Plus: One heckuva view | Tuesday, November 09, 2021
| | | | | | | Presented By Amazon | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen ·Nov 09, 2021 | | Good afternoon: Today's PM — edited by Justin Green — is 395 words, a 1.5-minute read. | | | | | | 1 big thing: Holocaust Museum escalates China alarm |  | | | Police officers stand at the outer entrance of a detention center in China's Xinjiang region. Photo: Mark Schiefelbein/AP | | | | Add the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to the list of institutions and governments worried the Chinese government is committing genocide. The big picture: A report today by the museum says recent information shows "the Chinese government's conduct has escalated beyond a policy of forced assimilation" against Uyghur ethnic minorities, reports Axios China author Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian. - "This includes ... a deepening assault on Uyghur female reproductive capacity through forced sterilization and forced intrauterine device (IUD) placement as well as the separation of the sexes through mass detention and forcible transfer."
- Those policies raise "legitimate questions about the existence of the intent to biologically destroy the group, in whole or in substantial part."
Share this story. |     | | | | | | 2. NFL up, politics down |  Data: Taboola; Table: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Politics and hard news have moved to the back burner, Axios' Sara Fischer and Neal Rothschild report. - The NFL, in particular, has been bolstered by engaging storylines, including the resignation of Jon Gruden, the resurgence of the Dallas Cowboys, and most recently Aaron Rodgers' vaccination status.
Share this story. | | | | | | | | A message from Amazon | | Amazon to pay full college tuition for front-line employees | | |  | | | | More than 750,000 Amazon operations employees in the U.S. are eligible for fully funded college tuition including high school diplomas, GEDs and more. Why it's important: Amazon investing in free skills training can have a huge impact for hundreds of thousands of families across the country. | | | | | | 3. Catch up quick |  | | | GE CEO Larry Culp is interviewed today on Bloomberg TV. Photo: Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images | | | | 1. Larry Culp, the first GE CEO who didn't come up through the ranks, announced the breakup of one of history's most storied companies into three companies focused on aviation, health care and energy — a step investors say was long overdue, Bloomberg reports. Read the interview. 2. Adam Neumann spoke publicly today for the first time since being ousted as CEO of WeWork more than two years ago, expressing "regret" for the employees who lost their jobs but not apologizing for making around $1 billion on his way out the door, Axios' Dan Primack reports. - When asked by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times DealBook Summit about rampant marijuana at WeWork, Neumann replied, "We had a fun culture."
3. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait at the climate summit: "By 2030 in the United States, we won't have coal." Keep reading. 4. Top Republicans were stunned today when New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said he'll run for re-election instead of U.S. Senate, where he was a key part of the GOP plan to regain control. Go deeper. | | | | | | | | 4. One heckuva view | | Photo: Seth Wenig/AP Opening today: Thrill-seekers can now try out City Climb in New York City's 30 Hudson Yards, which uses safety harnesses to let climbers lean over the edge from nearly 1,300 feet above the ground, AP reports. Photo: Seth Wenig/AP | | | | | | | | A message from Amazon | | Independent study: Spillover effects of Amazon's wage increase | | |  | | | | New research shows that Amazon's wage increase to $15 an hour directly benefited wages for other non-Amazon workers in those communities. The report also found that their increase of wages to $15 did not result in widespread job loss. Learn more. | | |  | | It'll help you deliver employee communications more effectively. | | | | | | Axios thanks our partners for supporting our newsletters. If you're interested in advertising, learn more here.
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