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CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!  S14Oncologists turn to blood test for circulating tumor DNA, but questions remain on how to use the data  The hope for many cancer patients who go through surgery is that they’ll be cured after the surgeon removes the tumor. The question that lingers is whether they got it all out — if the surgery happened in time before cancer cells scattered off of the primary tumor to seed unseen metastases or if some microscopic malignancy was left behind near the original cancer site.To answer this question, clinicians are increasingly turning to blood tests that detect circulating tumor DNA, known as ctDNA. The idea is that finding tumor DNA in the blood probably means that cancer cells are still growing somewhere in the body, even at a low level. These tests are starting to be used in a variety of cancers — and for the most part, clinicians agree that if the test is positive, the cancer will likely recur. The trouble is that scientists aren’t sure what should happen next.
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S1Irish government eyes snap election to seize on Sinn F Prime Minister Simon Harris has until March 2025 to put the question to the country, but Sinn Féin’s surprisingly poor performance in this month’s European and council elections may well encourage him to join Britain and France in holding a snap election — around the time America, too, will go to the polls.Lawmakers in Ireland’s three-party government have told POLITICO that Harris may be tempted by Sinn Féin’s sudden weakness to press the advantage. That would mean holding the next parliamentary contest by November in hopes of keeping his Irish republican enemies out of power for another five years.
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S4All Roads in the Muslim World Lead to Beijing. Israel Must Engage China In 2013, I warned that a Pax Sinica in the Middle East might replace America's predominant role. As the largest importer of Persian Gulf oil, China wants stability in the region. To that end, China's first venture into Middle East diplomacy came in December 2022, when it issued a joint statement with the Sunni Gulf States chastising Iran's disruptive role in the region. But when Beijing brokered the restoration of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia in March 2023, China proved it had arrived as a major power in the region.China provides the Gulf monarchies with AI-controlled solar energy, Cloud computing, 5G broadband, and transportation infrastructure. The Saudis and Emiratis probably are Huawei's largest foreign market for 5G infrastructure, despite urgent U.S. warnings against doing business with the Chinese national champion. For our part, we don't sell telecom infrastructure, because we stopped making it a generation ago.
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S8You really are a mosquito magnet. Hereâs what you can do about it. More than just a nuisance, mosquitoes can carry devastating illnesses like Zika, dengue fever, malaria, and West Nile disease and are responsible for over a million deaths every year. And while historically, they have been more prevalent in tropical climates, mosquitoes carrying disease-causing organisms have expanded their reach as the planet warms—including parts of the United States like Connecticut, California, and Arizona.Mosquitoes use a variety of cues to home in on their targets. Odor distinguishes people from other animals, and some mosquitoes have evolved to seek out our unique bouquet. From up to 200 feet away, they follow the carbon dioxide plumes we exhale with each breath. As they approach several feet closer, they smell the odors emanating from our feet, underarms, and skin. At around 50 feet, they begin to see us as dark silhouettes against the light. Finally, pools of heat guide them to the choicest sites on which to land while taste receptors on their feet help them decide where to bite.
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S9Before the Great Migration, there was the Great Exodus. Here's what happened. In 1877, her great-grandmother Emma Johnson and other ancestors moved from Georgetown and Lexington, Kentucky, to establish one of the first all-Black towns west of the Mississippi River. Her family’s move to Kansas was a precursor to the Great Exodus, the first voluntary mass migration of African Americans from the South to what we now call the Midwest, including Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. The Ku Klux Klan rose to power, using lynchings and mob violence to terrorize Black communities. Southern states enacted Black Codes, local laws intended to disenfranchise African Americans and force them into exploitative labor systems like sharecropping. According to Davis, these despotic rules laid the groundwork for the more formalized Jim Crow laws that followed.
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S10A Foreign Policy for the World as It Is “America is back.” In the early days of his presidency, Joe Biden repeated those words as a starting point for his foreign policy. The phrase offered a bumper-sticker slogan to pivot away from Donald Trump’s chaotic leadership. It also suggested that the United States could reclaim its self-conception as a virtuous hegemon, that it could make the rules-based international order great again. Yet even though a return to competent normalcy was in order, the Biden administration’s mindset of restoration has occasionally struggled against the currents of our disordered times. An updated conception of U.S. leadership—one tailored to a world that has moved on from American primacy and the eccentricities of American politics—is necessary to minimize enormous risks and pursue new opportunities.To be sure, Biden’s initial pledge was a balm to many after Trump’s presidency ended in the dual catastrophes of COVID-19 and the January 6 insurrection. Yet two challenges largely beyond the Biden administration’s control shadowed the message of superpower restoration. First was the specter of Trump’s return. Allies watched nervously as the former president maintained his grip on the Republican Party and Washington remained mired in dysfunction. Autocratic adversaries, most notably Russian President Vladimir Putin, bet on Washington’s lack of staying power. New multilateral agreements akin to the Iran nuclear deal, the Paris agreement on climate change, or the Trans-Pacific Partnership were impossible, given the vertiginous swings in U.S. foreign policy.
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S11The President Needs to Lead the Cold War on China The United States is in a cold war with the People’s Republic of China, and it urgently needs a strategy led and directed by the president himself if it is going to win. Absent such leadership, Washington’s approach to China will remain fragmented, contradictory, and unfocused. The absence of leadership is in stark contrast to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Secretary-General Xi Jinping and the approach that he laid out in the country’s 20th National Congress in 2022, which directs all instruments of China’s power to wage a “protracted struggle”—in other words, a cold war—against the United States.The United States is in a cold war with the People’s Republic of China, and it urgently needs a strategy led and directed by the president himself if it is going to win. Absent such leadership, Washington’s approach to China will remain fragmented, contradictory, and unfocused. The absence of leadership is in stark contrast to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Secretary-General Xi Jinping and the approach that he laid out in the country’s 20th National Congress in 2022, which directs all instruments of China’s power to wage a “protracted struggle”—in other words, a cold war—against the United States.
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S12Beijingâs Crackdown on Islam Is Coming for Kids “The Party Committee, governments, education, and sports bureaus of all levels should investigate the participation of minors in fasting and other religious activities,” the notice stated. It further required these organs to “adhere comprehensively to the principle of separation between education and religion, and strengthen the education and guidance of teachers, students, and the majority of young people.”Yuxi is home to a significant population of a state-recognized ethnic Muslim minority nationality called the Hui. Partly descendants of Arab and Persian traders from the times of the Silk Road, they speak Mandarin and are racially indistinguishable from the Han majority. Despite this long history of assimilation, they find themselves today at the epicenter of a nationwide Sinification campaign that started in the wake of the Chinese Communist Party’s forum on religious work in April 2016. During the forum, President Xi Jinping instructed religious groups to “adhere to the leadership” of the Communist Party (CCP) and to “merge [their doctrines] with Chinese culture.”
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S13Vaping is just as good as Chantix at helping people quit cigarettes, new study finds The trial randomized 458 people who smoked daily and wanted to quit to receive either a nicotine-containing e-cigarette and placebo tablets, varenicline and an e-cigarette without nicotine, or a placebo tablet and a nicotine-free e-cigarette for 12 weeks. All three groups were also given intensive tobacco cessation counseling.The JAMA study is the first published randomized controlled trial to compare varenicline, also known as Chantix, directly to e-cigarettes. Several studies have demonstrated that e-cigarettes can help adults quit smoking. However, most studies have compared e-cigarettes to placebo alone, or to nicotine replacement therapy, such as patches and lozenges, which help smokers manage their withdrawal symptoms.
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S15S16S17S18A Succession Battle Over Americaâs Largest Ren Faire There are few filmmakers more curious about the emotional lives of the elderly than the wunderkind documentarian Lance Oppenheim. In 2020, Oppenheim, then twenty-four years old, released "Some Kind of Heaven," a documentary about an enormous retirement community in Florida that is more like an amusement park or a college campus than a place where people go to grow old. The community, called the Villages, provided no shortage of eccentric personas for Oppenheim's generous character studies: one central figure of the film was a bad-boy senior citizen named Dennis, who lived in a van by the Villages, trawling the property for women to hitch his wagon to, both romantically and financially. "I said from the get-go that I wanted to live fast, love hard, and die poor," he said.This spring, Oppenheim released "Spermworld," a documentary adaptation of a Times story about the sperm-donation black market. This film, too, is a series of portraits, and one of "Spermworld"Â 's subjects is a single sixtysomething sperm donor named Steve who gives women sperm out of some do-gooder instinct gone astray. He expects nothing in returnâuntil he forges a connection with one of the recipients, Rachel, many decades his junior, who clings onto the hope that she will get pregnant in spite of having cystic fibrosis. The pair strike up an unlikely and bittersweet friendship that teeters, achingly, on the brink of romantic. From Oppenheim's vantage, the elderly are riveting subjects, full of experience and regret, and imbued with a sense of urgency as they try to fulfill their desires.
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S19What Does Benny Gantz Want for Israel? When Benny Gantz quit Israel’s emergency wartime cabinet, on June 9th, he did so with some political mudslinging. He and two of his colleagues in the centrist National Unity Party had joined Benjamin Netanyahu’s government immediately after the Hamas-led attacks of October 7th, “even though we knew it was a bad government,” Gantz said. “We did it because we knew it was a bad government.”“The people of Israel, the fighters, the commanders, the families of the murdered, the casualties, and the hostages needed unity and support like they needed air to breathe,” Gantz went on. But unity was short-lived. In Netanyahu’s government, he said, “fateful strategic decisions are met with hesitation and procrastination due to political considerations.” Riffing on the Prime Minister’s motto of “total victory” against Hamas, Gantz claimed that “Netanyahu prevents us from progressing to real victory.” As a result, he said, “we are leaving the emergency government today with a heavy but whole heart.”
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S20What to Read to Understand How People Get Tricked Our brains are wired to be deceived. I’m married to a professional magician, so I’m intimately familiar with the kinds of techniques that can fool the eye and trick the senses. But the human mind’s vulnerability to misdirection is more universal than that. Neurologists and psychologists have found that our predilection for trusting others—a trait that has helped us survive as a species—is a major reason con artists thrive. This trait also makes dissimulation fascinating and appealing, especially in literature. Readers love the stories of swindlers and their gullible targets, of grifters themselves being tricked, and every iteration in between. They thrill us by upending the expected and making us question our assumptions.The six books below all delve into deception. Some tell tales of elaborate confidence schemes; others interrogate why people are frequently defenseless against cons that, from the outside, seem obvious. Several books also dig into how we’re liable to deceive ourselves, often to our detriment. Each is a fascinating read that will stick with you and, perhaps, make you a bit more likely to realize when you’re not seeing the truth.
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S21The Motivated Ignorance of Trump Supporters On the day before the FBI obtained the search warrant, one of the agents on the case sent an email to his bosses, according to The New York Times. “The F.B.I. intends for the execution of the warrant to be handled in a professional, low key manner,” he wrote, “and to be mindful of the optics of the search.” It was, and they were.On the day of the search, Trump was out of the state. The club at Mar-a-Lago was closed. Agents alerted one of Trump’s lawyers in advance of the search. And before the search, the FBI communicated with the Secret Service “to make sure we could get into Mar-a-Lago with no issues,” according to the testimony of former Assistant FBI Director Steven D’Antuono. It wasn’t a “show of force,” he said. “I was adamant about that, and that was something we all agreed on.”
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S22Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing Rising sea levels, biodiversity collapse, extreme weather—these are the grisly horsemen of climate apocalypse. But don’t forget the fretting loan officers. A study published earlier this year found that US mortgage approvals tend to dip following periods of hotter-than-normal weather. For every 1 degree Celsius that temperatures rise above average, approvals fell by nearly 1 percent—and their value by more than 6.5 percent.It’s not just the heat. In May, yet another beachfront house in North Carolina’s Outer Banks tumbled into the angry sea. It’s the sixth home lost along Cape Hatteras National Seashore since 2020. Researchers say lenders are increasingly trying to pass on the risk of mortgaging coastal properties due to calamities like this. Wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding are also impacting other financial services used by homeowners. It’s increasingly difficult to get home insurance in Minnesota, for instance, following extreme hail storms in recent years.
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S23S24S25Making the Time to Build Your Side Hustle Fifty percent of Gen Zs want to ditch the corporate world to become their own boss. However, this can be challenging when you lack the funds and flexibility to leave your day job. As a result, many ambitious young people begin by balancing full-time work with a side hustle — but managing both commitments can be challenging. You might feel drained after work or find it difficult to be consistent. The key is to commit to your side hustle one hour a week, push through the first 10-15 minutes, and make sure it feels enjoyable.
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S26FTC Chair Lina Khan Says Targeting Big Tech Is Good for the Little Guy The current chair of the Federal Trade Commission is the opposite of a nondescript, faceless government official. Lina Khan's feisty term at the agency's helm has included antitrust efforts to break up alleged big tech monopolies, employers' noncompete agreements, accusations of "declaring war" on entrepreneurs, and early attempts to regulate the most interesting tech revolution in decades: AI.One of the things Khan's FTC is known for is chasing after big tech monopolies, and her answer to a question about large firms' relationship to AI was telling. Khan said she was out talking with Silicon Valley founders a while ago, and was told that "right now there is a whole lot of opacity around who's getting access" to the key parts of AI tech--be it the models themselves, or computer time. She said some of her confidants worry that there may be few guarantees that "you're not effectively feeding back proprietary information" when you use an AI chatbot to answer, say, a tricky business question.
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S27A Breakthrough Battery Innovation Could Change the Tech World Battery tech is something we take for granted nowadays. We usually only think about the little packets of advanced chemistry squeezed inside our gadgets when we're far from a charger and that pesky little battery icon turns red. But the lithium-based batteries that power pretty much every gadget nowadays may be set to be replaced by a new solid ceramic type that promises more than a bit more juice per battery. A new innovation from TDK, which makes batteries for global tech brands like Tesla and Apple, means next-generation batteries could contain vastly more energy in the same sized unit.Why is this exciting? Portable technology has essentially plateaued because of the limits on battery life and the need to recharge the power source. This affects personal electronic devices like headphones, smartwatches and smartphones, business hardware like laptops, card readers and remote sensors, as well as other devices that form part of the Internet-of-Things and some medical gadgets.
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S28S29S30S31Introducing Fortuneâs first-ever Southeast Asia 500: Firms that mine stuff, make stuff, and move stuff dominate The inaugural Fortune Southeast Asia 500 list, our first-ever ranking of the largest companies in this part of the world, reflects a dynamic and fast-changing region—one that boasts a GDP of $4 trillion, and one whose core economies are growing notably faster than those of Europe or the U.S.Southeast Asia is also taking on far greater significance in the global economy. In the wake of the COVID pandemic, a host of Global 500 multinationals have shifted more of their supply chains to Southeast Asian nations. Foreign direct investment to the region is soaring. And with a young and growing population of 680 million, low inflation, and stable exchange rates, Southeast Asia is emerging as an attractive market in its own right.
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S32Is Your Money Really Safe In An âFDIC-Insuredâ Fintech Account? Four years ago, Lauren Scott was scrolling through TikTok when she saw a video from EcommJess, a personal finance influencer with 750,000 followers, promoting Yotta Savings, a fintech app offering a chance to win cash and other prizes on top of regular interest. Scott liked the novel sweepstakes incentive and Yotta's lack of fees, along with something way more traditional. "It was FDIC-insured, which was one of the main things that I looked for because you never know what to trust," says Scott, 27, who lives in the Tacoma, Washington suburbs with her husband and seven-year-old daughter. Eventually, the couple moved all their money to Yotta.Now the Scotts are among 200,000 or so fintech customersâincluding 85,000 from Yottaâwho have been denied access to their "FDIC insured" accounts since mid-May, following the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of a fintech intermediary: San Francisco's Synapse Financial Technologies. It's unclear when they'll get access to their money, and even whether they'll get it all back; at a court hearing Friday, former FDIC Chair Jelena McWilliams, appointed as bankruptcy trustee in the case, said there's a "shortfall" between Synapse's records and those of the banks currently estimated at $65 million to $96 million. Significantly, she added that it's looking increasingly likely that this isn't just a case of bad bookkeeping but a real shortfall-i.e. missing money-that existed before the bankruptcy filing and could take time and extensive investigation to sort out.
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S33Texas Tropical Storm Watch: What To Know As This Yearâs First Storm Threat Brews In Gulf Of Mexico Last year’s hurricane season kicked off on June 2, when Tropical Storm Arlene impacted some parts of Florida with up to five inches of rain. 2023’s hurricane season produced above-average activity, with the Atlantic experiencing 20 named storms during the year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted the most active storm season it has ever forecasted will materialize this year. The federal agency forecasts between 17 and 25 named storms—including tropical storms and hurricanes—for 2024, citing abnormally warm sea surface temperatures and La Niña, a weather phenomenon that brings cooler temperatures to the Pacific and limits winds that could cancel out the formation of hurricanes.
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S34S35How experiencing a stroke helped a neuroanatomist understand reality and connectedness Most people would not see having a stroke as exciting. But most people aren’t Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist, New York Times bestselling author and viral TED Talk speaker.As a medical professional, brains are her obsession – and there’s nothing dry or clinical in the way she describes them. Instead, her outlook on the complex organ is almost poetic, and she views consciousness as not just a cognitive process but as a beautiful connection to the universe.
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S36How China's Moon mission could reveal the origins of life on Earth On June 1, China’s Chang’e-6 lander touched down in the South Pole-Atkin Basin — the largest, deepest, and oldest impact crater on the Moon. The probe almost immediately set to work drilling into the ground to collect about 2 kilograms of lunar material, which is already headed back to Earth, with a landing in Mongolia planned for June 25. It isn’t just planetary geologists who are excited at what the returning rocks and soil might reveal. If we’re lucky, the first samples from the lunar farside could also include some of the oldest fossils ever found.The SPA basin, as it’s sometimes called, is the result of a gigantic impact that occurred between 4.2 and 4.3 billion years ago, at a time when the Moon and Earth were very close neighbors. The crater is roughly 2,500 kilometers (1,600 miles) in diameter and between 6.2 km and 8.2 km (3.9 to 5.1 mi) deep, encompassing several smaller craters like the Apollo basin, where Chang’e-6 landed, and Shackleton crater, parts of which lie in perpetual shadow.
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S37It's a Quieter Pride Month at Many Stores, and Some LGBTQ+ Advocates See a Silver Lining With Pride Month in full gear, U.S. shoppers can find the usual merchandise many stores stock for the June celebration of LGBTQ+ culture and rights. But analysts and advocates say the marketing is toned down compared to previous years, and at some chains, there's no trace of Pride at all.The more subdued atmosphere underscores the struggle of many retailers to cater to different groups of customers at a time of extreme cultural divisions. This year's Pride Month is unfolding amid a sea of legislation and litigation over LGBTQ+ rights, especially the ability of transgender young people to participate in sports or receive gender-affirming care.
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S38Melinda French Gates Shared Her Advice for Navigating Change The allegory she shared came from spiritual leader Richard Alpert, known by his moniker Ram Dass, who passed away in 2019. A large wave can see its imminent demise in the form of the approaching seashore, but smaller waves--that cannot see as far ahead--reassure it that there's no reason to worry: "You're not a wave. You're water."The story, French Gates said, is about embracing the inevitable and uncomfortable moments of change that accompany a long and successful life. "Enter these moments with radical open-heartedness," she said.
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S39S40Newsrooms Powered by AI Raise Global Suspicions Global concerns about the use of AI in news production and misinformation are growing, a report published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism found, posing fresh challenges to newsrooms already struggling to engage audiences.The institute's annual Digital News Report published on Monday, which this year is based on surveys of nearly 100,000 people across 47 countries, offers a picture of the hurdles news media faces in lifting revenue and sustaining business.
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S41Vermont Governor Vetoes Data Privacy Bill, Citing Anti-Business Perceptions Vermont's governor has vetoed a broad data privacy bill that would have been one of the strongest in the country to crack down on companies' use of online personal data by letting consumers file civil lawsuits against companies that break certain privacy rules.Republican Gov. Phil Scott said in his veto message late Thursday that the legislation would have made Vermont "a national outlier and more hostile than any other state to many businesses and non-profits."
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S42OpenAI's Altman Says Company Could Become For-Profit Corporation, Adds Retired Cyberwarrior Nakasone to Board OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told some shareholders that the company is considering changing its governance structure to a for-profit business that the firm's nonprofit board doesn't control, The Information reported on Friday.He joins an OpenAI board of directors that's still picking up new members after upheaval at the San Francisco artificial intelligence company forced a reset of the board's leadership last year. The previous board had abruptly fired CEO Sam Altman and then was itself replaced as he returned to his CEO role days later.
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S43Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy Urges Tobacco-Like Warning for Social Media "It is time to require a surgeon general's warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents. A surgeon general's warning label, which requires congressional action, would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe," Murthy said.Social media use is prevalent among young people, with up to 95% of youth ages 13 to 17 saying that they use a social media platform, and more than a third saying that they use social media "almost constantly," according to 2022 data from the Pew Research Center.
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S44Instacart's New Advertising Capability Select brand partners of the grocery delivery company can buy clickable YouTube ads that bring consumers directly to the product on Instacart. The ad capability, announced at the Cannes Lions Festival, is an extension of Instacart's January 2024 collaboration with Google Shopping Ads for its consumer packaged goods (CPG) partners.Instacart partners with more than 1,500 North American retailers and will pilot clickable YouTube ads with Clorox and Publicis Media. These companies will be among the first to use Instacart's first-party retail media data to enhance product visibility through the video platform.Â
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S45A $10,000 Pay Disparity Could Cost Apple Millions According to a recently filed lawsuit against Apple, training instructor Justina Jong found a coworker's W-2 on the printer and learned that that male coworker earned almost $10,000 more than she did--even though they did the same job.Now, for some Silicon Valley jobs, a $10,000 pay disparity would not be an unlawful difference. If one of your employees earns $250,000 and their coworker earns $260,000 for the same job, that 4 percent difference can be easily explained by performance or experience. But, Glassdoor says the average salary for a training instructor at Apple is between $90,000 and $166,000. That $10,000 difference could be highly significant.
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S46Hybrid Work Has Changed Meetings Forever More than four years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, what do we know about how meetings have (or haven’t) gotten back to “normal,” particularly amid calls back to the office? An analysis of 40 million virtual meetings from 11 organizations suggests that some habits, like using virtual meeting options even when in the office, are sticking. Further, data shows that meeting participation and camera usage correlates with retention. The authors recommend several ways for organizations to manage this new reality to better meetings, including identifying key meeting leaders and empowering them and using data to provide visibility into your organizational culture while also respecting privacy concerns.
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S47How Retailers Became Ad Platforms Major retailers are today, most notably Amazon, are creating and operating their own advertising platforms — and they’re making millions doing it. McKinsey estimates that by 2026, retail media will add $1.3 trillion to enterprise values in the U.S. alone, with profit margins between 50% and 70%. In this article, the authors introduce readers to the main kinds of retail media, discuss three strategic challenges that they present, and provide guidance for effectively managing those challenges.
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S48Making the Time to Build Your Side Hustle Fifty percent of Gen Zs want to ditch the corporate world to become their own boss. However, this can be challenging when you lack the funds and flexibility to leave your day job. As a result, many ambitious young people begin by balancing full-time work with a side hustle — but managing both commitments can be challenging. You might feel drained after work or find it difficult to be consistent. The key is to commit to your side hustle one hour a week, push through the first 10-15 minutes, and make sure it feels enjoyable.
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S49How to Manage: Selling Your Ideas to Leadership Think back to the last time you pitched an idea to upper management on how to change the way your company does business. Perhaps you proposed an improvement to an existing process, a new technology that would help things run smoother, or a different market you all could break into. How’d that go over?
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S50Scan to donate: Brazil's instant digital payment system brings relief to flood victims On May 4, Rafael Teixeira watched with concern as water started to seep into his house in Canoas, a town in Brazil’s southernmost state. Over the next few hours, Teixeira and his family were forced to grab essential items and flee the house, leaving most of their belongings behind. By the time they left, the waterline had risen to Teixeira’s neck.The Teixeiras, who are now sheltering in a city more than 100 kilometers away, estimate they lost at least 30,000 reais (over $6,000) worth of personal belongings, not including the cost of damages to their home. Two days after they left Canoas, Teixeira and his relatives posted calls for donations on Instagram and WhatsApp. They included their Pix “keys” — aliases linked to a bank account that make easy, safe, and quick transfers of money possible. The family has so far received over 5,000 reais (about $1,000) through at least 35 donations made through Pix, a digital payment system launched by Brazil’s central bank in 2020.
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