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Florida is set to pass a restrictive voting law; Covid-19 waves threaten South America.   Tonight's Sentences was written by Gregory Svirnovskiy. TOP NEWS Florida's governor will approve new voting restrictions Joe Raedle/Getty Images A push among GOP-run state legislatures to limit voting access for people of color is kicking into high gear. Now Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is about to sign new voting restrictions into law. [ Washington Post / Patricia Mazzei and Nick Corasaniti ]  The bill will make it more difficult to vote in Florida, with new restrictions on ballot boxes, absentee ballot signatures, and mail-in voting. Earlier versions of the bill would have outlawed mail ballot drop boxes altogether. [ US News / Alexa Lardieri ] ...

Plus, KKR sells Bountiful and Coinbase makes post-IPO purchase. | Friday, April 30, 2021   Open in app View in browser   Presented By EY   Pro Rata By Dan Primack · Apr 30, 2021 🚨 Breaking: TikTok just announced that its new CEO will be Shouzi Chew, CFO of parent company ByteDance. Interim TikTok CEO Vanessa Pappas becomes COO. This suggests ByteDance no longer thinks there's much chance it will need to spin off its U.S. business.     Top of the Morning Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios   In my early days of covering private markets, there were two pieces of data that were almost impossible to come by: Fund performance and VC-backed valuation. These were "trade secrets" whose disclosure could be catastrophic, all of my sources insisted. Fast forward: All of my sources were wro...