method for self-isolating Brits to get cash  The Mirror
3. Treasury tried to stop self-isolating people claiming support, leaked emails show  The Times
4. Ministers ‘reluctant’ to push furlough scheme for self-isolating workers  The Guardian
5. Fury as self-isolating Brits WERE entitled to furlough sick pay but Government buried advice, leaked...  The Sun
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Scarlett Johansson criticises ‘hypersexualisation’ of Black Widow in Iron Man 2 - The Guardian

1. Scarlett Johansson criticises ‘hypersexualisation’ of Black Widow in Iron Man 2  The Guardian
2. David Harbour Smashes Marvel Stars in Destructive Game  TheEllenShow
3. Scarlett Johansson speaks out over ‘sexualised’ Black Widow  The Independent
4. Scarlett Johansson and a decade of gender politics in the Marvel universe  The Guardian
5. Scarlett Johansson Reflects on Black Widow’s Sexualized First Appearance in Iron Man 2  Superherohype.com
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Ryanair and Manchester Airports Group take action over travel lists

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