Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz will investigate if any of its current or former officials "engaged in an improper attempt" to overturn the results of the presidential election. Last week, the NYT reported former President Donald Trump tried to replace then-Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Division. Clark and Trump reportedly discussed a plan to overturn the results of the election in Georgia.

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• Justice Department officials threatened to resign if Trump replaced Rosen with Clark.
• In December, former Attorney General William Barr said there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
• On Saturday, the WSJ reported that Trump urged the Justice Department to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the results of the election. Both Barr and Rosen rejected Trump's demand.
• Horowitz will only investigate Justice Department officials, as he doesn't have the jurisdiction to probe other government agencies.

President Biden signed an executive order repealing a Trump administration policy that prohibited transgender Americans from serving in the military. "America is safer when everyone qualified to serve can do so openly and with pride," Biden tweeted.

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• Former President Trump announced the ban in July 2017, citing "tremendous medical costs and disruption." 
• Federal courts blocked the move before the Supreme Court ruled in favor of it in 2019. 
• Active transgender members were allowed to continue serving, but new recruits were barred.
• According to the Pentagon, 9,000 military members identify as transgender. However, independent estimates have pegged the number at 16,000.
• Between 2016 and 2019, the military spent $8M on transgender care. Its annual health care budget exceeds $50B.

Google announced that it is pledging $150M in support of vaccine education across the globe and is turning some of its sites into vaccination facilities. The CDC Foundation, WHO, and other nonprofits will receive around $100M in ad-grants, and Google will work with local public health agencies to provide vaccine-related information for underserved communities.

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• The company will provide COVID-19 vaccination location details through Google Search and Maps, starting with Arizona and Texas states. 
• Google will partner with the healthcare provider One Medical to open its sites in areas including San Fransisco and New York for vaccination.
• Last week, Amazon sent a letter to President Biden offering to help with vaccine distribution and requesting early vaccination of its employees who can't work from home. The company also opened a one-day pop-up vaccine clinic in Seattle on Sunday to administer 2,000 vaccines to eligible members of the public.
• Starting this week, Walmart expects to deliver 10-13 million COVID-19 vaccines per month through 5,000 sites across seven states in the U.S. 
• Companies including Microsoft, Costco, and Starbucks were included in Washington Governor Jay Inslee's vaccine distribution plan for their respective expertise.

This story first appeared in Inside Business. You can read the full issue here. 

NBCUniversal struck a multi-year deal to make Peacock the exclusive streaming home for the WWE Network. The 1.1 million current subscribers to the professional wrestling streaming service will be migrated over to Peacock Premium at no additional charge, and will have the option of paying a lower monthly subscription rate to watch content with ads.

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• WWE Network on Peacock will launch on March 18 of this year.
• Earlier this month, the cult-classic TV show 'The Office' was removed from Netflix and began streaming exclusively on Peacock. 
• The WWE streams will be available to all subscribers to Peacock Premium (with ads) for $4.99/month, or ad-free Peacock Premium Plus for $9.99/month.
• The streamer will carry all live WWE events -- including WrestleMania -- at no additional charge.
• WWE will get its own dedicated 24-hour Peacock channel as well as an on-demand library comprising about 17,000 hours of content.
• Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though The Wall Street Journal reported that NBCU paid around $1 billion for five years.
• NBCUniversal also announced that it will shut down the sports channel NBCSN by the year, moving content to other cable networks or Peacock.

A version of this story first appeared in Inside Streaming. You can read the full issue here. 

Quick Hits:

• See how consumer electronics brand Nomad went headless with their existing Shopify store to increase their ecommerce conversion rate by 25%.
• The U.S. Supreme Court has shut down two cases that accused former President Trump of profiting from his public office. 
• Moderna is developing a COVID-19 vaccine that specifically targets a new coronavirus strain first found in South Africa. 
• Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte plans to offer his formal resignation after losing his Senate majority support last week. 
• Allies of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are calling for more protests in the wake of his arrest after returning home to Russia. Tens of thousands of Navalny supporters took part in anti-government protests last weekend.
• What are the costs of inefficiencies in your product release cycle? Read how top companies save over $1M each year.

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