Would You Bite Into Richard Nixon’s Sandwich?

Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that the country — the world’s biggest polluter — will go carbon neutral by 2060in a video address to the U.N. General Assembly, even as President Donald Trump used his speech to target Beijing on its emissions. Pot calling the kettle carbon black? Meanwhile, Formula-E electric car racing has become the first carbon neutral motorsport. And Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro — under whose watch the Amazon and the country’s wetlands are burning — claimed his government’s the victim of an environmental smear.

2. Isn’t It Ironic?

Facebook is threatening to pull out of Europe entirely if the European Union enforces its ban on transferring user data to America. Oh no! How will I find out what my racist former neighbor is mad about without Facebook? Remember, this is happening as the U.S. insists TikTok keep its U.S. data in America. Meanwhile, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have reached a deal with boycotting advertisers in the U.S. to set hate speech standards. Would you miss Facebook if it left your country? Vote on Twitter (yes we get the irony).

3. Mitt in His Hand

Sen. Mitt Romney has backed President Trump’s rush to nominate a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, giving the president the numbers he needs. The fight over Ginsburg’s successor — to be announced Saturday — gives Trump a chance to distract political attention from the 200,000 Americans who’ve died of COVID-19.

4. Crypto Crackdown?

Nigeria and South Africa are preparing regulations for a booming cryptocurrency market that has reached record levels in Africa during the pandemic. But while some cryptocurrency exchanges are welcoming proposed safeguards, others worry they could kill innovation.

Jenne has kept the frozen remnants of a sandwich Richard Nixon bit into 60 years ago. He has also collected unfinished food from other celebrities, including Johnny Carson. Is a Trump Big Mac next?

The Wuhan-born star of Disney’s controversial live-action remake of Mulanhas drawn outrage for supporting Hong Kong police against pro-democracy protesters. Liu’s got moves, though. She trained six to seven hours a day for three months to prepare for her role, and did 90 percent of her stunts herself.

2. Dali Benssalah

You know about Daniel Craig. Now meet the 26-year-old Franco-Algerian actor who’ll face off against Craig in the next Bond film, No Time to Die.And lest you doubt his action-movie chops, remember this: He was the French champion of Muay Thai boxing by the time he was 19 years old.

3. John David Washington

His star-making role in the otherwise stupid and confusing Christopher Nolan movie Tenet as Protagonist (yes, that’s the actual character name and yes, I’m still mad about how dumb that is) is cemented with breathtaking fight scenes and just the right amount of faux philosophical bravado. Doesn’t hurt that he’s superstar Denzel Washington’s son. 

Who’s your all time favorite action star?

You could always attend the Sphinx Organization’s virtual gala. For nearly 25 years, the Detroit-based social justice organization has empowered young voices in the world of classical music. Get tickets for the Oct. 15 event, featuring world-class performances.

1. Mipango

Before you can stock the stock, you have to talk the talk. Tanzanian app Mipango has a leg up when it comes to getting African consumers onto its AI-powered platform: It’s available in Swahili. The company, which launched this summer, helps people set budgets and track spending — two things they say more than half of Tanzanians don’t currently do. The next step will be expanding across East Africa.

2. TikTok

Though a growing number of U.S. states are requiring high school students to take personal finance courses, 1 in 5 still don’t understand the basic concepts. So they’re turning to TikTok, following experts like Humphrey Yang and Delyanne the Money Coach to learn about the stock market and credit scores in 15-second bites.

3. Alfi

Peru’s Alfi app is the Duolingo of finance education, gamifying money concepts for a millennial market. The company has already won a nationwide contest for startups, partnered with a credit union in Chile and struck a deal with Mexico’s government to promote financial education for tens of millions of people.

The U.S. and Venezuela don’t see eye to eye on much — except when it comes to last-minute efforts to ideologically tilt the judiciary. In 2015, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro pushed 13 new Supreme Court appointments through just before an opposition-led National Assembly was to be sworn in, so that they could block legislative moves.

2. Polish Prescript

Why worry about rushed replacements? The right-wing Law and Justice Party of Poland is even more innovative when it comes to loading the top court in its favor. It’s battling the European Union and several jurists within Poland over a controversial law aimed at retiring judges early and allowing the president to extend the tenure of his favorites. Law and justice indeed.

3. Coup to the Rescue

There’s nothing like a coup attempt to justify a crackdown. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faced resistance to efforts at judicial changes in mid-2016. After a failed coup against him in July that year, though, Turkey purged more than 4,000 judges and lawyers on charges of links to reformist Muslim leader Fethullah Gulen, blamed for the attempt to overthrow the Erdoğan regime.

Marked by bright ‘90s colors, this is a dye trend that’s not impossible to do at home — try the high contrast streaks, if you dare.

2. Rainbow Bangs

For this one, maybe wait until you can get to a professional stylist. But the brightly colored fringe will at the very least make your Instagram a cheerful place to be as we all sink further into the mass global depression that is 2020.

3. Top Knot

Yes, this is easier for all those guys who haven’t had a haircut in six months, but it’s also a stylish, kind of Beckham-y look: You can go with a standard flippy man bun or get really dramatic with a faded undercut (or hell, shave designs into it).